Old series Land Rovers and compliance plates

[JohnboyLandy]

Hi All,

My first post !!. I am looking to purchase a late series IIA or series III 109 Land Rover, but I keep coming across vehicles without compliance plates.

In Queenland, a vehicle can't be registered unless it has a compliance plate, unless it can be proven to have been registered in Queensland previously. That pretty much rules out any vehicle outside of Queensland for me.

Should series IIA and series III Land Rover have compliance plates ? I understand ex military vehicles probably don't, but I would have thought non military vehicles ought to.

Any guidance / suggestions appreciated.

Cheers,
John

[Slunnie]

Many of these vehicle were manufactured prior to compliance plates. Compliance plate were introduced sometime very early in the 70's I think

[pop058]

You do not require a compliance plate if the vehicle was not fitted with one by the manufacturer and as Slunnie said, this happened around 1970 ish.

[JDNSW]

Compliance plates were only introduced in Australia about 1973, so they will be fitted to no Series 1,2,2a Landrovers, nor to the first couple of years of Series 3.

The laws requiring them are not retrospective in any state. What you do need is the chassis number stamped on the chassis - should be on outside of the LH rear back spring hanger if the vehicle was assembled in Australia.

John

[JohnboyLandy]

Thanks guys, I'll ring the QLD TMR again and seek further clarification about vehicle which never had a compliance plate.

Cheers,
John

[Mick_Marsh]

The compliance plate was only to advise that the vehicle complied with the ADRs that applied to that vehicle at the time of manufacture.
Edition 2 ADRs came into effect on the 1st of January 1969.
https://infrastructure.gov.au/roads/motor/design/second_edition_adrs.aspx
Any vehicle manufactured earlier did not require a compliance plate.
Edition 1 ADRs were not legally binding.

[JDNSW]

Compliance plates were not mandatory until a few years after that.

John

[1950landy]

Thanks guys, I'll ring the QLD TMR again and seek further clarification about vehicle which never had a compliance plate.

Cheers,
John

I have found that every time you ring Qld Transport you will get sombody different & they don!t know so you end up with ten different answers:mad:

[QRS40]

As long as you have a RWC (which is required for registering in Qld, even if it has interstate rego) you should be fine. That will have the chassis and engine number written on it. When you go to register it, that's what TMR will be looking for if they inspect the vehicle- ie basically will be verifying the car is what it says it is.


I think that pretty much the only plate on early vehicles (sI/II, im not sure of III?) will be the one fixed to the firewall inside the car.. this will have chassis number but not an engine number.

[1950landy]

QT usually want to look at the number that is stamped on the chassis & engine so if thet is clean & easy to see & you can show them were they are located you shouldn!t have a problem. They don!t usually want to look att ID plate as it can be easly changed from another vehicle. RWC stations also look for the number on chassis & engine also.