Interesting. Nobody over here could care less about when it was made for any reason, just its model year.
Interesting. Nobody over here could care less about when it was made for any reason, just its model year.
Hi peanut,
Give Yamaha uk a call. They will require you to email photos of your engine number and frame number and a fee of £35 I think and they will send you a date of manufacture.
I just did it with an import myself, fairly simple process, takes about 4 weeks though.
Yamaha Motor Europe N.V., branch UK
Units A2 & A3
Kingswey Business Park
Sheerwater
Woking
Surrey
GU21 5SA
Telephone: - 01932 358000
Good luck
I have just been trying to do the same thing. I talked to DVLA, they said “ A vehicle has to be registered within the first week in January, to qualify for that year”. So the vehicle I was trying to get classed as Historic didn’t qualify because it wasn’t registered until October 78. It seems you can get different answers from different people at DVLA, though. Also if trying for an age related reg number for any vehicle, home or imported, DVLA won’t touch anything without a letter from HMRC stating the VAT status. Still needs a NOVA even if it is a UK bike that has dropped off the records during the 1983 conversion to digital records. Hope this of some use to our UK readers.There is no way to get any records like that from a US state DMV.
Drive the bike into their office? Don't know of ANYTHING that could be more authoritative than that DOT REQUIRED official manufacturing label. Seriously that is the gold standard, the manufacturer could face serious consequences for lying on that label.
I have just been trying to do the same thing. I talked to DVLA, they said “ A vehicle has to be registered within the first week in January, to qualify for that year”. So the vehicle I was trying to get classed as Historic didn’t qualify because it wasn’t registered until October 78. It seems you can get different answers from different people at DVLA, though. Also if trying for an age related reg number for any vehicle, home or imported, DVLA won’t touch anything without a letter from HMRC stating the VAT status. Still needs a NOVA even if it is a UK bike that has dropped off the records during the 1983 conversion to digital records. Hope this of some use to our UK readers.
yeah well you don't get free tax and zero road tests over there do ya !
Nobody over here could care less about the date of registration
I have just been trying to do the same thing. I talked to DVLA, they said “ A vehicle has to be registered within the first week in January, to qualify for that year”. So the vehicle I was trying to get classed as Historic didn’t qualify because it wasn’t registered until October 78. It seems you can get different answers from different people at DVLA, though. Also if trying for an age related reg number for any vehicle, home or imported, DVLA won’t touch anything without a letter from HMRC stating the VAT status. Still needs a NOVA even if it is a UK bike that has dropped off the records during the 1983 conversion to digital records. Hope this of some use to our UK readers.
Just for info,
For those of you over the pond that might be interested, when we want to register a motorcycle with the driving agency the DVLA in the UK we have to provide paperwork for the following.
When they are satisfied we get a document called a V5 or logbook as we used to call them.
- We have to provide a nova certificate (this just states all the import duties and taxes where paid)
- A current MOT (vehicle worthiness check)
- Proof of current road insurance
- A dating letter from the manufacturer
As peanut says, in the UK any vehicle over 40 years old does not need any further MOT although it needs the first one just for the purposes above.
I understand that Yamaha is not a club Garry but they still will not be able to provide proof of the date of manufacture unless I give it to them.Hi peanut,
Yamaha uk is the Yamaha branch office for the U.K. , it’s not a club. They probably charge for the information because there are people working full time contacting HQ asking for dates.
The dvla wont accept a picture of the label on the frame because it’s manufacturers number not a date. Only Yamaha can get the date.
Pay your road tax peanut, your country needs you
Garry
yep that is amazingly cheap really for some great Historic motoring.£25 for an MOT and £37 tax for the year. Next year FREE...... lol.