J506 Two - Red Celica Gt

[midmotorsteve]

do you own it?

I used to be on here with the mr2 boys, but anyway just stumbled upon the RAC free data checker and was looking at my old cars,......

Looked up the celica I wrote off in 1995, hit a wall sideways at 80mph, was told £13,000 worth of damage and it'd need reshelling to get on the road so it'd be crushed... anyway :- this is what RAC say

DVLA lookup results

This is a free selection of data held by Vehicle Registration Number database about the vehicle registration entered.

Vehicle details

Manufacturer TOYOTA

Model CELICA GT

Body type COUPE

Colour RED

Fuel type PETROL

Date manufactured 31 December 1991

Number of previous owners 5

Last owner change 06 March 2002

Interesting I thought,... it was one owner when i smashed it all those years ago...

[DefiantFrog]

Is it based on Number plate? Since yours was written off, has the plate been reused? Don't know if thats allowed, but it might explain it...?

[midmotorsteve]

Is it based on Number plate? Since yours was written off, has the plate been reused? Don't know if thats allowed, but it might explain it...?

It is a number plate based check, but the car details are correct so saying the plates still associated with the same car. Unless its now on "apparantly" the same car...

[~Rach~]

Well its still on the road as it has tax on it til 01 03 2007 according to www.direct.gov.uk/taxdisc vehicle enquiry

[GT4 BOOSTER]

could be on an import by now ??????????

[midmotorsteve]

I'd have thought its just been repaired and got back on the road or its reg & vin got "moved", back then it would have made someone a fair bit of cash if they could pass it on without declaring it as a write off or assimilating a stolen car. I sure as hell wouldn't want it knowing the impact its suffered if it was repaired. It seems to unlikely for the plate to have been put on an import all the details to match up to the original car, do the DVLA even attempt to do that?

Back then the car was valued at £12,000 damage was £13,000 the floorpan was buckled and roof, windscreen shattered, rear hatch poped up and couldn't be closed as the whole Shell was about 1.5" narrower than it should hvae been. One side of the car was level where it hit the wall flat, needed new steering rack, 2 x alloys, bonnet, bumper, front wing rear wing, Shell, windscreen, driver door glass and all the suspension was bent on the driver side.

[chris202]

I owned a 96 Prelude a few years back for a while til i wrote it off - pretty bad , spun into a lampost and then into a wall :( car was totalled , the post almost went through the engine and the whole left side was as good as gone ! Write off !

A few months later , looking for a car on e-bay guess what ! my prelude :o P963 OCS :o guy said he'd owned it for 2 years etc etc load of bull **** and never mentioned it had been a write off . Naturally we phoned him , but he wasnt to happy to hear from us an got a bit cranky ! He'd bought it from the scrappys and basically done a cut n shut on it :(

We passed the details to the dvla and let the police know , the ad disapeared from e-bay within a few hours .

Anyway when i try that reg plate on the dvla website it comes up nothing ! so i would think yours is on the road somewhere !

[sotal]

Just had a look for my old Escort which was written off just over 4 years ago when an old woman ran into the back of it. That seems to be on the road N59 JTC

Taxed until 1st Dec 2006, Last Owner Changed 7th Sept 03.

It smashed the boot floor, creased the arches out, the seat belts in the back didn't work as they'd been squashed. the rear axle was bent. Can't remember what category it was though.