Sitting rotting on driveways

I think you know where your duty lies, Jim...

 

I am tempted to put a card through the door to see if they'd sell it. There's another car next to it in bits; they strike me as the type of owner who would never sell it though.

 

I do love google maps. I managed to find a picture of the car from 2012 which still has the licence plate on.
It's a 1963, last taxed in 2002 I think.

 

Why do people do that? Another couple of years and it'll have rotted away.

 

Nick it

 

There's a bloke on here with a car transporter. Just saying

 

Just imagine that being started up and raising itself up to drive ride height after being at rest for ages ,
Be like an old man getting out of an armchair

 

Surely parked on the pavement with no tax/insurance...

 

Doesn’t need Tax or MOT though!

 

I did once , an abandoned 1972 MGB GT parked around the back of a big Victorian house split up into cheapo rental flats in Sheffield and had been parked up and neglected for a couple of years.
Asked for months if anyone was claiming it , in the end I just rented a trailer and took it . No comeback whatsoever and within a couple of months had a V5 in my name ...
Surprisingly solid , with a new lock set , new tyres and very little work it was back on the road.

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It looks like on the pavement outside of someone's wall but it still has to be registered every year so will need insurance - or else it has to be on SORN.

 

It’s been there since before even SORN was required as far as I know

 

What"s the legal situation on claiming cars that have obviously been abandoned?

 

Theoretically its theft if it is owned and on V5 . But authorities can take them and store them and the owner can claim it and get it, providing they pay those two costs . Think maybe Lasty was lucky in the fact that the owner may well of past away . Also if the vehicle has been abandoned for a long time and is no longer registered you could get away with it when making an application to re-register it ...only i think if it comes under classic age .
I managed doing that with a classic 1959 Foden . But the owner of it just said to me ...Just Take the effing thing ,iam fed up of looking at the thing as it was sitting there for 45 years with saplings and trees all round it .

Got it re-registered with the help of the Foden Society .Four pics required as proof showing number plate back and front .
I sold it on to classic Foden enthusiast who is still restoring it now i believe .
You might see it one day on a vehicle rally field . Nice plate number 7471 E Which i think is a Stoke on Trent lettering .

 

I believe the previous owner can reclaim the car at any time if it`s just taken .

Having a V5 in my name just involved requesting a log book from the DVLA stating i`d `aquired` the car on such a date without any documents . They then try to find the registered keeper and also check it hasn`t been reported as stolen .
After about a month later i got a DVLA letter saying the previous owner had been traced and gave up all claims on the MG followed about a week later by a V5 ....
Sold both my GTs about ten years later as i was moving South with nowhere to store them , i had an email a few years later from the fella who bought it who`d carried out a full body resto and was well pleased with what he found when it was stripped - a good solid car , never been welded !!

 

In west yorkshire , if you took an abandoned vehicle ,then the registered keeper or anyone claims ownership of the vehicle , then of a report of theft is made , a crime of theft would be recorded but the current owner would sign to maintain the vehicle safely and not dispose of it . Force solicitors would go to court to establish ownership given regard to evidence given by both parties claiming ownership then the court decides . Invariably the original owner wins the case .however if current owner has spent a fortune restoring it they generally negotiate before court and compensate/buy the vehicle of the " original owner" before it gets to court. The crime report would then be disposed of as a no crime to keep the figures down