Thread: New Toy - 1957 107" ute

Originally Posted by garrycol

If it has been previously registered in NSW with the engine you will not need a certificate.

You can write to the RTA to get a letter of its last registration details - including engine number etc. Cost is about $18. I got one for my 101 and my series 1 88.

Garry

This is the type of thing you can get.

Tote - great to see you saved it from the wreckers!

Originally Posted by garrycol

This is the type of thing you can get.

I was wondering how we could get the previous registration details of the old trucks and thought the privacy laws would get in the road of a proper history....

Originally Posted by StuRR80

I was wondering how we could get the previous registration details of the old trucks and thought the privacy laws would get in the road of a proper history....

The Nanny state of Qld will not give any information at all unless you go 'Freedom of Information'. Note there is no actual "private information" concerning my series 1 in the letter.

I asked for similar information on my 101 which had been registered in Qld - the refused to give me any information at all - yet NSW sent me a letter like the one above giving full rego and other details of my 101.

Garry

Originally Posted by garrycol

The Nanny state of Qld will not give any information at all unless you go 'Freedom of Information'. Note there is no actual "private information" concerning my series 1 in the letter.

I asked for similar information on my 101 which had been registered in Qld - the refused to give me any information at all - yet NSW sent me a letter like the one above giving full rego and other details of my 101.

Garry

Ah, gotta love the bureaucracy! At least it keeps someone in a job!!

I cannot for the life of me imagine what secrets the public servants think they have to protect. Although I haven't lived there for 37 years and things are probably different all English cars used to be registered for the life of the vehicle. Each car had a "logbook" - essentially a title deed - containing, in order, every owner and the address so you knew the full history. Made it hard to steal cars because if you had the logbook and yours was the last name on it, it was yours - no question. It also established the provenance of the vehicle, important for collectors and historians. Thieves had to forge logbooks which was not so easy. That is why so many old Landies in the UK have their original plates, even the ones found way up on the fells. Road tax was a different matter from registration altogether. If we did the same here it would be much easier for restorers.

the colour looks a LOT like that of one of the first overland vehicles -

Originally Posted by Mooloolah-Paul

I cannot for the life of me imagine what secrets the public servants think they have to protect.

Exactly! Chances are anyone who owned the vehicle originally are either a: dead or b: moved.... especially for Series 1's!

Anyway, back to topic....

Originally Posted by garrycol

The Nanny state of Qld will not give any information at all unless you go 'Freedom of Information'. Note there is no actual "private information" concerning my series 1 in the letter.

I asked for similar information on my 101 which had been registered in Qld - the refused to give me any information at all - yet NSW sent me a letter like the one above giving full rego and other details of my 101.

Garry

Queensland does give you the information if you go through the right channels. Problem is that Queensland Transport has a data destruction act that started in around 1980 so everything prior to that has been destroyed.