We Tested the BP Ban On Classic Cars 

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VWs don't leak oil, they mark their territory

Still finding tarballs on the beach from the Horizon explosion.

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What? With the price of oil close to gold, certainly wouldn’t want to spill any.

Yes... some under-trained part timer who got an instruction wrong. Though, in all fairness - those Renault 8 were not known for brilliant engineering or workmanship, and the fuel intake is not far from engine parts... I wouldn't be as confident about fuelling safety as Geoff was. In a Beetle, however, tank and engine are one car apart...

And her ill informed manager that was standing next to her when the guy went into the petrol station

Yes, agreed, sadly that lady and her manager are part of the latest “computer says no” generation, with little, to no common sense.

Obviously not. There is another vid where a different brand fuel outlet did the same thing. I suggested that car owner, get a fuel container at differen stations and gradually fill the car tank up. He said "Good idea...will I get away with it?". Tell them it's for the mower but just don't get that fuel at the one you were ejected from". Park the car around the corner and carry the fuel can to the fuel station.

no actually the reverse, she has plenty as the dumbass doesnt even have a cover to go over his motor and its the fumes that go off, as the motor is RIGHT THERE, full exposed with nothing covering it like even the ferrari 308 has a cover for its boot space

aparently not the same everywhere...

I work at a petrol station (not a bp as well) I will look but I would never not open the pump for a classic car lol

That's what I was going to say. Just go in , pay ,and pump.

where I live most petrol stations are self service so there even isn't any workers you just fill up on your own

Yeah really, the stations I've been too (not BP specifically but in general), if I'm paying at the pump the attendant doesn't even have to turn the pump on any more. It turns itself on. And the ones where they do have to turn it on, the view of the pumps is usually good enough to see if there is a car there, but not really good enough to determine if it has an external gas cap or not. I'm not saying this policy doesn't exist, I'm just guessing it's one where a few stations enforce it and most aren't going to.

they're expensive and their petrol isn't even that good, and their pumps dont feel right always get petrol all over my hands when i use them i rarely go to BP though

Well BP have a very good reason to be more expensive the amount revenue of oil they’re lost from oil spills etc it’s no wonder they charge more , joking aside BP are the ones who started this climate change crap

The last time I drove into a BP I looked at the price of fuel on the pump as the big light up sign wasn't on and drove straight back out again as the price was far more than any other petrol station nearby.

yeah, dont even get necar points now

BP is always the most expensive here in Australia .

Same on a lot of vans - although you can of course close the door once you've opened the flap...

The sign isn't about not using a phone, it's about not making phone calls. When phones came out, there was fear the signals may cause a spark, though that has yet to ever happen.

@@joshjlmgproductions3313 And most phones today are IP6x-rated, which means there is basically no way for gas fumes to get anywhere near anything that could possibly ignite it inside the phone short of the phone having a catastrophic failure. Also, in a typical modern phone, the only thing that may generate a spark is brushes on the tiny vibrator motor. Gas fumes will have a hard time getting that deep into the phone and igniting on what must be the tiniest spark possible in consumer products. Static electricity is millions of times more likely to start a gasoline fire. I get zapped every time I get out of my car when I forget to keep a bare hand on the door frame while getting out.

And those little vibrator motors are usually if not always brushless anyway so that's no worry..

Phones have never been threat that was busted a long time ago, a phone signal could never set off fuel or the fumes. However my guess is the connection between phones and fire is that lots of people like to sit down while on a call and that usually means in the car. getting out can build up static and if you do not touch the body of the car before going back to the fuel filler than the static spark can be by fumes.

Thanks Geoff! I hope you had fun at the Resto Show. Hopefully you have more luck with your Renault in future, but yeah I think the manager there might be very literal with her interpretation of the rule!

PS nice to see your Renault 10 (4CV owner here)

​@@mikethecabbie8476Must be a British thing? In the U.S., at least where I'm from, the pumps are parallel with the front of the store, so you wouldn't be able to see the nozzles from the register. They're either on the other side of the car or blocked by the pumps and maybe other cars. In any case, I'm not sure what exactly they're worried about that they need to see a nozzle. Are they worried you might be filling molly cocktails or something? Where I'm from some stations might have a problem if they see you trying to fill plastic milk jugs or the like, but mostly no one gives a shit as long as you pay for it.

