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Originally Posted by Merv and Sharon
True Rob but I have some friends with cars like this (maybe they are authentic and older) and use "club plates". Just wondering ....
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Merv - just to clarify, do you mean "special interest concessional registration" (ie: available to 30+ year old cars belonging to a special interest car club
http://www.transport.qld.gov.au/Home..._vintage_cars/ ) or do you mean "trade plates" (ie: allowing a workshop / car dealership to legally drive an otherwise unregistered vehicle by temporarily affixing a small square 4 digit plate
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/q...99725/s54.html )?
If you know of Cobras registered on concessional registration, I'm all ears! If you know of people driving around on trade plates, it's probably best that we don't go into any more detail.
Legless - next year is on the mark for Arntz and ERA, but Unique have been making Cobras since 1977 and Contemporary since March 1979. Having said that, I reckon you would need a mountain of paperwork to clearly and absolutely verify the age of the car. The manufacturers probably wouldn't go to a lot of trouble to assist in the resale of a car that they offloaded over 30 years ago. An example of this is what the current owner of Contemporary wrote in response to the history of the company
"Since all of the company records were destroyed when Burtis went “Belly Up” in 1999, I can’t tell you for certain how many kits were produced, but I’d estimate that the Contemporary’s total production was somewhere between 1,400 and 1,500 kits."
You'll then need proof of when the "box of bits" actually became a legally registered vehicle. There may be a lot of people who are more fastidious with their record keeping, but I reckon you'd be lucky to come up with that kind of proof for any car. Having said all that, I agree that there will be a number of Aussies looking closely at older US Cobras as they are offered for sale!