Wrong year plates for your Rod

Figure I will start a new thread for this to get it away from the fake blower bitch out. hope that some of you have some good ideas .
I have been thinking of ways to put YOM plates on my cars , but the DMV will only let you run the plates for the year that the car was made , 1929 plates on a cool roadster set up in a nice early 5os style , is better than new plates thats for sure , but there has to be a better way .
I have heard of people having success registering their rods with the dates from the motor , but not very often , also have heard of people buying a set of 51 plates and having new personalized plates with the same numbers issued , but you ussually have to come up with some BS story about what it means , also have seen people cut up old 51 plates to make the numbers work and weld them back together to use the numbers from there YOM plates ( less numbers ). lots of work.
Heres what I am doing for my 32 mod. , it has a 57 small block , so I bought some beat up old 56 plates and cut the tops off above the numbers , 56 plates are the same size as the new ones , and the new ones have the California painted on , so you can actually just place the top of the old one over the new and it fits great ,just like a 42 over-rider over a 41 plate ,the only thing is that new plates are aluminum and the old are steel , so you can't weld it , but if you paint the new plate yellow with black letters , and just lay the old plate top over and clamp it in a frame ,the seam is almost not noticeable , sure there is too many numbers for a real old plate , but if the cops call in the numbers it comes back as being registered too you .

 

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new plates are aluminum and the old are steel , so you can't weld it

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heliarc?

 

not sure , about that , but I will find out , if its that simple , I am gonna owe my sheet metal guy a nice Xmas present.

 

You might want to do more research... A friend got a felony charge for altering (painting) his plates. The number/ letter sequence is different for black, blue, white, etc. Cops get all weirded out when colors/ sequence dont go together. Just a little heads up to keep a HAMBer out of the SLAMBer.

 

He says that it will not go , it will melt the aluminum to quick , maybe soldering or something , or even gluing on the backs and filling the fronts

 

If you're gonna run illegally, go all the way. So I'm going to run '36 plates from California, AND on the first 2 numbers are the same on the pair. I couldn't justify paying $120+ on a matched CA pair when I live in IL. Since I have a dream to live in SoCal, and that reality is not very good right now, I'll bring a piece of SoCal to me! And if that gets me in too much trouble, I have a set of '36 IL plates in their orginal paint that look great. Of course the AV plates have to be in the trunk...

 

I know that this is definately NOT legal , but I doubt a cop would give you a hard time for it , there is so much that they could do .

 

All's I can tell you is about Florida. You can run ANY YOM plate you want. The plate has to be in very good original condition, but for the most part DMV can't tell restored ones from originals.
We do have a very confusing weight/county/vehicle classification issue that's adhered to strongly. I.e you can't slap a dumptruck tag from Osceola county onto your '59 Impala registerd in Orange county.
I have both a 1954 and a 1960 plate that I could legally use on my cars.
But our antique plates that we get for free are truly beautiful. I just got one for the wife's '60 wagon and it's $5 cheaper than a regular plate.

 

im a bit confused on this plate thing... i have the original plates off my olds, can i still use them when it gets registered? last time it was reg'd was 1980

 

what plates are they? You should be able to , just keep some paperwork with those numbers on it.

 

What state is ?

In Idaho, you can run YOM plates but they have to be approved origional plates. You send in pics of your plates and they decide wether to let you run them. I've got a nice set of 31 plates I want to put on my Coupe, but it's titled as a 28 due to the frame. Not sure how this one's going to work out. I sure don't want everyone pointing out I've got 28 plates on a car that looks like a 31. I'll worry about that when I get this thing built.

 

they are california plates, and i have a few yrs of registration papers... 77-80 i believe. the guy i baught the car off of didnt have a bill of sale from the previous owner because it was meant to be a parts car, but had the title and a bunch of paperwork. i did however, get a bill of sale from the old dude... do you guys think i will run into problems reg'ing it? the old registration papers have the name of the owner before the guy i baught the ride from.