@@jackgilchrist Majority of filling stations in UK set the pumps so that customers are facing the shop and the CCTV cameras. The reason for the nozzle in filler is that the most dangerous element is the invisible petrol (gas) vapour igniting. We had one less than half a mile from our store where a RV torched itself when an electrical spark ignited, and destroyed two pump islands, plus the roof canopy. Luckily, the staff reacted well and cut off all pumps from the emergency switch ALL filling stations have, thereby reducing a major incident. The place was out of action for three weeks, and the canopy took a year to replace... Unfortunately, some customers WILL do daft things; ours came last year when a driver noticed flames under the bonnet (hood to you), so he pulled into a filling station, next to the pumps where a tanker was making a fuel delivery! Honestly, you couldn't make it up. That one ended up with me closing the forecourt after dumping the contents of a dry powder extinguisher into the engine bay, clearing the area until a fire engine turns up under "blues and twos". Site closed for three hours, and a crappy mess for me to sweep up. That's why we have such strict rules.

I run a filling station. This is a local thing from the site manager, probably to stop drive offs which a becoming increasingly common

@matthewgodwin3050 > Great video chaps. I've had the same issue as Geoff Thompson from Geoff Buys Cars > RU-vid channel. I was in an early Series 1 Land Rover, where the petrol tank is under > the driver's seat (I kid you not). The BP garage in Oxford city centre (no longer there) > cut off the pump when the lone member of staff noticed the driver's door was open. > When I went in to explain, he couldn't care less and got really arsy about it. > Refused point blank to reauthorise the pump. I'd have been very tempted to do the following: Disclaimer - IANAL, and I can't be certain of being on a sound legal footing, but personally I'd take that risk. The key legal point is that the The Theft Act 1978 states (with my emphasis of the crucial phrase) ‘A person who, knowing that payment on the spot for any goods supplied or service done is required or expected from him, dishonestly makes off without having paid as required or expected, *AND WITH INTENT TO AVOID PAYMENT OF THE AMOUNT DUE*, shall be guilty of an offence.’ Get my phone out to record audio and video of the interaction - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. Tell them that they have inconvenienced me by refusing to allow me to complete my refuelling, and as a protest I intend to inconvenience them by not paying for my fuel right there and then. State that of course I am not refusing to pay, and give them my name and address, and registration number, confirm that I'm the registered keeper, and it's registered to me at that address, and ask them to send me an invoice for the fuel which I will pay promptly. Point out that should they claim to the police that I drove off without paying I'll be able to show that I did not do so with intent to avoid payment, and that therefore they'd have wasted police time by reporting me for not committing an offence.

You could just lift the door off and put it in the back. I remember from my own 1956 S1 88" that removing the doors are the easiest thing in the world. No screws or tools involved, just lift it straight up off the hinges.

You can do a trick there, go in and say you have a disability and need someone to come out to fill your tank for you... they must oblige. Then just show them where the filler is and stand back. My mum does it every time she fills up, says to me 'I don't want my hands touching that smelly filler nozzle thing... '

@@anonnona8099dumb

Yes you are right. under the front seat. Nice place to put the tank if you hit a land mine.

“I only asked you to blow the f**king doors off!” (Michael Caine)

My Willys MB fills under the seat cushion but has no doors.

I wounder where you can find the historical evidence for 80 years of military jeeps burning up while being refilled... said no one ever....piss funny...🤔😂😎🇦🇺👌

Is england this terrible, we would never run into anything like this stateside.

@@idkman360 It's thanks to criminals who fill up multiple barrels within the vehicles and drive off without paying.

If sense was common,everyone would have it.

No. The majority HAS common sense. The rest are women.@@chuckoster8221

We christened our daughter Karen more than 40 years ago. She probably has more sense than most of the people who insist she hasn't on the basis of her name. Which she didn't choose.

Karen, a term used by members of the Incel community as highlighted above.

@stamfordmeetup Someone's had too much wine for Easter.

Why is filling jerry cans dangerous?? I have been doing it for near 60 years

@@ldnwholesale8552 For safety reasons in the USA they are supposed to be on the ground when filling. I've heard that rule is to prevent static electricity build up from igniting enclosed vapors.

