40 Year Old Cars Get Cheap Rego...YAY

[oldschool]

At last, I've found info on 40+ year old cars cheap rego...a waste of time looking on the NZTA website!!

Here's a letter from the NZTA (courtesy of oldschool.co.nz ) on the subject...

Good afternoon ........

Thank you for your email dated 31 January 2011.

I have noted your suggestion to have information on our website relating to over 40 year old vehicles. Thank you for taking the time to contact us about this.

The Motor Vehicle Register will automatically detect that a vehicle is 40 years old and any subsequent applications for a motor vehicle licence will be at the lower rate. This takes effect from 1 January on the year a vehicle turns 40 years old. The year is taken from the year of first registration, not the year of manufacture.

Once a vehicle reaches 40 years of age it is no longer subject to continuous vehicle licensing. Effectively this means that licence fees do not need to be paid for any period that it is unlicensed and it can remain unlicensed for two years before the registration will be automatically cancelled.

There is no usage category for a vehicle that is used only rarely and/or for short trips. However, as an over 40 year old vehicle does not need to be continuously licensed, a licence can be purchased for any specified period from one day on lodgement of an Application to Licence Motor Vehicle (MR27 form). This means that you would only need to licence your vehicle for the times you would be using it. The MR27 can only be lodged at an agent of the NZ Transport Agency (NZ Post, AA, VTNZ or VINZ) and a transaction fee of $7.48 will be applied to each licence application.

I have provided some 12 month licence fee comparisons below to give you an indication of the difference between an over and under 40 year old vehicle.

Less Than 40 Years
Passenger Car/Van $287.87
Goods Van/Truck/Utility $333.51

Over 40 Years
Passenger Car/Van $111.92
Goods Van/Truck/Utility $111.92

I hope this information is of assistance to you.

Regards

Amanda
__________________________________________________________

Senior Customer Service Representative

NZ Transport Agency
Transport Registry Centre
Private Bag 11777
Palmerston North 4442
New Zealand

That's over a 60% reduction, so don't be in a hurry to sell your Avenger...or Charger!!

[blekkja]

You could have just asked me... my super ticked over last year.

[kierbear]

3 years to go....

[Nikolai]

2 years!

[avenga]

My Charger ticked over to cheap rego 3 months ago. I'm loving it.

[blekkja]

My car is parked up atm (Putting money aside for a 80s Peugeot 10 speed - WoF can wait) and it's great knowing that when I get my shit sorted I won't have to back pay a cent.

[oldschool]

What about this 40 year old Moped on TradeMe, costs $24 for rego...$172 for newer ones...
Cheap rego will become a good selling point for old cars and bikes!!

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/motorbikes/motorbikes/classic-vintage/auction-458577340.htm

[JoKer]

"they" are all 40 now!

blinking classic car Facebook group was trying to say 30 LOL

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2011/0079/latest/whole.html#DLM2938306

vintage motor vehicle means a motor vehicle that—
(a)

was manufactured on or after 1 January 1919; and
(b)

is at least 40 years old on the date that it is registered, reregistered, or licensed.

and yeah there is still not any actual statment on this on the NZTA website

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/licensing-rego/exemptions/exemption-from-paying-registration-and-licensing-fees/

[avenga]

It's 40 years, my 1980 wagon just turned 40 so I get cheap rego on that.

You get cheap rego from the start of the year your car turns 40, so even if your car was built in November 1980, then you get cheap rego from 1/1/2020

One thing to note that if you register your car when it's 39, they don't automatically apply the discount for the overlap. For instance, my rego last year was due in October, if I had have brought a year rego, they would have charged me full price, so instead I brought 2 months at full price to get me to January 2020, then brought a year at the discounted price.

Once your car turns 40, then the discount will automatically be applied next time you renew your rego.

There are other benefits, like you don't have to back date your rego so if you don't register your car for a few months it doesn't back date to when it expired like modern cars, the rego starts from the day you renew it.