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Historic Vehicle Tax

fxm911

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There has been a fair amount already written about this with some confusion on dates for eligibility (from 1st of April 40 years after car registered for example, etc etc) so here is my personal experience on it.

My first request to get Daisy - my 911SC - registered with the DVLA in the Historic Vehicle Class back in October 2020 was refused as they did not bother to look at the date of production of the car (Daisy was first registered in June 1980).
So I sent it again a couple of weeks ago with a carefully written letter explaining that the car was first registered in June 1980 indeed but came of the assembly line in 1979 (with a copy of the Porsche Certificate of Production as proof) and therefore was eligible for Historic Vehicle Class as per the legislation in place.

Waited a few weeks and today in the post, updated V5 and Daisy is now in Historic Class ??.

So if your car was BUILT in 1979 or before (even if only registered for the first time in 1980), you can get the Historic Vehicle Status for it (got a copy of my letter if anyone wants it as a template).




 
I seen your post on FB but you didn’t mention your first attempt was last year.
As I said in my reply on FB my reply I think now in 2021 if your car was built or first registered in 1980 you have a qualifying vehicle for historic classification.
DVLA have not updated the website and are still quoting dates valid from 2020.
 
Hi Alan,
My first attempt was end of last year and was therefore no different to the one I recently made as the important date in my case was manufacturing (1979) therefore already making it valid for Historic class when I did it first time but they only took the date of first registration into account to reject application ;-)
 
alanchester said:
DVLA have not updated the website and are still quoting dates valid from 2020.
I think the reason for this is that the change doesn't happen until 1st April. Check it on 1st April and I think the year will become 2021; that is, a car built in 1980 will become eligible (built before 1st January 1981 OR registered before 8th January 1981).
 
I have a 1980MY SC, production 79 and it got through to Historic status early last year, seems a bit of a lottery?
 
I got the taxation class changed on my 81 SC this year. The car was registered on the 16th January 1981 but I had a Certificate of Authenticity declaring a build date of December 1980.
I had to send lots of paperwork, originals not copies to DVLA but after 5 weeks a new V5c was issued with Historic noted and it was also taxed on their system. 2 weeks later all my original documents were returned in a hardback A4 envelope keeping them flat and not folded just as I had sent them, well done DVLA.

 
Nice result Alan thank you for sharing and very nice car !!! (nice race transporter as well ;-) )
DVLA always get a lot of flak but just like you I only so far had good service from them (was quick and spot on when I did my Historic tax on the SC as well as other cars before and had to renew driving license a couple of weeks ago and got the new one in the post within 4 days so really can't complain !!).


 
hello,
I can't make sense of the DVLA website info and the more I read about this the less I understand.
my Car is '82 US import, first registered 1/1/82 (declared at importation).
took my V5 to post office but they were not able to change the tax class to historic...
Am I too early? or is it a case of DVLA not looking at first registration (it was registered in UK in 1017)?
Do I need a COA to prove the age?

any help welcome...

thanks

JYT


 
Hi

Hopefully I'm correct in my interpretation of the dvla website text and after successfully registering my March 1981 SC last month

I think you're a year too early in an even more unfortunate way than mine!

I think you apply or assess your car for historic registration in April of "that" year. And what you have to do is look back to January 1st of that year to ask "is my car now OLDER than 40? "

Well, my car was registered in March, so annoyingly on 1st January 2021 it wasn't older than 40.

Yours might be an even crueller case given it was registered on 1st Jan and therefore exactly 40 years old rather than older than 40?!

Should have asked the post office person at the time. But I found mine not very help as she only said its "done" and when I asked if that also means MOT exempt she said "dunno... check the DVLA website "!

Their text is even more hopeless on this, but it looks like one you get historic tax exemption the MOT just follows. But who knows? ;-)

Regards
Neil


 
I took v5 into PO, they took it off me, filled in the right portion (taxation class) and sent it off, and eventually I got a new one back, no worries...
 
Hi

Am I correct in thinking that now we've got historic registration that not only are we road tax exempt, but also automatically MOT exempt? Lady at the post office who did mine didn't know and thought mot exempt was a seperate application

Best regards
Neil
 
Hi Franck, HOW ARE YOU MATE?! Andy Richardson here from group. I have just posted query for this exact subject. Reading this answers my question. Fred is 40 years old from build date on 28.06.23. I will send a letter to DVLA.
 
Hi Andy

I think you may have to wait until next year - your vehicle has to be at least 40years old on 1st January of the year you are applying?


Regards
Neil
 
Hi all
sorry to revive the thread yet again but I'm having troubles myself and hoped someone in the know can help,
my SC is an 83 registered on 01/01/83 on the log book.
I called the DVLA in Jan hoping to get it resisted historic but they said I had to wait until April when it will be re classified.
come 3rd April I head to the post office but yet again its not giving her the option to register it historic on the system.
Do i need to send my information off to the DVLA to get it re classified?
any help much apricated.

thanks

jon
 
It's encouraging that the DVLA said you have to wait until April, which suggests that they think that now you should be able to apply. Your vehicle falls in the special category of being registered before 8 January. Maybe you were just too quick off the mark by applying on the 3rd April. I would try again.

Roy

 

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