Does Your State Allow Year-of-Manufacture Plates?

autoxcuda said
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.

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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.

Mopar Tim said
News to me.....

Well, now you know. California does have a YOM plates program, and it's not the worst one out there either.