Year of manufacture of a car

[LockMonster]

Hi.
How do you find out when a car was made, mine could be road tax exempt? It was first registered in 1974, It could have been sitting around for a year?

[Lord Flathead]

The log book will show the original registration and manufacturing date. Failing that you should be able to get the details from the VIN and pass them for verification to either the OEM, or an enthusiasts club.

[john2443]

BMIHT should be able to provide a certificaet that will tell you the day it was built. http://www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk/exhibitions...

[john2443]

And one more click gives the chassis numbers for Jan 1 1973

http://www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk/exhibitions...

This is assuming it's for your Stag, but the website lists all teh cars they have records for.

If it's not a BMC /BL vehicle then the OC may know.

[NHK244V]

log book doesn't show the manufacture date only the date of fisrt reg, as above you need to decode the vin tag.

[davepen]

How many Stags were manufactured with a V6, in 1973 or even 1974?

[LockMonster]

It looks like mine is older than the LD200..., mine is 317... so to old. We should protest the government, it's not very fair !!!

[NHK244V]

So what is "fair" ? a 74 cut off date just for you? so all the 75 owners start to say "that's unfair" ??
There has to be a cut off date so somone is allways gonna be just outside it, it's not unfair just unlucky, try owning a Jan 2nd 1973 classic and having to pay VED on it, is that more unfair than yours ? no but i pay it anyway .

[LS6wetdream]

well the tories said they would start free car tax rolling when they got in power, where is it?

had to pay £118 for 6 months for my 1974 car yesterday

[LockMonster]

It should be on the age of the car, not the year of manufacture. So 1974 cars are not classics in the governments eyes !

[woodytype S]

I had a July 1974 registered MGB that was tax exempt.

[cheesyblob]

LockMonster said:

It should be on the age of the car, not the year of manufacture. So 1974 cars are not classics in the governments eyes !

The cut off date always used to be cars older than 25 years old. However in 1997 they freezed it so the government could get more money by making more people pay car tax but without annoying the owners of cars that already could get free tax. So it doesn't really have much to do with 'is it a classic' anymore.