"Filling jerry cans" is fine; filling them in the back of your car just raises a _small_ but _unnecessary_ risk that could have catastrophic consequences @@ldnwholesale8552 You have the combination of increased fuel vapour buildup due to the relative lack of ventilation, along with an increased chance of static discharge due to lack of grounding (and the strange observable habit people have of _not having the nozzle touch the filler the neck of the jerry can_ which _also_ provides the opportunity for static discharge)

@@carlcushmanhybels8159 yet they talk away on their cellphones while filling

I worked in retail for 30 years. Whatever the business, all customers are fucking idiots, so you have to play them at their own game. If the customer is a dick, you have to become a dick for them to understand you 😁

To investigate and confirm that you are acting correctly doesn't seem to be a problem. There is a reason for putting cans on the ground during filling. Ideally the entire car should have an earth strap connected prior to filling also.

Im sure theyre devastated at the loss of your business

Staff were literally doing their job correctly by insuring you and everybody else on site were safe because they couldn't see what was happening and you over react like that? Hahahaha.

I understand your frustration but it IS a safety issue to make sure customers are not being sketchy and filling water bottles with fuel.. .. However if one were politely to request staff members view the car to see the fueling required. Then hopefully in the future you shouldn't have any problems.

> guy does his job properly > “I’ll take my business elsewhere!” You are what’s wrong with the uk mate.

Pre 1967 as the petrol cap was under the bonnet right up to then; the East German Trabant had the filler under the bonnet (in the engine bay) right up to 1990!

Aren't there laws preventing the disqualification of cars after release?

No shortage of cars with fuel tanks under the front seats. Several Honda Civic models and Jazzes had them, albeit with long fuel pipes from conventional side mounted filler caps, so they had a lot of luggage space at the rear end. Had a couple of those in the past.

@@johnkeepin7527 Heh heh. My first gen Toyota MR2 has the fuel tank between the seats, in what looks like an oversized transmission tunnel! The shifter sits on top of it and it's quite high up, which is pretty nice because you don't have to move your hand very far to shift gear. It's not as dangerous as it sounds either. The floor panel actually rises up in the middle, over the tank, so the tank is entirely under the metal and open to the bottom of the car like normal, not inside the cabin. The fuel filler also outside behind the driver's door in the normal place.

Yes you are right, Under the front seat, just right for a land mine.

Possibly too many people filling 200 litres tanks in the boot. Sister worked at e fuel station in the 90's and they had a classic mini with a 25litre tank fill up with almost 100 litres and do a drive off. Puzzled how they managed to fit that into a little tank it turned out they were not putting the nozzle into the tank but through the rear window which opened outwards slightly and they had a large container where the back seats should have been. Police said they had done the drive offs many times already.

@@WhiteDieselShed Why does it matter? Just auto charge them like every other gas station does. None of this should even be an issue.

@@locklear308 Autocharge how much? What happens when they are paying cash and say they are putting £20 in and the cashier needs to stop serving other customers whilst they slow down near £20 so the cashier starts serving again and then open the nozzle wide and get £40 before the cashier spots them again? Or they just open the nozzle wide and overshoot what they paid for.

@@WhiteDieselShed Are you guys stuck in 1950? If you give them cash, the pumps auto-stop at that amount. Seriously, is this a joke?

@@WhiteDieselShed To me it's bizarre to even think that something like that could happen nowdays. Pretty much all the petrol stations here are completely automatic, either you put in cash and you get amount worth the money you put in, or you pay by card and it'll charge you for the amount you put in after you put the nozzle back. The "stations" we have the most are something we call a "cold station", where there's no actual store or any buildings, just a pump smacked pretty much somewhere in the middle of a parking lot. No need for staff, and no (easy) way to steal anything

I've still got the sa rego label on my xe falcon

Yes I'm where we used to have those exact labels on our vehicles. It was almost nostalgic seeing this one, and I 'did a double take' when I first saw it in a UK video, although of course the bike/car looks better without them. Museum material indeed.

I thought it a bit odd that someone would go to the effort of shipping a Beetle all that way.

Rego label? Was that the red sticker that sort of looked like an inspection sticker in the U.S.?

@@CharlieLarkin75 Yes, the sticker is renewed when the car is registered each year.

