About Classics
I don’t like to pay more then €48 road tax a year and also don’t like expensive car insurance. So I drive a classic as my daily driver . It was built as an everyday car some 30 years ago. Why should I just use it on sunny(!) Sundays now?
Since I sorted out a few little bits and pieces it behaves pretty reliable and hasn’t let me down.
Every car from the age of 30 years can be registered as a classic car
and gets an ZV number plate which frees you from having to get an NCT.
You can bring them to Ireland from every European country and get them registered for a fixed fee of €50 no matter what you paid for it. There is no need to pay VRT at all.
Classics in the UK for example are plentiful around and more realistically priced then in Ireland.
Most of the classics are supported by owners clubs now and parts are easily sourced and fitted and much cheaper than those for modern cars, if you can’t fit them yourself, any mechanic will.
Just get one of the weekly papers at your news agent and pick some cars you may remember from a earlier age, or a few that you always fancied to own. Cars like Porsche (not 911′s), TVR and Lotus are becoming more and more affordable in their classic years and are more than capable to cope with modern traffic! A good usable Porsche 924 for example costs as little as 1500£ and a smart looking Lotus Elite starts at about 2000£. And believe me, they are fun to drive.
But then you will have to explain what it is every time you stop for petrol.
Of course that just gives you further reason to talk about your new baby!
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