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I hope they are just stickers....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Midas-Kit-Car-mk2 ... 4a9f324b0e

I'd like to know how you get tax exempt on a Q plate. Thats a new one on me!

You beat me to it David, I was just about to say the same.

have I missed a trick.

I though a Q plate, by definition, a car where the year of manufacture cannot be determined.... ergo it would be unlikely to be able to prove it was a pre 1973 or whatever year it was that the exemption applies to. And if so, it would have an age related plate.

In the good old days - before the SVA and IVA - your local Vehicle Registration Office was a law unto itself.

And that is why we got some cars retaining their donor registration numbers, others with Q-plates but with the vehicle make and model listed as BL Mini and just about every other combination under the sun.

The age related plate only came about in the late 1980s when the DVLA decided that it should claw back registration numbers just in case they had some value as a cherished number.

My sister's 1984 Dutton Phaeton was Q-plated, with a first registered date of 1971 relating to the Escort donor.

I asked the seller about this and he said it was built from a 1971 Mini, and the DVLA took its chassis no. as evidence of date of manufacture. Obviously as Alistair says, they used to be less fussy than they are now.