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

A village fete is seldom full with out an array of vintage autos parked on the grass for motoring fans to admire. But now historic vehicle owners are warning the change to electrification and the crimson tape ensuing from Brexit threaten the survival of corporations that maintain these classic motor vehicles on the street. 

The vintage vehicle sector has fashioned a new group, the Historic and Basic Cars Alliance (HCVA), to shield an field it claims has an yearly turnover of £18.3bn and both employs or supports some 113,000 work opportunities, including engineers, restorers, craftsmen and elements suppliers.

HCVA estimates there is a fleet of some 1.54m historic motor vehicles, described as these around thirty yrs old, on Uk roads. There are a even further 1.47m classic autos, which are aged 15 to thirty yrs old, bringing the overall benefit of these motor vehicles to £12.6bn.

Despite their old-fashioned engineering, these autos are considerably less polluting than expected as they are driven so seldom, covering an average 1,two hundred miles a year over the average of 16 instances they are driven, a fraction of the 7,000 miles most autos go over.