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

A village fete is almost never comprehensive devoid of an array of classic cars parked on the grass for motoring admirers to admire. But now historic auto entrepreneurs are warning the switch to electrification and the red tape resulting from Brexit threaten the survival of companies that retain these common vehicles on the road. 

The classic auto sector has formed a new team, the Historic and Vintage Motor vehicles Alliance (HCVA), to defend an business it claims has an yearly turnover of £18.3bn and possibly employs or supports some 113,000 positions, including engineers, restorers, craftsmen and elements suppliers.

HCVA estimates there is a fleet of some 1.54m historic vehicles, outlined as those more than 30 yrs aged, on United kingdom roadways. There are a additional 1.47m common cars, which are aged 15 to 30 yrs aged, bringing the whole price of these vehicles to £12.6bn.

Inspite of their aged-fashioned know-how, these cars are considerably less polluting than envisioned as they are driven so almost never, masking an normal 1,two hundred miles a yr over the average of sixteen instances they are driven, a portion of the 7,000 miles most cars cover.