classic car

[e30scotty]

very nice mate .. 1st time i have seen it out the garage lol..

from what i have seen its very clean ( like mint ) !!!!!

[e30scotty]

i used to own a mk3 black 2.8 capri..

i used to love it .... but sold her to buy my first shaff cossie ..

my capri was in the reader section of the 1st issue of Pratical performance car...

would put a picture up but there are all on my pc... ( i always use my note book. )

[Felix79]

I beliave insurance companies will do a classic car policy on a car that is 15 years or older.

Also I am sure I read tht once a car hits 25 you can pay for an inspection and if the car is 98% orginal it then qualifies as a tax exempt example.

M3's were made in a plentifull amount and they have a classic car statud due to it's racing pedigrie.

If you want rare it's the Alpina's and Hartge that were made is very low numbers. If I remember correctly there was only around 130 C2 2.7's and I beliave there was 74 C2 2.5's like mine ever done.

[DaveD]

I beliave insurance companies will do a classic car policy on a car that is 15 years or older.

Also I am sure I read tht once a car hits 25 you can pay for an inspection and if the car is 98% orginal it then qualifies as a tax exempt example.

M3's were made in a plentifull amount and they have a classic car statud due to it's racing pedigrie.

If you want rare it's the Alpina's and Hartge that were made is very low numbers. If I remember correctly there was only around 130 C2 2.7's and I beliave there was 74 C2 2.5's like mine ever done.

yes they will do classic insurance ...there have been lot of threads on that and the car has to be registered in 1973 or before to be able to claim the nil tax band ...our dear Gordon stopped the 25 year rule when he was given office in 1998

[cecotto479]

This argument has gone on since I got into the classic car scene in the late 70s and long before. Then it was, "Is an MGB a classic car?"

It's all bollocks caused by a lot of old bufties fom the golf club committees in the original MGCC, JDC, AMOC etc. who organised all the early classic car shows in the UK. An age or production based definition won't work. Nor will a financial one. I think it's down to the individual owner. Any car can be a classic car.

A good definition is that a classic car is a car no longer in production, which is owned by someone whose purpose in owning it is to derive some enjoyment from its ownership.

So if you buy an E30 convertible to get you to work every day because it was the cheapest car in the autotrader that day and you just use it, but would rather have an E46 if you could afford it, it is not a classic car. To you. If you sell it someone who wants to use it for a bit of summer fun, it is a classic car. To him.

It's about enthusiasm in ownership, not the metal.

[djk]

This argument has gone on since I got into the classic car scene in the late 70s and long before. Then it was, "Is an MGB a classic car?"

It's all bollocks caused by a lot of old bufties fom the golf club committees in the original MGCC, JDC, AMOC etc. who organised all the early classic car shows in the UK. An age or production based definition won't work. Nor will a financial one. I think it's down to the individual owner. Any car can be a classic car.

A good definition is that a classic car is a car no longer in production, which is owned by someone whose purpose in owning it is to derive some enjoyment from its ownership.

So if you buy an E30 convertible to get you to work every day because it was the cheapest car in the autotrader that day and you just use it, but would rather have an E46 if you could afford it, it is not a classic car. To you. If you sell it someone who wants to use it for a bit of summer fun, it is a classic car. To him.

It's about enthusiasm in ownership, not the metal.

A nice way to think about it. I'm not sure I could bear the shame of driving say, a yellow impact bumper MGB GT, or a TR7, but I wouldn't argue with their enthusiast owners that they are classics - as I hope they wouldn't argue with me that e30s are too. The 'classic car movement', such as it is, shouldn't be some elitist club for berks who don't know their grease-nipples from their big-ends and occasionally park their gut on the steering wheel of some shiny cock enlargement like an E-type, but loose brotherhood of genuine enthusiasts - folk whose combined love of 4 wheels and nostalgia binds them together.