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christine lowery
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 Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 1:13 pm Post subject: peuge ot306 on aol |
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hi gang
has anybody seen the artical about the studant who stripped his 306 then drove it to the scrap yard
no doors
lights
bonnet
but has an mot tax and insurance
got done for drivinf a dangerous car
how many vintage cars would fail the above
christine
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Riley Blue
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Location: Derbyshire
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The Construction & Use Regulations aren't the same for vintage cars.
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ukdave2002
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Location: South Cheshire
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And his car had fewer lights (i.e. none!) than a pre 1930's car is required to have 
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Greeney in France
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It would be classed as dangerous as it wasn't 'as constructed'
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christine lowery
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if not as constucted is the guide then were all in the soup as 99.99% of all our cars would fail
chris
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Riley Blue
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We'd better scrap the lot of them now then 
BTW - 'as constructed' isn't what the regulations require. They require certain features to be present and working, there's a difference.
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ukdave2002
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| christine lowery wrote: | if not as constucted is the guide then were all in the soup as 99.99% of all our cars would fail
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Christine, with the greatest respect that is a really unhelpful comment, fournuatly in the UK we have a balanced view and governance on the originality of classic cars, and long may that continue. This chap took all the lights off his car, frankly a stupid thing to do even if that vehicle dated from Victorian times !
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Rick
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| ukdave2002 wrote: | | christine lowery wrote: | if not as constucted is the guide then were all in the soup as 99.99% of all our cars would fail
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Christine, with the greatest respect that is a really unhelpful comment, fournuatly in the UK we have a balanced view and governance on the originality of classic cars, and long may that continue. This chap took all the lights off his car, frankly a stupid thing to do even if that vehicle dated from Victorian times !
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Plus with the bonnet removed he'd get into hot water with the Police with ref to dangers for passing pedestrians in case they ran into each other.
He sounds pretty dim to me. If he had no lights at all, then presumably there were no brake lights or flashing indicators, which I expect are a requirement for daytime use in something of that age.
RJ
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Penman
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Hi Rick
I had a mate who used to be on traffic in the Rochdale area, one day he was detailed to take over an organ for transplant run ,coming from Yrokshire to go to Blackpool.
He had outriders plus point duty officers on major junctions and a MK 4 Zephyr, he had the bonnet removed to make the run to avoid the front end lifting at speed he claims he did the run in well under an hr without Motorways except for a part of the M6 at Preston.
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