DC2R buyers please watch out

[MMike]

The owner told me the car had been stolen in 2002 and they had removed the red recaros.

you cannot reregister a statutory write off. so if anyone in the melbourne area is looking for a dc2r.. stay away from this one.

I did some research and according to VicRoads, you cannot re-register the vehicle if it was a statutory write-off after 1 May 2002, so this could possibly mean that you can re-register statutory write-offs which occurred prior to 1 May 2002.

Quoted from Vic Roads link;

Statutory write-off
A vehicle that is recorded as a statutory write-off after 1 May 2002, cannot be re-registered and the vehicle identification number (VIN) cannot be reused.

A vehicle will be recorded as a statutory write-off if it is a total loss and so severely damaged that it should not be repaired. Only certain parts from statutory write-offs may be used to repair other vehicles. The following document provides a guide for the use of parts from water and fire damaged vehicles.

So judging by that I am assuming it depends on when (date/year) the statutory write-off occured.

Although I'm not 100% sure.