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‘Mindboggling’ red tape threatens classic car industry, owners warn
A village fete is seldom entire without an array of vintage autos parked on the grass for motoring admirers to admire. But now historic car or truck proprietors are warning the switch to electrification and the purple tape resulting from Brexit threaten the survival of businesses that hold these classic autos on the highway. The vintage car or truck sector has fashioned a new group, the Historic and Common Vehicles Alliance (HCVA), to safeguard an market it states has an yearly turnover of £18.3bn and possibly employs or supports some 113,000 work, including engineers, restorers, craftsmen and components suppliers. HCVA estimates there is a fleet of some one.54m historic autos, outlined as these…