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The UK needs to reclaim its sovreignty from the EU. It hasn't adopted the currency, and selectively ignores other EU tripe.
The time to rally people is now.
Or wait passively for the next "Consultation" documents to emerge.
Excuse me, but is it your country or Belgium's?
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FBHVC did a press statement saying that they couldn't support Classics used on a daily basis ( we ehave a copy on file ) so we have tried to take their issues under our wing as well as there is a lot of crossover. They did a huge survey of Historic owners and busineesses and produced a very impressive document . It showed how much the Historic market is worth but they finished off by saying that they are used so little that they shoudl simply be ignored ...and then quantified that as 1500km !! If it is decided to restrict mileage on Historics then they have been presented with a benchmark by a very influential body  |
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with regards to the post 2001 emisions testing the dvla have been contacted by a number of members whos cars fall way below the current and manufacture set emmisions / tax grouping. thus then it comes to mot time some of these owners are being overcharged you could say because the manufacture has taken an average of the emissions.
now if the new law / legislation comes into effect then would this then allow these aid standard unmodifiec eu boxes to be charged at a lower emissions tax bracket or not?!
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In norway you can get classic car insurance (27 pounds per year from the company I use, I think) but you are then limited to 3000kms per year, and is not to use the car for going to work in (every day) But the companies seem fairly relaxed about that really...  Regular insurance is pretty cheap on 30+ cars too. And you don't pay any road tax if your car is over 30 years old. :9) |
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Last Edit: Nov 6, 2010 2:05:04 GMT by Deleted
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in comment to the quote about the undeclared engine swaps, i was pulled over 3 times in two weeks, first time a vosa unit was called to look over my car, hoodride mk1 golf (post a pic in a second) so a vosa officer and 6 police traffic officers looked over my golf with a fine tooth comb,  even though the log book read 1.1 petrol, not one of them raised a question to the fact that there was a intercooler in the engine bay. second time, pulled over for "looking smug in white sunglasses and having pressed plates" then got a 3 police bike escort into the vosa test center, where the same thing happened again, but this time the vosa officer noticed the engine swap and whispered to me, so that the police couldnt hear, "is it insured correctly?" to which i replyed yes... "i have a trade policy" after this the police then decided that thy didnt like a few aspects on my car, and wanted me to change them... length of my aerial and my yellow lights ride hight and the vosa man said that there was noting he could do to enforce any of these changes, so then i tell you i was looking smug in my white sunglasses... so the officers told me to took me aerial into my roof rack... then the 3rd time i was driving do a duel carriage way approaching a roundabout and on the oppersite side of the road was the same traffic officer as a few days before who then chased me down just to pull me and a make sure my aerial was still tooked into my roof rack... honestly if you want to drive round in a cool retro, make sure its legal, because once they see you and don't like the look of your car, they will get you... and i havent even explained the other two times were the police prohibited my golf... |
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i think your issue is that what you think looks cool the plod think looks like a scraper being run by someone with no money for maintenance, they were probably assuming it was rusty and falling apart. I used to get pulled over all the time in my youth running knackered looking cars, as soon a i stopped making em look curse word on purpose the plod left me alone.
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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The old " We'l get him on something " standbyes have stood the test of time . I got pulled for a flailing whip aerial in the days of my youth.8 years old, at the time, 4 door Ford Classic |
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Last Edit: Nov 6, 2010 15:22:26 GMT by kapri
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No, it would be VERY easy, especially now that the DVLA & MOT system is computerised, to weed out for example, pre-cat vehicles, or any specific cut-off such as date, or emission standard that is recorded on the V5C. I have to disagree. Yes, MOTs are computerised, but what your car currently emits is not recorded on the DVLA database. If it's post 2001, the CO2 reading shown on the V5C was recorded by the manufacturer when it was new. It's that registered reading the DVLA sets it's tax against, not what it was recorded putting out at the last MOT..... The DVLA only has recorded what the manufacturer says it was putting out when new. They would sink under the paperwork if they had to amend their records every time a car passes an MOT, it's done once only, at registration. Otherwise pre 2001 vehicles would have a CO2 reading on their V5Cs too. Just to clarify something here - The MoT test does NOT test your CO 2 emissions, neither do the roadside checks. Both are looking for CO and hydrocarbon residue (HC), which would indicate a faulty/played with emmisions setup, not CO 2 which along with water is the main component in a catalysed exhaust. The CO 2 banding on the v5c is actually derived from the car's fuel consumption as measured by the manufacturer or MIRA and isn't checkable other than by measuring fuel usage, which is impractical to do at MoT - to get a reasonablly accutate reading, I'd have to drive your car for 100 miles in varied conditions, record how much fuel it used then compare that to the "official" figure.... |
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in |
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Regular insurance is pretty cheap on 30+ cars too.
