MadaboutKitcars

On the theme of a re-body. What exactly does the V5 show after a re-body?
Does it loose the original vehicle's identity completely?
Or is there still reference to the fact that it once was a Spartan, Triumph or whatever?

Cheers, Robin

There is no mention of the original donor car on the V5C, but I am sure it is held on record ‘somewhere’.

I was allowed to change the Make, but the Type had to be left blank.

This meant that I went from:
Make – Triumph
Type – Spitfire

To this.



Based on some Tributes you don’t need to keep the original make.
( I wanted to keep Triumph, but others have dropped BMW. )

The only other thing you get on your V5C is these ‘Special Notes’:



Cheers, Paul.

Hi Robin
In my time I have had 3 rebodied cars, each one of them had make and model details changed according to a different approach.

As far as I can gather at the moment they seem to be retaining the make as the manufacturer of the donor car such as Triumph, BMW etc and changing the model to reflect the rebody.

God only knows what they will do if you submit a rebody on a kit car such as a Spartan, although Lucky@Lemans on this forum appears to have had his rebodied All Aluminium 1957 250 Testarossa, which was built on a correctly registered Locost 7 chassis, given the make of the body manufacturer and the model of the 250 TR it replicated.

It seems to depend on who is doing the paper work at the DVLA end. Some people get exactly what they want first time, others have a bit of battle.

I think if you send the info to them correctly with photos before and after, a covering letter etc etc its usually ok.

No problems rebodying a correctly registered kit car.