It is up to the Event Organisers to define the age ranges of accepted vehicles appropriate for each of their events. This will typically be in the form of e.g. 1930-1960, where 1930 is the lower age limit and 1960 is the upper age limit. Therefore any vehicle outside this date range cannot enter.
Within these date ranges Organisers can define classes and categories as they wish.
As a guideline FIVA has defined these following classes – they are completely optional but may be used by organisers if they wish.
All FIVA registered events may use these classes; sub-divisions are allowed
- Class A: (Ancestor) Vehicles built up to 31st December 1904
- Class B: (Veteran) Vehicles built between 1st January 1905 and 31st December 1918
- Class C: (Vintage) Vehicles built between 1st January 1919 and 31st December 1930
- Class D: (Post Vintage) Vehicles built between 1st January 1931 and 31st December 1945
- Class E: (Post War) Vehicles built between 1st January 1946 and 31st December 1960
- Class F: Vehicles built between 1st January 1961 and 31st December 1970
- Class G: Vehicles built between 1st January 1971 and 31st December 1980
- Class H: Vehicles built between 1st January 1981 and 31st December 1990
- Class I: Vehicles built between 1st January 1991 and the FIVA age limit as defined by the HISTORIC VEHICLE DEFINITION
- Class Y: Youngtimer: Vehicles between 20 and 29 years old.
Malcolm Grubb – VP Events January 2026