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Ours is similar for registration - half price over 40 years. I should just be able to finish my Notch in time for its 40th birthday, if I keep up my current lack of progress. S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Baum" <dnbaum@hotmail.com> To: "Type 3 Mailing List" <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 2:35 AM Subject: Re: [T3] Inspections (was: Re: [T3] Crunchy steering?) > Jens wrote: > > > the worst thing that can happen to an old-car owner/restorer [in Germany] > is when > > they let registration lapse for over a year, maybe because the car is > > all taken apart in some garage. if you want to re-register it after > > that point you have to go through this special technical inspection > > that is much more expensive and rigorous than the standard inspection. > > This was exactly the situation here until they introduced the "collector's > car" licensing category a few years ago. Any car over 30 years old can be > registered this way, and gets a very large discount in road tax and > compulsory insurance. It has to be tested every six months, as does any car > over 20 years old. > > It can also be taken off the road indefinitely, during which period you can > let the license lapse for as long as you like and not have to pay anything. > Once the car is restored you just renew the license and take the car to be > tested, and that's that. > > I read that in England there is actually a lot of dissatisfaction with the > tax exemption for old cars, because it used to be for any car over 25 years > old, and then it was changed to any car before 1972. Obviously anyone with > 1973 model cars were not happy about this. > > Daniel Baum > 1969 Type 34 automatic > http://www.qldesign.com/type34 > > > ------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.435 / Virus Database: 244 - Release Date: 12/30/02 ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/