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Originally Posted by bugstrider
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Thanks for your post about the classic plates. My car is a 1970, I am seeing some conflicting information about the plates -
The post below (see link) says you MUST find plates with the validation sticker that corresponds to the year of your car however your post says "As long as the year of the vehicle falls in the year of the license plate series, then your good to re-register those plates to the vehicle in question." Could you pls clarify?
"One must find a set of plates that has the year sticker of their car on them. If you bring a plate to DMV that was pressed in your year, but it has an earlier or later sticker on it - no go."
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/929621-put-california-blue-plate-your-70s-911-a.html
So Validation sticker required that matches YOM of your car?? Super hard to find plates with corresponding validation sticker..
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Yeah, you bet...
Just think of the CA YOM plate program as a three phase process:
P-1:
Find a usable set of clean license plates for your car. The plates can be if any sequence as long as your car falls within the years the license plates were produced. The only time it might get tricky is if you happen to have a car manufactured at the end of one series and the beginning of another.
For example, the end year run of black and yellow plates and the beginning of the blue and gold plates. Depending on when the car was manufactured per the VIN#.
P-2:
Once you have acquired a good clean set of plates for your particular car, Then you must locate an original year "sticker" of your car. Once you do that, you attach the original year sticker to the plate. Once this is done and it's "permanently" attached to the plate, then CA DMV views that license plate belonging to the year of your car.
I'm working with a photocopy of my plate so bare with me.
Plate with the corresponding vehicle year tab attached.
P-3:
Is the most arduous of the three phases. I say this because this is where the paperwork begins. Applications, copies and of course, DMV fees. Now you may be wondering what happens to that rare "year" sticker that you located from some collector and attached it to the license plates you also bought. When DMV assigns the plate to your car and sends you the paperwork supporting that, they will also send you two little metal tabs. It is these tabs that you also attach to the top securement screws holding your license plate on the car. It is these little tabs that you then attaché the current month and year stickers of your vehicles "current" registration. Hence, always displaying your vehicles rare year tab permanently displayed on your re-assigned plate.
Attached to your vehicle with the exception the attachment points of the meta tabs will be behind your license plate.
I hope this helps un-muddy the waters.
Just remember, find a good usable set of license plates. Then find a good usable year sticker that corresponds to the year of your vehicle. Attach the year sticker to the plate and your in business to start the process.
Hopefully this will link you over to a thread I did on the 912Regisrty.
California DMV Y.O.M. Vintage Linense Plate Application
The link is being a butt, so pop on over to the 912BBS for the full version. My username is JT68912. Tried to get both forums to align the usernames but there is issues per the administrators on the sites.
If you have any further questions, shoot me a PM and can give you my cell number and I'll talk to you in person if you want.
I literally just "boosted" these photos from another post today. The reason is it is another example of a CA car having period correct plates assigned.
