I have recently been through this COD business as you know. I filled in the correct forms, all 18 pages of it, took some lovely colour shots of the car, inside, outside, upside-downside. Sent them all off with the fee to MSNZ and waited. They eventually came back, all the pages and photos with a nice red MSNZ stamp on them, and I was given a schedule K classification with an A compliance, plus a little red sticker for the side of the car telling people that this was something special......an Historic Vehicle. The only trouble is that NO ONE from MSNZ has actually looked the car to compare it with the photos supplied. I have no doubt someone will at the Festival, but meantime I have got my precious COD. Seems a bit back to front to me......not that I am growling. If I change the engine specification in future, which I intend to do, I have to notify MSNZ that I have done so, and supply more photos , and more money, to verify the change. And just suppose that an MSNZ official finds that the the photos dont exactly match the car, what then. Perhaps, as Howard has said, some people HOPE that the paperwork WILL in fact confer 'Historical Status' on the car, which will very definately have an effect on the value of said car. The asking price for the Custaxie II doesn't seem out of the way to me. I'll bet it cost plenty if all the hours were added up.