A Huge Oops
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Melting Slicks
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From: Kingston Ontario
A Huge Oops
I'm buying stuff to hang around the shop and also I would like to put a set of dated plates either matching the year of the car or my birth year. heres one set of plates that I bought....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN:IT&ih=002
Does anybody know what green means? I thought they were kind of neat . I haven't found what green plates signify back in 72. Ontario is actually trying to adopt green now signifying the car as a green car, such as a hybrid. Leave it to the Cnd Gov't to adopt green here knowing that green plates in the states indicates you're a SEX OFFENDER.
Only the Cnd Govt. I can see the press release now, "US is anti green, attacks on Hybrid Cars and owners increase"
I would have never bought them if I knew the US designation.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN:IT&ih=002
Does anybody know what green means? I thought they were kind of neat . I haven't found what green plates signify back in 72. Ontario is actually trying to adopt green now signifying the car as a green car, such as a hybrid. Leave it to the Cnd Gov't to adopt green here knowing that green plates in the states indicates you're a SEX OFFENDER.
Only the Cnd Govt. I can see the press release now, "US is anti green, attacks on Hybrid Cars and owners increase"I would have never bought them if I knew the US designation.
Last edited by BB72; May 1, 2008 at 07:31 AM.
Burning Brakes
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From: Port Clinton Ohio
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In Ohio we don't have special plates for sex offenders. I wish we did. I would like to know where those people are and keep them away from my kids. Anyway, the only "special" plates here are yellow with red letters for drunks.
Safety Car
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From: Carbondale Pa.
Why would it make a difference to you , you bought 'em to hang on the garage wall didnt ya ? and besides that you're in Canada not the States. Besides that back in the year of the plates issue we sent the slightly beaten up sex offender to jail and there they met their just rewards. So to answer your question in 1972 a green license plate was simply that, a green plate, signifying only that that is what the state chose to have as the color. Today is today yesterday is over, finished, never to experience again. Too bad too, because back then we were slightly less concerned with being politically correct, and more concerned with doling out swift justice. But,,, Peace anyway, Moosie 
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Back then, most provinces required that the owner put a NEW plate on the car each and every year and discard the old one. This was a purely manual process where you either lined up at the licence bureau (usually in the dead of winter) to get your new plates, or if you thought far enough in advance, could get them by mail.
There was a different colour each year issued in rotation (varied by province too) so the cops could tell at a glance whether you had current plates or not. The colours were otherwise meaningless. Ontario was green with white letters in '72, Quebec was red with white letters. I still have all my old plates up to '79 when they converted to the present system of retaining the same plate year after year. One of my bikes still has the original plate on it from '79, gets a lot of questions from kids who have never seen such a low number.
I think that green= sex offender would upset most of Vermont, their plates are green.
There again, you might be mistaken for a Vermonter if you install these plates. That might be worse.
Last edited by Mike Ward; May 1, 2008 at 12:56 PM.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Kingston Ontario
Well, not all 72 plates are the same colour.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=019
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=010
I like that one...missing a number.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=019
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=010
I like that one...missing a number.
Drifting
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I thought they were antique plates!!!!!!! I WONDERED why they were on Grand Am's and Honda's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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From: Scottsdale Arizona
Ahhh, the youth of today.....
Back then, most provinces required that the owner put a NEW plate on the car each and every year and discard the old one. This was a purely manual process where you either lined up at the licence bureau (usually in the dead of winter) to get your new plates, or if you thought far enough in advance, could get them by mail.
There was a different colour each year issued in rotation (varied by province too) so the cops could tell at a glance whether you had current plates or not. The colours were otherwise meaningless. Ontario was green with white letters in '72, Quebec was red with white letters. I still have all my old plates up to '79 when they converted to the present system of retaining the same plate year after year. One of my bikes still has the original plate on it from '79, gets a lot of questions from kids who have never seen such a low number.
