Antique tag
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Antique tag
Here in Kansas we can tag and register an antique vehicle using the same year tag as the year of manufacture. It has to be a Kansas tag and the same year as the vehicle title. It doesnot need to be from the county of residence and you can use a car tag on a truck. Not sure how many other states do this but ran across one on fleabay today that would be great for someone living in Illinois for a 56 292 Ford.
http://cgi.ebay.com/3-1950s-INDIANA-LICENSE-PLATES-1956-1958-1959_W0QQitemZ330207580060QQihZ014QQcategoryZ20274 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Thought about picking this one up for trading fodder but decided to post here to give some fellow trucker for that state a chance. Even if you can't tag it that way in Illinois it would be neat for display purposes.
http://cgi.ebay.com/3-1950s-INDIANA-LICENSE-PLATES-1956-1958-1959_W0QQitemZ330207580060QQihZ014QQcategoryZ20274 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Thought about picking this one up for trading fodder but decided to post here to give some fellow trucker for that state a chance. Even if you can't tag it that way in Illinois it would be neat for display purposes.
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From: Highland Village, TX
I saw a bunch of old plates at the Fort Worth swap meet this past weekend. I know Texas has a similar ability to run with an old plate. I was really shocked at the prices of some of the old plates. Typically ranged from $20 for rusty junk to $150 for what looked like a brand new set of 53 Texas truck plates. Maybe I could patch panel the $20 rusty ones, paint and sell for $150. 
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From: Central NC
We are also able to do this in NC, but must 'carry' a valid tag in the vehicle somewhere...
The 56 tag we have was 'restored' and looks great... also have a 56 michigan tag on the front for kicks and giggles, as that is where we obtained the truck.
bad thing...
the tag in the original location on the back is 'hidden'... especially after a 'lift and tuck' of the rear bumper.
the truck (as I understand it) is also exempt from yearly state inspection.
The 56 tag we have was 'restored' and looks great... also have a 56 michigan tag on the front for kicks and giggles, as that is where we obtained the truck.
bad thing...
the tag in the original location on the back is 'hidden'... especially after a 'lift and tuck' of the rear bumper.
the truck (as I understand it) is also exempt from yearly state inspection.
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Texas is a little different. Your tags have to say "TEXAS TRUCK" if you are putting them on a truck. I found out the hard way when I was there. I bought some good looking '54 tags, faxed the info to Austin, got my reject notice. So I was able to sell them on ebay and found a seller there who agreed to find some for me with the truck indication on them. Now I live in Florida, where there is no such option. My tags says "antique vechicle", however I am not limited on driving it.
I still have the 54 texas truck tags. They are about 80%.
Texas, like some other states has strange automotive laws anyway. Florida did away with the safety inspection because of widespread fraud by the inspecting stations. And we only need one tag on the car to be identified. So now I have a perfectly clean, uncluttered windshield, no unsightly tag bracket on the front, and it costs me about $50 or less a year for each of my vehicles.
(But I did have many other things about Texas that I liked!)
I still have the 54 texas truck tags. They are about 80%.
Texas, like some other states has strange automotive laws anyway. Florida did away with the safety inspection because of widespread fraud by the inspecting stations. And we only need one tag on the car to be identified. So now I have a perfectly clean, uncluttered windshield, no unsightly tag bracket on the front, and it costs me about $50 or less a year for each of my vehicles.
(But I did have many other things about Texas that I liked!)
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From: Indiana
I bought a '51 plate, car, for my wall. I was told by the guy I got it from, that we in Indiana can use the plates. I haven't found all the "rules", but hope to. I tried first to buy a perfect, new set of '51 plates, still in the wrapper - he wanted $225 for them! But he did explain that the Korean War caused Indiana to use the same '51 plates in '52 and '53, with just a metal "tag". So a double-whammy - one-third the number of plates made for '51-2-3, and three years of trucks, looking for the plates...
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There are a couple of places that will restore damaged plates but the cost goes way up as the damage gets worse. It is amazing what they can do though. Seems like I remember that minimal straightening and a repaint runs around $150. Don't think I'd ever go that far unless I had a year/number plate (like 56 or 1956) and those are real pricy to start with.
This falls under the "my mother threw out my baseball card collection" stories. We had license plates going back to 1951 (ironically, including the 2 years Dad was stationed in Indiana during the aforementioned Korean war, he was still on active duty from WWII and got called up. " Daddy, what did you do during the war?" "I kept the North Koreans out of Indiana."). After he passed, Mom cleaned out the garage and threw them all away. All the rest of the years had the same two numbers 1111 and 1122.
Another thing, in Kansas you can even run a vintage Dealer plate if you can find one.
This falls under the "my mother threw out my baseball card collection" stories. We had license plates going back to 1951 (ironically, including the 2 years Dad was stationed in Indiana during the aforementioned Korean war, he was still on active duty from WWII and got called up. " Daddy, what did you do during the war?" "I kept the North Koreans out of Indiana."). After he passed, Mom cleaned out the garage and threw them all away. All the rest of the years had the same two numbers 1111 and 1122.
Another thing, in Kansas you can even run a vintage Dealer plate if you can find one.
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From: Sandy Run SC
In SC you can get an antique tag much cheaper than a reg truck or car tag but you are restricted to driving it to events and not for an everday driver.You can get caught with these restricted tags. I had a farm tag on my farm truck but you cannot pull boats fishing or any other use except farm use. My buddy got caught coming from fishing and the trooper wrote him up and he went to court and lost. We changed our tags very soon after that. A lot of people get away with it but my luck runs sour.
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Thats cool. Colorado just updated the laws to allow more than just the "horseless carriage" to do it. The new law allows any car 30 years and older. Only a rear is required, Must be a CO plate, ledgible,etc.
I just did my 63 Futura rag with a set of un-issued still in the orig mailer envelope set of 63 plates. I have a real nice set of 56' Colorado (truck) as well, but I am going to register the truck in NM as I just found a new unissued ( 1 only needed ) 56' NM plate to use if allowed. I currently use it on the front at shows.
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I just did my 63 Futura rag with a set of un-issued still in the orig mailer envelope set of 63 plates. I have a real nice set of 56' Colorado (truck) as well, but I am going to register the truck in NM as I just found a new unissued ( 1 only needed ) 56' NM plate to use if allowed. I currently use it on the front at shows.
Jon
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From: clinton,tn
i have two antique tag's,i live in tn. the lady looked thru a stack and found one that ended in 49 for my f1,and one that ended with a 66 for the other one.i thought that was good of her. tracy
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