Scrapped - Any Hope?

[Moo.]

Applied for the V5C for a bike i bought which had been sat in an elderly gentleman's garage since 1989.. Got this back.

https://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc49/Evil_Sheep117/IMG_20150213_124400230_zps154e9aab.jpg

Have sent off the supplied sheet with a cover letter... Is there any hope though?


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A2 Passed 18/6/10

[DrSnoosnoo]

Well you physically having the bike proves it hasn't been scrapped.

They'll deal with the person who made the false claim it had been scrapped. You prove you have it and stuff and you'll be fine.

At least, that's what common sense tells me.
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[Fisty]

[Rogerborg]

The good news is that a scrapped vehicle earns them nothing, while an extant one earns them revenue and blackmail demands.

The bike does exist, so worse case it'll be an MVSA check.

In the mean time, I'd have a look at V765 and see if you can find any documentation to support its original age.
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[Moo.]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[Moo.]

[Ariel Badger]

[DieselASFC]

It's DVLA, so who knows.

I would've thought, as the bike is in your possession, then it clearly hasn't been scrapped and it's an error.

But that's common sense, and this is the DVLA, so Good Luck.

[Pete.]

They don't know anything about anything, which is why a vehicle only becomes SORNable when any kind of record is updated.

It's my personal belief that they have lost tens of thousands, if not millions of all kind of records in some kind of screw-up possibly from when they were porting all their records to digital and they are still re-building their databases from info provided by the public. One time when I had to make a call about a classic registration I spoke to a guy who took the registration right away and said 'that's another one'. It wouldn't surprise me if there has been a basement full of water-damaged un-readable records somewhere in Cardiff that were impossible to convert, and they have kept it carefully covered-up.
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[stinkwheel]

[Pete.]

I went on a school trip in the late 70's/ early 80's and had a tour of the DVLC and there were computers there that were storing data on big reels of tape, similar to the one you see in The Italian Job.
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Kickstart]

Hi

Still using those into the 1990s (more tape cartridges after that - still in use), after which some of the cases migrated to being used as coffee cup carriers

All the best

Keith
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[Ariel Badger]

That sounds like one piss poor school trip Pete.
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[kramdra]

The real question is why anyone would want a > 1989 aged C90?!?!?!?

DVLA had done the right thing for once, in assuming this was scrapped

[Rogerborg]

[Pete.]

[Moo.]

They also cashed the cheque i included with the V62 for a new V5... So if it actually is scrap.. will i get this back?

Had a chat with the original owner and they've had the slip back from the DVLA saying they're no longer the registered owner.. what is going on...
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A2 Passed 18/6/10

[Pete.]

Looks like you're getting a V5 in the post any day soon.
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[CHR15]

whilst trying to get them to accept that my bsa was real and not imaginary i had one guy admit that any vehicles that weren't on the road during the digitization period simply disappeared.



another thing that annoys me is the fact that once a vehicle is scrapped, its numberplate disappears forever.

could have had a mint numberplate with my surname on if it hadn't been on a grenada that got crushed in 1993.
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[Moo.]

[Kickstart]

Hi

A lot of the old docs were just skipped. A relative who had a pre war car managed to get all the old docs for their car when they were being thrown away. But that was early 1980 I think.

All the best

Keith
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[Moo.]

Well.. rang the DVLA up this morning, and the woman who sent me the letter was the one who picked up the phone that was easy..

She said its probably something to do with the old V5's having a part about scrapping the bike, where as the new ones don't..

The only bit i was interested in, was she said that when she receives the form i filled in with extra information, i should be issue with a new V5 just gotta play the waiting game now..
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A2 Passed 18/6/10

[Moo.]

Update, she got my letter with extra information and confirmed that it all matches and looks good...

She has re-requested the V5 for me, so now someone has to run around and dig it out of an archive somewhere because a new one hasn't been issued since 1981 haha... sooo

So as long as they can actually find it (please spaghetti god!) It should be good to go!
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A2 Passed 18/6/10

[Moo.]

Last update.

Got the V5 Today I'm the 2nd owner.. so definitely was a case of it being stored in an ancient tomb protected by a Mummy.

Just chuffed it wasn't actually scrapped!
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A2 Passed 18/6/10