Silly? Have you forgotten who reads this forum? Really, sir!peterc wrote:Don't forget that when you have decided on your cherished reg number you can get a suitable age related tax disc.
Look up 'poplargreg' and he will sell you a set of three discs ( 2 spare in case of future damage).
You chose which design you need to suit the year of manufacture, the correct issuing office, request the date stamp accordingly together with showing the correct fee for that year. I chose only six months to get the tax to 'expire' in Sept '64 thus indicating the original year the car was supposedly created.
OK so its another little detail possibly seen as silly by some but what the heck.
Peter C
Worth a look here for tax disc junkies:
http://www.virtualgaz.com/taxdiscspage.htm
However, it seems your ploy doesn't quite work, Peter. There was a quarterly option up until 1961, when it was dropped due to administrative difficulties and a 4-monthly option introduced. The six-month option only came in in 1981, when the 4-monthly was dropped. You'll have to pretend your car was registered 2 months later!
I've tried a couple of the classic tax disc suppliers, and whilst the standard of the disc is excellent with all the correct chosen details, they don't last long. I put one in the Mustang's (tinted) screen just before we drove to Sicily last year, and admittedly it was sunny but by the time we got home 3 weeks later it was plain white paper! And after I'd spent a not insignificant amount of time stamping all the perforations (including the four long oval ones) around its edge. DVLC discs never faded like that...
I think I may need to check into the clinic again