Could a lot of us end up on a q plate ?

[Rally Pack 2000]

I think some dont appreciate the mecca that the UK is for the world classic car market, apart from American muscle of course.

While some Prius driving bureaucrat may put some of his or her Pro EU agenda onto the desk of their boss with the intent to head us down the path of electric cars and mass transit believing we are too ignorant to know whats best for ourselves, when it reaches the eyes of a politician who has banner waving MG logos and VW Beetles creating traffic jams outside his office you can be sure that most of these totalitarian proposals will get hit on the head. If the classic car fraternity and industry mobilise it will be more powerful than the tobacco lobby if nothing but in sheer manpower. We are just at the stage some anti car cycling enthusiast thinks he is controlling the narrative at the moment. The classic car backlash will be brutal and decisive. Try not worry yourselves into ulcers just yet. There will be G-Wiz burning in the streets and it will smell good.

[RWL81P]

19 hours ago, Leo said:

Your just a Mr negative aren't you. The logistics of it are huge.

not negative and not blind to it like most people! i read articles in car and bike mags, look up type approval. i first heard of it it a custom bike magazine in the early 90's. everything thats being brought up now, was brought up then and theyve slowly being putting it all in place! same as france and germany! all this crap comes from the bloody EU rules and will only get worse!

[eeb43]

27 minutes ago, RWL81P said:

not negative and not blind to it like most people! i read articles in car and bike mags, look up type approval. i first heard of it it a custom bike magazine in the early 90's. everything thats being brought up now, was brought up then and theyve slowly being putting it all in place! same as france and germany! all this crap comes from the bloody EU rules and will only get worse!

i live in england not in the eu!!!!!!!!

 

27 minutes ago, RWL81P said:

not negative and not blind to it like most people! i read articles in car and bike mags, look up type approval. i first heard of it it a custom bike magazine in the early 90's. everything thats being brought up now, was brought up then and theyve slowly being putting it all in place! same as france and germany! all this crap comes from the bloody EU rules and will only get worse!

 

[RWL81P]

england or not, who do you think makes and passes most of our laws? its all from Brussels.

[PeterMEscort]

Won't really matter much in 20 or so years anyway....

At the moment we are all going through a bubble where we want to buy and enjoy the cars we had when we were young back in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's.

In 20 or so years our generation will be trying to sell off or toys because we will be too old to enjoy them or be able to drive them.

However the newer generations of people will have less, or no, interest in our cars because they won't be able to identify with them because they did not grow up with them.

The newer generation are only able to identify with their addictions and consumption to mobile phones and "transient virtual technologies".

Motor cars will be regarded as a disposable consumer item with no associated emotional attachment.

[khanlad]

Were not going to be in that for much longer so the garmans will have to try another tactic!  

They tried the front door, 

Theyve now tried the back door! 

They can keep their hands off my more door! 

We shall never surrender!! ✌

(You have to say it in the style of winne churchill)

[eeb43]

10 minutes ago, khanlad said:

Were not going to be in that for much longer so the garmans will have to try another tactic!  

They tried the front door, 

Theyve now tried the back door! 

They can keep their hands off my more door! 

We shall never surrender!! ✌

(You have to say it in the style of winne churchill)

shotguns are loaded and ready

[Rich T]

22 minutes ago, eeb43 said:

shotguns are loaded and ready

Theyd never find your place

[colr6]

Just take the pieky view, no tax no insurance no MOT no registered keeper. NO problem they've all stil got their vans and cars and nobody touches them ! Doesn't matter where the law comes from!!!

[eeb43]

i get called a pikey does that mean im exempt??????????/ lol

[eeb43]

32 minutes ago, Rich T said:

Theyd never find your place

easy to find! harder to find your way out of!!!!!!! lol

[colr6]

2 minutes ago, eeb43 said:

i get called a pikey does that mean im exempt??????????/ lol

Only if you lay Tarmac !! And you've got a horse or a merry go round in your yard.

