the rules are still in place mate but they dont actually enforce it as pod marshalls let in any tom dick or harry tbh, but what classic ford officials do is note the clubs that break the rules and normally give them a poor location as punishment for the following year, visiting car clubs etc only apply to the likes of central day etc, and I totally agree with you over unsafe public car parks as the pod and donington have to be the worst in the country, these rules were mainly brought in for likes of the stoc taking a few hundred modern cars and not actually leaving room for classics to be displayed as it always worked fine until they came on the scene