Does Your State Allow Year-of-Manufacture Plates?
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In Illinois, you can run the YOM plates. I run North Dakota on Drag Truck, Wyoming on the Rambler, etc. Just got to carry the registered antique plates with you.
Cliff Ramsdell
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As @Ron_M said, Connecticut allows them. You file a form with DMV and they approve the plate, install it and keep the registered plates in the car.
I have a vanity plate on my other vintage car, my birthday, it’s on everything I drive. I have a YOM plate the same number on the car.
Cliff Ramsdell
I have a vanity plate on my other vintage car, my birthday, it’s on everything I drive. I have a YOM plate the same number on the car.
Cliff Ramsdell
Thank you sir! Figures they’d change the form but not the website, lol.
Doesn’t seem like any of the pre-‘70 rules really changed, they had match the vehicle before and the tag had to be right for the year. I think the extra blue plate restrictions basically mean only regular plates are eligible, like a vanity plate that doesn’t have 6 or 7 digits wouldn’t be eligible depending on the year. And since vanity plates were more popular in that time period it might save them some headache, I dunno.
Still more available than before! That change would actually mean I could put blue plates on my '72 Challenger now, it was wearing modern white plates from when I registered it here (it was an out of state car).
Cuda Al
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Order some vanity plates (any series) then have reproduction blue plates made to match and run them.
I estimate that a 72 would have had a 000DXB to 000GMV (mid 71 to mid 72)
Alan
Missouri does. I got mine a couple of months ago. Also historic, so no more annual inspections.
Thanks for the number break down, I hadn't looked into it at all as far as what actual numbers would be correct. I don't think I care enough to have the vanity plates made and then reproduced in blue, if I was going to do that I'd just run the black and yellow vanity plates like I do on my Duster. Plus I think there's supposed to be a rule that they won't let you copy the pattern from a previously regularly issued plate, to keep people from having reproductions made like that. But I suppose someone would have to catch it.
Looks like it does limit my '72 to using only 6 digit plates. But that kinda makes sense, since before you needed the "base plate" plus the right year sticker. So like if you had a '67 you needed a '63 base plate (black plate) with a '67 reg sticker. So the blue plate is actually less restrictive, I just need a blue plate with 6 digits, which was basically anything issued from '70-'79 right?
So, just to update. My car was bought new October 1971. Just found Oct 1971 WI plates for the Demon now that I know I can use them!!
Cuda Al
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The DMV doesn't look at the sequence as long as it is the right series ie Blue 000AAA and you have a sticker for the right year even if the plates are too early (I hate that).
The black plates follow the same rule as the blue plates, a pair of original black AAA000 plates and the correct sticker.
There were the same number of black plates as there were blue (6 digit) plates.
Correct you cannot request a standard sequence plate as a vanity plate, I was referring to true vanity plates like "FABO", get your plates and put them in the trunk, find a company that makes reproduction plates and have them make that plate in blue. Since the blue plate could have originally been a vanity plate most would never know.
Alan
In FL, you can't run a fake plate.
They have to be real, FL issued plates and can't be painted over.
FL taxes by weight and classic era plates had a weight class on the plate.
They have waived that for running YOM plates, meaning any weight class plate can work on a classic car.
They have to be real, FL issued plates and can't be painted over.
FL taxes by weight and classic era plates had a weight class on the plate.
They have waived that for running YOM plates, meaning any weight class plate can work on a classic car.
Cuda Al
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California is the same way, some are obvious (sequence doesn't match series) some are not, it is all about the quality. In California the only one that makes since is the 70s blue plate as it could have been an original vanity plate. The 60s black plate as a vanity plate can be had from the DMV so no point in doing those.
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To add a data point...
My 71 Challenger R/T with a SPD of April 24 1971 has a 000DNU blue and yellow plate.
Taking a educated guess, that car was probably sold May/June/July 1971. It was not special ordered.
I think that car was in Los Angeles all it's life. I've heard their DMV offices went through plates faster than less populated areas. So less populated areas might issue earlier/lower plate numbers at the same point in time due to more lingering plates in stock.
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Dan the man
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Missouri does on cars and trucks without restrictions. You can also put a plate on the back bumper of any vehicle prior to 1972.
chrgdrt
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Michigan does but you supply the plate, and send them a color photo copy of the plate.
No personalized plates allowed though
harrisonm
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Kansas DOES allow them.
Of course the People's Republic of California does not allow that.
Uh, yeah, it does. There are at least half a dozen posts on it right in this thread, along with links to the very forms you need to do it.
NY does....oddly enough. You send a picture of the p!ate and they allow use if no others with same number. Mine also has a 72 registration sticker.
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IIRC, that car had a California personalized plate when it was owned by an past clubmember. Did you get the CA plate with it?
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In CA if the car was sold after 1963 it keeps is original plate FOREVER.
As long as it's been continually registered or non-operation status.
...I never could understand why other States issue new plates every few years for cars. Complete waste of resources.
ALSO, No vehicle inspections in CA either. No smog 1976 and earlier. And 1977 to current smog is every 2-3? years?
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News to me.....
There's a couple of hoops to jump through, but once you have them it's easy to keep them. You just have to be sure to not let inspection lapse under threat of having them cancelled.
Georgia does, but you have to keep your valid current plate in the car. Our yearly registration is only $20/year since they changed to Title Ad Valorum Tax.
My bought these for Christmas several years ago.
My bought these for Christmas several years ago.
Yeah exactly! Both of my ‘71 Dart GT’s still have their original California plates. My Challenger and my Satellite were out of state cars, so they have modern plates issued when I registered them. And my ‘71 Ford F100 must have fallen out of the system at some point as it has plates issued from a few years before I got it. Same with my Duster, although it has the modern black vanity plates on it now.
I probably won't do YOM plates for all of cars I have with modern plates. Heck, I may not do it for any of them. But for my Healey it made a lot of sense.
Allegedly the DMV here will also allow you to register your vehicle with its original plates, without the YOM program hoops even if it hasn't been continuously registered if you can show they are the original plates. As in, you have the car, the plates, and maybe an old registration, title, insurance card, picture maybe? - showing the old plates as being associated with that car. I haven’t tried that though. It was in the old YOM program literature, I’d have to double check and make sure they didn’t take that out when they expanded the program.
Well, now you know. California does have a YOM plates program, and it's not the worst one out there either.
indirect_connection
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Mississippi has them. You have to first get a generic antique tag, which never expires and has no driving restrictions. You then have to mail your "model year" tag to the state capital for approval. First time around my plate were rejected because of rust.
You end up paying the registration fee twice, but it sure looks better than a generic white plate with a picture of a horseless carriage .
You end up paying the registration fee twice, but it sure looks better than a generic white plate with a picture of a horseless carriage .
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