[mk1del]

Pikeys ,common trick they do is have 6 or so trucks or vans all with same number plates just insure and tax that registration

Copper I know told me they've caught a few doing that

 

[eeb43]

20 minutes ago, colr6 said:

Only if you lay Tarmac !! And you've got a horse or a merry go round in your yard.

got a ca van sign written as steptoe and co is that good enough?

[Leo]

16 hours ago, PeterMEscort said:

Won't really matter much in 20 or so years anyway....

At the moment we are all going through a bubble where we want to buy and enjoy the cars we had when we were young back in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's.

In 20 or so years our generation will be trying to sell off or toys because we will be too old to enjoy them or be able to drive them.

However the newer generations of people will have less, or no, interest in our cars because they won't be able to identify with them because they did not grow up with them.

The newer generation are only able to identify with their addictions and consumption to mobile phones and "transient virtual technologies".

Motor cars will be regarded as a disposable consumer item with no associated emotional attachment.

Bloody hell Sigmond!

[Rally Pack 2000]

1 hour ago, Leo said:

Bloody hell Sigmond!

Freud would actually say that our enthusiasm for old unique cars is a subconscious attempt at attention seeking in order to get more sex. Personally I find the opposite to be true, the more of a car aficionado you try to be the less attractive you seem to become to desirable others. I guess that third Escort is out of the question then, Im already lonely enough as it is.

[colr6]

13 minutes ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

Freud would actually say that our enthusiasm for old unique cars is a subconscious attempt at attention seeking in order to get more sex. Personally I find the opposite to be true, the more of a car aficionado you try to be the less attractive you seem to become to desirable others. I guess that third Escort is out of the question then, Im already lonely enough as it is.

Don't think that theory works, with the cars and bikes I've got my missis is still here after forty years ! Got to be my dashing good looks a humour that keeps her here ! Well that's what I think anyway....lol

[Rally Pack 2000]

3 minutes ago, colr6 said:

Don't think that theory works, with the cars and bikes I've got my missis is still here after forty years ! Got to be my dashing good looks a humour that keeps her here ! Well that's what I think anyway....lol

Thats just what she wants you to think Col to lull you into a false sense of security.

[Leo]

Nah, she just humours him.

[Ray]

2 hours ago, colr6 said:

Don't think that theory works, with the cars and bikes I've got my missis is still here after forty years ! Got to be my dashing good looks a humour that keeps her here ! Well that's what I think anyway....lol

well Colin, why am I not surprised, you have obviously denied the good lady of her very life entitlement

she should have gone to SPECSAVERS

 

[eeb43]

1 hour ago, Leo said:

Nah, she just humours him.

we all do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

[VivaLaRic]

22 hours ago, PeterMEscort said:

Won't really matter much in 20 or so years anyway....

At the moment we are all going through a bubble where we want to buy and enjoy the cars we had when we were young back in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's.

In 20 or so years our generation will be trying to sell off or toys because we will be too old to enjoy them or be able to drive them.

However the newer generations of people will have less, or no, interest in our cars because they won't be able to identify with them because they did not grow up with them.

The newer generation are only able to identify with their addictions and consumption to mobile phones and "transient virtual technologies".

Motor cars will be regarded as a disposable consumer item with no associated emotional attachment.

I don't think thats completely true, I'm 27 and grew up with my dad driving sierra's but for me its always been the anglias/escorts/cortinas I saw at shows he took me to. A lot of the current OSF owners have kids of which can still grow up to say "my dad had one of those" and perhaps hanker after one themselves? probably even more so now they're something out of the norm and not the everyman's car of yesteryear.

If what you say proves to be true then rest assured, I'll enjoy the hell out of your guys' cars that I've bought for £50 when youre dribbling in a home and your families are clearing out "grandads old shit".......... If I can get them registered of course 

[khanlad]

When escorts were 50 quid! The good old days, 

[colr6]

7 minutes ago, khanlad said:

When escorts were 50 quid! The good old days, 

You were robbed ! Fifty quid at that price would have to be taxed and moted for a year with a full tank of fuel.

[khanlad]

Mot and tax? My 50 quid scorts ran on my best escorts reg number. Aledgedly.....