California YOM plates today!

[ChgrSteve67]

...In my case I researched and found that they assigned the 60's plates by year according to the first letter...so, if you have a 69 car you want plates that start with a Y or Z....

Frank,

do you know for fact that the DMV needs the properly assigned letter plate for your particular year? In my case, for my '68, I'm guessing that to look right I would need the letter W or X, and maybe even V. Does the DMV really care? Could I use any 60's plate as long as I have the proper year sticker?

Dan

The DMV does not care Dan.  Any 63 base plate will do for them. Its the year sticker they can't live without for some reason.

Now if you really want to be correct for your car then you would want to find a plate that has the letters that are within the years they were assigned.

The plates I have on my 67 Charger were off of a 65.
Very few people would know that unless I told them.


The story with the sticker is because you are doing year of manufacture plates the year sticker matches the year of your car.

Since my car was built and sold in 67 it would have never recieved a 67 sticker but I was still required to get one to register the plates.


SFRT
This is what the tags look like


They will not send you a set unless you ask for them.
You can chose to use them and put month and year sticker on them or put the M / Y sticker on your plates.
Its your choice.

Not amazed that almost a year after the program was put into affect the people at the DMV still aren't sure what to do.

Plates look great.
It will changes how people will look at your car.  Just something about having the old plates.

[Johnny SixPack]

Pretty cool!!!! We have the same thing here in CT,YOM to run on older cars.They never removed the plate off mine when it left Cali in 03,happy to still have it.

Nice rack!

[FLG]

Frank those plates look awesome!!!


Would you consider ever offering a plate repair service? Mine are in decent shape but would love for someone to fix em up to look all nice and pretty like that.


Hmm im a "Frank" as well, wonder how many of us are on here? 

[375instroke]

Idiots, idiots, idiots.  They make no sense at all.  Funny thing is that California required you to turn in your old plates if they were invalid, so now you can use them when they were originally kept illegally?  I was required to turn in my black plates, which I didn't, and still have, for my '68 Charger R/T when I registered it after it sat for 10 years, and fell off the books.  Are you required to register every year, and put the current year sticker on along with the 1969 sticker?  In Washington, you only need one plate, you don't need any stickers, and you only pay $30 the first year to assign the plate to your car, and it's then registered for life.  They don't care about the year it was originally issued.  Just that the color matches the ones issued around the time the car may have been sold.  Even though the bureaucrats are completely retarded, at least they have allowed some way for us to get the proper plates on our cars at last.  Too bad I have no way of contacting the current owner of my former Charger to get the original black plates to them.

[ChgrSteve67]

In CA you must have both front and rear plates and it must be registered every year.

[A383Wing]

Frank those plates look awesome!!!


Would you consider ever offering a plate repair service? Mine are in decent shape but would love for someone to fix em up to look all nice and pretty like that.


Hmm im a "Frank" as well, wonder how many of us are on here?  

FLG, contact this guy --> http://www.finishyourplates.com/ .....he did my OE plate on my 66 Charger

Bryan

[73ChargerSE]

Looks good! YOM plates rule!

Paul

[Supercharged Riot]

SFRT that looks greeat man!

I gotta do this! I live in California too.  This would be a great treat for my Charger 

Thanks for posting a How-To thread

[Dans 68]

Looks good! YOM plates rule!

Paul

I agree. 

Dan

[PocketThunder]

Pretty cool!!!! We have the same thing here in CT,YOM to run on older cars.They never removed the plate off mine when it left Cali in 03,happy to still have it.

Me too!  I've got the matching black plates on my car also and no Dan, you cant have them....  

[Dans 68]

Pretty cool!!!! We have the same thing here in CT,YOM to run on older cars.They never removed the plate off mine when it left Cali in 03,happy to still have it.

Me too!  I've got the matching black plates on my car also and no Dan, you cant have them....  

Yes, Paul, I know () but I'm holding out for the proper letter (V, W, X) correct plates...

Dan

[moparstuart]

my 440 plate  1970 missouri for the birdible

[SFRT]

ok...the DMV finally sent me the stuff...with 1 day to spare...so heres the final setup,all legal and approved...so I dont have to run the paper tweaker tag in the window no mo'...



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upper left month  upper right 1969 year sticker lower right 2011 year sticker with the DMV supplied metal backing tab.

They sent me 2 tabs, so if anyone needs one. let me know.

they tabs are bare metal, I painted mine.....

[68X426]

Looks great.

[ChgrSteve67]

 

[bull]

Jeez, nothing like waiting until the last minute.

I went a different route with my plates. Found a good used set at a swap meet a few years back and bought them with a guarantee that they weren't currently licensed to any car. Oregon has this special interest vehicle licensing deal now where you pay a one-time fee of (I think it was) $85 and you either get their new yellow back collector plates or you can do YOM plates with special interest tags.

Don't you guys in California have to re-up the plates every 2-4 years or so?

[ChgrSteve67]

Every Year

[bull]

Every Year

$45 every year? Vampires!

Hey Frank, you need some NOS Mopar license plate frames now : http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MOPAR-NOS-Original-LICENSE-PLATE-FRAMES-1967-1972-some-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem3a5aee6e2aQQitemZ250633678378QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

[PocketThunder]

Every Year

$45 every year? Vampires!

Hey Frank, you need some NOS Mopar license plate frames now : http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MOPAR-NOS-Original-LICENSE-PLATE-FRAMES-1967-1972-some-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem3a5aee6e2aQQitemZ250633678378QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

$250 Holy Crap!

[Bossman963]

just for your guys reference there a guy in san diego area that makes new plates and they are superb, all you have to do is prove the plates are regsitered to your car and I think 1 plate is about $190.00 and a pair is about $175.00- if anybody needs info contact me-

But you did a fantastic job on your plates and cant wait until my 68 Charger is done and looking as good as yours ( I hope)
Mike

[quapman]

Must be when they ran out of letters in the alphabet by the end of 69, they changed from black to blue in 1970, eh?