Whether or not your car is considered an antique depends on who youre asking and what state you live in.
How old is a car before it's an antique. This traditional definition derived from British importexport law and later became a convention in the antique trade. An antique vehicle adds Greer is generally at least 30 years old which is the minimum age for historic or vintage plates in many provinces. The Porsche 911 represents vintage driving at its bestparticularly during the golden era before the cars 1974 redesign.
Usually the classic car moniker applies to vehicles over 20 years old. For that reason they set rules stating what qualifies as antique. It used to be long ago that an item was antique once it was more than 100 years old.
How old does a car have to be to be an antique. As we mentioned above the Antique Auto Club of America says antique cars are those that are 25 years old or older. Vintage any vehicle built before 1930 Post vintage any vehicle built between 1930 and 1945 Classic a matter of opinion often based on the cars style production numbers or critical reception but classics can include some cars as young as five years old.
A car must be at least 20 years old but not more than 40 years old to be considered a classic car. An item should be at least 100 years old to be defined as an antique. If its between 30 and 20 years old which most.
In most cases antique cars are those that are over 45 years old and often categorized by the era in which they were manufactured. What constitutes a vintage car depends on whos defining it but as a rule of thumb its a car that was built before 1930 1925 by some definitions so its a car from the very early days of motoringexcept anything that has been modified into something like a hot rod. However the legal definitions for the purpose of antique vehicle registration vary widely.
At this point anything from the 80s and 70s would be considered to be vintage. In truth theres not really a definitive answer. Legally an antique in this country must be 100 years old.