Hi,
sorry if this has been asked before but trying to find the best way of obtaining my first cars registration number.its prob been scrapped off (last taxed 1989),the number is nothing fancy (CUY209N) ,just wondered where (if anywhere) would be my first port of call
cheers!
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Mine was 245 CWM!
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I seem to remember reading somewhere (on here?) that once vehicles have been scrapped, the reg no's are deleted from the DVLA database, every so often. Once they are deleted there is no way to get them re-issued.
Billy
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cheers billy , hope its not the case though
the 245 CWM plate must be worth a few quid now?
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I wish I could have kept my first, SOX 78. Would have fetched a fortune if the Boston Red Sox (or Chicago White Sox) had won the World Series in 1978...which they didn't!
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Mine was 245 CWM!>>
WM and FY are from the Southport area - I once had FFY 95D.
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Yup, they only sell previously unissued numbers. They do not re-cycle them once a vehicle is scrapped even if the number becomes redundant.
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thanks for the replies folks,is there anyway of finding out for defo if its been scrapped,or still lying about in someones barn?
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www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/?SKIN=direc...v
Click vehicle enquiry on the left, if it is no longer SORNed or taxed, the reg becomes the DVLA's again, and they can reissue it if it's worth them selling.
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In the early 1980s I scrapped a lambretta with a 366 SHA registration. I saw it again a few years ago on the back of a Merc!
(the reg, not the scooter)
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www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/?SKIN=direc...v Click vehicle enquiry on the left if it is no longer SORNed or taxed the reg becomes the DVLA's again and they can reissue it if it's worth them selling.
A vehicle taken off the road pre-SORN does not have to be SORN-ed, so can remain potentially useable indefinately.
If you have an old car stored for the last 40 years, all you have to do is MOT and insure it and you can walk into a post office, buy road tax and put it back on the road with the original number. The DVLA have no way of knowing whether that is likely to happen. Or the car might have been scrapped 20 years ago.
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I still have the first car reg, now appearing on the Skoda - Its a simple local County plate, probably worth nothing to anyone other than me - Had it through thick and thin.
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