Wow, what a headache. In Minnesota, regular plates or special plates (Wildlife, Support Our Troops, etc) get replaced every seven years, no matter what shape they're in. Collector, YOM, or Personalized plates you keep forever.
YOM PLates
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What I like that California did was the new black plates. Like a state issued custom personalized plate.
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Maybe if enough 70's car owner write in they will reissue the blue plates.
I would love our provence to do a blue plate special.
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I would love our provence to do a blue plate special.
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
They did a few years ago, but recalled them because the cameras couldn't read them
MrMoparCHP
Old Man with a Hat
The second series of the White plate had the stamped California in red, my favorite of the white plates.
There were a few different black plates that were transferable Radio operator, for the most part looks just like a standard black plate but the sequence is not AAA-000.
The blue custom plates are transferable, you see those on later cars.
People have been painting the non black plates black for years.
Again in the 80s people were requesting custom plates that matched a set of standard black plates, this cannot be done now.
Alan
SGT FURY
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This plate 066 AAA is among the earliest number known.
Long ago I removed this plate off a 74
Impala bumper that was crushed and stacked on flatbed on its way to scrapyard.
I was grabbing bumper for a derby car use.
Didn’t think much about it at the time.
My dad started collecting vintage plates.
I gave him this plate for his birthday.
He kept it for awhile then traded it for another vintage plate
Long ago I removed this plate off a 74
Impala bumper that was crushed and stacked on flatbed on its way to scrapyard.
I was grabbing bumper for a derby car use.
Didn’t think much about it at the time.
My dad started collecting vintage plates.
I gave him this plate for his birthday.
He kept it for awhile then traded it for another vintage plate
Those plastic blue plates were awful, looked awful as well. I like our old blue plates from late 60s to 72.They did a few years ago, but recalled them because the cameras couldn't read them
73Coupe
Senior Member
BTW what's up with the new MN flat / non embossed plates? Looks cheap and fake. Other states are producing these too now (TX, AZ, etc).
One of the advantages of living in CA is we still have real license plates, lol. Stamped at Folsom Prison.
I think they gave some excuse that it costs too much to swap out the letters, it's all computerized now. Not sure if the inmates still make them, they did when they switched to the flat plates.
I wish all my plates were embossed. I kept the California Black plate on my '66 Polara 500, a "real" plate.
SGT FURY
Senior Member
Is there a guide anywhere to letters/numbers and year as to when plates were issued?
IE, This 56 series plate would have been issued in what year starting with letter V
This 63 series plate would have been issued in what year with letter Y ?
IE, This 56 series plate would have been issued in what year starting with letter V
This 63 series plate would have been issued in what year with letter Y ?
MrMoparCHP
Old Man with a Hat
There is no real guide.
We'll start with the 63 plate as I am up on those.
In 63 ALL cars got new plates, this used up more than half of them everything up to the R, this included new registrations.
By the end of the 69 Calendar year they were done, ZZZ 999
With that information you can estimate when a plate may have been issued, YGK would likely have been in November 1967
I haven't put the time into the 56 plates but the time they were issued was about the same (7 years)
The initial distribution was probably about the same.
That being said VWJ would probably be about March 1962
Alan
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
MJY 271 was issued Oct/Nov 1964.
MrMoparCHP
Old Man with a Hat
All the plated from AAA to about RDA were divided up and sent to all the DMV offices, it may have taken a year or two use up the inventory.
I generally do not try and estimate a plate for 63 & 64 and tell people to keep in before R.
Alan
Dan Scully
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My 64 was Dec 64.
tbm3fan
Old Man with a Hat
A "Y" plate would be 1969. My 1968 Cougar's "WTD" plate was issued late May 1968. Here is a 69 Buick.
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Dan Scully
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Here is an original 64 commercial plate from my 64 Buick service car.
SGT FURY
Senior Member
Just found these 56 series plates
available.
PLY 400
I guess this means there was a
PLY 225,318,361,383,413,426,440
I think I will pick these up for my 61.
available.
PLY 400
I guess this means there was a
PLY 225,318,361,383,413,426,440
I think I will pick these up for my 61.
MrMoparCHP
Old Man with a Hat
Keep in mid if those were YOM assigned to a different year there is no changing that year. These appear to have been assigned not just a pair of old plates.
Alan
73Coupe
Senior Member
My 1994 "DMV clear" plates discussed above, awaiting a car. Formerly on my Chevy... Note the starting digit. 30 years later, still on the same sequence, now at 9J or k. I believe this system started with the 7-digit blue plates in the early 80s, then went into the "sun" plates, then the white plate below (now on the "lipstick" plates).
And their original envelope....
It's either the above or these "period correct" blue plates (courtesy of @pomonamissel 's 72 Fury that he dismembered) that will go on my 71 NY....
United Arab Emirates! Could be considered an unintentional pun for the car considering its appetite for gas.
Mid70's Chrysler Fanatic
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A whole crapload of states are now doing this: including Nebraska, the Dakotas, Indiana, Montana, and Iowa. (Iowa’s colors look like they were chosen from a box of Crayolas).
I wonder if California’s system is cheaper in the long run because they don’t have to keep reissuing tens of millions of plates. I can’t imagine those aluminum TX plates lasting the life of the car.
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