Practically Classics Forum

would we still be able to have cars tested volantarily

i think that is the idea,

although I think you may end up undertaking a voluntary test if you want to insure your car at a reasonable price

megadethmaniac wrote:.....I think you may end up undertaking a voluntary test if you want to insure your car at a reasonable price

Nail on head! Quote for a fellow car club member's recently acquired Austin A40 Somerset, circa 1952, without MOT and quite legal as such from tomorrow. Fully comp, SDP including commuting to a single place of work: £135. My daily modern costs less and its insurance includes multi venue business use!
However, should my mate agree to having the car tested then the quote, for the same level of cover and use, comes down to £82. Thae quotes are both from a well-known Insurance broker that specialises in motor cover, not exclusively for older cars.
Allow for the fact that our regular, old car-friendly MOT tester of choice charges £40 per test and even if there were no other good reasons to submit the car, it's the wise thing to do on a cost basis alone. As he says; until his home workshop is equipped with the same facilities as the MOT lanes possess then it would also take him longer to make his own checks to the same standard and, in that amount of time, he can earn more than the cost of that discounted test.

Already the eBay cowboys are trying to flog dodgy cars that are driveable and test exempt but frankly look as though they've just been dug out of the sea bed.

There were complaints about all pre 1960 cars no longer requiring an MOT, how about all cars over 30 years old. Seeing as it might take me 10 years to finish welding up the range, should I stop now, put it in the garage and wait?
http://cars.aol.co.uk/2014/08/27/cars-m ... -exemption

It'll never come to that. Or will it?

Suits me fine, I mess around taking 3 cars which are over 30 years old and only do a few hundred miles for an mot in the space of 6 weeks the only issue in the last 15 years being a bulb which failed on the way (I checked before I left and fixed it at the station). Only question would be what do they class as modified, the tr has been converted to a v8. years ago, don't know how they would work it out though as the factory made the tr8 and homolgated a tr7v8.