Anyone know about vintage license plates in TX. Do you need to have same year as car or can it be a misc. year. for registering. Thanks,Smitty
Thanks Reed, I was thinking that it had to be mfg. year but wasn't sure. Now I just need to find some TX '37 plates. how you doin anyways. Been real busy with the racing team,It's our busy time.
I just finished my 51 truck and repainted the plates and they were rejected because they were FARM TRUCK plates.That was in Fort Bend Co. not sure if you have a car or truck just lett'n ya know the BS I went through.
It's a car so no farm plates. Also my other problem is it's a '37 chevy coupe but my title is for a '38 Chevy coupe.So I guess it would need '38 plates or vintage plates from Dept of motor vehicles (registration office). I'm thinking the vintage plates instead of mfg year plates .I can here it now , why run '38 plates on a '37 ? Smitty
To the guy talking about farm truck plates... It's legit. I currently have two trucks registered with YOM farm truck plates. Back in February, I went to the courthouse to register another one with farm truck plates. No deal. As of January 1, Texas no longer allows YOM farm truck plates to be used. She said my current two trucks with them can continue since they are grandfathered in but no more are allowed. I now have a beautiful set of new farm truck plates screwed to my garage wall and am having to run the ugly Texas Antique Vehicle plates.
You are right about the flat Chitty Chitty Bang Bang plates being ugly. Sure wish they would go with the 50's style embossed plates or something. Man! Larry T
+1 on the Farm Truck plates. I tried a couple of years ago to get a set of NOS farm truck plates approved for mine. Went through major hassles with local tag office after I had been told they were OK. The lady who told me they were ok was not in the office when I went back AFTER I had just spent $40 on a set of NOS farm truck plates. As for your car-As others have said...you can only run YOM plates in "good condition" with the original color. Otherwise you're stuck with the crappy antique plates or the new-style plate if you run regular registration.
Bumping this for the Farm Truck Plates information.... When I took my newly acquired antique truck to have the title transferred into my name and register it as an antique, I took two sets of YOM plates with me because I literally gag at the sight of the "Antique Vehicle" plates that they will provide you with. Both sets of my YOM plates were matching and in great shape (never issued, still in factory paper). One pair was the standard "Texas Truck" plates, and the other was a pair of "Texas Farm Truck" plates. I asked the clerk at the county office if I could use the YOM Farm Truck plates, and if not, then I would just use the other YOM plates. She said she wasn't sure, so I watched her walk into the supervisors office and talk to the supervisor about it. They both came out and the supervisor asked if I was a farmer. I told her no and said that I just liked the rarity of the Farm Truck plates as opposed to the standard issue plates, plus it fit the overall look of my truck which looks like an old farm truck. She said she saw no problem with that and told the clerk to register my truck with the YOM Farm Truck plates. This was in July of 2010. I drive this truck everyday and have not been hassled. Also...I always register all of my antiques with YOM plates and always drive them daily since I do not own a newer vehicle and have never had any problems. My biggest suggestion regarding the "difficulties" in registering antique vehicles in Texas is to do a search for all of the Vehicle Registration offices in your county, and find the one in the most rural area and go there. You'll usually have no lines to wait in, and nicer people to deal with that are willing to actually listen to you. They also usually don't care if you're plates are a little banged up, as long as they match. Once I had left my YOM plates on my truck in the parking lot of the registration office when I was having the title transferred and registering it for antique plates. The clerk was so kind that she walked outside to inspect the plates to make sure that they matched her YOM book and were a matched set. Try getting that kind of service from the city offices! PS: You do NOT have to have insurance to register your antique vehicle in Texas, but in order to drive it on the road legally, you DO have to have atleast the minimum liability insurance required by the state. IF the clerk asks for proof of insurance...then they are just unaware that antique vehicles don't have to have insurance to be legally registered unlike newer cars that require proof of insurance in order to be registered in Texas. Just tell them that antique cars don't need to have proof of insurance for registration and they can verify that for themselves.
Screw it and get you some personalized plates. Your could say SMITS 37 Mine say RODS 55, Peolpe still ask me "what year is it?"
I just registered my 56 F-100 with y.o.m. plates with no problem. Just be sure you have a matched set for them to ok, to make sure no one else has registered that plate
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