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Back then, most provinces required that the owner put a NEW plate on the car each and every year and discard the old one. This was a purely manual process where you either lined up at the licence bureau (usually in the dead of winter) to get your new plates, or if you thought far enough in advance, could get them by mail.
There was a different colour each year issued in rotation (varied by province too) so the cops could tell at a glance whether you had current plates or not. The colours were otherwise meaningless. Ontario was green with white letters in '72, Quebec was red with white letters. I still have all my old plates up to '79 when they converted to the present system of retaining the same plate year after year. One of my bikes still has the original plate on it from '79, gets a lot of questions from kids who have never seen such a low number.
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I also vaguely remember that the Ministry of Natural Resources had green plates in the 90's that didn't need stickers. I would have guessed these were them but Mike's explanation seems more likely to be correct.
The "sex offender" plate idea is funnier though. You could get some real mileage swapping a set like these onto cars of people you don't like
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I started to doubt my own memory, so did some more digging. Seems the colour coding for individual years stopped earlier in Ontario than I remembered.
Here's plates from the 60s
http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/jpglps/CN_ON_GI6_1960's.jpg
where each year the plate colour changed.
Seems '72 was the last 'different' plate, '73 onwards was the standard blue on white scheme
http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/jpglps/CN_ON_GI7_1970's-80's.jpg
So, why the green colour scheme?
http://www.plateshack.com/76/ON/ontario.html
Read about half way down the page. Seems Ontario used colour coded plates for truck and commercial vehicles that were good only for a quarter of a year. Yours appears to be a truck plate good for the third quarter of 1972 whixh is why it also shows September.
Here's plates from the 60s
http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/jpglps/CN_ON_GI6_1960's.jpg
where each year the plate colour changed.
Seems '72 was the last 'different' plate, '73 onwards was the standard blue on white scheme
http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/jpglps/CN_ON_GI7_1970's-80's.jpg
So, why the green colour scheme?
http://www.plateshack.com/76/ON/ontario.html
Read about half way down the page. Seems Ontario used colour coded plates for truck and commercial vehicles that were good only for a quarter of a year. Yours appears to be a truck plate good for the third quarter of 1972 whixh is why it also shows September.
Last edited by Mike Ward; May 1, 2008 at 08:49 PM.
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I think somebody was busting your *****. If any state in the US requires sex offenders to run green plates, pls show me some proof. I know govts do some really stupid things, especially to score points with the voting public, but identifying sex offenders in that fashion seems like a really bad idea to me.
Well, I discovered it was a proposed law in Ohio. Don't know if it was ever passed. And what happens when a driver of a car with sex offender plates gets driven off the road? Or shot? Oh, but that's the idea! Oh, but he loaned the car to his boss...
Well, I discovered it was a proposed law in Ohio. Don't know if it was ever passed. And what happens when a driver of a car with sex offender plates gets driven off the road? Or shot? Oh, but that's the idea! Oh, but he loaned the car to his boss...
Last edited by PRNDL; May 1, 2008 at 09:13 PM.
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I think somebody was busting your *****. If any state in the US requires sex offenders to run green plates, pls show me some proof. I know govts do some really stupid things, especially to score points with the voting public, but identifying sex offenders in that fashion seems like a really bad idea to me.
Well, I discovered it was a proposed law in Ohio. Don't know if it was ever passed. And what happens when a driver of a car with sex offender plates gets driven off the road? Or shot? Oh, but that's the idea! Oh, but he loaned the car to his boss...
Well, I discovered it was a proposed law in Ohio. Don't know if it was ever passed. And what happens when a driver of a car with sex offender plates gets driven off the road? Or shot? Oh, but that's the idea! Oh, but he loaned the car to his boss...
Racer
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From: Montgomery Alabama
I remember an effort a few years back that would have required a person convicted of an alochol offense to have special tags that idetified him/her to police officers. It never passed. I also remember having to change two license plates every year after waiting in line to get the new tags. How archaic! But tags were only about $12 then, too.