[Baz]

The majority of you know the problems I am having with my Engineer and the RTA in trying to get my Cobra registered in NSW. Well this really rubbed the salt into the wound today when I attended a local Hot Rod Show and Swap Meet this morning.

There were a large number of 1930 Ford Buckets on show, all on Club Hot Rod Rego, but there were also a large number of coupes and sedans from the same era bearing full NSW Street Rego.

The majority of these latter vehicles had massive blowers sitting on top of 500 c.i. big blocks and fed by a brace of double pumper holley carbys which towered high above the top of the bonnet line. The braking and steering systems on these monsters appeared quite deficient compared to the amount of horsepower these motors would develop and were considerably inferior to what I have fitted to my Cobra.

The RTA have obviously granted these vehicles full NSW Street Registration which permits them to be driven legally on our road systems at any time without restrictions while my Cobra, which is a far safer vehicle has to sit in the garage under its car cover. Am I missing something here?

I realise that the ASRF has gained Hot Rods many exemptions and I accept the fact that the cars on Club Hot Rod Rego have to comply with certain aspects of their Code of Conduct, but shouldn't the cars on full Street Rego have to comply with the same requirements of the ADR's as we, the average ICV builders have to abide by, putting up with the continuous 'moving goal posts' every few weeks?


Baz