Harold57

Some of our SC430's are closing in on becoming an antique. Of course, that depends on which definition you go by and I'm not sure which is more official.

https://www.carsdirect.com/classic-c...n-requirements
This guide makes use of the standards employed by the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA), the largest antique auto club in the United States. The following list will help you determine if you vehicle is an antique car by AACA standards.

1. Antique cars are those older than 20 years of age. In order to be considered an antique car, a vehicle must be over 20 years of age. However, the requirements to register a vehicle as an antique vary by state, so specific questions should be geared to your state's department of motor vehicles.

However, according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqu...e-AACA_About-1
Narrower definitions vary based on how old a car must be to qualify. The Antique Automobile Club of America defines an antique car as over 25 years of age.[1] However, the legal definitions for the purpose of antique vehicle registration vary widely.

In Texas, the license plate designation of antique tends to state 25 years though.
Texas offers three types of plates for antiquecars: the classic licenseplate, the antiquelicenseplate and the Year of Manufacture (or YOM). All three clearly describe the vehicle as special, and all have different requirements for obtaining them. The process of registering a car as an antique or classic in Texas requires that the owner must meet the age requirement--25 years or older--and the vehicle must be 25 years or older.

So some of our cars are within a couple of years of one designation and 7 or 8 years for the other. I suspect that 25 is the more officially accepted. Seems like that is the one that I've always have remembered.

MH6878

I qualify in age.

DJWLDW

My 1990 For Bronco II qualifies as antique car and has antique plates on it which comes with a 1 time registration and never again. In AR it is 25 years so I have 12 more years on the SC and 15 on the LS. I pray that I will live to see them both move into antique status which means I would be 81/84

Dennis

lexuspleus

I still see these things on the road. Distinctive shape. Obviously they were well built and the people who own them take good care of them. The ones I see have no rust, good paint condition, and according to the owners I've spoken to, run largely issue free.

maarp

25 years is the standard in Canada. My '93 Miata qualified as far the insurance company was concerned, but I had no interest in having them determine where, when, and how much I could drive my car. My SC, for the record, has an April 2001 build date, so it's already 18+ years old.

Lesly1

I live in Adelaide South Australia, and for us is 30 years. I currently have two cars on Historic reg. My 1960 T.BIRD & my 1989 MERCEDES 260 E.

Chris......From OZ.

Harold57

Interesting, so there down under, the older SC430s are only about 1/2 way there.

Mazor1

My 04 SC might not qualify as an antique, but since I enjoy driving my car so much I was able to "qualify" my 04 Corvette Convertible as a "collectors" car because my SC is truly my daily driver, and I saved over $400 a year on my car insurance. I actually tried to sell my Vette but nobody wanted to make me a serious offer, so I just decided to keep it and honestly I'm perfectly happy having two beautiful cars to be able to drive.