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Car Forum / Antique and Collectibles / Studebaker / August 2005Classic car standards
Take a look at the following Associated Press article about the family that was involved in a deadly crash in their Duesenburg the other day. "Deadly Auto Accident in Michigan Throws a Spotlight on Crash Safety Standards for Classic Cars" http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1001423 In the last paragraph of the story is the following statement: "And in Alabama, classic car owners can be fined and stripped of their vintage-vehicle registrations for driving their classic cars other than for a show or a parade." I've never heard of this..... That has got to be unconstitutional for a government entity to take away your collector car if you driving for any other purpose other than a show or parade. According to this, you could be stopped while driving to the gas station to get fuel, and have your car taken away!! Lew  Signature(to reply by email, remove the "nospam" part in my return address) Same in Maryland with historic plates. "Shows, parades tours, and occasional other use." is all that's allowed with vintage plates. You need class A tags for daily drivers. The occcasional other use is the makes it hard for them to mess with you. > Take a look at the following Associated Press article about the family > that was involved in a deadly crash in their Duesenburg the other day. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Lew SignatureJP/Maryland Studebaker On the Net http://stude.com My Ebay items:http://www.stude.com/EBAY/ 64 T cab truck 64 R2 4 speed Challenger (Plain Wrapper) 64 Challenger (Plain Wrapper ?) 63 R2 4 speed GT Hawk 63 GT Hawk 61 Hawk 54 Starlight I think the article is saying that you will lose your vintage vehicle registration for driving for other than show or parade, not your car. I've never had it, but I believe if you have a vintage vehicle registration then your insurance and registration is greatly reduced because you are saying this is not going to be a daily driver. Richard Lawler '57 1/2 ton Transtar '51 2dr Champion '87 Avanti Buried in the article is the caveat, "The Volvo owner was not injured and may face charges." Every attempt to deflect responsibility from the person who is 100% responsible for the tragedy. Welcome to the 21st century. BP > Buried in the article is the caveat, "The Volvo owner was not injured > and may face charges." Every attempt to deflect responsibility from the > person who is 100% responsible for the tragedy. Welcome to the 21st > century. BP How I yearn to go back to the simplicity of the 1960's... JT "That has got to be unconstitutional for a government entity to take away your collector car" Not the car, the "vintage-vehicle registration". All states I know of that offer a vintage vehicle (horseless carriage, etc) license plate, have restrictions on the vehicle's use in exchange for low registration fees. -Dick- Virtually every State with "classic" plates has the restricted use provision, but with wording that "occasional" other use is permitted. Insurance policies contain almost identical vording. I don't think many officers would waste their time following an old car around to see if it's "regularly" used for transportation. I did have a friend who was challenged in a grocery store parking lot, but the officer quickly backed off when the friend "explained" the rule. Now if your Hawk shows up in the employee parking lot every day for weeks at a time, you might be pushing it-especially if you've pissed off a co-worker. S2DSteve I admit I reported one guy. He was running Maryland Historic plates on a 50's Ford stake truck that he used for a lawn care business. Bald tires, no exhaust to speak of and metal grinding brakes. I figured he'd kill someone and the press would make us lose our historic plate. Nothing was done by the MVA until I told a cop neighbor when the guy was working nearby. > Virtually every State with "classic" plates has the restricted use > provision, but with wording that "occasional" other use is permitted. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > S2DSteve SignatureJP/Maryland Studebaker On the Net http://stude.com My Ebay items:http://www.stude.com/EBAY/ 64 T cab truck 64 R2 4 speed Challenger (Plain Wrapper) 64 Challenger (Plain Wrapper ?) 63 R2 4 speed GT Hawk 63 GT Hawk 61 Hawk 54 Starlight > Virtually every State with "classic" plates has the restricted use > provision, but with wording that "occasional" other use is permitted. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > S2DSteve Connecticut has no such restriction, and you get a tax break since all vehicles with classic plates are valued at $500. Chip Signature-------------------- http://NewsReader.Com/ -------------------- Usenet Newsgroup Service $9.95/Month 30GB Read the article again. In many states if you have antique or historic plates their are limits how use the car, that's true of North Carolina plates too. However those kinds of plates also give some benefits like no inspection and often no property tax. They give you a brake because the car isn't use much driven very much. However if you are going to drive a car like a normal car (like my Studes) you get a regular plate. Jeff DeWitt > Take a look at the following Associated Press article about the family > that was involved in a deadly crash in their Duesenburg the other day. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Lew I have historic tags on m y Champ, strickly for tax purposes. But how in the devil is anyone going to know how much you drive it. Now, with that said, in Cumberland Co., North Carolina, to get the tax brake, (each county handles it differently) you are supposed to show the safety inspection receipts for the last two years (there is a mileage on these). The waters have been muddied on this count now that with historic tags you do not have to have an inspection, thus no receipts. By-the-way, those of you in NC there now is an agrument as to whether you have to have historic tags to get be able to go without a state inspection sticker. That was not the way I read the original bill, but maybe somehow it got changed. Joe Roberts |
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