Someone somewhere obviously got concerned that UK or European legislation was on the verge of banning classic cars, and started a petition on the Prime Minister's website to stop this happening. Here's the government response:
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page15326.asp Basically they say that last year they investigated the idea of creating incentives for scrapping cars that don't comply with more recent emissions legislation, and decided it wasn't a good idea, for various reasons including the environmental cost of scrapping loads of cars and building loads more to replace them with. So there are no plans to ban anything. They don't deny that Edinburgh City Council may be going to ban old cars from the city centre, but say that is entirely Edinburgh Council's business and nothing to do with the government. We can all rest easy tonight thanks to our governments re-assuring words (unless we plan to drive into Edinburgh). In fact I'm tempted to drive to Edinburgh in Sammy this weekend, just to show my disapproval! Richard & Sammy ('73 Black Tulip BGT, RIP Daffy the '78 Inca Yellow Spitfire) _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
