Thread: Tractor on Club Rego ? Requirements ?

We work on the basic premise that an idle car, not driven regularly becomes a liability and will deteriorate.

So I will grab my wifes 350SLC and do a 50 km round trip on the highway.

My 450SEL sat around a lot and in the first year of club reg developed a few issues which has since seen the car retired from the road for restoration. The car was (When I bought it) a daily driver for the previous fastidious owner (Who bought it near new in 74) and the issues that developed were (Im reliably told) due to the car sitting for months on end.

Classic cars need to be driven as they are largely unrestored, Vintage cars on the other hand (And by Vintage I mean 20's, 30's and 40's) will have been spannered and restored and seem to do ok sitting in a shed for a hand full of outings a year.

The best and nicest cars in the club will do 50 or 60 km per week just to warm them up and circulate fluids a bit and the definition of a Classic car in my opinion is one you have an emotional attachment to.

Chatting to a girl at the moment who has a 1979 Ford Fairmont GXL who was refused a permit by another club because her car was not old enough for the club which is their choice but at 34 the car is fine by our standards even if its not a car id personally own.

The car BTW has been made very sound using all NOS parts and passed a Vic roadworthy before the lass came to us, she also has her eye on a 1975 Range Rover as her next project which made me smile when she asked tentatively if she could also place it on a permit when the time came.

My reply made her day and seeing the enthusiasm on her 20 something year old face reminded me why Car clubs are such a good thing.

Something else id sadly noted was the habit a few clubs fell into of making up rules as they went along and for whatever reason this annoys me, Elitist waffle and excuses to prevent people from enjoying their hobby is both unfair and I feel not in the spirit of the thing............

The NSW Historic plated vehicles still have a rego label. Go figure?

Originally Posted by UncleHo

It will be interesting late next year when Qld does away with rego labels,as if one is in an area with little highway policing I can see the system being rorted particular by vehicles with personalised plates.

Vic too, January 1st they are gone

I have just put my Haflinger on ACT Historic Rego - no rego stickers here.

Usage has dropped off substantially - in the last month driven twice, one test run and a drive to a club meeting where previous I used it as my local run around car and was used four or five times a week on short trips .

Our system is similar to the NSW system - max 3000km per year, log book, club events only except trips for maintenance and max of 40km test drives so I am intending to do a 40km test run each week for the reasons mentioned by Tony.

The local Council of Motor Clubs had been in long negotiations with the ACT government to bring in a 90 day system similar to Vic. The public service here are not supportive of historic rego and even though negotiations had been going on for years little headway had been made but we had not be given a No. Then a few months before the last ACT election a frustrated club member wrote a quite abusive letter to the ACT Chief Minister on the subject and we got an answer within two weeks - a resounding No - using political reasoning such as if you can afford to own more than one car you can afford full rego or go on Historic rego.

So for us in the ACT we are unlikely to get anything like the Vic system for a long time - for me this system would be almost the perfect system but I can only hope it comes in someday. At least I do not have to do annual roadworthy inspections.

Garry

Originally Posted by garrycol

I have just put my Haflinger on ACT Historic Rego - no rego stickers here.

Usage has dropped off substantially - in the last month driven twice, one test run and a drive to a club meeting where previous I used it as my local run around car and was used four or five times a week on short trips .

Our system is similar to the NSW system - max 3000km per year, log book, club events only except trips for maintenance and max of 40km test drives so I am intending to do a 40km test run each week for the reasons mentioned by Tony.

The local Council of Motor Clubs had been in long negotiations with the ACT government to bring in a 90 day system similar to Vic. The public service here are not supportive of historic rego and even though negotiations had been going on for years little headway had been made but we had not be given a No. Then a few months before the last ACT election a frustrated club member wrote a quite abusive letter to the ACT Chief Minister on the subject and we got an answer within two weeks - a resounding No - using political reasoning such as if you can afford to own more than one car you can afford full rego or go on Historic rego.

So for us in the ACT we are unlikely to get anything like the Vic system for a long time - for me this system would be almost the perfect system but I can only hope it comes in someday. At least I do not have to do annual roadworthy inspections.

Garry

Im sorry they didnt sort it out in ACT Garry and shakedown or maintenance runs are an integral part of good maintenance.

For general knowledge the following pics show what the club permit looks like.

In this environmental age has anyone thought of doing a joint enviro/historical car rego so cars 25 or 30 years plus get a discounted rego regardless of use as its far more environmentally friendly to maintain an old car ( regardless of fuel use differences) than scrap it and produce a replacement every 5-10 years?
This would open it up further as a person who only drives 20-50 k's a week could justify maintaining an older car without the club restrictions of limited use or number of days.

I think that Club rego in Vic has a number of advantages including a yearly inspection for renewal.

Unlike NSW once a car is on full rego in Vic it isnt ever inspected unless it changes owners.

However a condition of club permit renewal is scrutiny and Club secretary signature on the papers so you could argue that Club cars get inspected yearly making them more roadworthy.

Originally Posted by UncleHo

It will be interesting late next year when Qld does away with rego labels,as if one is in an area with little highway policing I can see the system being rorted particular by vehicles with personalised plates.

Our Club cars have personalised plates but I thought that with the plate recognition cameras that are around now they will still know if the car is full rego or club rego.
I think the Qld system is good especially with our SlOw club allowing us to post up our own trips and other members can join in or not.
No time limit and we can tour Oz if we want
Keith