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Comment by Tony Craig on March 23, 2012 at 9:44

Just a quick note to Colin Underwood. I don't know whether you are still looking for insurance companies. I was in the UK recently and came across a leaflet for Adrian Flux, www.adrianflux.co.uk (Freephone 0800 089 0045). I have never heard of them, but the leaflet claims that they have been Classic Car Insurance Specialists for 30 years. 

Comment by Tony Craig on March 9, 2012 at 16:59

My problem, when I first tried to insure my car years ago, was that if I insured it as a voiture de collection, all the insurers I went to expected me to insure it as a secondary car and not as a principal car. They kept saying to me, "Yes, but what is your other car?" when I tried to explain that I used my Morris every day. They all insisted that I had to insure it as a principal car if I were driving it every day. I really am interested in what you say, Graham. Is your MGB your only car i.e. your principal car? Sorry about your Morris and the CT, Simon! 

Comment by Mark Rimmer on March 9, 2012 at 16:31

That's right, Graham, it does not which is why I said that it used to apply.. a few years ago. Now, of course, you can go where you like. It was a bizarre bit of legislation which I could never figure the purpose of & which I ignored!  But it might explain why Tony was under the impression of insurance imposed restrictions.

Comment by Graham Dooley on March 9, 2012 at 16:01

Mark

I think that restriction no longer applies.

Comment by Mark Rimmer on March 9, 2012 at 15:57

The useage restriction used to apply to collection vehicles a few years ago & all it did then was limit the vehicles use to your own department & the two adjoining depts. you had a sort of chequebook of forms to send to your prefecture if you were going further. The distance restriction was a legal restriction, not an insurance one. My GMC bolster truck cost about 60 euros a year with Retro Assurances, but not as my principal vehicle. It is sold, now, which is just as well, as under the old regs it was exemt CT, but no longer. When the DUKW is finished that WILL be fun to take for a CT - or as a boat perhaps it will be exempt???

Comment by Graham Dooley on March 9, 2012 at 15:40

Simon

My MGB is FFVE and I regularly visit the UK with it. Insurance is less than 200 Euros and it is insured for 9000 Euros with no limitations on driving.

Comment by Simon Shreeve on March 9, 2012 at 15:26

Still waiting to get my 1957 Morris Minor through the CT for a second time.  Also needs attention on the brakes.  Was never a problem in the UK with MOT, but seems the CT is more strict on them. 

I was also under the impression that registering as a 'voiture de collection' restricted you to driving the vehicle only at weekends, so mine is insured and registered as a regular vehicle so that I am not bound by the restrictions.  I'd be  grateful to hear of any cheaper ways to insure and run my Moggie.

Comment by Tony Craig on March 9, 2012 at 13:56

Graham, I may have been labouring under the wrong impression which I got from the time I first shopped around in France for car insurance. My Morris is my only car and I use it for day to day purposes. I thought that Classic Car insurance, i.e. insured as a 'voiture de collection', limited you in both the time and distance you may use your car in any one year e.g. only going to Rallys on the odd weekend etc. Is that true? Currently, I am being insured as a modern car. In fact, my Morris is insured at a rate for a car going 0-60 mph in 4 seconds. I told them that the day I do that I want a year's free insurance!

Comment by Graham Dooley on March 9, 2012 at 13:39

Tony

Dont forget if you have not already done so you can register it with FFVE http://www.ffve.org/  and then you only need a control every 5 years and classic insurance.

Comment by Tony Craig on March 9, 2012 at 13:28

My 1968 Morris Minor Traveller passed the Contrôle Technique yesterday on its second attempt. I had to get new brake shoes fitted. I hadn't realised that anything was wrong with the old ones. I don't drive fast and I hardly ever use them, except for stopping, but they insisted, so all in all, it has been an expensive exercise. Still, I am both relieved and pleased!

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