Thread: Vic Red Plate Scheme

I understand re club politics but there are some out there that have none of that. Our club is great - you can do as much or as little as you want, turn up to meetings or club runs. or not - no minimum requirements for this like other clubs have. $20 a year and no BS.

Originally Posted by goingbush

I have 2 classic vehicles currently on full rego 1949, and 1973, and another 1952 to go on in a few months . I'm not in a club because I cant deal with politics and bull**** , ... hmmm .. much like being on AULRO .

The 48 year old EV Landy is a daily driver so no option there. jeezus is it that old ?

The 49 Ute hardly gets driven but I keep full rego to keep the 1949 original registration number alive , If I could get club rego and keep the plates I'd join a club just for that. Ive scored the original 1952 commonwealth number plate as a custom plate for the Power Wagon so that will be on full rego , again if I could keep that plate on Club rego I would swap over.

Do you have a few mates with similar issues ...... Just start your own club. That is what a lot of people have done

For limited use, its a no brainer .... about $80 bucks a year for 45days. Remember is a permit to drive an unregistered vehicle on the road though. 45 days is HEAPS you will find

Originally Posted by 350RRC

First offence maybe $165, second offence full rego fee equivalent, third offence............

I'm contrasting this with what happened to a mate of mine who grew and sold hydro tomatoes.

He's in a 2yo van driving down the coast doing deliveries, gets pulled over coz plate rec says unreg.

Had payed on computer, had receipt number. Not paid for his vehicle, unreg. Put the wrong code in.

Got fined $900 for unreg vehicle, had to sit there for a long time getting emergency reg and there were other costs.

These days in Vic you get notified if your reg hasn't been paid by the due date.

DL

There is a few ways to get caught out with log books. A couple of times .... I've been filling in the log booked and noticed them expiry date was couple of months back... and the last 3 entries (totaling probably 10 for the year) were in this time period ..... If I'd been pulled over I'd have no excuse. So you turn the house upside down ... find about heaps of un-used log books 'cos I'm bloody hopeless and haven't driven some of the cars for a couple of years ... find the sheet with the right expiry in it to stick into a new log book .... and throw it in the car, before I use the wrong logbook again.

One of our members was done for similar thing a few years back (I don't think the permit system was linked, so when he changed his license etc ... they missed the permit vehicle).... only he'd shifted house and not changed the address .... so his car was actually expired (even though he had only used 3 days in the log book). That was one expensive lesson. Not only the fine for unregistered vehicle, but it was 3months out ... and he had to get another roadworthy .. new plates etc ....

I've been driving one of my club permit vehicles around for the last 3 weeks..... 'cos I havne't got a gearbox back into the ****box range rover yet..... You get lot of looks driving something decent. Usually I wouldn't have them out in the middle of winter .... but its a car, so if its needed, it can do "car things" and get wet and muddy Whats the point in owning a car you can't use after all.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

For limited use, its a no brainer .... about $80 bucks a year for 45days. Remember is a permit to drive an unregistered vehicle on the road though. 45 days is HEAPS you will find

Isn't the Vic system 90day use per year?

Originally Posted by 101RRS

Isn't the Vic system 90day use per year?

you can get 90days .... it costs twice as much. We all start with 90days insisting that it will not be enough .... a few years down the track you'll realise how little they are actually driven and change to 45days. You can always pay for another 45days if you need them.

I can emphasise enough how absolutely fantastically brilliant this victorian scheme has been for car lovers.... I'm still over the moon with it

Originally Posted by Homestar

I understand re club politics but there are some out there that have none of that. Our club is great - you can do as much or as little as you want, turn up to meetings or club runs. or not - no minimum requirements for this like other clubs have. $20 a year and no BS.

If I could keep the existing plates it would be a no brainer.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

you can get 90days .... it costs twice as much. We all start with 90days insisting that it will not be enough .... a few years down the track you'll realise how little they are actually driven and change to 45days. You can always pay for another 45days if you need them.

I can emphasise enough how absolutely fantastically brilliant this victorian scheme has been for car lovers.... I'm still over the moon with it

Thanks.

Here in the ACT we are having our second go at switching to a 60 day system as we are still on the old "club use" only system. The ACT Government has been reluctant and when we first tried back in 2013 we got a resounding NO. In 2018 we tried again and late last year after a two year process, the relevant Minister agreed and that it would be introduced from 1 Jul 2021.

We were advised tonight that the new Minister and the bureaucracy still have concerns - the main ones seem to related to the cost of third party personal insurance and the other how many kms can be used in a year.

So the new scheme will not be introduced as planned and is at least another 3 months off - the bureaucracy in the ACT is against any form of concessional registration and if I were a betting man I would put a bet on the new system never happening.

Garry

I got together with some mates & formed a Club, not hard but took a while dealing with VicRoads by letter.

You need an application form from VicRoads.
You then need a 'constitution' which is easy, download one from another Club and modify.
Appoint a President, Vice President, Treasurer & Secretary.
Dummy up some headed paper and apply & wait.

When approved you will be asked to provide signatures for the above positions and any others that are signatories. You also get a stat. dec. where you sign to say that if you find a member rorting the system you have to dob them in.

I read the background to an existing Club ( The Feral Sports Car Club) which is a very interesting read. They were promoting at the time how easy it is to form a Club. That got me going, we didn't really 'form' the Club until the application was approved.

If you take out 45 days in VIC you can add another 45 days later, there is a slight additional cost over taking out the 90 days upfront.

No politics, the odd AGM (you are meant to hold them annually) and that's about it. We meet occasionally and spend the Club funds from the membership fees.


Colin