>> Preserve old cars - yes. In use - limited use only on safety and environment
>> grounds. Mainly safety.
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Don't even go there. The environment ground is pure twaddle for a start; every classic vehicle on the road is one less melted down for scrap, the carbon footprint for which is far in excess of the one generated by its maintenance as a working vehicle, even in daily use.
I've just come back from riding a 69 year old Harley-Davidson for 1,000 miles round Europe; it averages 45 mpg which is pretty much the same if not better than a modern Harley. My 48 year old pick-up truck pootles round Wales doing local shows and hauling my firewood. The latter only does 15 mpg, but given the limited mileage it does that hardly matters, since I'd have to run a similar modern vehicle to do the same job, or at the very least trade my car in for a Land Rover or similar to pull a trailer.
Secondly, if there was a real problem with safety, how is it that classic insurance is a fraction of that for modern vehicles?
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