Interesting E-bay listing

[Dave Taylor]

160892278947 interesting find wonder if Tom's aware?

[28ullkq4hau58]

he,s a dealer ......

[Adrian Southgate]

Even dealers have to get out and play Mike. (that sounds bad, no pun intended..)

Worst possible case scenario is he bought it to make a profit on, he ain't gonna make much profit without a chassis.

[2zb8cfd8f5ygm]

Is Tom getting royalties for being in the add?

[Dave Adams]

Cor......has it changed again?
this question came up for me a few years ago on a citroen 2cv i owned and it had a rotten chassis and new ones were not availabe. on asking the then dvla folks they told me where manufactured chassis were no longer available a new like for like replacement manufactured elcewhere was ok. he even pointed out that to qualify as a repair 99% of the chassis could be newetal so je didn't see an issue.
typical of the civil service.......no consistency.

[Big Vern]

I was just thinking this Dave, BLMH make repro bodyshells for mini, mgb etc

They arn't original manufacturer but are accepted by DVLA.

[28ullkq4hau58]

i once tried to weld a repair patch to a lada chassis,, only to find that it had been repaired before with a lenth of 2 by 2

it had passed two previus mot,s like that ,,,

[3fq0jt6pjg90h]

2 by 2 probably stronger than any metal left on a Lada over 2 years old anyway, certainly than th e 3 Niva's I owned

[Dave Adams]

steve how do you sleep at night..... ;-)

[Adrian Southgate]

A second hand chassis from an 'unregistered' car has no vehicle identity and is therefore a 'replacement' to the manufacturers original designs. Making it yourself is not accepted as manufacturers original. Type approval has probably been given for those MGB and Mini shells Vern as they are mass produced.

[Dave Adams]

i know that Ade ;-) doh!

it goes to show how loonie our system really is

[Adrian Southgate]

Play the system and win.

[Big Vern]

Heritage panels are hardly mass producers or the original manufacturer. So is it replacement to manufacturers original designs/drawings or an actual part produced by the manufacturer?