The Camaro Club (UK)

Do Please SIGN THE PETITION BELOW!

The Plan is to Re-introduce a 30 year rolling vehicle excise duty exemption scheme, for classic vehicles. For too long now the tax exemption of classic cars has been frozen, to only apply to those manufactured before 1973. History did not simply stop in 1972. These are not cars which are driven everyday but rather on sunny weekends, to attend enthusiast shows etc.. It is vitally important that we help to preserve this important part of British motoring history.

TAKES 30 SECONDS AND COULD SAVE LOADS OF POTENTIAL CLASSICS FROM THE SCRAP YARD!

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/183

USE A GENUINE EMAIL AS IT WILL NEED TO BE VERIFIED TO COUNT YOUR SIGNATURE.

POST A REPLY WHEN YOUVE SIGNED IT TO KEEP THIS THREAD ALIVE! IF THE PETITION GETS 100K SIGNATURES IT HAS TO BE DISCUSSED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. GOT TO BE WORTH 30 SECONDS OF YOUR TIME!

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Kind Regards
TopCat
Secretary
Classic Camaro Club
Member of The Association of American Car Clubs UK
Email :tboles@strathnoon.co.uk Websites: http://www.classiccamaroclubuk.com and:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdhLJtR_ZY4

have added my signature (using UK address)

now do be aware of the issues here since we have just come out of a similar debate here on IOM!

We had a rolling 30 year exemption until the Govt proposed changing the tax on historic vehicles to £20 pa (from 0)
guys here often have 10 or 20 historic motorcycles in semi open museum collections

Huge outcry

Govt "capitulated" - reduced HED to £10 pa - but crucially stopped it rolling forward and now we have pre dec 1986 as the cutoff.

Are we better off???
caveat what you wish for!

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Kind Regards
TopCat
Secretary
Classic Camaro Club
Member of The Association of American Car Clubs UK
Email :tboles@strathnoon.co.uk Websites: http://www.classiccamaroclubuk.com and:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdhLJtR_ZY4

does this mean that my road fund license should now be £10 pa? as its a 1980 car?

In the IOM certainly!

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Kind Regards
TopCat
Secretary
Classic Camaro Club
Member of The Association of American Car Clubs UK
Email :tboles@strathnoon.co.uk Websites: http://www.classiccamaroclubuk.com and:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdhLJtR_ZY4

darn not on the mainland then GGRRRRR but then the brit government wouldnt really reintroduce the rolling 30 year tax emption as they believe that there are too many cars on the road and would be a loss in revenue. but seeing as the road fund license monies collection has not been used on the roads for a number of years, then whats the difference

Just signed this,but won't hold my breath for our politicians to do the decent thing ....

Ok, I´ve signed. +16000, a long way to go.

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Cheers Gerry

Hey guys,

Sorry if i'm missing something here - but i'm trying to remember that recently this came up (October / November 2011) and a hugle hole got pointed out, in that we are shooting ourselves in the foot. By classing our cars as historic we are putting them into the category of "must be historically correct" - goodbye to pretty much all mods and extra saftey gear, limited mileage and if EU has it's way - applying to use our cars to make a single car journey. Am i mixing up things here or missing somehting? I don't want to sign yet until this is clear, as it feels like digging a grave for our cars. What do you guys think?

Cheers,

Ray

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Ray
You may be right in your thinking- have heard something similar on other Bogs

But on the other hand all these EU contraints might be heading our way irrespective of the HVED rate?

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TopCat
Secretary
Classic Camaro Club
Member of The Association of American Car Clubs UK
Email :tboles@strathnoon.co.uk Websites: http://www.classiccamaroclubuk.com and:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdhLJtR_ZY4

1984 is all i'm saying

Thanks TC, i'll have a search for that info then and post back.

At least we're not on Japanese regs where you have to scrap your car after 5 years

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