 

you will have to show that the plates were assigned to the VIN #

 

what year car and what year plates

 

check your local vehicle code- it a bigger deal than you think. it also wont look as cool thru bars......

 

PLan 9 , if they are the original plates for your car and you have paperwork to prove it , AND they are in good condition , you should have no troubles .

 

You could use Fusor panel adhesive to hold them together. There is nothing really to grind.

If your plate matches what the DMV has you for and the plate in reflective and doesn't appear to be altered - then you should have no problem.

 

I guess I am just hoping that a cop isn't gonna know that a FAKE 56 plate is fake , why would he care , if he calls the number in its gonna say that its registered to me .

 

hmm cool... thanks for the info everyone.

the plates are, as far as i know originals off my 56 olds.. eg. black plates, yellow lettering. the front bracket for the plate still has the dealership name, from fremont, ca.

 

Here in Ohio the tags had a two letter prefix bfore the number for many years.
Apparently aech prdfix designated the Town the vehicle was registered in.
I'm having exactly ZERO luck finding anybody who can decifer this code, and it's always hard to tell what Is what when you find stacks of old plates at garage salea with different prefixes.

Any other states that did that? I of course have plates from YOM in My town, not the next one over...
Here we hafta have a Pair too. It sucks that I've got ONE yom that I want and the DMV refuses to register "XU 69" as a current vanity tag to place on the back!

 

PLAN9 black plates with yellow letters are from 1963 and later , but still cool to have , probably steel too , you might be able to weld 56 tops on those and paint them up like 56s ......

 

You can do want you want with the plates as long as you don't mind having the car towed after they stop you.

 

rooster , make a fiberglass copy of the one you have and paint it up , you could even paint some rust on the edges.

 

I've got '56 California plates on my '53 (they sold you metal tags when you reupped) and '63 California plates on my '23 Bucket that was built in '74.

I've logged plenty of miles with them on the car. I carry the REAL plates with me, all they could site me for is improper display or inproper registration.

The cops that know it, haven't stopped me yet. I'll probably get it this summer, now that I've said all this.

We're going to 'Back to the Fifties' this summer, thats a 400 mile haul for us. Guess we'll press our luck.

If you play by the rules, what fun would that be??

Fkatheads forever!!

 

Plan9.
In CA, if the car and plates are out of the computer you can go through the process which is basically using the old plate as a personalized "vanity plate" and they will charge you the hefty vanity plate surcharge each and every year.
personally, I detest license plates and the government/gang that charges us for the so-called "privelidge" of registering them every year so I'll be damned if I'm going to give them even more money every year after costing them nothing to make new/old plates.
Year of manufacture plates belong on restored original stock cars.
Year of style of the hotrod plates belong on hotrods, so if it's a '57 style hotrod with Fiesta hubcaps and a 324" Rocket engine it should have '56 black on goldenrod plates. (in California anyway)

 

I know, I know, what the hell IS a fkathead?

Flatheads forever!!

 

im just gonna title my t as a 57 or 58.and run the plate.

 

My experiences in California? I'd follow every code I could - those cops are Nazis! AND - AND - AND even if they don't know the law, they'll pretend to and let the courts sort it out.

But, the way I do it in Texas, make it legal, and get away with, legaly get your car registered as the year you want. For my '29 that is built to '47 style - I bought a '47 and used parts of the chassis, suspension, and engine to build up my '29. Then, I titled and registered it as a '47 and applied the state provided VIN tag to the door jamb. And THEN swapped the standard plates for YOM '47 plates that were inspected by the state.

The one thing that I did a little on the other side of the law was that I made my license plate by welding a few different plates together and repainting them. My saving grace is that I did it, THEN got them inspected for use before using them.

 

You could always hook up that gizmo that 007 had on that Aston Martin and then when cops get behind you..hit a button and flip the plates..how cool would that be?

 

My understanding here in NC you have to register your car where you will get a new plate and as long as you have that plate IN your car with you you can run the vintage tag on the back.