I had some good news yesterday – the Discovery passed it’s MOT test and is now fully road legal.  It needed a couple of new brake pipes and a new brake servo but other that than it was all pretty straight forward.

This morning I therefore drove it to the Post Office and got myself a nice shiny new Tax disc for the princely sum of AAAAHHHH £s. Yes it was little pricey, but it turns out a 4 litre V8 isn’t in the cheapest tax band!

A lot of people will be wondering why I bothered getting it tested and back on the road if I’m only going to start taking it apart in the near future in preparation for the new bodywork arriving.

The answer is twofold.

Firstly: I now know that the basic vehicle is mechanically safe and road legal (as far as an MOT covers). There’s not much point spending the next 6 months building it only to find out at the end that the chassis/axles etc. should have been set alight and floated out to sea on a Viking burial longboat

Secondly: I can spend the next 2 or 3 weeks using it as an occasional drive :) I’d love to give a good reason like ‘to give it a good run to see if there is anything I need to attend to’ or some other good excuse, but really its just that I want to have a good play in my new toy before I need to really get to work gutting it ready for the new rollcage and body.

And the expensive tax disc that will gather dust for 6 months or however long it takes to get the finished project on the road? Easy – you can send them back and get a refund on the months you haven’t used.  Therefore I’ll keep the disc until towards the end of September and then send it back for a refund.

Watch this space for some pics of the new toy and hopefully some news of the delivery of the first set of bits!