Hey- I just wanted to start a thread for all my Colorado HAMB Amigos. You can legally run a Year of Manufacture plate for your hot rod and it's easy to do! You need to go down to the main office off of Pierce (and 18th, I think?) and bring your current registration and the original plate that you want to use. They will search the plate to ensure that no one else has the other one on their ride (which is extremely unlikely), photo copy it, and for a small fee, give you a special registration, linking the YOM plate to your Horseless Carriage (or Collector Car plate I am told) and you can legally run the plate all the time. You must keep the other plate on you car with both sets of registration documents, but so what? Again, you will need to call regarding collector plates and how new a YOM plate can be (my buddy did it with a '56), but my guess is that it is safe to run for plates 50 years or older, and that's what I figure we are all interested in anyways. But in any case, it's good to know I am not breaking the law (in this case anyways!), especially with all the crackdowns on old cars running through our legislature.
You need to run only one YOM plate...you don't need a pair as some have suggested...and you need to have the other plates IN the car...not on it. Of course, to run collector plates, the car must be at least 25 years old... and I'd be interested to know WHAT crackdowns on old cars are going thru the legislature...I don't recall any of late...please enlighten me... R-
Thanks guys , thats good to know as we are planning to move to Evergreen in a couple of years . At least there are some states left that dont make you jump thru hoops !! We just got back from Estes Park and Evergreen and I already cant wait to get back there. See you in 2011 !!! Mike
Sean did it for the model A he bought a few months ago. He said it took about 10 minutes to go through the process. and the law states that you need to be legal per the year of the car. So depending on the year of your car you could possibly need 2 plates. I'm not sure exactly what year they changed the law to need two plates.
Right- sorry- I meant in your car. Duh. Yeah- they're trying to call our rods "gross emitters" and restrict the use of them. The OCCC (Old Car Council of Colorado) has the details. The real issue is that there's people that have a 1983 piece of shit that's falling apart and the get the collector plates to avoid emissions and the legislators (supposedly backed by the new car dealer lobbyists) are trying to lump in the REAL collector cars in with the group.
And...I cannot confirm the one plate versus two plates other than with collector plates, they give you two (although I run a YOM plate on the front of my '52)
Let me reiterate: ONE YOM plate is necessary...you don't need both, however, IF you run the Collector Series plates, then you need to have BOTH front and rear on the car... Thanx for the update on the "gross emitters"...I figured that one was coming, I've seen way too many 80's P.O.S. smoking around with Collector Series plates on them...wondered when the government would notice that... R-
R- Cool- thanks for the clarification. I just didn't know- I take it that you have been through the process too. The key to the "gross emitter" issue is to somehow define the date for a classic car, which I believe is what the OCCC is trying to do. What's silly is that if your car is 25 years or older, it can be classified as a "collector car" and if it's 50 years or older, you can get "horseless carriage plates"! Yeah , I know, the HC plates have restrictions on them, but a 1958 Edsel ain't a Horseless carriage, right? My guess is that at some point, they will have to cut the date off for HC plates and Collectors plates...
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