I came across this website a few minutes ago while I was looking for a place that restores license plates or sells the correct paints for California plates. Anyways They look to be visually identical reproductions although I think they are made out of aluminum not steel I'm just wondering has anybody registered them with the DMV and was it straight forward? I have the pink slip from 1955 from my model A but the license plate number that are on the pink I would ***ume was turned in many decades ago when California decommissioned the earlier plates for the 1956 to 1962, plates My car was last registered in 1960 with a yellow and black plate which is also a cool plate (although for some reason it is a car plate not a truck plate in them vehicle is clearly a Model A pickup) but it doesn't matter as I only have one plate and it is beat up for being bolted to the bottom of the bed sitting in a backyard since 1960 in the Bay area (surface rusted and dinged up). Anyways I was wondering if anybody has used these https://www.calplates.com license plates to actually register their car (here in California) and if so was it a headache or pretty straightforward? All I can say is I thought it was pretty cool and I think around a hundred bucks a plate although not cheap isn't a bad deal since I see a guy at the local swap meets here in SoCal that sells really clean originals for around 3 to $500 a pair.
The ONLY aluminum plates ever made by the Ca DMV was in 1947. Usually the color, font and material are off on the repo plates and the DMV will check.......don't try it.
Yeah that's what I was figuring, that they would check. The worst part is with the DMV is it's kind of up to the discretion of the employees when it comes to technicalities.
True and several times I’ve had them tap them on the counter. After I painted them they sounded like aluminum and I had to show them with a magnet that they were in fact steel. What year is your A?
It was registered as a 1931 but it would be a real early 1931 as pretty much everything on it looks like 1930 not that it matters other than some tiny changes they are pretty much one of the same. I am not super close to registering it but I think I've just about ac***ulated all the parts so nothing should start moving pretty fast with only the Inland Empire weather slowing me down.
31’s shouldn’t be too hard to find. If you can find the matching ‘56 plate you have paperwork backing it up.
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