black 60's plates on e30?

[Jand3rson]

Holy fucking shit, I am getting these for the E30. AWESOME!!!!!!!

[Jonny Cash]

we have a shit ton of plate options here, including one for just about every nascar driver

oh and did i mention no front plate

Us too. I cant even describe how much i hated having a front plate. This is the Guy Harvey plate I just put on the alpine e30. Not sure if i should use the plate filler or not.


And if i ever decide to pick up an e24 (i want one badly) this will go on!

[dreamer420]

i have the 80's california sunset plate too, but its all faded now. i love the plate though, anyone know if places repaint them?

[mammoth_e30]

Nice work, glad I picked up on this thread and found the custom plate website. Anyone ever actually pull off getting a personalized registration and then using a custom retro plate?

[Kershaw]

congrats dude.

[browntown]

happy days! a couple years ago in this thread I mentioned my fascination with the pacific wonderland plates from the oregon centennial in the 50's. Well now they're running a special 40,000 plates for Oregon's 150yr anniversary. I ran down to the DMV and $133 (ouch) later, TADA!!

[CleanAzzE30z]

Im so doing that



Mariano

[VacMan]

I was asking this question long ago. I still have the awesome 1986 Sunset plate for my 325e. Now if I get an ELP with those same numbers "2CUGXXX" can I once again put the old plate on? I heard once its retired its retired. This would be so fucking awesome.


Mariano

I know someone personally who has done exactly that. He got an old plate, paid for a custom CA plate and got the old plate number as his new one. Once the plate came with the stickers, he just put them on the old one and put the new one in his trunk. I doubt anyone is going to hassle him, but if they do he has the new one to back it up.

The thing is, if a cop runs the plate number, everything's legit because that number is a custom one matching his car.

[CleanAzzE30z]

we have a shit ton of plate options here, including one for just about every nascar driver

Wow. What about Jean Girard? jk.


Mariano

[NC325iC]

we have a shit ton of plate options here, including one for just about every nascar driver

oh and did i mention no front plate

[CleanAzzE30z]

I've heard of people finding black plates in junkyards and then getting a personalized plate with the same number. That way they can run the black plate with a current sticker and not worry about it.

Don't do it though, because I'm going to and I don't even know why I told you about it.

Tim

I was asking this question long ago. I still have the awesome 1986 Sunset plate for my 325e. Now if I get an ELP with those same numbers "2CUGXXX" can I once again put the old plate on? I heard once its retired its retired. This would be so fucking awesome.


Mariano

[JasonC]

dont know about CA (the best way to find out is to call the dmv, not ask here), but in Oregon the car has to be age appropriate with the plate. Which pisses me off. I'm dying to get a set of "Pacific Wonderland" plates. That and in 6 years my e30 may qualify for special interest plates which have a lifetime registration. Now to get the bmwcca as a recognized collector group with the state. Curt has an old orange oregon plate, and is pretty retro cool too.

I wonder if PA has something like that? I'll have to look into it... Cause our normal plates are but ugly. That's why i got a RR plate on my e30. And the Antique tag on my Corvair looks almost like a normal PA plate with a Ford Model A on it. WTF PA?, i don't want a Damn Ford on my tag ..

I love the plate i have on my e30,


The gay one on the Corvair :|

[Pedro]

Just paint your plate black and paint the letters yellow. Ive seen it on a few cars with new plates. The coolest one was a viper with black stripes and it had a plate painted black with yellow letters that said SNAKE

[MoparJ]

In CA, you used to be able to put older plates on a newer car, but the car those plates were originally issued to had to be completely out of circulation (i.e. junked or never registered again). I don't know if this is still the case...

I know that I've seen several cars around town with plates way older than the car.

[lifeiskaos]

I have thought about this for before and actually have a plan put together.

There is a site that sells european plates (www.licenseplates.tv) they also sell all kinds of US plates, new and old. You can order a dead ringer black California plate from them, you just can't have it shipped to a California address.

I want to get a Vintage 356 Porsche speedster replica and will put a black plate on it. Plan to just order custom white plate and at same time order black plate through this site and have it shipped to a friend in Chicago, he sends it to me. When DMV gets my white custom plate I go pick it up but put stickers on matching black replica.

that is quite an excellent idea! i'd just worry about explaining to the officer why i have a 60's plate on my car, especially since if i get a custom one, i'd want it to say something cool, but it'd probably be a better idea to make it look legit, with the "AAA 000" format