Looks nice but it's not really legal if used as your only tag. At least not in Illinois and Floriduuu. Here they must be original and in good shape when used on the same year vehicle. Lots of guys do what you did after the plate has been returned. Still not legal but we won't tell.
The YOM tags are legal in South Carolina but we can't modify them,,although I haven't,others have without any repercussions. HRP
Interesting thread. I am also obsessed with how the license plate looks. My real plate is a personal plate that says HOT ROD on the 55, and REDLINE on my OT daily driver. I love them both, but hate the flat style of the new plates. I have lots of ideas on how to remedy that. Experience in these parts is that you are not very likely to have any issues with an officer unless you are doing something really stupid. If that is the case, a "modified" license plate is probably the least of your worries. I have pulled off crooked county stickers, relocated year stickers to straighten them and get them in the far corners and have also used black electrical tape across the bottom to get rid of stupid bar codes and such. Never an issue, even when pulled over for a slight speed warning (verbal). I also like to see interesting plates where someone has done something very subtle to make it unique, but no one can quite figure out why. Years ago, I was at an event and the official Indiana tag at that time was a scenic sunset over a shadow across the bottom showing a farm outline in black. The saying across the bottom was, "Rambling waves of grain". Instead of that, this guy's plate had the same exact colors airbrushed across it and the black shadowed outline, but the shadow was a vintage steam p***enger train outline and the saying said, "Gambler waves at train." A shadow of an early cowboy waving was in the foreground. A simple mod that most people likely never noticed. Not very on topic with this board, but I thought it was an amazing touch at the time. I would really like to reproduce the plate in my photo to the left in 3D and paint it to matching colors on the car for show. It is then just possible I could "forget" to take it off and put the actual HOT ROD plate back on occasionally. No doubt there will be others chime in regarding a federal scene, forgery, losing your car to the crusher, going to jail, etc. Yeah... maybe...
I like what you did. I found sweet pair for my '54. Thought I could use them. Told no b/c plain 6 number sequence was scheduled to be used on state vehicles. That is such a *****. Not like they would confuse my '54 plate with one of those. Although those look better than the new MN plates. I didn't think they could make them uglier, but they did.
I New York state there were 13 years between 1940 and 1964 when only one tag was issued. The was mostly do to the war effort. Since then cars in NYS have had 2 plates.
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