Posts tagged mature drivers insurance
Pimp my Golf (Cart)
Oct 16th
Wired.com has a great podcast today covering elderly residents of Florida who have combined their passion for classic cars with their love of a spoilt walk. These geriatric motor fans have had their golf carts tricked out to look like their favourite historic automobiles.
Many of these carts have had seatbelts, wipers and other safety features added to make them street legal, and in theory there’s nothing to stop anyone in this country doing the same (but if your grandad wants to do it, he’ll want some custom car insurance from a company that offers affordable insurance for mature drivers).
There’s not really much I can add other than to exhort you to check out the photo-gallery…
What old people do for fun.
Apr 5th
Amid all the bad press that younger drivers get and the column inches filled with their problems getting car insurance, it’s easy to forget that elderly drivers often have trouble getting cover at a reasonable rate. It seems as though some insurance companies decide that any driver over ‘a certain age’ is a danger to the bottom line, despite the fact that everyone knows older drivers tend to drive safely and sedately for the most part.
Well, Adrian Flux can find older drivers insurance policies that offer a high level of cover, but don’t punish you for being mature in years.
Just as long as they don’t make a habit of doing this…