Thanks for your replies. Well I have photographic proof of the car being scrapped in 2003, and neighbours can confirm it going, and probably the scrapyard itself too. I only kept a few bits with the thought of maybe buying a new shell in the future and rebuilding it. Should have just just sent off the V5 and declared it scrap. Since 2003 I have had numerous other cars always taxed or SORN'd without fail. The fact they haven't sent me ANYTHING through the post in over 5 years, I'd pretty much forgotten about the car it until now when I found the reg doc cleaning up the other day and thought I'd better check it's status. If they do get in touch I'll be telling them it was scrapped in 2003 and can prove this. This car was originally taken off road in 1998 and hasn't seen a road since. Having read much about about Continuous Registration. It came into force in 2004 where they started checking licenses monthly where the license expired on 31/1/2004, then next month expires 28/02/2004 etc so perhaps this Mini since it expired beginning of 2003 has escaped. I realise I should have sorned it back in 2003 when I became owner, but I'm not going to risk it now, I'd sooner have it declared scrap.

Hi bit of an odd one this. Basically I bought a Mini back quite a few years ago to restore. It was declared SORN year after year by my Dad. In 2003 we changed the ownership to me in Feb 03. Because it was still declared SORN I thought I didn't need to do anything. Since then what's left of the car has been tucked away in my shed to rebuild in the future, the majority of it was scrapped in 2003. To this day I have not received anything from DVLA other than the new style V5 document when they were introduced. No SORN reminders, nothing. Yesterday I checked the car on the DVLA website and it came up as unlicensed. I went to declare it sorn out of curiosity. It is an offence to be the registered keeper of a vehicle that is unlicensed and does not have SORN declared. You can declare SORN from today’s date, however, please note the above offence still applies. DVLA’s Continuous Registration Enforcement Centre may be in contact with the registered keeper regarding this gap in licensing. Click the Next button to continue to declare SORN." I'm worried if I declare it SORN now I am going to get fined..... I realise now I should have SORN'd it when we changed ownership, but the fact I haven't heard anything for nearly 5 years hasn't prompted me to do anything. I read that there were some changes to SORN in 2004 - continuous registration was introduced, but since the SORN expired on 2003 - would that be why I haven't received anything to this day? Any advice would be appreciated - thanks in advance.