Oldtimers

[PigottBE]

Hi,
Just arrived in Belgium and can not afford the tax for a decently powerful sports car.
I am looking at importing a TVR (not sure what type yet) which is over 25 years old and
registering it as an Oldtimer. Are there any rules / regulations and pitfalls to be aware
of?

Thanks for any advice and looking forward to meeting up with some of you.

Cheers.
Ken.

[bxlbaz]

good to see you again Ken, welcome back to the fold
Barrie

[67Fox]

Hi PigottBE,
I'm in the same boot.
Where are you based in belgium?
Do you already own a TVR? I guess so from your profile.
But your Chimaera 4.0 is from 1994 that means you will need to wait another 4years? no?
Nice to have contact with others over here
Cheers
Simon

[PigottBE]

Cheers Barrie,

Hi Simon.

To cut a long Story short, I had a Chimaera but sadly sold it, now looking for an oldtimer.

I just heard some very disturbing news the the government are looking to
change the age of an oldtimer from 25 to 30 years.

Has anybody else heard about this?

[NCE 61]

Ken

During a conversation with Pascal from Passion Engineering he mentioned that the old timer status was changing from 25 to 30 years, but not sure when.

Trying to register my Tuscan S here now and that is proving a long/expensive process.

[PigottBE]

Thanks for the info Nick,

Looks like I'll be going back in time to my Wedge days.
Anyway, good luck with getting the Tuscan S on the road in Belgium.

[67Fox]

Sound's like the Begium goverment is going to follow the Dutch. They changeed there rules about oldtimers a couple of years ago form 20-25 to 30 years.

Not good news if belgium follows.
Simon

[PigottBE]

BAD

[TopVpowerRoadste]

NCE 61 said:

During a conversation with Pascal from Passion Engineering he mentioned that the old timer status was changing from 25 to 30 years, but not sure when.

Hi Nick,

Have you had your car serviced at Passion Engineering? Feedback please?

Thank you and best regards,

Geoffrey

[NCE 61]

TopVpowerRoadste said:

Hi Nick,

Have you had your car serviced at Passion Engineering? Feedback please?

Thank you and best regards,

Geoffrey

Geoffrey I have not had my car serviced there yet, but would not hesitate to do so as the workshop is well equipped, even has a rolling road and Pascal seems to be very knowledgeable on TVR's. Have seen some very nice TVR's in there including a stripped out racing Sagaris with a 4.3 litre engine and an immaculate yellow Sagaris.

I am taking mine in there next week for some items to be attended to prior to the Autokeuring inspection. I will let you know how I get on.

Regards Nick

[ecurie]

At present a car is still an oldtimer when it has reached the age of 25, altough it will probably change to 30 years.
What will happen to cars that are between 25 and 30 years old and currently profit from the lower road tax is not yet clear.

To answer your question, it is pretty easy to import and register a 25 year old car in Belgium.
You have to present the invoice and registration documents to customs and pay € 0,40.
After that you go to the technical inpsection station where they will check over your car. After that you can register it. here you have 2 options :
1) register it as an oldtimer. You pay a only about €36 in road tax. The only limits are that you cannot use the car for work or school trips.
2) register it for daily use. You still get the low road tax but you can use the car for work. But : you're car will have to go to the technical inspection every year and will be tested as a modern car.

[PigottBE]

Thanks ecurie, that's really useful information.

[TopVpowerRoadste]

Hi Nick,

Thank you for your message.
I look forward to receive your feedback.

Best regards,

Geoffrey