Mike,
Black plates can be fitted to a car if you can find/buy a set that
have the same year registration as the vehicle you want to fit was
first registered. Back them the plate was stamped with the year or
the was a metal tag attached. I'm pretty sure you must have both
plates and there are probably a couple other requirements you need to
satisfy for the DMV, but that is the basic requirement.
I think the crossover year to black was late 50's but I'm not sure of
the exact year.
Gerard
At 9:21 AM -0400 10/11/03, Michel R. Gagne wrote:
>Hi folks,
>It is pretty early for you folks on the left coast but I was curious about
>when the changeover from black on yellow, to yellow on black (mid 60s?), to
>yellow on blue (early 70s?) plate changes occurred.
>
>If you see a vehicle with black plates, does that mean it has been
>continuously registered in CA since the mid 60s? If a car is imported into
>CA does it get plates corresponding to when it was born or when it was first
>registered in the state?
>
>Are there similar plate colors in Arizona?
>
>Thanks I9m just trying to understand the rules about these so called black
>plate specials, and if there are easy ways of making a car that say spent
>its life in Chicago then have a black plate upon registering it in CA.
>
>Thanks as always,
>Mike G
>Chapel Hill, NC
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