WELCOME TO THE WORKSHOP
Where we celebrate our favourite birthday classics
Our right to use our classic vehicles unhindered on the public highway is essential for the future health of our passionate pastime and the industry that exists to serve it. Our right, and the right of classic specialists, to work on them is also critical to that end as well, as is the future availability of the correct fuels to power our beloved cars. Our classic ecosystem relies on these assurances to thrive and keep our £7 billion p.a. contribution to UK plc going for many more years to come.
Here’s the thing. I don’t see any reason why that shouldn’t continue to be the case. There’s an awful lot of ‘Daily Panic’ nonsense being paddled right now and it’s beginning to have an effect – creating the kind of heat and froth that gets our movement noticed for all the wrong reasons.
The internal combustion engine is not about to be evicted from the roads and banned, while the fuel that we need to power them has been ring fenced for decades into the future. No-one is about to stop us working on our cars in order to keep them in fine fettle (that consultation is specifically aimed at future electric and autonomous vehicles), plus we will still be able to drive our classics on the highway… there’s not a hint that that will change any time soon.
So, let’s keep it real. We are able to enjoy cheap insurance, 40-year rolling tax exemption, emission zone exemption for Historic Vehicles and also MOT exemption.
Our hobby is green, inclusive, increasingly diverse and of huge value for a multitude of reasons. If we start picking fights with people, or government, or spread disinformation that points fingers and inspires conflict, we only risk creating problems that currently simply don’t exist.