Thread: Registering a Kirkham Cobra/Exporting to Europe
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Old 05-23-2009, 10:40 AM
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If importing into the UK, the DVLA (UK Licensing authority) will issue you with a UK registration matching the year of the documentation it was imported with. Therefore, if you can get it "re-registered" is a 1960's car, that is what it will be registered as in the UK, sinple as that. That will have the added benefit of circumventing any type approval requirements and provided the registration is pre-'73, it will also be classified as "Historic" and be road tax exempt.
The DVLA won't investigate the paper trail in the U.S. and once the car is exported, the U.S. paper trail won't matter.

Paul
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