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How do I get a log book

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  • 31-08-2003 4:26pm
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    JohnBoy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,343 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Just bought an old Land Rover.

    Late sixties, early seventies.

    Problem is I bought it out of a field which had a few other landies in various states of repair, generally being broken for parts. The seller has no log book however and is not the registered owner.

    Now I find this guy quite trustworthy and all, but before in invest any cash into this restoration I want to get legal ownership of the jeep.

    So I have:
    A land rover,
    No log book/vehicle licencing cert
    No registration number
    No visible chassi number (yet, but I think the place where it normally should be is one of the many rust holes in the bulkhead.



    So any ideas? the seller (well his auld lad was the one I actually met) was of the beleif that it should be no major issue. Anyone any experieince or tips before I go contacting the Vehicle registrations office?

    I haven't spent much to buy this, and apart from the afforementioned bulkhead (which is entirely rusted and full of holes) it's in quite good nick. but I do want it legit before I invest anything more (time or money) in it.

    Any advice?

    John


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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Thats a tricky one - maybe! I'd phone your local motor tax
    office and tell them what you've just posted. If the vehicle has no history but plainly is not "hot" I imagine they would have no qualms about re-registering the vehicle.

    Mike.


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    Silvera
    Registered Users Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭Silvera


    Without a registration number you will most likely have to apply for a modern reg (i.e. 75-D, etc) or , if it's over 30 yrs old, a ZV "vintage" reg.

    Contact your local motor tax office and ask if it possible to trace the original reg using the chassis number - though I am very doubtful if this is the case.

    Another point, if the vehicle was officially scrapped some years ago this could be a major stumbling block to re-registration.

    I have heard of scrapped vehicles being "reborn" so to speak - an engineers report is required to declare the vehicle roadworthy. But in recent years the rules about scrapping vehicles has tightened-up, so check this out too.

    Having said all that, Land Rovers chassis and bodies are interchangable so maybe you could get a wreck (with a log book) and swop the body work or chassis.

    Silvera.


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    JohnBoy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,343 ✭✭✭JohnBoy


    Well I just rang my local tax office, ad they put me onto the local revenue office.

    They say it shoudln't be a problem, but I'll have to present it for inspection before I can get a licence plate.....

    Now that will require it to be trailered about 20 miles (on a nasty windy road) but it has to be "roadworthy"

    and this would be a problem as mentioned in another post here. I have a trailer, but can't tow it, and the only person I know that has the equipment to tow it will have to take time off work to do so.

    I may have to bite the bullet and get it roadworthy to drive it to nenagh for the test (they may have had issues anyway with the bulkhead/firewall being mostly made of rust.

    They're gonna ring me back with further info, but it looks promising enough.

    (if only I'd researched this beforehand I could have brought it to nenagh on the way home from dublin......... argghhhhh)

    John


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