Rosbif
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2. Spot on
1. Your cars might meet the requirements of Collection but you don't have a recognised classification, other than being exept from an MOT, so nothing official that might cover it here.
Just go for it, have fun and watch out for the various speed limits.
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Porrige in May? Is the weather that bad?
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It seeems the delay in extending the ban on old cars applies to those with a Crit'air rating of '3' which were to be banned now. Classes '4' & '5' plus non classed are already banned.
The bits of interest for you are these:
https://zfe.metropole-rouen-normandie.fr/derogations/zfe-m-et-vehicules-de-collection
Bonne route!
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Ok, guys once again this subject. A classic car by French rules is at least 30 years old and is registered as 'voiture de collection' so has a CGC registration document not a CGN. Carte Grise (registration paperwork) Collection / Normale. At present all the low emmision zones have agreed to exclude CGC's from the rules. This means I could take my 1968 Herald through them but, legally, a 1968 Herald on normal paperwork could be fined.
I really, really, really don't see any problems for you foreigners in 'classic' cars.
Are you sure you will in fact be going in/through any of the zones?
If my memory is correct I think the Rouen are has but on hold its zone simply because locals with old cars can't legally leave home within the zoneand exit the zone to work in a non low emmission area or those living outside can't drive into it to go to work.
Rouen is in my region so we get news on the telly, as for other areas - no idea if any are on hold due to the same problem.
As for a CRIT air sticker they are only legally available from the official site, no private organisation can sell you one.
Just come over and enjoy yourselves BUT don't run over a gendarme's toes or you will have problems . . .
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Could simply be that the fuel pump needs a bit of time to prime the carb. This does happen, I can have the same symptom, but on the good side it gives the oil pump a head start getting oil pressure up.
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47 minutes ago, Velocita Rosso said:
Anyone else having to suffer the same?
No. Everyone in the village is old like me 😁
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58 minutes ago, Clive said:
Not from them, from a similar site here in France.
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I found oner new by searching the net, it was a company selling tuning/racing parts, but not easy to find.
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34 minutes ago, Velocita Rosso said:
when you drive a Triumph ....you can expect anything!
Other than the unexpected 🤔
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That was for the CritAir classification not about low emission zones. My 1968 reg 13/60 also doesn't qualify for a CritAir classification and it has French nationality.
The low emission zones have all, so far, accepted to exclude classics from the restrictions. An old car here can, under certain conditions, be registered as 'collection' as is mine. It is this registration that determines the exemption. Just don't worry about it, everything will be fine. Now I think about it isn't that what the captain of the Titanic said.
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"Glad to be of service" 🤔
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Ordered mine a week ago
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46 minutes ago, JohnD said:
I don't think that Louis the Xteenth ever attended a motor racing event.
Of course he didn't, they went and raced round his garden at Versailles, the vehicules had far less horse power then of course. . . .
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2 hours ago, JohnD said:
French Racing Colour,
Goes back much, much further - hence my photo of Le Roi ( royal blue), renamed by the revolution, the original term French blue refers to a particular way of dying fabric. As used by a fabric from Nîmes, d' Nîmes or in English denim.
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21 minutes ago, JohnD said:
????? The French racing colour is BLUE!
Not at all. It is actually 'Bleu de France'
Or if you prefer, a Norman.
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10 hours ago, Brian Ridley-Jones said:
it was the other 360 days that they were considering!
And they just wanted to be different 😁 vive la difference!
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23 minutes ago, BULLET.tony.short.50 said:
Who is Roast beef and what does he or she drive. And, where do they live, presumably in Frog land !!!
Check out the profiles heading
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14 minutes ago, JohnD said:
Do you want to - can you legally? - still use them?
Yellow bulbs are still available legally, so I guess the covers would be. But why would a French car fit covers rather than have had yellow bulbs ? Are those yellow covers really ones designed to convert RHD beams to LHD beams for Brits coming to France?
As for why they were introduced a more mundane answer is that they dazzle oncoming drivers less that white and better in fog.
When I moved here (1994) they were still common, they have gradually disapeared and there was even a time when yellow bulbs that blew were replaced by white and it was quite common to see a car with one of each.
More fun was when the French changed the law about priority at roundabouts, but that is another story . .
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45 minutes ago, Shepsy said:
As part of my daily routine I stock up the apple tree
We have 5 apple trees but I put grease balls in the cherry tree and we watch the birds 5ucking in while we sit in the conservatory having breakfast. We get hares and deer in the field regularly, less frequently, like last weekend, a family of wild boar passing by. Fortunately they don't come into the garden - the damage they do is massive!
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12 minutes ago, Rubce said:
And there was me thinking you were referring to the EU😉😆
We're not opressed - yet
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17 hours ago, Tim Hunt said:
Entrants from Blighty now need a UK sticker rather than the previously required GB
Sporting the 'UK' sticker here in France is likely to get you a lot of sympathy and support for your struggle against an opressive regime.
Yes, that's right - a lot of people think the 'UK' stands for UKraine
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I'll say it again - don't worry about it.
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1 minute ago, Clive said:
believe the distributor cap is top entry on a herald, should look like
That what my 13/60 has
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Rouen ULED
in Ten Countries Run (10CR)
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Yes, you're wrong.
As said in earlier posts cars registered as 'Collection' are exempt from the controls. There is no Crit'air sticker for this category of car yet but they can travel though them