Ebay cars without tags

[vanman]

I can't see the issue with the Torana. It may well have been stolen and recovered and had the tags removed in the process. It can still be registered no problem as it has a chassis number, so why would Ebay stop the sale of it?. I have bought cars before in the past to get ID plates for my collection, and sold the car or wrecked them out. The last one I did it to was an LH SLR 5000. I currently have my eyes on a HJ GTS coupe to do the same thing to.

mmmmm HJ Coupe ... i want, i want, i want
don't take the plates off Restore it or let me buy it... Hj coupe is my favorite..
I have even bought "75GTS" number plates for when i find one ...

[HK1837]

The one I know of is too far gone to restore. If it was a good one i'd keep it myself as apart from HK GTS, HJ GTS coupe is my favourite too. Would be a good wrecker as it has good glass, stainless etc. If I get it i'll just pull the tags and send it to ozbox to wreck.

[wbute]

Fair enough if your collecting the tags but I just get a feeling of frustration after having my ute stolen and the fact that they ripped the tags off and left them in the street that these cars have all had the same thing done to them. I wish they had attached the tags in a way that they were not removable without wrecking them to deter rebirthing.

[HK1837]

They started doing that in VN. I got some tags off a VQ V8 recently that was about to be crushed. The rivets are stainless steel and spin when you try to drill them, and melt the alloy so the tag whilst not destroyed has obviously been off. Even if a car is stolen and had it's tags removed, the identity of the car remains with the chassis number. I've seen plenty of HQ-WB tonners over the years happily registered with the chassis number but no tags attached. Normally they are cars blokes have built up from a rolling chassis with a donor cab. I've even seen them with brand new rails (you could buy new WB rails up until around 1990) and a donor cab, in this case a Police chassis number was issued.

[playwme]

The other thing people do is pull the tags off during a resto to prevent them being stolen. The unfinished project then gets passed through a few owners and somewhere along the line the tags get lost. That was the case with my HQ coupe and I probably wouldn't have been able to afford it if it had the tags.

[wbute]

The trouble is it makes it into a huge grey area. Take my blue wb for example (well the way I have trouble not looking at it anyway). It gets knocked off in 95. It has a set of simmons wheels on it, has a full service record in the glovebox, is a factory two seater with original gts dash and has 175000km on it and is obviously a well loved car. They rip the tags off and pull the kill switch out and thats the last it ever existed in the eyes of the law.
Roll down the track 15 years, a chassis swap, and on to ebay it goes for the third time being listed as complete less tags as they were lost in a respray 10 years ago. There is absolutely no way to prove or disprove this story.
This probably didnt happen though, it was either rebirthed with tags and chassis out of another ute or stripped and cut up/dumped somewhere.
But I look at all cars with no tags and this runs through my mind and I just think dodgy.
I still check all the similar wb's on the bay to have look for any familiar signs and also check simmons wheels as they were late ones with a serial number on them. Yes I am obsessed but I have my reasons.

[mauser]

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/TORANA-LX-SLR...item4aa7c7a950

Here's another Torana without tags... those car thieves must jingle walking around with all those tags on their necks!!!

Mauser

[razsandman]

mmmmm HJ Coupe ... i want, i want, i want
don't take the plates off Restore it or let me buy it... Hj coupe is my favorite..
I have even bought "75GTS" number plates for when i find one ...

have to agree id sell every car i have bar my first sandman to have a hj 2 door. they are so rare why distroy/devalue another one. whats the use of a car with no plates and a set of plates in a draw somewhere? my opinon is once the tag and car part ways they both have no value cos it just rases questions Why no tags? what the point of having the tags. cant you just take a photo of them.. thats my 2 cents