My Dart was originally my Dad's, he bought new in Feb 67. It still had the original Black and Gold plates on it. (real ones, not the unearned ones CA is reproducing now)
Back before the early 1970's all vehicle registration was due on the same day of the year for everyone.
When you got your tags you put them on the right for even years and left for odd years (no month sticker at this time)
After I brought the car to Colorado and got CO plates, I kept the old ones for posterity.
The other day I found the plates and figured I would clean them up. The right upper corner is where in the later years you would put the year sticker. The upper left corner was where the Month sticker went once they started that in CA.
The 1967 sticker would be on the upper left under a couple other stickers and month sticker which had not changed for 40+ years. Could it still be there?
The oldest right sticker (would have been 1968) had been removed many times over after a few years of sticker accumulations had been removed.
Well I removed the small stack of stickers on the upper left and low and behold there it was, the original 1967 sticker in pristine condition, the edges are perfect, the color is perfect, no scratches or cuts.
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