I have the same plates on my vehicles that were on them when I bought them, some as long as 36 years ago. My recently sold 1964 NY'r T&C had it's original plates also, and they were still in fine shape. Our criminals do good work! Dick Benjamin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry & Andree Hoeman" <tehoema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:43 AM Subject: Re: IML: "Black Plate" > is this to say that whatever plate you were issued is still on the car and > you are not required to get new plates every few years?? WOW. We are > required to get new plates all the time. Give us something new and ugly to > look at and complain about!.. > > You are actually happy to have a new plate that hasn't been beaten around > for years as a rule. Some of the used ones get pretty tired.