Good news everyone! :D

"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike) 10/16/2020 at 17:42 • Filed to: Piaggio Ape, Vehicle Regulations

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Now, you all I know I like my quirky little European rides, right? And I am sure, by now, you all know the next thing on my list after a FIAT 126p to import would be a Piaggio Ape, right? Well, remember when I found out last year that !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

WELL, I knew they were revamping the Nova Scotian ‘Motor Vehicle Act’ completely in the next year or two (it has been pushed back a bit with COVID, unsurprisingly) and replacing it with the new ‘Traffic Safety Act’ and I had been hoping they would modernize the vehicle classes and definitions. This would allow me to import and register an Ape here as 3-wheelers are legal in a lot of other provinces...(a note...Apes are legal to IMPORT here to Nova Scotia, but NOT legal to road-register currently). The current ‘Motor Vehicle Act’ is pretty much the same document that’s been around since the early 1900s that’s just had bits and pieces grafted to it as the years go on, so some parts of it are woefully dated and vague considering modern circumstances. The reason most 3-wheelers weren’t road-registerable here (though, bizarrely, a few are!) is because there is literally nothing in the current act to DEFINE them as vehicles that could be registerable, as ridiculous as that sounds!

I had contacted the office of Nova Scotia’s Transportation Minister while back and had vaguely inquired if they would be adding subsections for low-speed-neighbourhood-class vehicles and 3-wheelers in the upcoming Traffic Regulations revamp ...this was the response:

Oooo, that sounds promising....OK, so no low-speed stuff like Torch’s Changli...I can live with that... but things were sounding good for 3-wheelers!

Well, the new Act hasn’t yet gone into effect, but sections of it are now rotating through for public commenting right now as of a month or so ago and the section on Vehicle Definitions/Regulations just went live for Public viewing today! W hen I came home, I checked it out to see if they’d kept their word. When I did, I found....

Yippee! :D

OK, OK....so...they will be a ‘thing’...BUT...will I be able to operate one without needing additional training and a motorcycle license...? A quick look at the Vehicle Licensing overview that also went live for Public commenting today reveals...

Excellent! That seems to mean I could drive it on my current license class! :D

Welp, I already have money saved up for a 126p and am still saving bigtime for a house....maybe I should start hitting Italian used car websites to check out Ape TM P703V prices...hmmm...anybody know any Italian auto export brokers? :P

pip bip - choose Corrour > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 10/16/2020 at 18:26

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good news for you and oppo!

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 10/16/2020 at 18:40

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That is very good news! Glad to hear your government is actually taking the time to completely rewrite the code inst ead of continuing to prolong a cumbersome dated document. 

shop-teacher > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 10/16/2020 at 18:43

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Cool!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > shop-teacher 10/16/2020 at 20:15

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I thought so ! :)

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > pip bip - choose Corrour 10/17/2020 at 06:12

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I thought so....I’ll have to wait and see when the document that defines vehicle types gets released to see what their requir ements and descriptions involve.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/17/2020 at 06:13

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Yup, it’s good to see....the current document is like the original with just patches and patches upon patches to TRY and modernize it over the years. I guess think of it like an old pair of pants with a zillion patches...they are still technically functional, but they are not very good...

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 10/17/2020 at 11:14

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Yup, nothing but patches at this point. Better to just get a whole new pair.