Auto Insurance for an old car and young driver

[MCompact]

Back in 2011 Safeco had no problem insuring my 16 year old son in my 1975 2002. It had no electronic nannies of any sort, but I did install new 3-point seat belts, E21 Recaros and I made sure that the drivetrain, brakes and suspension were in excellent shape.
More importantly, my wife and I agreed that spending two days at the BMW Performance Center Teen School and another day at Street Survival was a better strategy than tottering around with no driving skills in a "safe" car.
Despite the pronouncements of doom from the hand-wringing bed wetters he survived just fine.

 

[CKN]

I don't disagree with pointing kids toward safe cars; however, I'm always trying to wrap my head around parents buying their kids expensive cars in the name of safety. To cover that base, we sent all three of our kids to a stringent defensive driving course, which included inclement weather driving, handling breakdowns, etc. This was in addition to standard driver education in their schools. None of them have a single ticket or accident in their histories. And our oldest has been driving for over a decade.

For his first car we gifted him a very nice 1989 Plymouth Sundance. He still has it, everything works, and his insurance rates are actually quite low. No payments to weigh him down early in his career helps a lot. And he really likes driving something that's fairly unique these days.

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Newer cars are inherently safer than 20 year old cars-that's the comparison in this thread. If you can afford a new(er) car for your kid-and the insurance that goes with it-there is absolutely nothing wrong with protecting your kid as much as possible.

 

[97prizm]

Has anyone ever run into issues getting insurance for an old car and a young driver? My son will get his license in a few years and grew up around my old cars. He and I wanted to by a project car to work on for when he turns 16. A friend is selling a clean 85 Trans Am but my insurance company won't insure anything over 20 years old. I called my classic car insurance and they won't allow any drivers with less than 10 years experience drive a classic. So not only can't I buy a project car, I can't even let him drive mine! This is ridiculous! All my cars as a kid were over 20 years old and I learned to drive on my dad's classics.

I am still shopping around but not overly optimistic. Has anyone experience this problem? Anyone in Ontario have an occasional young driver on an old car?

I started driving with my permit in 1997 and got my license after completing drivers ed in 1998. My first car was a 1982 honda accord hatchback so the sane age I was. Is there any kind of exemption that you could sign? Ahh ok make a scene and they'll "allow it." Sometimes you have to push back a bit. Good to see it resolved.

 

[Oldswagon]

Back in 2011 Safeco had no problem insuring my 16 year old son in my 1975 2002. It had no electronic nannies of any sort, but I did install new 3-point seat belts, E21 Recaros and I made sure that the drivetrain, brakes and suspension were in excellent shape.
More importantly, my wife and I agreed that spending two days at the BMW Performance Center Teen School and another day at Street Survival was a better strategy than tottering around with no driving skills in a "safe" car.
Despite the pronouncements of doom from the hand-wringing bed wetters he survived just fine.

Thank you. This is what my plan is too. Good driving skills are in valuable regardless of the vehicle being driven.