help wheres my old car???

It has not been taxed since 1988 so it must have gone in a scrap yard you didn't frequent

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The vehicle details for AKK 299K are:
Date of Liability 01 04 1988
Date of First Registration 01 08 1971
Year of Manufacture Not Available
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1298cc
CO₂ Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type PETROL
Export Marker N
Vehicle Status Unlicensed
Vehicle Colour YELLOW
Vehicle Type Approval Not Available
Vehicle Excise Duty rate for vehicle
6 Months Rate £77.00
12 Months Rate £140.00

Interesting however that the reg is recognised, that would suggest it has had a recent v5c.

This is right ^^  If its coming up on the system, Then someone has jogged the DVLA's memory of it in the not to distant past....

Most likely sold but still not back on the road... Or The owner applied for a new V5C when they replaced them.

If it was scrapped in 88 it wouldnt be on the system at all IIRC.   Neither would it be if it was just rotting in a field since then...


someone has done somthing to make it come up on the system....

And the fact its been off the road since before the sorn came into force. Means it never has to be declared sorn. So the UNLICENCED marker is completely normal.
It would only say sorn not due if it had been recently taxed, then taken off the road again....

The flip side to this is bad one..

It could have been found in a shed before the sorn was brought in. And then scrapped. Hence it being on the system, but not requiring a licence.
Just because it was rust free in 88 wouldnt have made it rust free in say 98... or it could have been crashed?

How far back do they keep the details then? I sold a Golf back in the mid 90's to a mate who promptly crashed it and sent it off to the scrap yard. When I type in the number plate it comes up with all the details and says Date of Liability 96 or something.

They only do that if you are the current reg keeper or have a need to know (car park enforcment, garage rentle company ect and even then you have to regester with the DVLA)

Not trying to curse word in your fireworks, but reckon it's bean tins. Back in the eighties they were worth jack and it could easily have been written off and scrapped. My first car died in the 90's and is 100% no more, but (as with many of my dead, old cars from years ago) it still comes up on the DVLA system. The fact its says 'Status: Unlicensed' suggests it was a gonner way, way before SORN appeared. Sorry! Hang onto the memory!

theres also a bit of a funny side to this piece of history....i lived in bexleyheath for 25 years, and the dartford crowd hated the "bexleyheath boys" often got into a few scraps in the town in dartford and had to get back up "our" town....funny thing is i married a dartford girl and have settled in the area for the last 10 years and my mrs remembers the scraps goin on and she was probably around when i was down in "their" manor! would be great if i could be reunited with the car even the mrs says she will help fund it...if i find it,well watch this space we will see

God, I wish I was there at those times( well I was but was like 1 or 2!) born in the wrong era me, good luck in your search Dan, you never know could just be hidden somewhere, I'm sure you rob and my dad can go on for ever telling me the stories haha

Thanks I was owner number six I knew owner seven who sold it on to a fella in Heath rd but I can't remember which house it was been back recently but no luck at the few places I knocked at