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Judging by your responses to the news on Monday that compulsory MoTs are to be scrapped for cars built before 1960, there are plenty of PHers out there of the opinion that this is a mad, bad and potentially dangerous move on the part of the Government.

Well, it seems like Classic & Sports Car's James Elliott quite agrees; he's set up an online e-petition opposing the Government's plans

"Clearly a lot of people strongly disagree with the Government's plans, so I have started one of those e-petition thingies to oppose it," he says.

The petition reads as follows:

"The Government has announced its intention to scrap the MoT for all pre-1960 vehicles from November. This petition recognises the critical importance of an annual inspection of all older vehicles by a qualified third party and calls for the hopelessly unsuitable current MoT not to be abandoned, but to be replaced with a mandatory, more appropriate annual basic safety check for all classic and historic vehicles of more than 25 years old."

If you are so minded, you can sign James's petition here.