OMG how dare you casually throw in common sense. 😂😂 What people don't realise is the rules are there to cover the fact that not everyone who works at BP or anywhere else is a car buff who knows the ins and outs of every type of car that may rock up for fuel. Home or self build cars may be bloody dangerous by design with filling necks above engines etc. Point is they have to be safe for everyone including non car experts

What does that have to do with a VW?

@@anvilsvs this was about an earlier video not the VW.

It makes me wonder how people fill Trabants. I suppose it would be reasonably safe if the engine were off during filling and the, eh, bonnet were closed before restarting, but it would be hard to enforce that in a self-serve station. The only other car I can name with the tank over the engine is the Subaru 360, and that had an external filler, but I had never heard of many of the strange fuel filler arrangements (eg. Land Rover) mentioned in these comments, so I'm sure there's more where that came from.

Maybe, but she could've been covering her arse so she doesn't lose her job. I'm glad to see BP's cooperate policy isn't so draconian and allows for reasonable exceptions, hopefully that information gets disseminated throughout the retailers and ceases to be a worry for owners of classic vehicles.

How she just answered the question

bp will lose out on a fair bit of profit going forward by enforcing this though, what with EVs getting more popular youll be seeing more classics being filled than regular traffic

@@tractorface1236 I don't think they will cry themselves to sleep over the infintesimal amount of revenue they lose. Just put on your big boy pants and buy your petrol elsewhere.

He was on the BP website and there was nothing on there about an age of a vehicle not being allowed to fill up at a BP servo. However the Renault required filling in it's engine bay whereas the VW filler was in the front boot so the former may have had something to do with it. But then again many millions of those Renault's have filled up without bursting into flames so I think that woman just decided her filling station her rules. I've only been told off once for filling my car at a BP servo because they had driveway attendants to do it for me and that wasn't in the 1960's but in 2022.

@@tractorface1236 > bp will lose out on a fair bit of profit going forward by enforcing this though, what with > EVs getting more popular youll be seeing more classics being filled than regular traffic Plus the several thousand (possibly 10's of thousands) of relatively modern TVRs with the filler cap under the boot lid. And Mercedes Vito vans, I believe.

@@tractorface1236They REALLY wont care financially about losing the custom of the odd classic car here and there when on top of the hundreds of normal cars they see daily they have lorry drivers with BP fuel cards putting 400 litres of fuel in every day and often queueing at their pumps at the bunker stations. I like classics and want them to continue being useable but the amount of revenue they bring in to various companies and services is miniscule compared to normal cars and commercial vehicles, overstating their importance in that way will backfire badly as more and more of the normal population move over to EVs.

would have and I stopped reading there

@@moaningpheromones Can't read hey...poor you...

@@moaningpheromones if you know what he meant, leave it alone. Would OF.

I'd like to see Buc-ee's try to enfoce a rule like that. (for the UK people a Buc-ee's has 80-120 pumps)

In my experience yabbering in an Eastern language. Had a cab driver do that to me on Monday

@@ldnwholesale8552 I yabber in Western languages. What's the difference?

Most vans are the same, the passenger door gives total security to the filler flap.

Either that or they just don’t care.

Or they are under pressure to keep things moving and are therefore unable to manage oddities like classic cars - which given BP is a premium brand is a bit off. In some cases there is only one person working it gets difficult.

Thing is, you open the door to access the fuel tank, but you can then close the door again with the filler door remaining open, you don't have to keep the passenger door open the whole time.

Don't blame the workers. A lot of big companies these days will (figuratively) beat any common sense out of you, as well as desire to be helpful and do your job well, until you just stop giving a shit and do nothing but the minimum in order to survive.

TO EXPENSIVE,I ALWAYS GO ELSEWHERE ANYWAY,NAH WONDER BP POST LARGE PROFITS.

I honestly felt bad for the employee. You could tell she didn’t really agree with it, but she valued her job more, and she probably has a very good reason to. Lots of times policies are made without realizing that there are certain circumstances. Sadly, when this happened, the only thing you can do is talk to corporate.

Nah, its also the workers. Who tf actually cares about a gas station job?

The females at that original BP that started this shemozzle were ignorant. As another commenter said.. if you said you had a disability and asked them for help WHICH THEY MUST GIVE... and you pointed out where the filler was.. what then? Can they authorise themselves because they are "trained" "competent" can see the ridiculousness of failing to fuel an unmodified older car?

Yep, BP managers need to issue clear instruction and/or training.

