>>>Bill Sohl said:
> Heinz-Martin Weigand <100407.370@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
>
> >Could you perhaps help me with 2 questions, concerning the history of my TR
> >3 A:
>
> >2. Can anyone of you imagine the "meaning" of the license plates? They
> >where: 1NDH672.
>
> While choosing your
> plate numbers is more common today, it wasn't
> done much at all in the 1960s.
I agree it probably means nothing at all, but in the 60's California was
issuing gold-on-black plates of the form XXXNNN where X is any letter and N is
any digit.
Then they switched to gold-on-blue plates of the form NNNXXX in the 70's; I
got 185LOA for my '51 Bentley around 1974. In the late 70's or so they
started doing the blue-on-white plates of the form NXXXNNN, starting with
1XXXNNN, and they're up to 3XXXNNN now.
So Heinz-Martin's TR3A was probably first registered (or reregistered after a
prolonged period not being driven) in the late 70's or early 80's.
--berry
Berry Kercheval :: kerch@parc.xerox.com :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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