On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:44:11 +0100, Martin wrote:

On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:37:20 +0000, Phil Cook


The right for old fools to die in a twisted pile of junk? :-)

They don't comply with regulations for new cars
but you can still run around in an old one.

Anything over 20 years old was excluded from MOT tests and having to
pay an annual road tax until this year in NL.

Historic vehicles registered before Jan 73 are exempt from Vehicle
excise duty in the UK. It's been a fixed date since 1998 .
Occasionally you hear of a car owner whose oldish and now rarer
vehicle was registered after that suggesting going back to a rolling
date with anything over 25 years old being exempt.
That would cover heck a lot of cars that thinking of them as "Old"
proves I am getting that way. TR6, E types, Any of those Austin/Morris
1100 variants that miraculously haven't rusted away.
A change to UK MOT rules recently exempted cars registered before 1960
from compulsory MOT tests. Still have to be roadworthy to be legal but
the thinking is that as most are driven by owners who care for them
they will be maintained properly.
Some farmer somewhere will no doubt find a Morris 8 his dad left in a
shed trapped behind a set of harrows and think" It'll be worth getting
it out now"

G.Harman