In the Isle of Man no MOT is required, they just sieze you car if its dangerous!

Any way I would have thought that most poeple who have a car that old have to have looked after it or the rust would have taken it years ago.

I think this is a sop to stop people asking for the NO Road tax age to be updated!
I think it was after 20 or 25 years no road tax! Then the "forgot" to start apdating the year. So No MOT after 52 years doesn't realy cut it!