Legal challenge to registration hurdles in Australia - any interest?

[Treeve]

I don't see why everyone gets worked up about yearly inspections - it keeps a lot of unsafe minor maintenance stuff from creeping in.

What needs to be understood first and foremost with this challenge is that an ICV is a newly built vehicle, and hence must meet the ADRs. To keep the costs down from full compliance, the engineering process is brought in as a 'deemed to comply' status, not actual proof of full compliance.

The difficulty is that if you want limited rego then you need to stop talking about ICVs, and start to go down the path of defining a replica. Then you need to have a manual of how to build a safe car, including acceptable suspension layouts etc as per the street rod manual. Then you might be getting somewhere. I've written it in a couple of sentences, but it will take a lot more than that to do it, especially when you look around this group, and the two other major ICV Replica groups (Lotus 7 / Clubman, and GT40s).

I'd look into Low Volume Certification and see if you can get a "Single Vehicle Certification" from DoTaRs and skip past the state registration legislation that way.

I've looked a couple of times, and it is almost easier to build 5 identical cars as Low Volume than it is to build 5 to ICV standards across all states and territories.

Treeve