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No car tax payable on any car over 25 years old - why then do some pay tax?

I visited an veteran car show today in the high street in Sittingbourne. All the cars had tax discs most of them reading NIL, but a couple which were well over twenty-five years old bore the "standard" tax price of £140.00. I know it's down to the c.c of your car - that's why I put the word standard in inverted commas.

I was told any vehicle over 25 old was exempt from car tax, and could be classified a a collectors/veteran vehicle. A '65 Bentley had a NIL tax disc, and yet a thirty-year-old Truimph Dolomite had a tax disc with £140.00 on his screen. My car - a Volvo 460 has only four years to go before reaching the 25 year deadline which is why I'm eager to keep it on the road. Am I missing out on something? It can't be that it has to be towed to the site, because all these vehicles were driven. Or are you limited as to how many miles per year you van drive it or does it have to have special insurance or what? I'm confused.