Recently announced. Fenderless collector cars are now legal on the B.C. roads Share News Release West Kelowna Friday, July 1, 2016 2:45 PM Media Contacts Media Relations Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure 250 356-8241 More from this Ministry Factsheets Visit Ministry Website Featured Topics B.C. on the Move – B.C.’s 10 Year Transportation Plan DriveBC & B.C. Highway Webcams Connect with us on TranBC Highway & infrastructure projects Pacific Gateway Featured Services Driving & transportation in B.C. Commercial transportation services Contracting with the Ministry Owners of qualifying specialty cars without mud flaps or fenders can now operate legally, thanks to an amendment to the Motor Vehicle Act Regulation, announced Premier Christy Clark. “Whether they live here or are visiting, owners of these special, modified vehicles can now drive our roads legally,” Premier Clark said. “These owners take great pride in their cars and this summer, they can take them where they belong – the open road.” This amendment to the Motor Vehicle Act regulation exempts qualifying vehicles from the requirement to have mudguards or mud flaps – as an alternative to fenders – on their cars. Now, owners of specialty cars can operate their vehicles without mudguards or mud flaps where the highway is dry and paved. Qualifying vehicles must have been built in 1940 or earlier, or be replicas of this vintage of vehicle. “We heard from specialty car owners that this regulation was getting in the way of the legal operation of otherwise safe cars on our roads,” said Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Todd Stone. “This is a common-sense fix to unnecessary red tape that was making it difficult to attract collector car events to our province. Now, thousands of owners can travel to events, or simply take their cars for a spin without special consideration or concerns about breaking the law.” Prior to this change, owners of these types of vintage or specially vehicles without fenders ran the risk of operating outside of the regulations of the Motor Vehicle Act, which required all vehicles to have mud flaps or fenders. These specific, 1940s-style cars did not have them as part of their design. “This is great news for owners of specialty cars, both here in B.C. and outside of our province, especially as we get ready for a busy season of summer travel through this beautiful province,” said president of the Vintage Car Club of Canada, Okanagan chapter, Jim Carpenter. “With this change, I expect more event organizers will choose to have their next collector car show in B.C. with more to come in the future.” This amendment is one of a number of motor vehicle-related amendments made in the past couple of years that provides clarity to regulations in the act. This includes providing more clarity regarding motorcycle parking distances, better language to improve the enforcement of Keep Right Except to P*** regulations and more information regarding requirements for winter tires. CONTRACT STORY
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Nice bit of news. ONTARIO is going the in the opposite direction, as of July 1 2016, they have changed the Regulations for the issueing of Safety Certificates making it almost imp***ible to obtain one for a Hot Rod. It not only involves FENDERS but several other changes including Big & Little Tire Combos. What a JOKE as the the Province made the changes will very little Fan Fare or Opposition.
Manitoba finally scratched the Big & Littles. There is a pe***ion going to have fair weather fenderless clause.
This makes me a happy guy! time to go get a more recent MVI and apply for my modified plates. Perfect timing as it is the year of Deuce days in Victoria and there will be a lot of cars in our province not running fenders the weekend of 20-24 this month.
This is great news! Thanks to Jim Winter and others for their many hours of tireless work to get this law p***ed. Jim has been working on this issue for years, and deserves a huge amount of credit.
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