Vintage License Plates

[psdenno]

Good news for California Z owners who want to run period correct license plates on their early Zs.

As Reported By SEMA:

California Bill to Create Legacy License Plate Program

Signed Into Law

Governor Jerry Brown signed into law legislation (A.B. 1658) to establish the California Legacy License Plate Program. Under the new law, the DMV will create and issue a series of specialized license plates that replicate plates from the state's past.* Previously, classic car owners could only revive well-maintained old plates that match the vintage of their vehicle.* Among other things, the new law will bring a retro look to modern license plates by allowing consumers to choose from one of three classic designs from the 1950s-1960s (black lettering on yellow background or yellow lettering on black background) and 1970s-1980s (yellow lettering on blue background).** The law requires that at least 7,500 applications for any one particular plate must be received by the DMV on or before January 1, 2015.

Dennis

[Montezuma]

Thanks for sharing Dennis. This is one good thing to come off the pen of Moonbeam.

[Kurbycar32]

ahh, everything is clear now.. Just a few years ago they banned getting plates manufactured by third party's. Rewind to about 5 years ago and you could order period correct plates from this place online and as long as the plate number matched everything was good. Then California outlawed it. In retrospect it appears it was just to get rid of the competition.

[psdenno]

I have a set of black plates for my '63 Studebaker Avanti and Historic plates on my Porsche 914-6. A set of blue plates on the Z might be nice. The price isn't too out of line. See link below:

http://tinyurl.com/8pnxjqw

Hopefully, they will be 3 letters and 3 numbers like the plates of old and not 7 letters and numbers like current plates.

Dennis