@@sham_wow_guysome people have to care about their job if they want to make money so they can afford food. think, man

A South Aussie Dak-Dak Struggle Buggie ?

I may even know that green VDub with South Aussie reg sticker. Is it a 1964 1200 model by chance? ..... Great headlining also, by the way.😊

We don't use a sticker for rego any more in South Australia. Apparently the stickers cost too much!!!

I had a 2A with 2 tanks, but with necks behind the doors. One had a major freak-out when I moved it to a second bowser to fill the other tank, came running out. Was a BP too, and I think they defrauded staff for drive-offs.

Hey Steve, No worries. The Bug was originally delivered to SA in Feb 1964 and bought by at some point in the late 60's, he drove it and then gave it to his wife who drove it until she was in her 90's! It was then sold to a guy here in the UK who shipped it over in 2016. It had a full Resto here and is going strong. It has quite a few cool Aussie bits like the lego sticker, some old Australian AA documents and some stuff from the ladies small town church too.

Trademark breach?

That's because Oreos are a type of "sandwich biscuit" in the UK. Cookies or biscuits, just depends what country you are in. Oreos used to be called "Oreo sandwich" and then renamed to "Oreo chocolate sandwich cookie".

YES. I was going to make that point as hired a FORD Transit LWB. Had to open the passenger door to fuel in Sainsbury's and put £50 in. Actually, I was more shocked it only took £50 for 220mile trip!

The Renault van I use is the same. I can however shut the door again with the flap open to access the cap and so have had no problems (not necessary to leave the van door open). I do this so I can lock the van while fuelling to prevent people stealing stuff from the cab.

It was laid up for a few years just outside Adelaide before coming to the UK in 2016!

accept

@jasontal8773 thanks I will update it

Having heard the horror storys of people trying to put fuel is all kinds of unsuitable containers , i can see why the staff would want to check what your useing.

@@SuperFunkmachine using

He is actually braking the law by displaying the expired S.A. registration label infect I believe it is printed on the bottom of the label

@@raymossop7959 dont think its a problem in the UK

​@@raymossop7959Bit hard to break an Australian state law in the UK .

@@raymossop7959 NSW removed that law after rego stickers were done away with back in 2013, because there were too many complaints of forgetting when the rego was due.

The people at the till would surely not even know if the engine is in the back or the front of Geoff's car.

The car was originally a south Aussie car delivered in Feb 1964, owned by the same family and driven by a 93 year old woman until she stopped driving. it was then shipped over to the UK in 2016 where it had a full Resto. Some of the original Aussie bits like the reg sticker, Aussie recovery stickers and what not.

@@hayburnertv that's pretty cool. And we don't need road salt!

That's so your Face is seen on the CCTV just in case you do get to ride off without Paying.....

A pain, trying to get ear plugs back in place, make sure hair is not hanging out, etc.

​@@user-pe8ce7kg5n It's only intermittently applied and often depends "who on" on the day, even at the same garage, and was obviously a nonsense during covid or if you have a dace covering for religious reasons. The woman in the original video was claiming it was safety health and safety, presumably because of the risk of ignition, there aren't many motorbikes that don't have a filler directly over the engine. What I would say is they do normally have signs at the pumps to remove helmets, I haven't noticed any about open doors or boots/bonnets

Story for this one is that a family bought it in the late 60's from the guy that had it from new. It stayed in the same family then right through to the early 00's, The lady carried on driving it until she was in her 90's! It was laid up in South Australia for a few years after that before being shipped to the UK in 2016, it had a 2 year Resto and has been on the road ever since.

There's a few quirky historical bits in the car and some from SA, they'll all be staying in the car too

A Trabant?

@@darrannash7452 Yes, indeed it is!

This old girl would have spent most of her life not far from you. Apparently it's from a small town close to Adelaide. It came to the UK in 2016. We have a few Aussie cars over here, your weather is much nicer on old cars than ours and our roads a salted to high heaven in the winter. Plus you guys are RHD too! Shipping costs a small fortune though so it isn't a common import for here.

We actually love an Aussie car over here, your weather is kinder on the cars than ours and we both are RHD. It's a shame transport is so expensive!

40g but no dairy milk chocolate since 2015

@@chunkyfecalbreakfastThey're selling 200g Dairy Milks at my local Walmart for $3.65Cdn, I've devoured 3 in the last week. Trying to pace myself, ya know....

