I live in MA and am looking at a vanity plate for my '55 F250. MA has some stupid rules :

-plate cannot start with a number
-numbers used have to be at the end and cannot be in the middle.
-6 characters max

55F250 CANNOT be used as an example.

Here are some ideas...open to other suggestions!! (I tried to do a poll and messed it up).

-F25055

-EFFY55

-EFIE55

-EFFIE

-EFY250

 

They all would be great, would lean towards EFY250.

Not sure if this is allowed in MA, here in Texas you can register vintage plates for your truck by year. Has to be in good shape, same year, and not in use. Considered vintage plates so cannot be used as daily driver.

Here is the one I got for my truck to use later.

 

I'm probably just muddying the waters here:

FTWO50

AYTPAK

ATEPAK

PACK855

FIFTY5

FIDDY5

NOCHEV

FIVE5

MCMLV

 

DUBL 5

 

Vanity
Look on eBay for a 55 plate. Check number is not in use. I bought my plate for my 54 on eBay from a Mass vendor. If you can't find 2 plates registry allows 1 plate. Mass registry web site has more info about the type of plate allowed. You can use it for daily driving.

 

Years ago I used this, I now have antique tags, 3QTRDUN

 

Bill, of the ones you listed I like F25055. Are you allowed a space or a hyphen? If so put it between the 0 and 55.

If Mass allows YOM plates I would find a 55 truck plate and use that.


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https://www.ebay.com/itm/38846073631...Bk9SR57LlqaYZg

Does Mass allows YOM plates?
Does Mass. require front plates? If so here is a pair of nice ones on eBay.
Here is pair

 

MYF250

 

Its completely out of character for Illinois but with a EA or expanded antique plate you can run any plate issued by the state of Illinois that matches the year of the vehicle without registering it or contacting the state at all. All you have to do is have the legit plates with you. You can even run different ones on the front and the back.
I thought about getting a custom 55 illinois plate made as it would be near impossible for anyone to know for sure if a 1955 plate was actually issued by the state or not.

 

Great responses!!! Very helpful.

I have '55 original YOM plates and MA does allow them. However it is very explicit that they are for show use etc as they a required to be classified as an antique. I am sure I can go ahead and use the truck how I want and the cops won't bug me, but if there is an accident and it is loaded with stuff from Lowe's or something I don't need the hassle. An “antique motor car” is any motor vehicle over 25 years old maintained solely for use in exhibitions, club activities, parades, and other functions of public interest. This includes test drives to prepare for such functions and transportation to and from repair facilities, and not used primarily for the transportation of passengers or goods over any way.

it's really annoying MA has that rule that it has to start with letters and numbers can't be between any letters, only at the end. Also no spaces allowed.

AAA222 = OK
ABCDEF = OK
AA33BB = Not OK
444CCC = Not OK

If I could have run it I would have done 3QTN55 but it doesn't meet the requirements.

I didn't think of the 8pack variants. Good suggestions.

Those EBAY plates are VERY nice. Much better than mine. Another quirk in MA is a YOM plate cannot be touched up or restored in any fashion and must be fully readable. If you do anything to clean it up it will get rejected.

 

Here in Ontario Canada I was able to get this for the Mercury I'm building..1956M350
for my pickup I have 1956F100 and for my panel I have 56PNLFRD

 

Before I put YOM plates on my 54 I had a vanity plate that read "54-F100." After a couple of years PA made new plates so I put the original in the front . Many times I would be talking to someone about the truck standing in front with the license plate in clear view and they would ask "what year is it?"

 

Here in Wisconsin I'm not sure about YOM plates, but the state is fairly simple as long as they get their money. I have collector plates on my trucks. Collector plates here allow you operate the vehicle pretty much like a regular vehicle with a few exceptions. One is there is a small window you can't operate the collector vehicle, they change is every so often, when I got my first place 40+ years ago you couldn't drive the vehicle from October to April, now I think it's November to March. I never minded that restriction because the plates are non renewable, pay once and they are good as long as you own the vehicle. Another restriction is a collector plated vehicle cannot be altered from factory stock. This rule I see violated by at least half of the vehicles with collector plates, I don't think a '66 Chevelle came with wide tires, dropped in the weeds front end and LS engine. Another restriction is on commercial vehicles, the last time I checked you couldn't carry more than 500 pounds in a truck of any size. All of these rules change every so often.

One law I would like seen enacted in every state concerning vanity plates, I think there should be a law that if you have a vanity plate you need to attach a bumper sticker on your rear bumper explaining the meaning of the plate. I have spent a lot of at stop lights, behind vehicles with vanity plates trying to figure what the heck the plate meant

 

I use the Illinois EA plate which is not supposed to be used the months of December - February
unless you are going to an antique auto show or exhibition, service station or demonstration.
I have a 15 gallon tank and a thirsty FE so I am always on the way to a gas station and anywhere that you go with a 70 year old truck is a exhibition/car show so I basically drive it anytime I want to except in bad weather.