|
|
|
|
|
as title looking at building one for some fun/promo work  ive been offered a van at just over scrap as its got no t&t so its no real loss to cut it up as it will need welding & body work anyway !!! now i know just chopping the back off the van doesnt make it a road legal/safe conversion so ive got some help off a mate that does hotrods to help if i decide to do it . so what i need to know is rules & regs on the sva test as they seem to change day by day & with who you talk to !!! everything will be the same apart from the load area & added strengthening so what will i have to watch out for  where is the closest testing station for manchester ? i know a lot of people will say don't bother but i just want to see if i can do it ( plus its practice) ;D |
| |
find me on facebook to see photos of things I'm selling off !!!
All Forshow
or ebay
all-4-show-uk
|
|
|
|
Gray
Part of things
Silence isnt golden!!!
Posts: 742
|
|
|
|
From what i have read its almost impossible unless it has a seperate chassis, theres no class to test it or make it roadworthy legally. best bet is to speak to aceadvice or read up on the ace website  |
| |
|
|
spiny
Club Retro Rides Member
Wiki Admin
I am abivalent towards car electrics ...
Posts: 1,331
Club RR Member Number: 167
|
|
|
|
from what i remember from reading on here, theres no sva for commercial vehicles, and a pick up would probably be classed as such, so you'd be off to a sticky start, but I may have misread / misremembered along the way  |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Virtually impossible. Once you've chopped it about it'll be classed as a modified commercial vehicle. However, there's no testing class for modified commercial vehicles.
There is a class for amateur built commercials - but it won't count as amateur built.
What sort of van is it?
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Been done to a mk3 Astra van a couple of times
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
i remember a few years ago the was a lot of them about escort vans chopped but never looked right to me as they left it with the high roof line !!! sorry should have been clearer ive not decided on the van but i know someone that works at a breakers so if i see something that i think is worth chopping i will go from there
|
| |
find me on facebook to see photos of things I'm selling off !!!
All Forshow
or ebay
all-4-show-uk
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I'll see if I can find the one of the Astra bud EDIT - here you go mate  |
| |
Last Edit: Apr 3, 2011 23:52:10 GMT by astranaut
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
thats nice, could be factory & all seems in proportion
|
| |
find me on facebook to see photos of things I'm selling off !!!
All Forshow
or ebay
all-4-show-uk
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Last Edit: Apr 4, 2011 12:47:15 GMT by automatic
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
My dads 740 pick up   |
| |
1985 volvo 340
|
|
|
|
Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,790
Club RR Member Number: 34
|
|
|
|
|
just becuase its been done in the past doesnt make it legal.
the vehicles pictured above only need flagging at an mot, or you to get stopped by vosa, and theyll be making a one way trip over the weighbridge.
as has been pointed out its impossible to legally register it unless its a seperate chassis vehicle.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
just becuase its been done in the past doesnt make it legal. the vehicles pictured above only need flagging at an mot, or you to get stopped by vosa, and theyll be making a one way trip over the weighbridge. as has been pointed out its impossible to legally register it unless its a seperate chassis vehicle. That DAF is legal. It is made to factory specifications and is an accurate replica of an original 33 pick up. Has also been passed by VOSA and now registered as a pick up |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I'm suprised by how good that volvo looks !!!! just needs a rear window but has said what i really want to know is how to do it so it will be legal as i don't really think i would be happy at doing the work & having the car impounded (been there done that ) as i hate walking !!!!
|
| |
find me on facebook to see photos of things I'm selling off !!!
All Forshow
or ebay
all-4-show-uk
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Move to a country with more personal freedom.
|
| |
 Team Blitz Ford Capri parts worldwide: Restoration, Road, or Race. Used, Repro, and NOS, ranging from scabby to perfect. Itching your Capri jones since 1979! Buy, sell, trade. www.teamblitz.com blitz@teamblitz.com |
|
|
|
|
|
|
This one's for you, Uncle TB.  |
| |
|
|
crazymonkey
Posted a lot
ummm....what was I doing again???
Posts: 1,981
|
|
|
|
|
theres a Volvo pick up like that down near me, bright yellow one with chequerplate just like that pictured ovlov ;D
|
| |
whoever said dogs were man's best friend....obviously never heard of cable ties
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I think we'd need ACE to give us the definitive answer on this - but isn't the missing SVAIVA class only when converting a car into a commercial - and thus taking a vehicle that is originally a commercial be OK?
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
there is n o class for modified commercials, how ever you get there, there IS a class for amatuer built which i think you cfould put a pickup truck through, but you have to do a lot more work than just cutting the bcak of for them to consider the vehicle "built" rather than modified.
If you really want a car cut down into a pickup, buy one of the japanese pickups that run full chassis and mount your car on that, once the body is no longer structural you can do more or less what you like with it.
|
| |
Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
just becuase its been done in the past doesnt make it legal. the vehicles pictured above only need flagging at an mot, or you to get stopped by vosa, and theyll be making a one way trip over the weighbridge. as has been pointed out its impossible to legally register it unless its a seperate chassis vehicle. That DAF is legal. It is made to factory specifications and is an accurate replica of an original 33 pick up. Has also been passed by VOSA and now registered as a pick up The only way that could be legal is if the modificatiosn were done before 1998 and even then it should be on a Q plate If doen since 1998 then ,sorry, it's NOT legal regardless of what's on the logbook:( I would say you have your VOSA and DVLA s mixed up possibly ? Factory specs have no relevance as unless it left the factory as a pick up then it isn't a pick up, it's a saloon and once that monococque is modified it negates the original reg. I would say it may have had an inspection by a DVLA official AT a VOSA premises and that, based on an innacurate understanding of Swansea Policy rules, they have incorrectly allowed it through. Isn't the first and won't be the last and it still leaves open to sent for tests later.  |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I think we'd need ACE to give us the definitive answer on this - but isn't the missing SVAIVA class only when converting a car into a commercial - and thus taking a vehicle that is originally a commercial be OK? Unfortunately it's about modifying the monococque even if it was a van in the first place. However as proven on here you CAN convert an estate into a van providing all work is strengthening and no cutting takes place. The good news is that we are told the new N1( Light goods ) BIVA , due in November 2011, WILL have a class for pre registered cars converted into pickups |
| |
|
|
|
|
where is the closest testing station for manchester ? i know a lot of people will say don't bother but i just want to see if i can do it ( plus its practice) ;D
[*]
