1969 Polara LOW miles 27K CL LA California

[tbm3fan]

My 73 had blue/yellow plates to start. When the fellow who purchased it needed to go down to the DMV to register in 2010, a now out of the system car, he turned in the plates. He was young and uniformed as he could have withheld them from the DMV clerk. When I purchased the car I could have taken the plates down and got them put back on the car. I did it with my 68 Cougar when it went out of the system back in the 80's till 1993. It was possible, even though no law regarding it, if you found someone at the DMV who didn't question it. I did and they swapped out the new for the old without a single question.

 

[saforwardlook]

My 73 had blue/yellow plates to start. When the fellow who purchased it needed to go down to the DMV to register in 2010, a now out of the system car, he turned in the plates. He was young and uniformed as he could have withheld them from the DMV clerk. When I purchased the car I could have taken the plates down and got them put back on the car. I did it with my 68 Cougar when it went out of the system back in the 80's till 1993. It was possible, even though no law regarding it, if you found someone at the DMV who didn't question it. I did and they swapped out the new for the old without a single question.

So with the Cougar, the car was out of the system, so you just put any set of old plates on the car? Or were you able to show that the plates were original to that car with some old registration slip, etc? I have a 71 Charger R/T that still has its original plates on it, but at some point, the previous owner for some reason titled the car with some newer plates, but never put them on. But my Charger was still in the system with the new plates, and they wouldn't swap them out for the older ones unless I had proof they were originally with the car. Maybe I just ran into the wrong person at the California DMV?

 

[tbm3fan]

Yes, I had all the registration cards since my father and I were the original owners. The car went out of the system back when they started smog testing for these cars. It would not pass visual unless I took it to a friend who owned a shop. He would pass it. Yet when he sold I was stuck so it was out for 7 years. Still drove it now and then. Then around 93, maybe 94, can't recall exactly there were rumblings about YOM in the air. I went down to the DMV office a couple of times asking about it. No appointments needed then so I was scouting. Some knew nothing and one said ok. That was the person who did the switch putting the car's original 1968 plates back on in 1993 or 1994.

 

[cantflip]

I actually preferred the Yellow on Blue plates. PA actually started switching back and forth between blue on yellow and yellow on blue starting in 1923 but it was a very dark blue. My favorites were the 58 to 64's. Mine is the 65 to 70 samples below. I got these images from Rick Kretschmer's License Plate Archives – Pennsylvania Index

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I'm only a year older than your car, my childhood was yellow plates, until the California look... First one I saw was on a 70? 442... I stared at the car, and stared at the plate just as hard... "WTF"

 

[tbm3fan]

So with the Cougar, the car was out of the system, so you just put any set of old plates on the car? Or were you able to show that the plates were original to that car with some old registration slip, etc? I have a 71 Charger R/T that still has its original plates on it, but at some point, the previous owner for some reason titled the car with some newer plates, but never put them on. But my Charger was still in the system with the new plates, and they wouldn't swap them out for the older ones unless I had proof they were originally with the car. Maybe I just ran into the wrong person at the California DMV?

Ideally, I'd like to take the blue plates off the 68 Mustang, put the clear black "W" plates on and then move the blue plates over to the 73 Polara. The Mustang part will be easy but the Polara half...

 

[MrMoparCHP]

Ideally, I'd like to take the blue plates off the 68 Mustang, put the clear black "W" plates on and then move the blue plates over to the 73 Polara. The Mustang part will be easy but the Polara half...

Your best bet on the 73 is to get a custom plate and have copy made in blue. In use it would look like it came that way in the 70's.


Alan