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When does a car become a classic?
There is no single age. Road tax and the MOT both use forty years but run on different clocks, customs and Scotland use thirty, London uses 1973, and the market, the clubs and the owner keep their own time. Every answer, and which one applies to your car.
Which cars count as British classics?
The site's scope reference. Which marques and which cars count as British classics, the edge cases, and what we don't cover. The companion essay on when a car becomes a classic answers the temporal question separately.

British Classic Cars

An independent, UK-based guide to the cars Britain built, from the marque histories to the paperwork. Researched and written in-house.

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