UAR 741Y

it looks like a Morris Marina Pickup, but the year of manufacture and the name of the car according to the extra information category seem to indicate otherwise... what is it, exactly?

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575 is the name of Marina Pickup and vans in New Zealand. As the production ceased in 1981, I guess a 1983 is a simple mistake in paperwork, or some legal trick. I don;t know how the thing in UK works, but before we entered the EU, it was possible to register vehicles built as the so-called "Folder", this privilege was commonly used when importing cars from abroad to avoid customs duties / excise duties. In other words, a car without an engine was brought separately, and an engine separately from that car.

At that time, such a car was classified as car parts. In Poland, an engine for the car was installed and registered as the so-called "flatboat". And then, the year of importing the vehicle as the year of its production was stamped into the registration certificate.

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Oh yes, i did remember stories of people importing cars into Poland disassembled, and then assembling to bypass higher VAT/import taxes. Might be what happened to this thing?
Indeed if this were a true 1982/1983 car, then it would have recieved white/yellow plates.

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