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i'll start at the beginning.
it was 1996, i had hair, a smaller waist, a first wife [don't go there....] and a few quid burning a hole in my pocket. i had a VW scirocco, i wanted a quality sportscar. i looked at supras, a celica, a V6 probe [i know, i know, it's like saying you used to fancy blokes, but it was then, this is now..], and of course i looked at 944s. i viewed about 4 before i found the one. E593 AAW. white, 8 valve. my dream car. i was a very happy man. but....other stuff was going on in life, so things weren't A1, but the '44 made life much sweeter. then i crashed it.
one morning, on the way to work, it developed a misfire. on a road i knew like the back of my hand, i tried to 'drive through it', like you do . of course, it came back to 4 cylinders exactly half way round a damp bend.
through a wooden fence at 70 mph....what a bozo, my fault 100%. thanks to fully comp insurance, and several weeks [or was it months?] later [that's another good story in itself...], the 944 returned. because we had been through so much together, i decided i would allow myself to smoke in the car [i don't now]. life was good, work was better, i had a new girlfriend [now wife], all sunshine. until - a dozy old git pulled out on my in a supermarket carpark - no really! and bent the nearside front.
this time, the insurance decided it was 50-50 blame [it wasn't, i was there], and unfortunately wrote it off, and wouldn't let me buy it back.

it went to a mc fall salvage auction in st helens to a salvage dealer in liverpool. i went to see it there, and patted it on it's [bent but roughly bashed straight so it looked better for resale] nose. that was 1998. it was already sold.

where are you now eeyore? [E...AAW geddit?]
i did a DVLA search, but the number isn't recognised, so i presume the car is on a cheapo irish cover plate, or dead and scrapped?
still got the [AFN/stratstone] service history. love to know if it still lives.

i've gone on for ages, hope you liked the story.

Good story. Don't give up hope on the car. DVLA lost a large part of their database a few years ago and if the car was put on a new Regn No the old Regn could well show up as void.

Sounds like you need a new 944 to help you get this out of your system

it had been on a few plates actually. it was orignally E104 JLW, then a private plate, then E52 CBU when it was sold, then it went on another private plate, then it went back on E593 AAW before i bought it. it actually used to have the JLW reg etched on the windows, but most of the glass was replaced in my ownership. the front, rear and driver's windows were changed when i binned it through the fence/hedge, then some vermin broke the passenger side window in sainsburys car park, so only the 2 little rear side windows still had the etchings.
i'd love another one, but i don't have the space to keep one. i have a garage but it's full of motorcycles.

What do you need a garage for - mine lives outdoors and is driven daily

In 1980 I was in the RAF in Germany and bought my first car, a 1979 Triumph Spitfire. I sold it in 1983 and bought my second car, a 1980 TR7. In 1998 I was looking to get a Spitfire to restore, but instead of buying another one I wrote to DVLA asking about both cars. I received a very nice letter saying that the TR7 was scrapped but the Spitfire was still around. For £5 they would forward a letter to the owner for me. One evening I was out and my mobile rang, it was my wife telling me somebody had telephoned. I called him back and it turns out my Spitfire was in his back garden, only a few miles away from where we were buying a new house (the one I live in now). I went to see it, it was a complete wreck, but I bought it and I still own it - sort of.

So the message is maybe you could consider writing to the DVLA and have a person deal with it, rather than doing internet searches.

Good luck with it.

Markw Never been a better time to buy one as they are selling for so little now. Get one from a club member & relive the past. But not the going through a fence at 70 bit

This is going to seem really random but my Dad once owned a White Porsche 944 with the reg plate E52 CBU. I think it was in the early 90s from memory.