Vintage CA plates may be coming

problem is, how well will the average person be able to ascertain original and new recreation? how many of the new ones will get resold
 
Apparantly the new ones are reflective so pretty easy to distinguish them from original - which is why the collectors are against.

Here in Louisiana, as long as the vintage plate matches the year of the car, it can be registered (benefit of living in a backward state):

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I guess so but I can't imagine the CA DMV making them so close to original that a little doctoring would cover up the difference. Is the typeface the same or is it more photo/big brother readable like modern ones?

rsporsche said:
Steve,

you can create patina / and accelerate the aging process.
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It isn't clear how they will be similar yet different. If reflective like current plates it will be a joke. You can already do YOM plates up through the end of Black plates in 69. This would add Blue plates to the mix but we need more info from the DMV.
 
The state is scrambling for revenue, so I dont really have an issue with this. However they dont seem to understand that you can already get vintage CA plates online (blue, black and even yellow). The only difference is that they are aluminum and would fail a magnet test. Seems to me if you want that vintage look, you already have it:

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David said:
However they dont seem to understand that you can already get vintage CA plates online (blue, black and even yellow). The only difference is that they are aluminum and would fail a magnet test. Seems to me if you want that vintage look, you already have it
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If you are referring to the plates from licenseplates.tv, then no we don't "have it". Or at least, not any more. licenseplates.tv has stopped offering repro California vintage license plates. Check out the list of states on this page: http://www.licenseplates.tv/usa-state-plates.html?zenid=ppum475g6vni5pn751tp68qj22 - it jumps right from Arkansas to Colorado. I'm not sure why California got deleted, but can imagine a threatening letter from the Attorney General's office arriving at licenseplates.tv. Too bad, because they offered a nice product.

stevehose said:
Here in Louisiana, as long as the vintage plate matches the year of the car, it can be registered (benefit of living in a backward state)
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Oh, we can do that here in California as well - but only for pre-1970 vehicles. Which of our two states is more "backward" is another discussion!

I would guess that the reason the collectors interviewed by the LA Times were against the DMV issued retro plates was because those "collectors" were actually vintage plate dealers. I'll also agree that if the DMV lets modern cars run the ersatz vintage plates, it will cheapen the whole thing. Somehow a 2013 Fiat 500 with orange/black, 7 digit plates is just wrong.
 
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