It is kind of sad that is happening...offshoreoildude wrote:Unless they are classic scheme (30 days allowed driving per year) the COE is the same. The price of road tax also goes up though with every decade. You might have noticed a lot of older cars had COE's expiring late last year - it was a very low COE 10 years ago from that date and a lot of owners renewed COE's on older cars then. I don't expect we'll see that again and older vehicles will be scrapped more and more.
I'm getting deja vu re: some kind of classic car rally in Singapore (this is going back perhaps as far as the 60s). Ring any bells anyone?sundaymorningstaple wrote:I had one of those! Mine was an ST plate (66 Cooper Mk1). Rebuilt it from the ground up in my back yard in Seletar Camp back in the late 80's. Was a blast to drive. Quick as greased lightening but not too much top end. Found out during the rebuild of the engine that it was a very rare car (one of 400 only) in that it had a special engine for racing and was imported here for just that purpose originally. Registered as a 998cc but was actually a 997cc (High compression engine). Sold it about 6 months after the COE system was started.
Ah, interesting thanks. For what ever reason my old SG boss had an album of photos of said road-races.sundaymorningstaple wrote:They have them every few years. The local mini club is alive and well. Quite a few of them still on the roads. The Singapore Grand Prix circuit started in 1961 or 62 and was eventually stop due to the number of deaths that occurred. It was out on the old Thompson Road but not sure of the actual course route.
yes, the plate is probably original to that car and it was not a recent import. some of the plates are even original... you can usually tell from the "hammered by hand" look they exude...zzm9980 wrote:How do they track this? If I had one of these cars and avoided all ERP gantries, is it just up to manual enforcement?taxico wrote:you get to drive it for 52 days a year.
Also, the pictured Mini has a license plate of XX####, so I take it the owner has had the car for a while then?
I know this thread was revived probably just for the previous poster to promote his services, however I am curious as to how the LTA is able to tell if the car is driven more than 30 days a year. Do they use some sort of special camera and look through to see every single car that drives past? I imagine that to be quite tedious and inefficient. Very interesting.offshoreoildude wrote: ↑Thu, 22 Nov 2012 8:59 pmUnless they are classic scheme (30 days allowed driving per year) the COE is the same. The price of road tax also goes up though with every decade. You might have noticed a lot of older cars had COE's expiring late last year - it was a very low COE 10 years ago from that date and a lot of owners renewed COE's on older cars then. I don't expect we'll see that again and older vehicles will be scrapped more and more.
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