For reference;

South Australian Historic registration info can be found here

Much is open to interpretation.


Definitions of historic, prescribed left-hand drive and street rod vehicles

The Motor Vehicles Act 1959 provides the following definitions.
An historic vehicle:


  • is a vehicle manufactured before 1 January 1979 that has not been modified from its original design to any significant extent.

OR

  • is a vehicle manufactured on or after 1 January 1979 but before 1 January 1983 that has not been modified from its original design to any significant extent and has been registered under the conditional registration scheme in South Australia at some time prior to 1 July 2012.

A prescribed left-hand drive vehicle:


  • is a vehicle that has its steering wheel on the left of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle
  • was manufactured before 1 January 1979
  • has not been modified from its original design to any significant extent.

A street rod vehicle:


  • is a vehicle that has been modified for safe use on roads.
  • has a body and frame that were manufactured before 1949.

OR

  • is a replica of a vehicle the body and frame of which were built before 1949.
  • has been modified in accordance with requirements or specifications accepted buy the Registrar of Motor Vehicles - eg the National Guidelines for the Construction and Modification of Street Rods in Australia)
  • has in force a certificate of exemption under section 163AA of the Road Traffic Act 1961 from compliance with specified Australian design rules or other vehicle standards.