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[Rick]

This company is offering a service where the recently-built continuation cars, eg Jaguar's XKSS, can be made road legal via the IVA process with a kit of conversion parts, the original removed items then being installed into a "campaign" case to accompany the car.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alistaircharlton/2020/08/26/new-continuation-classic-cars-can-finally-be-made-street-legalheres-how/

The price is eye-watering, but making these cars road legal can only do one thing to their market values I'd have thought.

RJ
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[lowdrag]

The problem arose when Jaguar started with the six lightweight E-types Rick. One managed to get registered as a 1963 car in Montana, how I don't know, but since then people have been "modifying" the cars to be IVA-compatible. Only today I was talking to someone who has got one of the new XKSS continuations through the IVA. In part, as will happen to a lot of these cars, it was achieved by swapping the engine for one that was compliant and then swapping back again after it passed. This has been happening for some years, and the cars are registered as 2020 registrations. That means that in three years they will need to pass the MOT for the first time, and they will need a very friendly MOT man to help you out. But it happens. For example, I registered my Lynx XKSS here in France last year since it could qualify at 30 years old. However, since it was built in 1988 technically it should comply to emissions rules of that age but a 1967 uprated 4.2 Jaguar engine running on triple 45 DCOE's hadn't a hope in hell - on paper. We manged it though I believe that the cost of modifying the XKSS is in the region of a mere £25,000 compared to the Aston's cost of £90,000 including VAT. Now, where is that going to leave Bentley with their new Le Mans replicas?