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FYI, historic plates won't let you drive it around town in Ca. Only car shows, repair shops, fuel stations etc. My 66 came with those plates and they would not issue new plates until I gave them the plates. Propane conversion is about a $1000 and the fuel is half the price.
Didn’t know that about the historic plates. I’ve seen a mid-70’s Oldsmobile with a propane conversion with well over 300k. The car was trashed, but the engine purred.
30 years ago I helped do a head gasket on a irrigation motor, ran on propane. I was amazed just how surgically clean inside that motor was, and how it showed so little signs wear with 7k hrs on the meter.
Historic plates, sound similar to Kansas "Year of Manufacture" plates.
Kansas says they are Full use plates, but there are so few in use in most areas they are recorded manually on paper records. I was informed by the County Tag office, 'be prepared during a traffic stop.' have your registration in hand. When unfamiliar officers electronically run your plate, it will comeback as "Not Found" ....
And I wonder if I brought my 61 to Cali, would they, honor or even understand the 'full use' of my tag. And once stopped for the tag, how would they act about a diesel that isn't 'clean idle certified' and non DPF.
I hade YOM plates on my 59 F250. I bought a DMV clear set of plates from a collector, in my case yellow 56 original issue ones. But that is not all, had to obtain a correct 59 sticker ( there are guys that reclaim these, add fresh adhesive), and the state issues you these “tabs” you’re supposed to somehow affix to the corners of the vintage plates placing the current year month and year sticker. Looks about as goofy as you can imagine. So, I did not comply, as is per usual for me. No tabs, and no current year and month stickers . I simply collected those every year, stacked them in my glove box. Never had an LEO pull me over, they are mostly unfamiliar with YOM rules anyway. In Cali. , the YOM program is unrelated to the program for Historical Vehicle plates. I doubt you’d have any problems, threadjack over I promise.
I hade YOM plates on my 59 F250. I bought a DMV clear set of plates from a collector, in my case yellow 56 original issue ones. But that is not all, had to obtain a correct 59 sticker ( there are guys that reclaim these, add fresh adhesive), and the state issues you these “tabs” you’re supposed to somehow affix to the corners of the vintage plates placing the current year month and year sticker. Looks about as goofy as you can imagine. So, I did not comply, as is per usual for me. No tabs, and no current year and month stickers . I simply collected those every year, stacked them in my glove box. Never had an LEO pull me over, they are mostly unfamiliar with YOM rules anyway. In Cali. , the YOM program is unrelated to the program for Historical Vehicle plates. I doubt you’d have any problems, threadjack over I promise.
