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Introduction
Whilst this chapter won’t help you build a better or safer hobby car, it will give you the opportunity to learn the basic history and principles of the low volume vehicle certification system if you feel the need to know. This chapter is intended to provide an overview of how the low volume vehicle system has evolved and currently works in New Zealand. It outlines the various parts of New Zealand’s overall legislative regime in relation to modified and scratch-built hobby cars, and the relationships between the various organisations involved in the low volume vehicle certification system. It is hoped that this will help hobby car builders gain a better understanding of why and how we have achieved the system we’ve got, and that some of the misunderstandings and misconceptions that surround the low volume vehicle system and certification process will be resolved as a result of reading the information in this chapter.
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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.