I think you're Ok moving other people's stuff (certainly true for horses according to the written VOSA guide) so long as you're not doing it for profit.NorfolkNWeigh wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:11 pm I’m pretty sure if you are only moving your own cars around, runners or not and can prove that they are yours, you fall into the same class as horseboxes and those nutters who cart there traction engines etc around the Country on old F88s and the like. Then no O Licence, no Drivers Hours regs and you can park it where you like, if you were ever to get caught moving a car that wasn’t yours, then a clued up Copper ( rare but they do exist) could come down on you like a tonne of bricks.
Note my use of “ pretty sure” there are so many grey areas that even when you phone Vosa they often won’t give you a,definite answer.
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My P4 and xj6 had steering wheels that were a delight to touch. What was the last car to be fitted with one before they went over to the modern squidgy shit?
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If you mean the nice shiny hard bakelite-type rims - such as P4/XJ6 - then probably something high end. Run-out T2 Bentleys and Shadows, series II XJ6s etc. up to around 1980/1 at a guess. Leather-rimmed wheels probably ousted them at this level before the squidginess and those horrid hard-plastic A-spoke types on run-of-the-mill fodder.
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Yes the black bakelite type with shinyness that stayed in place. I think some wheels became hard plastic which was horrible.
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Interesting......I know that a surprising amount of stuff we consider classic and/or "proper" went to hard plastic horribleness in Mk2/Mk3 form. Usually with old-school stuff it tends to be oddball cheap motors that retain it but I'm standing by my supposition that it will be something high-end and around the time I suggest - 1979/80.
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Is it really true that you can't tow an electric car? Do the AA now carry generators to charge them up?
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I can't see why towing them wouldn't recharge them via regenerative braking, it's only like a long downhill surely?
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I vaguely remember reading that some have a freewheeling mode so if that works normally then I would expect to be able to tow one. TBH I've no interest in them so that could be misremembered bollocks.
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Well that's useful if you've run out of charge just around a blind bend. I assume you can't even push it then, even if you've got the strength of a plumber.