How true this I don’t know. There has been a petition started on the “Petition The Government” website as follows:

Several EU proposals across the years are dangerous to the classic car movement. One that has been under consideration is to ban the use of cars older than 10 years. Similarly, Edinburgh City Council is considering the banning of cars over 15 years old from the town centre. These, and similar, proposals directly threaten the classic car movement, and encourage the manufacture of new cars, with the attendent environmental issues of sourcing raw materials, manufacturing, distriuting and scrapping the spiralling supply of new vehicles.

The link to the petition is http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Classic-Cars/

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Reject any proposals to ban or restrict the use of older cars. More details

Submitted by Richard Jewell of NA – Deadline to sign up by: 18 March 2008 – Signatures: 17,461

If you are in the UK or are an ex-pat, please sign this petition. If this goes ahead we essentially kiss goodbye to our motoring heritage!