Old Arizona Plates, Can They Still Be Used?

I have a 1964 Arizona plate I'd like to use on my 64 Rambler.... Can it be registered with that plate like they do in California? The guy I bought the plate from said I could... but the DMV said no. Could the DMV be wrong/unaware?

 

For what it is worth, many people get a "personalized" plate with the same number/letter sequence as your old plate. Carry the new one with you at all times and run the old plate.

 

I have used 1931 AZ plates before. The plate must be in good condition and the numbers and letters must not be in use. The cost to run them is the same as a personalized plate. I would check with another office.

Mike

 

you can run the number on the state's web page and see what it says. Plate has to be the same year as the car, and the numbers cannot be in use.

http://www.azdot.gov/mvd/PersonalizedPlates/PlateSearch.asp

 

Thanks everyone... I'm going to try the Kingman office and if that doesn't work I'll do the personalized thing.

 

There's a state web site with all the laws you can search thru to look it up. I also have a book...from 2000...with all the state laws. Looks like 28-2484 and 28-2487 are the pertinent AZ laws here.

http://www.azleg.state.az.us/ars/28/02484.htm

http://www.azleg.state.az.us/ars/28/02487.htm

 

Thanks squirrel! Your a life saver.

 

A couple of fwiw's pertaining to Arizona plates.

This is not gonna help with using a separately purchase plate, but just some general info.

Arizona only requires a rear plate.

When you sell the vehicle you keep the license plate.
Any unused part of the registration monies - IE: you register the car for one year, sell it one month later the state returns 11 months of your money.
Probably some small fee's attached, but from what I hear no big deal.

(Try and get your money back in Sunny California.)

You can also choose to pay two years registration and you get a small discount if you do.

Arizona has a mail order deal for registration etc.
Do a Google for Arizona MVD. (Motor Vehicle Department.)

As vs. California's DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles.)
I'm getting used to things said a little different than they do in California . . . such as Game and Fish Dept. vs Fish and Game in Cali....

 

In the early days of AZ multi-year plate tags.... there was no refund availible if needed. Talk about some PO'd people.

www.servicearizona.com is the web site for plate renewal and other items

 

I think the new way of doing things with keeping the plate really sucks. Use to be the VLT was paid for when the registration was renewed, so if you bought a car you just transferred the title over. Now the money that the PO paid just seems to "go away", he won't get a refund on it (I haven't found a way to do it at least), and the new owner has to pay for VLT also.

we sold a trailer that had "perm" tags on it, which cost dearly, and didn't get a dime of it back. Used to be you just paid the registration each year, it was cheap, and the new owner got to use what was left over.

now they're trying to bring back front plates! $%#&%#@ state legislators

 

Looks like they can, found this form anyway: https://apps.azdot.gov/files/mvd/mvd-forms-lib/40-9803.pdf

 

Good job, Maci. Prove the AZ. DMV wrong. I don't know why it's so hard for a DMV employee to know their job and own rules. It's baffling.

 

Laws change in 15 years, maybe.

 

I'm running a 1923 Mohave county on my C cab.