Anyone have Year of Manufacturer plates on their trucks? I got this and I need the 44 yellow and black tab. Curious if any of you do this.

 

Yup. I just got the 71 plates on my Coupe DeVille. I have the 29 plates for my rpu and the 56 plates for my 56 Caddy, and will get those on when the others expire. Also I think I have a set of 40s for the panel when it's done. 10 bucks one time fee instead of $60-$80 per car per year.

 

I have a set for mine also. Not to the point yet to put them on, but I have them.

 

I'm kind of a license plate nut. I have every year of South Dakota, including a couple leather ones. I try and keep popular sets and sell a few sets to people wanting YOM. I probably have 500 plates.

 

I have the correct and rare '45 California PC ( pneumatic commercial) with '46 tab on my '46.
'45 and '46 YOM plates are the only ones you can legally use only one plate here in CA. A front plate is required, except for these 2 years since only one plate was issued to save steel for the war, although I never run a front plate on any of my vehicles.
In CA since '63 plates stay with the vehicle. For instance, my '57 Ford still has the plate issued to it in 1963.

 

Very cool guys! My favorite for Colorado is a 53 plate. Has a skier on it.

 

Here's the one on my '47 2 ton. In 47 the plate was bare aluminum with green letters. I had to paint the green letters back on in the parking lot of the dmv, as they were not ledgible enough. Model paint and a cheap little dime store brush. The 'L' stands for Lewis County, not mine, but close enough. Ours would have had an SJ for San Juan County. Wouldn't I love one of those.... Yes those are straight pipes. All 2" plumbing pipe and fittings from the manifolds to the rear of the cab, then I had a shop bend a couple of 10 footers up over the rear axle.

 

That is cool! I like the script bed.

 

Found a 44 tab. Woo!

 

I put a '40 plate on mine, tho my state has no YOM plate allowance. A friend of mine ran YOM plates on his '49 for 20 years, drove it it semi-regularly, said he never got ticketed for 'em. Going to live dangerously…

 

the skier plate is 1958 i think you put a 3 insted of an 8?

 

I collect license plates myself, i sorta started in 63 when dad was changing the plates from his hay trucks to put on the new black ones, ( i still have some of those ) then in 1971 i got my first out of state lic plates a 1961 Arkansas & a 1969 Nevada, in 1984 i had learned that there was a plate collector club called ALPCA automobile license plate collectors assn, I joined that club in 1986, i must have around 6000 plates from all states and around the world, i concentrate on plates from 1958 my birth year, and have around 500 or so just from 58, a lot of them are on free standing displays, but most are in boxes in some sort of state order, just to touch on California plates a bit, Calif started its license law in 1905, from 1905 till 1913 the state issued you a # and it was up to you to make your plate or have a novelty company make it for you, these plates are known to the collectors as pre state plates, they started issuing Porcelain plates in 1914 till 1919, then from then on they were steel in the late 40's they started going back and forth with ether steel or aluminum, all plates till 1948 were made by private industries, in 48 they started having the prison at Folsom make them and still do to this day. if you notice the 1947 base plates you will see two different die varietys wide and narrow, "you know why"? the wide dies were private industry and the narrow dies were prison industry, if you look on the back of the bolt on year tabs for 48/49/50 you will see in small dies folsom prison on the back. and from the first year till now Calif plates always stayed with the vehicle unless it is a personalized plate. regular issue plates are not transferable, i know i know i rattled on long enough about this, i hope all this was interesting. Jess

 

I find it extremely interesting. I have often bought license plates when we travel. We stop at a lot of junk stores and I flip through the boxes of plates. I seem to stay in the 3 to 6 dollar range, and condition not too important. They just have to look like they might have a story behind them. If not I'll make one up..... I have a pretty nice collection of vintage spark plugs but I'm not a member of the club. If that's not enough I collected vintage Briggs and Strattons for many years in a fairly serious manner. At one time I had over 30 different models.... I still have 2 pretty rare overhead valve, dual flywheel, slant fin models from the '20s. See, license plates seem pretty normal. Who wouldn't want to collect them? Now I've gone and wrecked a perfectly good thread about license plates. Now that we're such a big group we can start threads like 'let's see what else you collect'.

 

i know this is off topic so forgive me for just a moment, i also collect spark plugs among many other things, my son collects B&S engines and any parts
& parts books he or i can find on them, now back to the regular scheduled program as you say LOL. Jess

 

Ahh yes my bad. Nice to know I am not the only one interested in vintage plates.