Thanks for the really informative communication . We live in a small village of Montes De Malaga and just want to use our classic within about 40 k of our home . Now here's a question for you , our Renault 4s was first registered in 1971/2 so do I have to tax and ITV it ?
Regards , Martin/QUOTE]
Hi regarding your tax and ITV question, the answer is yes you do to current ITV regs for year of car ( emission wise for year of manufacture, doesn’t need fogs lights or anything else that was not fitted as original, anything fitted post production must work to regulations, a healthy 4 engine sails the emissions if correctly tuned).
It is road legal as a ‘normal’ car doing it this way round, 4’s are not expensive to insure here in Spain, or tax, your milage is only limited to where you want to go, ie. Infinity and beyond.
To register it as an ‘ historico’ and get all the ‘ benefits’ of it being such is a complicated and lengthy process which is not cheap to do ( believe me, I have done this with a vehicle here myself, only once...), the ITV is not the same as UK, as in the test period is down to the inspector of ‘ historico’, this can be from 6 month to 4 years depending on his eye over car, so ITV charges may still have to be accounted into the cars life with you potentially anyway, the insurance limits you to 3000 a year, which very, very soon leaves you with a car that you just cannot drive ( 2 trips to town and back a week only and your out of KM in 7months or less without using it for anything else), you get free road tax ( yipee!, but tax costs €40 a yr. for my 1108 cc 85 F6), but the process will cost you nothing short of €500 in total plus time (time measured in months, not hours), its a lot easier just to treat it as a normal car and sucker up tax and ITV, lot less headache, if your car has been untaxed for a period, ie off the road and forgotten, you may be liable for back tax to last date it was on the road whichever way you go.
The ONLY thing is on your ITV as an ‘Historico’ you are exempt from the emission part of test, marked on the logbook that comes after ‘historico’ registration, which as stated, you will have no problems with anyway, Oh, you can drive it into the bigger emission regulated cities on historico, not normally register