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[JamesV6CDX]

use the reg number to do a dlva check! its probably abandoned owing to duff auto box,leaking cam covers,knackered crank sensor,cambelt overdue,shagged wishbones,steering idler and track rods,broken rear springs, furbar central locking,sunrooof with a mind of its own - and he couldnt afford to put petrol in  it anyway.

Sounds familiar.

I nearly spat my dinner out

[albitz]

Sorry.

[the alarming man]

Technically, its still stealing.

yep it is stealing by finding... ...

[Murph]

Apply to the DVLA for a logbook in your name.
They will write to the last registered keeper and if they hear nothing back they grant you the V5 and the car is yours.

Perfectly legal - done it myself a few years back and got myself a whole load of spares for my Carltons!

I checked with the local plod first and was told it was fine.

[Vamps]

Apply to the DVLA for a logbook in your name.
They will write to the last registered keeper and if they hear nothing back they grant you the V5 and the car is yours.

Perfectly legal - done it myself a few years back and got myself a whole load of spares for my Carltons!

I checked with the local plod first and was told it was fine.

Nice one...   I thought there was a legal way of dealing with this....

[flyer 0712]

Yep totally agree with that..done it myself some years ago with a carlton..

[adey2]

im not sure, on logbook it does say registered keeper is not nessicary the legal owner, just who responsible for taxing it

[P6UL K]

If it was me the last thing i would of done is put a thread up about it    But then thats just me LOL 

[fiend61]

Apply to the DVLA for a logbook in your name.
They will write to the last registered keeper and if they hear nothing back they grant you the V5 and the car is yours.

Perfectly legal - done it myself a few years back and got myself a whole load of spares for my Carltons!

I checked with the local plod first and was told it was fine.

there is this way and the other way is to-------
live in it for approx 12 years then it becomes yours by right aswell 

[Varche]

Apply to the DVLA for a logbook in your name.
They will write to the last registered keeper and if they hear nothing back they grant you the V5 and the car is yours.

Perfectly legal - done it myself a few years back and got myself a whole load of spares for my Carltons!

I checked with the local plod first and was told it was fine.

there is this way and the other way is to-------
live in it for approx 12 years then it becomes yours by right aswell 

What with a duff auto gearbox and broken rear springs - have you no shame

[Dishevelled Den]

I would be careful of this one - assume the rights of the owner and you're in the territory of theft should you remove the car or anything from it.

It may help to try Murph's suggestion and contact the DVLA as a first step.  You might find that they're slightly more reluctant to provide this service in the absence of a fee - it they do it at all nowadays given the litigious society we live in and the disinclination for 'civil servants' to expose their arses to anything much more than a seat cushion.

In any event, you will have to show due diligence in your attempts to contact the owner through the last registered keeper by placing a notice in the local paper/ making local enquires/ contacting the DVLA and so on, steps that will perhaps make this more trouble than it's worth.

Of course the mere fact of informing anyone in authority of the existence of an untaxed (and uninsured vehicle) vehicle parked up can be a game changer in this authoritarian country - as the vehicle may be seized and the former keeper pursued for unpaid taxes and any other liability that applies.

[henryd]

I am wondering if that vehicle is sorned at the moment as if not a large bill could end up through the letterbox of anyone wanting to own it.

[twiglet]

I am wondering if that vehicle is sorned at the moment as if not a large bill could end up through the letterbox of anyone wanting to own it.

I can't remember how long the SORN system has been in place.  OP says the last tax disc is 2007, so you could be talking over £1000 in unpaid tax!! 

[henryd]

I am wondering if that vehicle is sorned at the moment as if not a large bill could end up through the letterbox of anyone wanting to own it.

I can't remember how long the SORN system has been in place.  OP says the last tax disc is 2007, so you could be talking over £1000 in unpaid tax!! 

Hmmmm free doesn't seem so cheap then does it

[unclelicklug]

FWIW in my Hillman Imp days (let's say about 30 years ago..) my mate's GF told us about an Imp abandoned in a car park for several months...we turned up and started taking some bits off.
Shortly after we were duly arrested (young bobby) and carted off.
We were eventually charged with theft.
The case went to court but was dismissed after about 90 mins on the grounds of no case to answer. The get out being that we genuinely believed that the owner had abandoned her interest in the car.

I think they call this finding out the hard way - not recommended!