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Ah yes- your April fools joke on Instagram nearly gave me a heart attack. I really do appreciate all your posts, first thing I do when I open Instagram is search my feed for your daily posts. Keep up the amazing work!Paul Wiginton wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:44 am Some of you may have seen the latest picture of my Sprint on my social media page. Its been at the paintshop for the last couple of weeks and is just about ready to come home
Is it your sprint Paul’s building now?Minisprinter wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:37 pm There could be a bit of a treat coming from Paul starting around May, keep an eye on the projects section.
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If a Mini is already registered with a current up to date V5 it makes sense not to contact the DVLA on anything unecessarily....unless you are happy to possibly open a can of worms and risk the allocation of a Q plate. Based on another Mk1 forum members recent experience (see link below) even drilling a hole in your Minis bodyshell now risks your registration being withdrawn...which probably means most of our classic Minis which have been modified or undergone restoration in recent years should be on a Q plate if ever volunteered for an inspection by the DVLA.Herbert850 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 11:25 am I still wonder how any of these new sprints are registered without a "Q" plate & IVA
He's on TV, too! https://www.youtube.com/@PWCV-YT
That is all absolutely true. But it means that anyone owning a Sprint that has been modified after 1990 (whenever) & is running on the logbook of a standard Mini, is running the risk of someone dobbing them in to the DVLA and then loosing the logbook permanently.mab01uk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 12:55 pmIf a Mini is already registered with a current up to date V5 it makes sense not to contact the DVLA on anything unecessarily....unless you are happy to possibly open a can of worms and risk the allocation of a Q plate. Based on another Mk1 forum members recent experience (see link below) even drilling a hole in your Minis bodyshell now risks your registration being withdrawn...which probably means most of our classic Minis which have been modified or undergone restoration in recent years should be on a Q plate if ever volunteered for an inspection by the DVLA.Herbert850 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 11:25 am I still wonder how any of these new sprints are registered without a "Q" plate & IVA
eg. Mk1 Forum member (Bitsilly) did a very well engineered Electric Mini (1960 Mk1) conversion and then went through a DVLA inspection to have the registration documents updated. However they ‘discovered’ a drilled hole for cables in the original 12-volt battery box in the Mini’s boot floor and declared the chassis radically modified and so gave it zero out of 5 points. Thus justifying their deletion of the registration. Incredibly they refused to allow the hole to be welded up because the welding would have been subsequent to the drilling...
Electric Mini saga update!
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DVLA’s Dos and Don’ts: The risks of modifying your classic car:-
https://www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/main ... assic-car/