I've known about this guy's place for over 25 years and knew about the cars that he had in the garage. Last night I saw a "Moving Sale" sign out front so I stopped by this afternoon. The guy that owned the place had p***ed away and the family was selling a bunch of stuff non car related and just a few things care related. Like some tools and some car manuals. The cars are not for sale yet but will be soon. While talking to the guy's son my nephew asked about the board he had there with some license plates on it. The son said he had a lot more in the garage and if my nephew wanted one. My nephew said "Sure" so we went out to the garage and he ended up pulling out a stack of about 15-20 un-issued Colorado License plates from 1956. All stamped "Farm truck". He gave me a set as well. After talking for a little longer the guy gives us another set of un-issued plates. This time a set of 1930 Idaho plates. I'll be keeping these plates and eventually hanging them on the wall. Off hand I don't know of anyone in town that has a 1956 truck so that I can send them to the guy's son and hopefully sell a set or two for him. I don't even know what they are worth but I haven't even done any checking around yet.
funny.....cleaned up some of my plates today I've had for about 30 yrs or so....finally have a place I want to hang them up............
The guy is supposed to have 100 cars on his farm but only a few in his garage. The pics I took were from about 3 years ago. A '24 Buick touring, a '27 Dodge roadster (going to his daughter) and a 1937 LaSalle ambulance.
That's cool....I bought an unissued Colorado set for my 60' T-bird couple years ago. The plate colors are deeper in the older plates, and stand out from the current plates at first glance....they have that 'old time' visual with more depth ....have about twenty of the 1950's & early 60's hanging on my garage walls (green, yellow or black versions), but getting hard to find the 20's, 30's and 40's Colorado plates I've noticed anymore....but, I'm still stopping at yard sales just the same!....I know that depending on the year, that prices may vary....I would think 56' plates are of the upper price range, due to the great automotive designs and love affair of the 1956 year so prominent today in the car culture.
I have a bunch of never issued 32-33-34 California plates , they were used as Roof Shingles on an old Barn , evidently Calif. DMV used to sell any leftovers real cheap , as new plates were issued every year.
Curious to know if you can run the FARM TRUCK plates as YOM plates. I have the correct Truck plate for my 29 A.
I was curious also...so I looked it up out of curiosity. Apparently a ''farm truck'' license plate is ''applied'' for under C.R.S. 42-3-306(4) to 'commercially' cl***ified trucks and tractor-trailer trucks pertaining to farm, agriculture, and timber industry....it is applied to vehicles operating in conjunction with a working farm or ranch specifically, and when application to license, it is required to produce a permit specifying it, due to taxes and collection of a working environment to the state, such as a farm and hauling produce, etc.... To apply for a ''farm truck'' plate, one has to specifically apply for those plates in particular at the DMV and provide proof of usage, and therefore the vehicle is regulated by the taxes of the property it is being used upon....so, as I understand it, ....the plates are used for hauling, commercially and locally, and specified as such, by the do***entation provided at the DMV.----- I don't think they are meant to be used as ''ordinary'' license plates on pickup trucks, hot rods, or small pickup trucks, unless there is a legitimate farm, ranch, or timber industry application to the vehicle......anyways, that's what I could figure out from the code of transportation do***ents......I believe there is a permit one has to carry on the vehicle to use the license plates, with the ''intent'' of the vehicle.
Cool plates, and interesting info from Rainman. If any of you fellas wanna get your geek on, over licence plates, go here. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/social-forums/license-plate-collectors.579/
I wondered the same thing. After reading what Rainman found I'm wondering if a person could say that their '56 truck, now restored or hot rodded, is an "EX" farm truck and still be able to run them as YOM plates? Since what he found applies to trucks currently cl***ified as farm trucks and not older vehicles who knows what the DMV will say. But knowing the DMV you'd probably only be able to run them if the truck is restored back to a Farm Truck and get a current "farm truck" permit.
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