Club Registration In Queensland

[irivlin]

I'm in Queensland and have just bought an R32 GTR Skyline. (1989)

Roll cages have been "outlawed" in Queensland since last year, for general car registration.

I'm told that one way to be able to drive the car on the roads and still have the roll cage is to get the car onto club car restricted registration. This allows driving to and from events, to mechanics etc and any road testing within 15kms of the owner's designated address. Does anyone know about this and how I go about getting this club registration?

Thanks in advance,

Ian

[blind_elk]

It's all here:

http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/registration/registering-vehicles/the-special-interest-vehicle-concession.aspx

(all you had to do is Google "queensland club rego")

Unfortunately for you, Qld has a 30 year rule. Victoria is still 25 years, but may change soon.

(would have been better asking this in the Qld section)

[warps]

Even with club rego, you still have to have any mods engineered, which means that a non-removable front half of the rollcage can't be registered in any way, shape or form.

I had club rego on my last rally car (RX2) and we had to make do with some dodginess to get it through (did this about 7 years ago). My current rally car has no hope in hell, even under the rally rego scheme. IOn order to qualify for that I need to have copies of the original import approval paperwork, and this no longer exists.

If you have copies of the import paperwork you may be able to apply for rally rego (need a national CAMS licence, among other things) and this gives you the ability to drive it as you suggested. However, I think that the car also needs a logbook, and to have demonstrated competition use in the logbook entries. You still have the roll cage problem, as it needs to be engineered to get rally rego.

Basically, in QLD at this point in time:

If it's a competition car, you can't register it and it has to be trailered to events

If it's a road car, then get rid of the roll cage. Why anyone would want a roll cage in a daily is beyond me.

If it's a daily and weekend track car, unfortunately there's currently no legal way to do this I'm afraid. They are working on a new rally rego scheme, but I don't know how far away that is likely to be.

[mad082]

Not to mention that some cops are picky when it comes to club rego. I know guys with hotrods who have driven their car to car shows, etc, then driven then out to dinner that night and got pulled over by the cops and been told that driving it to get dinner isn't covered by their club rego.