50s donor car with no V5 - Worth trying to get a V5?

The nearest I came to this was a good few years ago with a bike I was restoring. At that time they were accepting the documentary evidence from original historic local vehicle licensing offices that contained chassis number and the reg the local authority bestowed upon the car as sufficient proof to move forward. Is this the same now?

First step is to follow up the 'area' coding in the reg, the 2nd & 3rd letter combo in the reg, and then google to see if that local authority managed to escape the records vandalism of the 70s that destroyed the larger part of our national vehicle registration archive.

From a 10 second google it appears that 'PD' is a Preston reg and that Preston / Lancashire records ***may*** still exist in their local archive. Where this is the case, you pay for a local authority 'researcher' to check the record and make a copy of it to supply to the powers that be.

This would then need to be supplemented with as much evidence as possible (old tax discs/ garage records in the car/ owners club? etc etc??) and forwarded to the powers that be for assessment.

None of that may still be applicable but that is certainly how things could be approached in the past.

Have done this with a couple of bikes for a mates dad recently .

I joined the owners club for the NSU moped & they helped me through the process , no probs .
Took around 8 weeks from memory .

The BSA i did on my own , hit a couple of snags , but nothing major .
Took a little longer , but i was in no rush .

The one thing i’d say is take good photos .
The ones i took of the chassis & number plate i tool a few , each one further away so they could all be linked by someone else looking at them to prove they were definitely from that vehicle .

Give it a go , at worst you’ll have wasted a little of your time .

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Sounds like it doesn't hurt to try at least. There's pretty good club support for these through the Daimler and Lanchester Owners Club and although I'm not a member myself, there's a couple of folks on their forum that I'm sure would be happy to assist should need be. I'll see what I've got when it arrives and go from there.

Came off the road in about 1990 apparently. I've sent off a V62 and now we wait and see. Taken loads of photos of it as a complete car for reference just in case too. There's a chance it still exists according to the system so here's hoping.

I've not read the whole thread but my immediate thought was NOVA (notification of vehicle arrival)

Might sound daft but this is something required with every application for a vehicle with no reg despite the V52(?) not asking for same.

It's primarily fr imported vehicles but the GOV,UK guidance for the application form (NOVA1) specifically mentions restoration-project and barn-finds.

Basically you complete the NOVA1 (paper version, not online) and when they respond with your Nova reference you send this in along with the DVLA form and age-related certificate from owners-club then you get your UK age-related plate.

That's a simplified version but it's very common in the classic motorcycle scene (basket cases with no V5).

I had a bike for 29 years with no papers (lost them after I imported it from Jersey) and I got my ref in a fortnight, by email.

I didn't tell any lies on the form either

Any updates on this? Apologies if it was already done on the car thread.