40 year old VED exemption

[phillpot]

My Taimar hits 40 on the 21st June this year (Registration date, don't know build date), any one know what happens? Do I have to apply for exemption or do the wonders of the DVLA computer work it all out and tell me?


ETA a bit of Googling and I think I've answered my own question.......

as I've understood it, exemption operates from year end so I'll have to wait till 1st Jan 2018 and from this year on it should happen "automatically", no need to apply?

Edited by phillpot on Sunday 19th March 20:37

[yosini]

Hi,

I did this on my 1974 Elan Plus 2 a couple of years ago when they started rolling the date again. It was pretty easy to be honest - but it doesn't happen automatically (or it didn't then). I just had to go into a post office and get teh class of vehicle changed to historic. from memory I needed the V5, MOT, (insurance I think they checked online), and a print out from the DVLA website stating that the date for Historic vehicle classification.

Good luck and enjoy the free tax when it arrives - certainly helps us keep older cars on the road.

Cheers
Joe

[Alan461]

Hi Mike,

As above but won't apply until April '18 unless you can prove a '76 build date from chassis number etc.
Post office will send off V5 with section 7 changed to Historic
and more importantly a receipt for £0.00 for the years road duty in case plod should ask.
New V5 turns up after a few days but no need to wait to use the car.