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 6 Hours Ago | #1 | | Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Hershey, Pa. Posts: 4,366 | Antique car plates...your state
I just came away from a meeting with our state department of transportation. Please help me if your state makes it easy to get license plates for collector vehciles that are driven, original or unrestored. I need to see the wording of their legislation. Thanks, please send the information directly to me at aaca1@aaca.org Thanks for your help. __________________
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Executive Director |  |  | | 5 Hours Ago | #2 | | '39 Buick Team Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Texas Posts: 91 | Re: Antique car plates...your state
Steve, Texas allows year of manufactur plates if they inspect and approve them. I had only one Texas plate for my '39, and I was nervous about them requiring a front plate as well. However, they said two plates were not required in '39(?), so it was approved.
John V. |  | | | 5 Hours Ago | #3 | | Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 122 | Re: Antique car plates...your state
I emailed Marylands page on this type registration. __________________
1954 Buick Special 48D. Yep...it's special! | | | | | 5 Hours Ago | #4 | | Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Posts: 44 | Re: Antique car plates...your state
Steve, don't know about Hawaii yet, but just moved here from Alabama which is EXTREMELY easy on almost any kind of plate. The county we lived in was Lauderdale, don't know if that makes a difference or not. When we lived in Tennessee, it too was very easy, so you might look at them, good luck, John | | | | | 5 Hours Ago | #5 | | Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Hershey, Pa. Posts: 4,366 | Re: Antique car plates...your state
Thanks guys, to be clear, this is not about YOM plates. It is about the procedure and the qualifiers to get an antique plate. I need to see how other states actually make the determination to allow you to have a plate. PA has a restriction that does not give the DOT much leeway in making the right decision. Very difficult for an unrestored car to get plates or even some cars that are just used for touring. __________________
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Last edited by Steve Moskowitz; 4 Hours Ago at 17:21. | | | | | 4 Hours Ago | #6 | | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 935 | Re: Antique car plates...your state
It has been several years since I applied for them and put them on the car. But Illinois simply required proof the car was insured as an antique, not as a daily driver, and you had to sign a clause stating that the car would only be driven to shows, in parades, and to a repair facility. No actual inspection of the car was done. __________________ 1976 Continental Mark IV Givenchy Edition 
| | | | | 4 Hours Ago | #7 | | Administrator Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Millers Tavern, Va. Posts: 14,795 | Re: Antique car plates...your state
Quote: Originally Posted by LINC400  .......But Illinois simply required proof the car was insured as an antique, not as a daily driver, and you had to sign a clause stating that the car would only be driven to shows, in parades, and to a repair facility. No actual inspection of the car was done. |
Virginia is similar. I just turned our '86 Chevy wagon's plates in on an antique plate 3 weeks ago. I had to sign a waver that proved that I had another regular licensed daily driver. (They researched it on their computer while I was there.) I also signed a proof of insurance. They gave me a 60 day temp. plate until the yellow and blue permanent plate arrives in my mailbox. No more safety inspection for this car for the rest of its life. We bought it about 5 years ago. We have since rolled the odometer up to 68,000 miles on it now. It's still a great driver!
I can send a link to the Virginia law if you need it, Steve. Wayne | | | | | 4 Hours Ago | #8 | | Senior Member-1951 Model Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: St. Albans, W. Va. Posts: 6,698 | Re: Antique car plates...your state
Steve, I just sent you an e-mail with the rules for Antique Car License Plates for W. Va. __________________ Susan W. Linden AACA National - C.T.C.
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__________________________________________________ "Don't tempt fate. That call or text can wait. Make your vehicle a No Phone Zone today." - Oprah Winfrey | | | | | 3 Hours Ago | #9 | | Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Hershey Posts: 6,833 | Re: Antique car plates...your state
Trivia: There is only one state in the nation that doesn't have any "collector car" type plates. Which state? What would be the irony? __________________ West Peterson, Editor Antique Automobile (AACA) "The world hates change, but it is the only thing that has brought progress." – Charles Kettering "Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long." – Ogden Nash "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; The unreasonable one persists until the world conforms to his ways. Therefore all progress relies on the unreasonable man." – George Bernard Shaw
Last edited by West Peterson; 2 Hours Ago at 19:25. | | | | | 2 Hours Ago | #10 | | Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Charles Town, WV Posts: 62 | Re: Antique car plates...your state
Steve, I see Susan responded to you concerning WV. Not sure what the actual law here states but it was simple all 3 times to get an antique tag. No more state inspections and the tag is good for 5 years. There are requirements on driving the cars but most of my miles were chalked up driving the cars to and from inspection stations. There was no verification or proof needed. __________________
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Member - Checker Car Club of America | | | | | 2 Hours Ago | #11 | | Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: albuquerque, new mexico, usa Posts: 44 |  Re: Antique car plates...your state
Very easy here in New Mexico, good for 5 years and was $5.00 | | | | | 1 Hour Ago | #12 | | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Just a mile off the highway Posts: 266 | Re: Antique car plates...your state
Sort of part of the process to become registered and obtain vintage vehicle license plates - I can look later to see about finding a link, few years back I remember reading how a Pennsylvania owner of a vintage fire truck was having problems being approved for vintage plates. The reason? It hard markings indicating the original department. Supposedly Penna law states a vehicle with vintage plates cannot carry any wording(?) | | | | | 1 Hour Ago | #13 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Vietnam & Washougal, washington too Posts: 937 | Re: Antique car plates...your state
When Transfer the Packard from California plates to Washington State plates. No problem showed the girl the Washington plates, I had a pair. but they have another form that allows one to request a single rear plate now. too. There are driving restriction, like driving to the coffee shop everyday probably would get the plates pulled, and for sure if you the vehicle for computing the plates are pulled. their life plates one time charge it was about $115, but that include transferring into the state. I already the California pink slip, so it was walk through not inspections. __________________ - 42 Packard Seven passenger Limo
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In Kentucky there are no smog tests or inspections of any kind. Antique plates never expire and have an annual "property tax" of approx. 68 cents. I've owned at least a dozen cars with antique plates since I moved here in 1998 and I drive them whenever I feel like it and have never been pulled over or hassled by the police. My daily driver is an '86 Buick which has antique plates on it and my '61 Merc obviously has antique plates on it too. When you get the plates they assume that all old cars have a value of $100 so you pay $6 tax plus the fee for the plates. It doesn't make any difference if you paid $100K or $500 for the car-they value it at $100 for licensing purposes. I lived in California from 1977-98 and owned a few antique cars there and this is obviously a MUCH better system than theirs. I don't know where the regulations are for antique plates in Kentucky or I would post a link to them here.... __________________
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1986 Buick Regal Limited w/53K original miles - 307-4V | | | | | 23 Minutes Ago | #15 | | '39 Buick Team Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Texas Posts: 91 | Re: Antique car plates...your state
Steve, here is link to TXDMV web site on Antique Plates: Antiques & Classic License Plates If you drive the car as a daily driver or for more than shows, parades or just for service, you need to get YOM plates or regular plates. John V.
Last edited by jvelde; 13 Minutes Ago at 21:41. | | | | | 15 Minutes Ago | #16 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: vulcania Posts: 1,245 | Re: Antique car plates...your state
Steve we in Ca. have two kinds of plates for that purpose, Antique and historical plates. I have historical. Funny note; rods and custom's can get these plates too. D. | | | | |
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