<VV> Classic Car rules

[Bill Elliott]

Speaking of Europe, the latest proposed EU language (from the Federation 
Internationale des Vehicules Anciens) attempt to uniformly define a 
"Classic Car"  (and hopefully make them a protected class not subject to 
the more stringent upcoming EU regulations on non-classic vehicles). 
They have defined it as a car at least 30 years old in 2010 (meaning 
December 31, 1980 would be the cutoff production date), preserved and 
maintained in an historically correct condition, and not used as a means 
of daily transport.

Currently this is a non-rolling date, non-daily usage is not yet 
defined, it's not clear what sort of updates (such as radial tires or 
fuel injection) would still be considered "historically correct", and 
FIVA themselves admit that the strict definition does not adequately 
cover all historic/classic cars. But it's an important piece of work 
because it's the first time I'm aware of such a universal definition 
being attempted and it is sure to influence (at some level) potential 
legislation in this country.

Currently the UK has a 1973 non-rolling production date cutoff for 
classics (free road tax/ registration) and all cars must meet a rigorous 
annual MOT safety inspection.

Bill

hugh wrote:

>I read recently that the average age of a vehicle in this country is 9.2 years which surprised me.  This would mean that the Feds would be trying to get rid of 50% of the cars on the road.  I live in rural eastern North Carolina and I can attest to the age of vehicles in our area. There are a huge number of 80'a vehicles here that are in wonderful condition.  No rust leaves a nice car.  Put huge rims and thin tires and you have a version of a pimpmobile.  Where do they think our less well off fellow citizens are going to get the funds to buy something newer.  What we need to do is replace all representatives that have been there more then 10 first.  2 of my three Corvairs are in better shape visually and operationally then most of them.
>They tried this in England and it did not work out well.
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