Thank you all for the congrats!
Peter came home today from Motor Rego with the official sticker and number plates!
We decided to use a set of premium plates we had lying around that we owned from a previous car.
The personalised plates will have to wait.
The Motor Rego department is a bit cheeky though - they charge for stamp duty on the value of the car -
The car hasnt even been registered before let alone transfered to anyone!
He tried to get the proposed value down to cut the stamp duty in half - but you cant get out of all of it. It cost nearly $700 today just to get the rego sticker and its only registered until March 2005 at this stage!!!
Someone told us that you should only be paying for the cost of the chassis or as you brought the car - not the finished project.
I also did hear of a guy here in Adelaide that found an old gem of a car and decided to restore it to concourse level. When he took it to the motor rego to get passed it was value at over $160,000 dollars!! He had to pay nearly $30,000 stamp duty on the thing!
Cheers
Peter & Lyn Mcrthur
Adelaide