but not me.This always Fox's people.
AIUI this is a ploy driven by their powerful car manufacturing lobby.
Their equivalent of an MoT test is deliberately set so that an older car is pretty certain to fail, and professional repair or rebuild is uneconomic compared to the price of a new car.
With Zintec bodies, cars can now easily last 20 years with reasonable maintenance. Hence used cars are very cheap over here.
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Consequence of living in remote areas, I was astounded at the cost of fruit in Alice, all freighted in.
I shall be recycling a 1976 P6 Rover engine
Rest of the car is scrap
1976 no road tax
No MOT
You don't need to tax or MOT just the engine anyway, if you are scrapping the rest of the car?
Well yes but if you use the engine in anothrt car for instance build an AC Cobra replica
You get a 1976 designated age related plate on that car
40 year rule no mot no road tax
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Well yes but if you use the engine in anothrt car for instance build an AC Cobra replica
You get a 1976 designated age related plate on that car
40 year rule no mot no road tax
No Mot. That's not right.
In Australia you do not have to Not your car until you sell it.
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A 40 year old car can have its issues. Still needs to be road safe.
I remember 20 odd years back there was a lot of concern as there was alot of old cars still on the roads in Australia. They kept so well but were they road worthy
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Yes a carust be road worthy and any one would be advised to have said car checked out on an annual basis but it's not a legal requirement
Also bear in mind any self built car must go through IVA which is a super MOT and takes about 4 hours of detailed inspection at a designated centre
Not your local mot garage
Also bear in mind any self built car must go through IVA which is a super MOT and takes about 4 hours of detailed inspection at a designated centre
Not your local mot garage
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Anyway this thread is going off track.
I need examples of creating Something out of nothing like Macgyver. He would make a small explosive device from a chewing gum and a matchstick.
I need examples of creating Something out of nothing like Macgyver. He would make a small explosive device from a chewing gum and a matchstick.
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What about pink slips in NSW, similar to MOT required yearly for cars over 3 years old
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It may be from state to state.
From my experience is was the rule in Queensland. I brought my car in the NT and think the rule is the same there.
Talking of matchsticks.
Do you remember as a child you could buy a small plastic rocket that you inserted a cap into the end? You then threw the rocket in the air and it would land nose down causing the cap to detonate. When we didn't have a rocket we would get two short bolts and a nut. Partially screw the nut onto one of the bolts then put a match head, (scraped off the matchstick), into the recess of the nut. The second bolt was then carefully screwed into the nut so it was touching the match head and then the set up would be thrown into the air to come down with a bang. The more adventurous of us would try to get as many match heads in as possible, with the consequences that sometimes the bolts would fly out like shrapnel!
Kids these days think it's fun to go chasing after imaginary illusions with a mobile phone.
Or picking up a knife or a gun
