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Just reading the new issue this morning, and I saw a feature on the British "scrappage" scheme, their version of cash for clunkers.
SEMA in the United States comes in for praise because they lobbied the government to exclude cars older than 1984 from the American scheme but apparently the British Federation of Historic Vehicle Clubs was blindsided by the UK Govt's speedy introduction of their plan and consequently classics were eligible in the British scheme.
There are several mentions of such cars elsewhere in the magazine, one a news item about the Riley Club saving a 1954 Riley RME with a long MOT (mandatory annual inspection) just as it was about to be hauled to the scrapper, the other a letter from a reader about a perfectly good Triumph Herald that is now in the scrapyard and will be providing spare parts for his own car.
So, kudos to SEMA for forseeing potential problems and heading it off at the pass.
SEMA in the United States comes in for praise because they lobbied the government to exclude cars older than 1984 from the American scheme but apparently the British Federation of Historic Vehicle Clubs was blindsided by the UK Govt's speedy introduction of their plan and consequently classics were eligible in the British scheme.
There are several mentions of such cars elsewhere in the magazine, one a news item about the Riley Club saving a 1954 Riley RME with a long MOT (mandatory annual inspection) just as it was about to be hauled to the scrapper, the other a letter from a reader about a perfectly good Triumph Herald that is now in the scrapyard and will be providing spare parts for his own car.
So, kudos to SEMA for forseeing potential problems and heading it off at the pass.