My Bugeye was first registered in CA around Nov/Dec 1969 and I got the Blue
& Yellow plates (687 AMY). Must have happened between Aug and Nov/Dec 1969.
Larry Miller
----- Original Message -----
From "James Algar" <JamesA at HI-TORQUE.com>
To: "Spridgets list" <spridgets@autox.team.net>; "'Toby Atwater'"
<Toby.1969ah.1971lc@worldnet.att.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 1:09 PM
Subject: RE: Calif. plates for 67 Sprite
> The switch from yellow on black plates to yellow on blue happened around
> 1969-70. My '69 Sprite, registered in August of that year, has a yellow on
> black plate YXG 796...pretty near the end of the letter/number pool.
>
>
> Jim Algar
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: Toby Atwater
> > Reply To: Toby Atwater
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 11:32
> > To: Spridgets list
> > Subject: Re: Calif. plates for 67 Sprite
> >
> > When did CA switch from the yellow black plates to the yellow on blue
> > plates? I always thought it was in the 50s. My Sprite has the newer CA
> > plates on it, and my land cruiser from 71 has the blue on yellow plates.
> >
> > (now CA plates are blue on white and 7 digits)
> >
> >
>
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