Many years ago my father-in-law died and since then his 1971 Volkswagen Type 3 fastback has sat unmoved in the garage of his house. After a further 28 years my mother -in-law passed away and the time came to clear the house for sale.

Thanks to liberal application of Waxoly from new the car is completely solid and after a clean out of the fuel system, new exhaust, brake overhaul and a new set of tyres it has a new MOT.

We still have the original registration document in my father-in laws name but what is the correct procedure to transfer the registration to my wife's name? It was taken off the road long before the requirement to SORN so there I presume there is no annual record of it on the DVLA database.