(Well, you've always been able to, but it's actually legal, providing the vehicle's in the Historic tax class and constructed before 1st Jan 1980. I think they changed the rules to permit it on 40 year-old cars when they introduced the 40 year rolling VED exemption, but then added the 1980 cutoff date a couple of years ago)
Oh yes you can ...
(Well, you've always been able to, but it's actually legal, providing the vehicle's in the Historic tax class and constructed before 1st Jan 1980. I think they changed the rules to permit it on 40 year-old cars when they introduced the 40 year rolling VED exemption, but then added the 1980 cutoff date a couple of years ago)