Any news on a V8 stolen in 1986?

If you do a search for this vehicle using our V8 Grapevine website you will see it mentions "latest registration update 1st January 2008" which might puzzle you. This date appears by default for all data in the V8 database prior to that date because we had a new V8 database system created at that time. For the earlier registration data (up to the end of 2007) the actual date of the latest registration update could not be carried over from the old database system.


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V8 enthusiast John Fry has been in touch with a copy of an advert from a magazine in December 1986 seeking information on a stolen MGBGTV8 saying "if the car is on V8 Register, I wonder whether the existing keeper is aware!"

On checking the V8 database the car is recorded there by David Brown who posted the advert seeking information on his car. There has been no subsequent registration of an MGBGTV8 or MGV8 conversion with that registration number or engine or gearbox numbers.

Has anyone any information on the whether the car - Damask 0164 - was recovered or has been traced?









DVLA vehicle enquiry
A search on the DVLA website shows the car with the VRN JOW 459 L is currently "unlicenced" and the last road tax expired on 1st October 1987.

Checking vehicle data and insurance online
Useful links to DVLA online vehicle enquiry, tax and SORN services and to the MID insurance website and online MOT staus checks. This link is one of our Information Gateways
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V8 Register - MG Car Club - the leading group for MG V8 enthusiasts at www.v8register.net