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Introduction
A general principle is embedded within the Vehicle Operation chapter that says no-one should build a car that no-one but the owner can drive, because it’s a fact of life that others will drive your pride and joy, even if only at low volume vehicle certification time, or when you sell it. Therefore, the Low Volume Vehicle Certifier is going to have to satisfy himself when he road tests it, that your car is stable, safe, and user-friendly enough that any competent driver capable of driving a ‘normal’ car, could get in it and drive it safely if he or she had to. The LVV Certifier will be looking to ensure that your pride and joy has no bad habits and that it is unlikely to inflict any nasty surprises on the driver. The road-test process is a subjective one, which relies heavily on the feel and skill of the LVV Certifier. Fortunately, most of the top-level scratch-built authorised LVV Certifiers have spent most of their lives building and modifying cars of their own, friends, and club-mates, many of them have had some background in motor-racing of some sort, and they’ve all driven more modified and scratch-built vehicles than most people have ever seen, so their seat-of-the-pants style of analysis is worth its weight in chrome.
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Background
The NZ Car Construction Manual (referred to as the ‘CCM’, and previously entitled the NZ Hobby Car Technical Manual) is a comprehensive technical manual encompassing the many aspects of vehicle design, modification and construction. Over the years the scope of the manual has expanded to encompass many types of modified vehicles. It is developed by the Low Volume Vehicle Technical Association Inc (LVVTA) and is incorporated by reference into the LVV Standards, which are in turn incorporated by reference in the NZ Land Transport Rules.
The CCM first became available for purchase online on the 1st of November 2016. Electronic downloads of the NZ Car Construction Manual became free-of-charge on the 1st of February 2021.