Scooter regoed as moped. Legal?

[Swoop]

My MIL bought a car registered as an ambulance - apparently quite common amongst dodgy car dealers, as the rego is way cheap on ambo's.

There was a "trend" a while back, where registering vehicles in certain categories was a way around the exhorbitant fees charged by gubbinment.
I believe a funeral hearse was one that started the ball rolling. The owner claimed to "transport deceased bodies"... It turned out she carried frozen chickens home from the supermarket in it.

[davereid]

F'instance back in the day it was not uncommon for people to swap the RD250 Yamaha heads and barrels for RD350 ones. Now, if I buy a Yamaha 250 , and, unknown to me (or , at any rate, I'm not letting on), someone in the past has swapped the barrels, I can commit no offence. I don't know it is NOT a 250 :innocence:. I just thought it was a very fast 250.

Hehe, yes I had an RD250 err 350 on me learners licence for years.

The other trick was the rego form at the post oriface.

You had to fill out a lot of questions, one of which was ENGINE CAPACITY.

This of course was used to calculate the appropriate fee.

I had an XJ650, and I always wrote 40 cubic inch

Which was correct and accurate.

But the daft old girl in the postoffice would invariably charge me for a 49 cubic centimetre or less engine.