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Old Style CA Plates on Vette
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Old Style CA Plates on Vette
I wonder if it would be possible to get the old style CA license plates that had the black background with yellow numbers/letters?
I think that would look pretty cool on my black beast
I think that would look pretty cool on my black beast
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Originally Posted by chris.quik
I wonder if it would be possible to get the old style CA license plates that had the black background with yellow numbers/letters?
I think that would look pretty cool on my black beast
I think that would look pretty cool on my black beast
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I met a vendor at a car show awhile back who will make you a black plate with yellow lettering for your car. But I think you might run afoul of the law easier driving a C5 than if you stuck it on a C3 or whatever. I seem to recall that he charged around $90. I was going to have him make one up for my 1968 Triumph. His plates looked 100% genuine. I told him it looked like he had a lot of practice making license plates and asked how long he had been in the joint. He just grinned.
Here, I found his business card. Don't know if it's still valid, but try a web search. "RayRay" Custom Plates and Frames. 858-271-6858. email: rayraysframes@aol.com
Let us know if RayRay is still making plates on the outside or whether they threw him back in for doing something illegal. Ha ha.
Here, I found his business card. Don't know if it's still valid, but try a web search. "RayRay" Custom Plates and Frames. 858-271-6858. email: rayraysframes@aol.com
Let us know if RayRay is still making plates on the outside or whether they threw him back in for doing something illegal. Ha ha.
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I tried to put an old Cal plate on my 1966 Mustang. DMV won't register the car with it. Look on their site www.dmv.ca.gov and you will see.
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Originally Posted by scottydog
I tried to put an old Cal plate on my 1966 Mustang. DMV won't register the car with it. Look on their site www.dmv.ca.gov and you will see.
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Originally Posted by JMc
Don't go through the DMV next time. Go through one of those third party DMV services that can get the stickers for you. Then, you can apply them to whatever plate you want. Wouldn't that work? The trick for getting away with it on the street would be to pick a personalized plate with three letters followed by three digits -- just like they looked back in the day...
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From: "This is not a psychotic episode, but a cleansing moment of clarity."
Originally Posted by scottydog
Got a link to such a third party service? Can I just order a plate with the same letters/numbers I have on the car already, then get replacement reg stickers from the DMV?
Do a google in your area for "auto registration services"
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Originally Posted by HummelS
I think that in CA, you can only run those plates if they were originally issued for the car they are on. And as I recall, you have to pay a premium to do so.
That was my understanding also.
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From: "This is not a psychotic episode, but a cleansing moment of clarity."
Originally Posted by scottydog
Do you think I could buy an old Cal plate off Ebay and get it registered through a service?
Another option is to order a set of black plates that say whatever you want on them and just put them on at shows, but keep 'em off the street.
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Just got off the phone with Rayray's. They do NOT make "license plates", they make "wall hangings". 
They just happen to be the same dimensions and materials as license plates, but they are NOT license plates.
California black "wall hangings" are $95 for single, or $174 for two. They want to see your registration to prove that whatever they stamp on the "wall hanging" belongs to you. These decorative "wall hanging's" take about 3-weeks to deliver from the time of ordering.
They just happen to be the same dimensions and materials as license plates, but they are NOT license plates. California black "wall hangings" are $95 for single, or $174 for two. They want to see your registration to prove that whatever they stamp on the "wall hanging" belongs to you. These decorative "wall hanging's" take about 3-weeks to deliver from the time of ordering.
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Okay, we've run into a snag, fellas. I just tried to register a personalized plate with the three number, three letter combo. Twice. Each time, I got all the way through the process, right up to "click here to buy now". The last step after making sure nobody else had it, etc. I get an error message saying "sorry, but this license plate is no longer available, please try again." Obviously, the sacs in Sacto have gotten wise to this scheme and will no longer issue plates in the old format, whether they're personalized or not.
Kinda sucks. But oh well... It was worth a try...
Kinda sucks. But oh well... It was worth a try...
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Originally Posted by cenzo
