Just to add what AverageDutchGuy wrote, veterans (old‑timer cars) usually also have some other limitations imposed on them in most EU countries – like legally only able to drive them to meets and stuff like races, strictly recreational use and no daily driver, et cetera.
Friends have a museum with over a hundred old‑timers and young‑timers, although their main attraction and specialty is renovating steam engines – locomotives, locomobiles and stationary engines. Obviously almost none of their cars are on licence plates, as they'd feel it a heresy to take some priceless museum pieces on the road.
