License Plates

[HEMI-ITIS]

Good 'ole vanity plate:thinker:

 

[pabster]

In CA the plate stays with the car and once you loose the original one it's impossible to reverse the process to put it back on. You can do YOM but that's not the same. In the 60's, the cars had black plates with yellow letters (most know this I'm sure) and sort of a badge of honor to still have the original plate.

My white 68 RR, the green Bel and Ranchero still have their original black plates, and so does my 69 RR, but on the 69 I so far haven't found any documentation showing the plate number matched to the car. So at this point they are wall art or I can do the YOM thing. The other cars just have the regular crappy white plates.

I worry about the DMV reissuing our black plates, or offering some other kind of program that they say is a good thing. But could that eventually mean they can look at the database of all the special plate cars and restrict their use in the name of some save the planet BS legislation?

I'm really lucky that my '74 has its original CA plates... blue and yellow. They're the edition knew as a kid, and every design that came after was lame. The one now is so generic and weak, with the cursive lettering. Why can't states go back to the old styles, with simple bold colors? My favorites are the CO mountain plates, AZ red cactus plates, NM yellow plates.

 

[djais1801]

QQ plates in NJ...

 

[1969 Dodge Coronet]

My Tag in Ohio is a YOM model. The BMV allows you to run a YOM tag if you first register the car for historic plates. You have to keep the historic plates in the car if you're not displaying them on the bumper, as it is the historic plate number they keep track of in their database. They do take a photocopy of the YOM tag you want to use though and it is linked to the tag number of the historic license plate. The historic license tag doesn't cost much $25 a year I think, but it's a restricted use plate and meant only for driving the car to and from shows or testing and tuning. Still I see a lot of YOM tags on the road during the summer and they all can't be gong to car shows.

 

[snakeyes]

 

[Roadcuda]

In CT we have Historic plates, that have a Model T type car on them, or you can get Year of Manufacture plates which I have on my cars. Like other states you have to keep the historic plates in the car at all times and maintain registration fees. The only cost for the YOM plates is for the plates itself, there is no fee for adding the YOM plates. You find what you want to use, take them to Motor Vehicle with the proper forms for them to check to make sure they aren't still in use and if not you're all set. And there are no restrictions on how the plates can be used, though they are trying to find ways to change the years of the cars they are put on. Currently it's 20 years old and they want to up that to 30!

 

[Dennis H]

Runnning this way for years. I think that in 69, there was no month yet, and this is how it would have appeared. YOM's. Correct stickers are attached to the current owners card as they arrived from DMV for Law Enforcement. CHP Officers are mostly in their late 20's and don't seem to notice.