Departments

When you understand our mission of keeping Yesterday’s Vehicles on Tomorrow’s Roads, you understand this is a complex set of issues and requires a number of proactive and defensive initiatives. The historic vehicle hobby will face challenges from a variety of fronts. Some challenges will target older vehicles head on like emissions restrictions. Others will impact us in a less direct, but nonetheless significant, way as byproducts of industry wide shifts to alternative fuels, for example. Exemptions we have enjoyed to date may be harder to get and maintain.

Increased complexity and expense of ownership, as well as more restrictive regulation may simply make it less enjoyable and practical to own historic vehicles—feeding apathy and indifference that may cause club memberships to drop or automotive museums and libraries to dwindle in number or disappear altogether.

Evolving technology and computerization may prevent youths from becoming mechanically engaged with automobiles—reducing not only the number of young people developing a passion for cars, but the number that choose automobiles as a vocation and later serve our hobby.

It is the mission of the HVA to work against these and other scenarios that may impede the growth and sustainability of the historic vehicle community. We will monitor social, environmental, technological and regulatory developments for their immediate and potential impact on historic vehicles and react accordingly. To accomplish this we are coordinating the efforts of a number of different Commissions or departments, each responsible for a focused area of our community and lifestyle.

Legislative Commission  – Monitors and promotes legislation that supports the rights of historic vehicle owners to use, repair and restore their vehicles, and engage in affiliated businesses, in the United States and Canada.

Technical Commission  – Creating a universal definition and classification scheme to identify and certify historic vehicles to enable us to carve our protections and exemptions. Additionally, the Technical commission inspects and certifies automobiles, motorcycles and utilitarian vehicles of all varieties in alignment with Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA) international standards.

Skills & Trades Commission  – Preserves, improves and supports the continuation of the important skills, services and products that the historic vehicle community needs to thrive today and in the future.

History & Heritage Commission  – Works to support museums, libraries and institutions, and defines and promotes the cultural and economic significance of historic vehicles, ensuring that they remain visible, valuable and recognizable in our culture.