The "Pass the Bucket" 4x4 For Sale on Ebay Thread

[CwazyWabbit]

Interesting bit for me is the £4500 start price when he has in red text in the description that he is looking for between £2500 and £3000

[Aragorn]

I have to say this is not something I know a lot about, but surely it's never been legal to have a vehicle registered as something with which it shares no parts other than the reg plate?

I'm aware the one in the link above shares a few parts but none of the 'critical' ones.

I believe theres always been a points system, and the chassis holds a big part of those points.

Also i dont think they've ever actually allowed you to re-use another vehicles chassis with some other cars ID. If you do that, you've built a ringer.

If you took some donor and build a new chassis, a-la kit cars, then so long as you used most of the components from the donor you could keep the donors ID. The key is NEW chassis.

If you take a used range rover chassis, and attach everything from a tax-exempt series to it, its still a range rover. You cant transfer the series ID to the range rover chassis, because the range rover chassis has its own ID. Furthermore, they've not even tranferred everything, because its still running the range rover axles/suspension/steering, so theres no possible way you can legitimise its heritige. Its simply a range rover with a series body fitted.

You might have just enough grey area to get away with it if you'd bought a brand new range rover chassis, and fitted all the parts from a series vehicle to that.

[Hybrid_From_Hell]

Cue ...........

“No one expects the Spanish Inquisition Da LR4x4 SVA Police ....our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise;

two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency, ..

Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the SVA IVA Manual ...

Um, I'll come in again...”

[Simon Smith]

Pre SVA all you had to do is prove ownership of the parts, the reason the points system came in with SVA is because a lot of people abused the old system. Yes you were "supposed" to get a Q plate if you didn't use the donor chassis, but it was always down to the individual inspector at your licensing office. Generally if you had a log book for the donor, even if you used very little from it, you would get it MOT'd, insured and taxed on that registration number, change the chassis number in the log book and in my case take the car to Guildford with a wad of receipts and the log book. He would thumb through the receipts and take the log book from you, and a week or two later you got a new log book with all the details changed. I even changed the Make and Model on my Marlin log book so nothing agreed with the original details and still got it approved. You could find things like a Suzuki chassis with a ford engine registered as a Jago on the ford registration number!

[Nigelw]

Not ebay but WTF happened with the grille?

http://nl.kapaza.be/brussels-gewest/land-rover-defender-72179429.htm

Oh and the cab seems a bit bright too....

[CwazyWabbit]

Those grills are quite popular over here...... the black version looks better.

BTW It's a Rage Rover Defender grill if you want one DD

[landroversforever]

Not ebay, but anyone need a Micra tipper?

http://cars.donedeal.co.uk/for-sale/cars/5072944

[western]

Not ebay, but anyone need a Micra tipper?

http://cars.donedeal.co.uk/for-sale/cars/5072944

just Why,?? there are more appropriate vehicles to convert to a tipper & with more load carrying ability

[CwazyWabbit]

Lol, some mad Irish farmer probably made it for fun

[muddy]

You can silage the front garden now!

[Nigelw]

I like it

DUAL wheels!!!

I think the pocheen has been a little bit undiluted for too long in their house

[roguevogue]

What's going on up front?

[Big.Mike]

if you're going to mess around with the wings, why not do the same for the bonnet, I mean really?!?

[RustyNissanPrairie]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1972-LAND-ROVER-DEFENDER-200-Tdi-Tax-Exempt-Hybrid-/300913001146?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item460fd002ba

[CwazyWabbit]

Well despite the claim it has been converted from leaf spring to coils the chassis is not a series chassis as can be seen from the under wheel arch picture.

It may however have a 1972 windscreen

[western]

it could be a streched range rover chassis, but the side rails look more like a 110 chassis depth, taken in part ex, so the current seller didn't build it.

[jbs]

That Is a 110 If you were to take a look at the "Windscreen hinges" then you'd notice that they were bolted through the bulkhead as per 90/110 ones

[taff_jj]

dodgy,

But i like the style! i would imagine insuring it would be eventful!

[CwazyWabbit]

Lol, those windscreen hinges are ... erm ... interesting

[mickeyw]

So it has a rare-ish 88" tropical roof, and early one-piece 90/110 lift handle doors. they could be worth the current £215 bid

[Nigelw]

Can anyone tell me why they never bother to tidy up before taking pictures of the trucks for sale? I like the something that is hanging from a hook on the back of it in one of the pictures, but why not show it off when taking pictures? Surely it would say more than the tatty ones we see here!!!

[RustyNissanPrairie]

can you spot the chequer plate?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-Defender-130-double-cab-hicap-pickup-300TDi-intercooler-leather-seats-/321132390861?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4ac4fb69cd

[snailracer]

Am I allowed to move that into the other thread? Obviously it would need the chequer plate removing. Is the dash covered in chequer effect vinyl? Why?

[western]

cos he can,

[snailracer]

Just because you can doesn't mean you should....