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My car passed it's MOT!
(For non-UKians, it's an annual fitness-for-the-road test for all vehicles over three years old, which is getting harder to pass with each passing year. Used to be "Do the lights and brakes work? Has it got tyres? With any tread?", it now checks emissions, airbags, and even washer bottle content.)
And then, as they drove it out of the MOT bay and parked it ready for me, the handbrake cable snapped... 
So now, I won't get it back till this afternoon. Ho hum. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: for all vehicles over three and under 50 years old
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I've never owned a a car that was fifty years old or older, so I've never worried about the upper limit.
I've owned a few that looked like they were fifty... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The thinking is that once a car gets that old you are obviously going to take care of it; which I do. At 20 years they become Road Tax exempt as well.
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I do also.
Unfortunately the same can't be said for the other twenty owners!
(Though not with the current one - One elderly lady owner, I even found her disabled parking badge still in the car when I got it home...)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I am not sure what the tax exemption timeframe is but it isn't 20 years - I still have to pay road tax on my '76 vehicle
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You're right, it's pre 64; so 40 years.
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I think its pre 73 so whilst its 31 this year next year it will be 32 etc. its not rolling but a fixed point
(it used to be older than 25 years but that changed in 97 hence the pre 73 date)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I checked before posting my correction and re-chicken says built before 01/01/74.
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my bad, the rolling exemption was reinstated in April this year
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Sounds like Tüv in Germany 
Congrats on that 
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I have a '76 VW Camper - MOT time is always rather fraught
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Yeah - I was really chuffed that it passed straight away.
Then the handbrake fails immediately afterwards... 
Still, couple of years ago, it failed as I parked up in the MOT bay for the test! (Different car, I should mention)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I remember a mate getting his Mk1 Escort though the MOT which surprised us all at the time as it hadn't an engine in it at the time
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Yes.
Now, do you want the Blue pill, or the Red pill?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Ahm, do you have a green one?
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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No, but I keep getting offers of diamond shaped blue ones...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Are you accusing Michelle of being a spammer? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Probably.
If you don't have BACON, then a SPAM would do.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Two things:
1) We have BACON. It and Coffee are the two essentials of life.
2) SPAM is not now, and never has been, a BACON substitute. In the same way that pigs trotters are not a Beef Wellington substitute.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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We want'z the German one
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The German one is whatever they put in the Lemsip to recover from that flu they apparently had 
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It was the most embarrassing semi since watching The Crying Game
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