Thanks folks. That emissions stuff will be coming out shortly.
Re. Historic plates...It seems like it's kind of a grey area, or at least something that's not well enforced. In my mom's case she has the car on normal "daily driver" insurance, and she's had the historic plates for years without any issues. Keeping in mind that she's retired and doesn't commute in the car anyway. When I got the Trans Am plated they offered Historic plates stating that as long as it wasn't my primary car (they could see my other registered cars) it was fine. But since I do commute in the T/A I figured I'd play it safe and get regular plates.
The rules are pretty clear, but seem to be not enforced. The letter of the law states:
In order to obtain Historical plates the owner must sign a declaration stating the following to be true. The vehicle in question,
(a) is at least 30 years old,
(b) is operated on a highway in parades, for purposes of exhibition, tours or similar functions organized by a properly constituted automobile club or for purposes of repair, testing or demonstration for sale,
(c) is substantially unchanged or unmodified from the original manufacturer’s product, and
(d) does not have attached to it year-of-manufacture plates.
That being said, I have them on the TR6 and I don't recall signing a specific statement to the above effect, although it was likely in the small print against a tick box or such like. All the MTO asked was "is this your daily driver". Logically, I've paid to use the roads with my daily driver and I can't drive both cars at once, so paying a small "admin fee" rather than the full sticker cost is justifiable.
In practice, clause (b) is your get out of jail card "....purposes of repair, testing or ...". "Yes, officer I've just changed the carb's dashpot oil viscosity and am testing the pick up" or some other equally obscure, but completely true and impossible to verify change
