Age-related conundrum

[chris_calcite]

I'm a bit puzzed by this age-related plate business - can anyone clarify?

Over on the locost forum the suggestion seems to be that after you buy your donor you will have to keep the donor SORN'd until it's time to register your roadster. The reason being you need to somehow prove that a certain number of components came from your donor to get the age-related plate. I am not sure how having it SORN'd and in bits helps this except of course you are still the registered keeper.

My problem is I don't want an old rusty wreck of a stripped-out Sierra on my drive looking like an advert for a Yorkshire remake of 'Deliverance' for God-knows how long whilst I build a roadster. I think my nearest & dearest would support me in that ambition too So is there a way round this? Can I strip the donor, have shell, etc taken away by a scrappy and yet somehow in the future still prove to the DVLA that all the bits came from that car and hence get an age-related plate?

Yours in puzzlement

Chris