Re: [T3] It works!

["Daniel Baum" <daniel@type34.info>]

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> > After two years for brand new cars, then every year till the car is 
> > twenty
> > years old, then every six months.
> >
> > Once a car is thirty years old it can be registered as a "collector's
> > vehicle", which means you get big discounts on licensing and insurance, 
> > and
> > also that you can take the car off the road for as long as you like and 
> > then
> > just take it for a test when you want to drive it again. However each 
> > test
> > is still valid for only six months.
>
> Wow, six months seems pretty restrictive. Are the tests expensive?

Not especially. I don't remember exactly how much the test is, but I think 
it's in the region of  $12. The car license (what the British call "road 
tax") is about $35 for 6 months for a "collector's vehicle".


> Is there another change once the car is even older, such as 50 years for 
> an
> "antique" car?


No.


Daniel 

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