also a lot of people who’ve been coming and going for years, had to think hard as to when they became resident. I certainly was in that situation when Brexit loomed, in the end I noted a particular date and now make sure to use it for everything and will in the future.
So depending on circs and especially if any other travel has been done meanwhile there may not quite yet be an issue although now the decision is made best to proceed promptly if you can.
Ah, missed that.
My assumption is that it would be stuck on the back of a truck and just driven to the UK. Just as if it had broken down in France. If it’s stuck in a container or as part of a mixed load and shipped by a shipping company then certainly documents would be required, that’s why I wouldn’t dream of doing it that way.
My other assumption is that once one has paid duty (if appropriate) and VAT on a vehicle in the UK you can’t be charged it again for the same, unaltered vehicle. How could HMRC justify that? Even if I had then exported the vehicle and registered it abroad and paid all the appropriate taxes to do so there, I would assume that I could repatriate it to the UK and reregister it VAT free.
I did sort of do that, albeit pre Brexit, in 2013. I’d bought a new Golf GTD in Northern Ireland in 2011 and subsequently imported it here. No taxes to pay because we were all happy clappy in the EU then. After particularly bad snow in January 2013 I decided we needed one 4X4 in the house so I looked at a VW Tiguan. Since the Golf was RHD it made sense to order an export LHD Tiguan in London and trade the RHD Golf in there. However they wouldn’t take it on French plates. So I made a plan 
. Months later when the Tiguan was ready for delivery I drove the Golf to the UK and stopped at a DVLA registration office (I believe they’re all sadly gone now) with all the Golf’s old UK paperwork and they registered it there and then. I had a letter from the VW dealer saying I could use their address as my address for registration purposes. I can’t remember if I changed the plates or not, but I then drove the Golf to Grant Chapman (lovely bloke), the Tax Free & Diplomatic Sales sales guy at the time in Alan Day Volkswagen on the North Circular. He checked the car and I was back off to the Chunnel in the new Tiguan before you could say “that was a doddle” 
All done in one day.
Who dares wins
Edit: Like these blokes… Except the other way around
Or these guys…
That was why I suggested further up that he get it “recovered” rather than transported"
Having had a car “recovered” in that way many years ago, I was able to do so because the recovery driver could clearly report there was a con rod sticking out the side of the block. I had to splash some sumpo around to make it look fresh as it had been stored in a garage for a while 
. At the time the minimum value for recovery was £1500 which in my case the car was worth double that. Once home I replaced the engine and drove it for a few years. Had the engine not been terminal it would have been a local tow to a garage and didnt cover parts costs.
All to do with the good folk who cast the UK adrift from the mother ship!
HMRC do not like trucks rolling up with undocumented goods at the back! And the trucks that do roll up have to make sure their paperwork is in order as they will be turned back if anything is wrong, so yes, transporters will want to make sure everything is in order. Many, for ad hoc deliveries, will ask for a guarantee against this and/or a consignee not accepting the goods.
All good stuff the brexshit mallarky 
Edit:
Sorry, I see this has been covered above before I read it all.
Recovery also has to go through an HMRC clearance, but apparantly it is quite easy, so yes, maybe the OP could flag down an empty AA truck, and do a deal… 
This all upsets the inter EU car competitions. Pre the brexit nonsense, car clubs across the EU always welcomed UK drivers (and vice versa) when all one had to do was load the competition car onto a trailer with a set of best tyres one could find, strap down a tool box and trundle off to some remote location without anyone raising an eyelid. Now, one has to make an inventory of all the parts one carries in, have it stamped by cutoms on entering, and then verified that it is all there on returning… So now EU motorsport is without UK attendance as it used to be. Another good reason to give a brexshit person to Jeremy Clarkson to string up in front of their families.
I’m beginning to think Brexit was not such a good idea after all 
No need to jump to conclusions… Brother Rees-Mogadon says the Faithful should wait ten or fifteen years before making a judgement…
Totally correct about motorsport and customs. Our service crew on the recent Monte Carlo Historique Rallye were driven demented. They were carrying spares for our Volvo and an MGB plus all their tools. Forms and inspections drove them mad and had great problems persuading the customs guy that they weren’t simply bringing stuff into France to sell! How many people in France want to buy a wiper arm for a '66 Volvo 
Before this gets into a ‘it’s of course all France’ thing, the same would happen coming into Belgium or Holland et al.
The fact is, those brexshit voting b*stds forced the UK into being a third country and this is the price paid.
I build hobby hill climb cars that I can no longer do. you are in a much different class that it would be a shame if this nonsense forced you out.
How do the F1 teams cope?
Now don’t be too hasty…
Out of interest, which port did they come through?
Rich enough to have people do their paperwork.
A long way from a near one man band and his service crew.
Used to enjoy hill climbing, well as a bouncing passenger 
Not for me - it requires brains to read maps! Hills are basic bottom rung stuff with a longer life span!
Through the Tunnel at Folkestone - returning via Amsterdam-Newcastle with a very sick MGBGT in tow. No problems on the return leg.
Customs going out searched/x-rayed the van, which was crewed by the owner, his wife and daughter. They couldn’t get their head around all these random things, plus tools and seemed to think they would be sold in France. They were in a van borrowed from friends and it carried Monte Carlo Rallye service stickers - and 30 competing stickered up and numbered cars were passing them during this inquisition !!!
To the best of my knowledge have two “teams” that rotate. Only key personnel and the cars then have make it “on the day” for testing and practice, everything else is in place. I passed the Mercedes team convoy on the autoroute once when I knew “they” were at an event somewhere else.
Seeing this discussion, what I still don’t get is how the transporter delivered my carbon fibre mountain bike to me without needing any information, form filling etc, and it’s value was a few 1000??? Very strange, but certainly not complaining as the whole process was incredibly simple and straightforward.
I still hold pitching up in Dover with Louis’ car on the back of a little car transporter with no tools, spare parts and other autojumble would be no problem, but if people think that some rally stickers and a few dents would help, sobeit.
BTW, sixties Volvo wiper arms are very popular down our way.
Bloody Russians will nick anything