40th Birthday !

[York Sud]

[Sud 145]

She must have been born before that. My Sud was born 1o months before registration.

[Marlow Sud]

Have you got a pic please.
Brgds,
Simon

[York Sud]

it thinks it's Australian!

[Marlow Sud]

Love the colour!

[Kegsti66]

Nice one Richard.
Mine was 41 on Monday

[sudboy1490]

Only 3 months between ours Rich so on that date next year we'll be tax free

Keith couldn't you apply for a tax refund then re apply for your free tax now its 41yrs old ?

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[junior]

Just looked at the Rover web site which has a clear explanation and it looks like you take the paperwork to change it to a historic tax class to a

post office, and they just change it over. A refund comes to you if your already taxed..

[York Sud]

Tax free... Lovely, saves not being able to use it on the odd nice day towards the end of the year when I'm to tight to tax it..

[sudboy1490]

Doesn't tax exemption go from the vehicles build date if it can be proved? otherwise just the registration date?

[York Sud]

Your right Sud 145, MPK 607P was actually manufactured on the 17th Feb 1976 according to the Alfa Romeo archives..

[dralf1965]

I thought i read on the .Gov site that the car would only become tax free from the January after the car was 40 years old. I have one that was registered Nov 76 and one in 77(cant remember the month).

[Sud 145]

Good grief got something right for once. Pleased to help. Tony

[York Sud]

Nick, I fear your quite possibly correct, everything I've read states tax free from 31st Dec following the 40th year of cars age.. I shall be trying my luck..

[sudboy1490]

Thanks for the info guys, seems anything registered before 7th Jan will be tax exempt as it can be assumed it was built before dec 31st. This is good new for the white sud as it was registered on 01/01/1978 i thought it may have to wait an extra year!

[junior]

Just been to the post office as last week I taxed my 105 and then realised it was now eligible to be in the historic tax class.

They only needed the V5 filled in. One refund on its way ! Very rare you get a refund that easily.

Thanks York Sud for posting that and nudging my memory.

[Kegsti66]

I thought i read on the .Gov site that the car would only become tax free from the January after the car was 40 years old. I have one that was registered Nov 76 and one in 77(cant remember the month).

Thanks guys, I read this and was confused but things are making sense now,as, on Monday, I came home from work and had a letter from DVLA saying "don't forget to tax your new car" and it contains another V5c for the Sud ( I now have four of them !!). So guess where I am going tomorrow morning? What I didn't get was surely it was eligible in April when I re-taxed it ? But I did pay for it.
I will keep you posted if I get a refund.

[Sud 145]

It seems like you have to do your own homework DVLA don't like to hand out freebies.

[Kegsti66]

Just been to the post office as last week I taxed my 105 and then realised it was now eligible to be in the historic tax class.

They only needed the V5 filled in. One refund on its way ! Very rare you get a refund that easily.

Thanks York Sud for posting that and nudging my memory.

Thanks James and all you others who kick started this chat.
Popped around to the Post office this morning and the Sud is officially Historic now.
The new V5c I received in the post was signed and has been sent off to DVLA and I will get a new one sent along with a refund of four months of paid duty.
So she is now good to go all year around weather permitting.
Cheers
Keith.

[JetJackson]

How do I find out the date of manufacture of my car?

Mine was declared as built in 77 when imported from italy in the early 90's but I don't have any of the original Italian paperwork.

It says declared 77 on the v5 but no date.

[Kegsti66]

Sud 145 wrote:
Dead easy to find your Suds born-date just forward the details to Marco Fazio at Centro Documentazione Alfa Romeo. Job's a goodun.



Just found this on the other thread and if you highlight and right click Marco's details it gives you an address to email (Google search) so I have tried as well.
Looks like he may come to work Monday to a full "in" tray from the UK.
Hope this is correct, thanks Sud 145 (Tony?)

[JetJackson]

email sent! Lets see what happens..

[Sud 145]

Marco also proved my 145 was born 16th Nov '99 but registered Jan '00. As you say must be quite a busy chap.

[JetJackson]

Here is my answer ...

Looks like I have to wait.

[dralf1965]

Useful to know.

[Kegsti66]

in order to improve our services, we’re rearranging the archives at the Centro Documentazione Alfa Romeo (Arese). For this reason, the researches of car registry information are currently suspended.

In the next few months, the service will be reactivated with a new dedicated website.



We apologize for this temporary inconvenience.



Best regards






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