So much different than in the US. At ten years old, I used to ride my bike to the filling station to fill the lawn mower gas can with $.75USD of gasoline. What's more dodgy than a kid on bike with a gallon of gas?

But it's the Fumes that Ignite as the Petrol Evaporates.......

Filling my motorcycle with fuel,the pump stuck fuel all over engine evaporated, fumes need a spark to ignite

Try Tesco in kiddy

Maybe you have to be an ass to be a site(BP)manager???

Looks matter. This is the problem bikers have, and ethnics. As Geoff gets older he will just get better and better at being a professional Karen to get RU-vid clicks. His face will set that way, and he'll find no shortage of material because he's just mastered the vibe of unpleasant angry man. Just watch.

​@@rupertbollywood1190Ummm you're chinese

Apparently the car is from a small town near to Adelaide. The same family owned it with the lady driving it until she was in her 90's! The car came to the uk in 2016. The Rego sticker is a cool piece of the cars history for sure

From what we've heard the rules are geared towards stopping drive offs mainly

Because I couldn’t just open my door and drive off after fuelling 🤦🏻‍♂️

As an American who has to put my card in the pump before pumping, I have no idea why you guys still pay after. So many problems could be solved by requiring the card first.

@@JamesThomas-kx5sjmost pumps in the UK are prepayment; it must have old style pumps

@@JamesThomas-kx5sj I quite agree. I think it has something to do with law of contract in the Uk. Can someone enlighten us?

Yeah but I mean, Geoff can't help how the fuckin' car was made, it's a combustion engine and needs gas to function, BP will lose potential revenue if they're going to be that pedantic especially with the UK loving their antique cars. It would be like an oil company in the US making a rule that would exclude vehicles with the fuel cap hidden behind the license plate or taillight, which is probably more than half of every American-made car from the late 40's all the way through the early 70's.

A large number of Vintage cars have the petrol tank above the engine (gravity feed) and they are not dangerous; spilt petrol on a hot surface will evaporate, not ignite.

@@saxon-mt5by Do they allow you to fill motorbikes?

Geoffs Renault has the filler cap on top of the engine. And the way it was made

@@ldnwholesale8552 H&S police were not around then....

In all the vans I've ever driven with fuel fillers like that, you can open the door to allow the fuel filler flap to be opened, then once that's open, you can close the door again. It's a faff because the door then needs to be opened again to close the filler flap, but the door doesn't need to be open while doing the filling up - unlike these cars, where the filler neck is inside the front boot (Beetle) or under the rear engine lid (Renault 8/10).

Good spot, South Australia car, it came over to the UK in 2016

Having owned a series 1 for the last 20 years I’ve only been challenged about trying to pump fuel through the drivers door a handful of times - in all instances they assumed I must be trying to slyly fill a fuel vessel that might not be suitable and want me to show them the can but they’ve always let me fill after I explain its a 1950’s vehicle with under seat tank. I have noticed at some garages it used to take quite a while for the pump to autherise and I wondered if that could be due to the old black numberplates not being picked up by ANPR, though this doesn’t seem to happen so much more recently so maybe the newer systems do pick it up - I recently had an attendant come out to admire it and he knew its year of manufacture so presumably that info appears on their ANPR system.

I've been refused petrol by BP in an early Series 1 Land Rover. When I explained the petrol tank is under the driver's seat, and to fill up with fuel requires the door to be open, they still refused to sell me fuel. The chap in question was a real arse, and was deliberately being difficult purely because he could.

Same thing on Willys MB jeep.

Model T Fords pre 1926 have the fuel tank under the seat.

In all the years that these cars were on the roads all-over Europe, I never heard of one catching fire while filling-up. At the time there were no or a lot less self service-pumps, and the pump employees were often even smoking while filling-up 50-60 years ago.

It's the way the car was made. It also doesn't have airbags and probably doesn't have shoulder strap seat belts either, and yet I doubt anyone doing the MOT will fail the antique car for not having modern safety equipment or emissions reduction.

I fill my bike over a hot engine all the time. Nobody takes any notice.

@@tooleyheadbang4239 that's a very good point motorbikes do it all the time

@@lsswappedcessna Many classic cars are MOT exempt in the UK.