‘Mindboggling’ red tape threatens classic car industry, owners warn

A village fete is almost never comprehensive without having an array of vintage vehicles parked on the grass for motoring enthusiasts to admire. But now historic car or truck entrepreneurs are warning the change to electrification and the purple tape resulting from Brexit threaten the survival of companies that continue to keep these classic motor vehicles on the street. 

The vintage car or truck sector has formed a new team, the Historic and Basic Motor vehicles Alliance (HCVA), to safeguard an market it claims has an annual turnover of £18.3bn and possibly employs or supports some 113,000 positions, including engineers, restorers, craftsmen and elements suppliers.

HCVA estimates there is a fleet of some one.54m historic motor vehicles, outlined as people in excess of thirty decades previous, on British isles streets. There are a more one.47m classic vehicles, which are aged 15 to thirty decades previous, bringing the total benefit of these motor vehicles to £12.6bn.

Even with their previous-fashioned technology, these vehicles are considerably less polluting than expected as they are pushed so almost never, covering an normal one,200 miles a yr over the average of sixteen occasions they are pushed, a portion of the seven,000 miles most vehicles address.