Vintage Cars
By MikeyCa1
@MikeyCa1 (45)
January 12, 2008 11:39am CST
If I can keep my car on the road for another six years it will become a classic - anyone know if I get car tax exemption for that? It's a VW Golf MkII, 1988 registration.
1 response
@killahclaire (3665)
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13 Jan 08
What do you mean for the next six years you dont wanna pay tax. yeah you have to declare it off road with DVLA but you really do have to keep it off public roads.
If you mean after it is vintage can you drive without paying road tax, of course not!!!
@killahclaire (3665)
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18 Jan 08
Mikey I have done a bit of investigating and i have some very sad news.
It is not exempt and it is all Tony Blairs fault.
"Confusing things even more, for the UK enthusiast of classic cars, is the zero rated road tax, and the new DVLA classification of historic car (formerly PLG, which remains for later cars). The zero rate road tax was introduced by the Conservative Government back in the early 1990s, the idea being that the cutoff would be on a rolling 25 year basis. However when Tony's cronies got in a few years back, they froze this rolling arrangement, and ever since the zero rated roadtax applies to any car *built* prior to 1/1/1973, so even if your BMW 2002 was registered in '73, if the build date on the V5 is a '72 date, you should be ok. In my mind therefore any car that qualifies for the free road tax is by and large a 'Classic' merely by its age, though there is no doubt that later examples of certain cars are correctly also classed as Classic Cars by the initiated fan."
If you would like to see the link I got this from then here it is..... http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/classic_intro.htm
