Historic car tax, save 170 a year! Bring back the rolling 25 year exemption!

Just saw this in via Ed38 - it's in PPC mag: a petition to bring back the rolling 25 year tax exemption rule!

Something extremely relevent to a lot of us and more all the time!

Sign me!

 

signed it now

 

no i am not so keen. my mk1 is my every day car if it fits into a special bracket then its possible there could be restrictions on use in the future.

 

what such restrictions??

 

i believe somewhere in europe cars that are classed as classics are restricted to use only within a certain distance of home

 

There are laws in America that restrict the classic/vintage cars but I'm not aware of any european ones.

http://www.my-classic-car.org/classic-car-safety

 

signed it. I hope they do bring it back as we have cursed a couple of times that a few of the older vehicles weve had are about 2-3 trs out the current classification.
My spitfire and our traction engine are tax exempt and its great when i walk in the post office to tax them and dont hand any money over. (you should see peolpes faces drop)
I say bring it back. After all it was the conseratives way of thanking people for preserving our national herritage.

 

signed

 

Signed, and passed on to many others to sign

 

I've just bought a 1972 land rover to tow my boat to the slipway and back, only half a mile journey and there was no way i was going to tax a vehicle for that.

 

signed... the tax free bit was the best thing about my old land rover... 100 quid to tax the golf for 6 months isnt funny anymore

 

Signed... I've got one car over 25 years old and might buy more if this goes through...

 

yep my mk1 driver will be 25 nxt yr, might have to get it back on the road if it isnt going to cost a penny to tax, would it still count if i put a 20v turbo in it??

 

Signed...

There's a bloke at work who told me that with the old landrovers etc. when the chassis becomes too rotten to save people cut the chassis plate out and sell it with the log book for at least 150.....don't think it would work putting one on a golf though

 

Yes. It goes by the age of the car for taxing and when it comes to mot it goes by the age of whichever is oldest for the emissions test. So it would only have to have an idle test if the vehicle is made before 92 i think it is. If they dont believe you get them to look in their testers manual

 

Well with a car that's 33 years old, and NOT tax exempt - you know that I've signed!

 

That would make the Beetle cheaper to run but a few more years for the Golf, though I doubt it would happen under the current government.
Some say the Conservative never planned it to let it role and that they were phasing it out but Labour got the blame.

 

Done

 

Signed

 

looks like its a no no got a email today,anybody esle get one?
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page12025.asp