Bike-engined - should I just scrap the donor?

[Renrut]

I'm finally making progress into what I originally planned about 2 years ago. I'm going ahead with a roadster inspired bike engined middy based on MR2 running gear. The donor is stripped of parts. The engine and parts I don't need have already been sold. Rest is in storage in the garage.

However I still have the shell sat on my driveway and my missus is getting annoyed by the rusty sight. Now I know I won't be able to get an age related plate because I won't be building it with the Donor's engine. So should I just scrap the shell off completely to save me worrying about the V5 and tax liability and register it as a completely amateur built thing? Or should I cut the VIN plates out, cut it up, weight it in and use the VIN plates anyway. And what photos, docs do I need if I go down either route?

Chuck the thing away and opt for a q plate as when you come round to mot time they use pre 1975 rules...no emissions..

[bobbyh]

i didnt know q plates where tested on per 1975 ruels yay

[Renrut]

Oh ok. Does that mean there are any extra hoops to leap through by going that route?

Quite like the idea of running sans cat

Hopefully I'll get time over the xmas break to finalise the chassis plans enough to start welding. I'll post them up if people are interested.

[Renrut]

Scrap man took the bare shell away today, so it's gonna be a complete 'amateur build' now rather than a radically modified chassis. So its time to start cleaning up the parts, selling what I don't need and making use of the bits I do. Looking over the piles of stuff it might take longer than I originally anticipated just to get my garage back to a usable level.

If anyone wants a pair of doors from an MR2 let me know

[hillbillyracer]

Hello Renrut, no matter now but your MR2 was a Mk1 anyway was'nt it? Cats did'nt come in till 1992 so you would'nt need one anyway.
I'm not sure that the emissions test is the same as pre1975 for a Q, when I enquiered about them so I knew which way to go on my build the lad in my MOT station said the Q plate test was only visual (mabye that's what pre 75 is?), but the pre 1992 test was easy enough to pass so long as things were in decent order. I'm going to try to get the age related plate from my H reg Sierra donor.