Good question, the DMV couldnt tell me how many they used in 52. I was told in 53 they had one but in 36 they had a pair. My buddy owned cars of both years and found that out.
Get this. When my cousin redid our great grandmothers roof a couple years ago they were tearing off the old one and found two matching New York plates from '31 under it. My great grandfather had patched the roof with them and theyd were in awesome shape. Tried to get my cousin to give them to me but he's holding out. I got a '58 Delaware plate that weighs almost three pounds. That thing fell off a car it'd kill a person......
In 1948 and 1949, New York used a pair of plates with a tab add in 1949. They also used a pair in 1951 and 1952, with a tab used again in 1952.
I've got a match set of 48's but only one has the 49 tab, the number is simply 219, weird custom number.
They used two, and they were that yellow-orange with black letters in 48, and flip-flopped in 49. I've got a pair for sale for $2000 but that includes 2 1949 Dodges.
[/I] Uhhh....no. A pair of plates were issued for use in 1948. A single tab, embossed "49" was provided for re-registration in 1949 and was placed on the rear plate only. If you were registering a car for the first time in 1949, you would have been issued a new pair of 1948 plates and a single '49 tab. I have in my collection, the ONLY plate I've ever seen that was embossed with a "49" (no tab) and that was for a "FARM" plate. I've had well over 3500 (yeah, it's a sickness) NYS vintage plates in the last 30+ years.
OK, I stand corrected on the 49 NYS plates. I have the 48 plates with 49 tab on my 49 Plymouth. I also have an extra set, as stated in my original post. Thanks for the clarification.
While there were 2 plates for cars in 1948/'49 with a tab for '49, the farm plate had a dedicated plate for '49 with the date embossed, no tab. My question is: did the farm plate have one or two plates for '49? I have a single plate and suspect that there could have been only one since the fees were so low for the farm plates. Thanks.
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