No, the car is registered back onto it's original plate? I think Peter is saying he doesn't tangibly/physically have the original plates. These can be bought quite cheaply I'd have thought - just make sure you choose a legal font 'an all that!
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You may want to look into this further, I had the same issues when I bought mine, I had a personal plate on the van and wanted it on the 260.
I though that if you paid to put it on retention, you then had to pay again to transfer it.
But this is not the case, A rentention is slightly more expensive but includes the cost of transferring it to a new vehicle.
Hope this helps
Roger
Yep the difference is £25 between retention and straight transfer
Peter just get it done another month and with winter is approaching
the car might be worth even less
Delay could cost you a a monkey or even a grand!
You don't need to wait for the V5 to turn up. You simply use the new keeper slip with a filled out V62 ('application for a vehicle registration certificate V5C'). I did this last week to get a personal plate onto my car. I went to the local DVLA office and had the plate on the car (legally!) later that morning.
More details here.