Finally there!
Got the MoT done and then had to get the car registered in my name...
There is a 'transfer document' that the buyer and seller have to sign... for some reason it also has to be signed by the village Mukhtar (Mayor)... It took me a week to track him down and he then refused to sign it as the seller wasn't present!
So a mate took me to an office in Pafos yesterday where another block signed the form and stamped it for €2 even tho he had never seen me before in his life...
Today I had to take the car to the Road Transport department to get it re-registered in my name... Luckily I was the only car there today because it took ages...
The place was awash with people taking (and failing) their driving tests - I didn't think anybody failed here!
Anyway, the guy wasn't happy that the chassis number was on a tag that is riveted to the body. it is a new tag 'cos the old one was all shitted up.... He said that you could have taken a tag from any car and put it on there and wanted the original - when I pointed out that the original tag could also have been taken from any car I got a demerit...
Anyhooo...
He insisted that the chassis number was stamped on the body somewhere and I insisted that it wasn't... it certainly wasn't stamped in the footwell because that had been replaced when I got it and I replaced it again...
He finally decided that the chassis number was stamped on the scuttle and painted over... I said it wasn't because all the paint had been stripped and there was no number there. However, he insisted and chipped all the paint off with an old dinner knife!
After an hour of chipping and inspecting with a mirror and powerful light he said "we'll use the number on the tag"...
So having taken note of that and the engine number (another new tag which I had glued to the block) he filled in four pages of details on the car...
Then he asked where the 'stamps' where...
Apparently, the transfer document requires two 'Revenue Stamps' @ €1.71 each (equivalent CY£1)... But they don't sell them there... oh no....
So, jump in the car and zoom back to Pafos to buy two 'Revenue Stamps' from the post office...
Return and stamps are attached to the document, stamped and signed...
Then have to queue up at the other side of the building to pay the transfer fees... the reception is full of people being briefed for their driving test and wailing gerls that have failed....
The woman at the counter then proceeds to type the four pages of stuff that the inspector has just written out into the 'puter...
After loads of stamping, signing and printing of bits of paper that I never get to see she finally feeds a registration document into the printer, prints it and she is legally mine!
Well, after payment of three years back-tax and the registration fee - €342!
I didn't have €2 in change so she accepted €1 and gave me €10 change!
Have spent this arvo re-painting the scuttle...
Next step is to add the trim and 'GT' stripes....
