If a vehicle is registered 25 years or over, its tax emempted right. Do you have to apply for exemption or can you just drive with no tax ?
Cheers
Steve
I believe that it's "prior to a certain date" that are tax-exempt, rather than 25 years old. It was 25 years prior to whenever the
regulations came into force.
And yes, you do have to apply - you get a tax-exempt tax disc.
David
I think that the rolling 25 year thing was stopped and that there is now a fixed cut off date - 1972 possibly?
Someone on here will know
Why not have a look on the DVLA web site?
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Originally posted by raccoonradar
If a vehicle is registered 25 years or over, its tax emempted right. Do you have to apply for exemption or can you just drive with no tax ?
Cheers
Steve
I think you're right about 1972. Anything first registered after "73 needs a pay for tax
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Originally posted by joneh
I think you're right about 1972. Anything first registered after "73 needs a pay for tax
I have a 1972 registered number an 'L' suffix, but have been told that it is the date of manufacture, i.e. when the kit or whatever was built, which in the case of mine was 1996, which determines the tax exempt status. Somebody make my day, tell me it's wrong and that I can have exempt status.
Sorry, the tax exemption stays with the chassis.
Mines a 1980 so way out for me
you may be tax exempt but what parts are your car make from are they all pre 72 or post 72 mine is a m reg but has all pre 72 parts.
This is really a case of 'you can't have it both ways'. They let us get away with no MOT for the first three years as the car is newly
manufactured (even if made from donor parts) so it's a bit unreasonable to also expect to get historic tax 
[Edited on 21/7/06 by matt_claydon]
There is no need to apply for the status apparently, i spoke to the dvla about this, my log book still says PLG in the taxation class, even though it was registered in may '56. You tax the car as normal, except without the sting of payment, they keep the logbook and send it back to the DVLA for the alteration to historic vehicle.
As someone said: if the chassis was manufactured before 1 Jan 1973 it has tax exempt status (but does need a £0 tax disc).
If you build a kit car from parts of the tax exempt car, it only keeps the tax exempt status if you use the original unaltered chassis - not very
likely for a seven!
[Edited on 21.07.2006 by Humbug]
Unless it's an Austin 7 based special 
You are quite correct about the chassis being the key though
My parents had a 1973 regitsred and built Rover P6 3.5 litre, were jutted when they changed the rules as to the rolling 25year tax exempt status!
You can ask the heritage centre at gaydon to provide proof of when the car was built, for certain vehilces (BL) anyway.
A friend of mine has a tax exempt lightweight Landrover with 80's registration as it was previously a military vehicle and was re-registered.
It all goes on date of chassis construction. Which must be before 01/01/1973. Reg number/date has nowt to do with it.