Following on from this. Is the reason so many are offered with "no papers" because people have bought them in order to transfer the plates?
I just want to buy something legit and which I won't be filling in a load of forms, paying fees, searching for manufacture dates, insuring, MOTing etc and then finding out it's stolen or something. The plate can be non-transferable for all I care. Or if it really is commonplace and a simple process, then I'll consider no plate at all.
For info, this is the event I've signed up for:
http://www.justgiving.com/JOGLE4BRADSAs I say, I'm more used to old cars, where no V5C raises suspicions.