Re: IML: Collector Car License Plates

[PAUL WENTINK <randalpark@xxxxxxx>]

In Washington State, if they want to get plates out of circulation, 
they just make everyone get new ones when the tab expires. I have 
stacks of 1980's plates that look new since they were put on cars that 
were seldom used. Once I licensed them here as "Year of Manufacture" 
with a restored plate corresponding to the year of the car (including 
the correct sticky tab), they are done for good. There is a mileage 
limit for that type of licensing, but it isn't aggressively enforced. 
Collector Car Insurance mileage limits are lower. My problem isn't with 
the mileage limit, it is not driving the cars enough to keep fresh gas 
in them.

Paul W.


-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Fors <wb6nvh@xxxxxxxx>
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:58 am
Subject: IML: California black license plates



Please forgive this topic if you are not in California...

The deal with the original black license plates is this--They are still
usable, valid and transferable so long as the car is kept currently
registered and/or exists in the California DMV computer system.  Once it
falls out of the system, and their computer returns a "record not on 
file,"
they will issue a brand new license plate and will refuse to 
re-register the
existing old black plate, which they are trying to get out of 
circulation.
It doesn't matter whether you have the title and most recent 
registration in
hand.  I had this battle with them when I wanted to start using my 63 
Buick
again after long storage, back before they came up with the "Non-op" 
program
which forces you to pay an annual fee to keep a car in storage 
registered.

The previous series license plates, i.e. the 1956 plates, can be used on
1956-62 vintage cars if you have a set of them, and if that set doesn't 
use
a letter and number combination still in use by a black 1963-present 
series
plate.  However, those are part of the "YOM" program ("Year of 
Manufacture")
which is a type of vanity license plate and there is an extra charge for
those and you have to find the plates yourself, such as at a flea 
market or
eBay.  The black 1963 series plates are ineligible for the YOM program 
at
the present time because they are still a valid standard plate.

If a car has been in storage a long time and the registration has 
lapsed for
some years, then per the above, it will get a new license plate when the
registration is brought current.

Geoff
Monterey CA


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