Got my 60's retro California plates on

vertrkr · Jul 23, 2015

I know it's kinda silly but I really like the old 1960's plates and thought it would match well with my Sandstone color. I hope I don't puzzle some cop and get pulled over to see what's going on. This isn't a real 60's plate, the DMV has a California legacy plate program to make new plates with the old look.

Citadel Brian · Jul 23, 2015

Looks nice.

kpeterha · Jul 24, 2015

Bought my '67 Mustang from original owner and had this type plate. Sold the car 1998, new owner's son took it to AZ for college and police there told him he had to register it in AZ and get new plates. The father still lived in CA and was registered owner. I told him it was BS and to never give up those plates. Wonder where my Mustang is now? We also have my Dad's '63 Corvair with original plates. Looking to fix it up and sell it.

vertrkr · Jul 24, 2015

kpeterha said:
Bought my '67 Mustang from original owner and had this type plate. Sold the car 1998, new owner's son took it to AZ for college and police there told him he had to register it in AZ and get new plates. The father still lived in CA and was registered owner. I told him it was BS and to never give up those plates. Wonder where my Mustang is now? We also have my Dad's '63 Corvair with original plates. Looking to fix it up and sell it.

Funny, my dad is a original owner of a '66 Mustang and Corvair. Still sitting in his garage waiting for me someday. I abused those cars as a teen, not sure how they or I survied with out a dent.

FSTDANGO3 · Jul 24, 2015

Very Cool

kpeterha · Jul 24, 2015

My Dad's Corvair was the first car he ever bought new. There were six kids, me being the youngest. We had the Mustangs and Corvairs because they were bought cheap and we repaired/maintained them ourselves. If you didn't work on the cars, you didn't drive them. Our one big car to fit everyone in the days before minivans was a '69 Ford Country Squire LTD. It had a 429 engine and weighed over 5K pounds. Precursor to the Durango?

skitzo.d · Jul 24, 2015

I have a couple of those in my basement from when I lived out there. They replaced them with the "Sunset" graphics at the top of the plate and then went with the Califronia in script. I liked the sunset ones. it's cool they brought a throwback color.

KLACH94 · Jul 25, 2015

vertrkr said:
I know it's kinda silly but I really like the old 1960's plates and thought it would match well with my Sandstone color. I hope I don't puzzle some cop and get pulled over to see what's going on. This isn't a real 60's plate, the DMV has a California legacy plate program to make new plates with the old look.

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Looks Great....How long did you have to wait....I went to AAA and the guy told me its 3 months. I really want them though!

Sarlacc · Jul 26, 2015

Nice.

Im currently waiting for mine to arrive. I ordered them when I still had my challenger, but I think they'll still look great on my Durango.

vertrkr · Jul 26, 2015

KLACH94 said:
Looks Great....How long did you have to wait....I went to AAA and the guy told me its 3 months. I really want them though!

I waited 2 years but I signed up at day one when they started the program getting deposits to see which decade year plates made the cut. Only the '60 plates got enough response so that's all they make now, no idea of the turn around time now.

KLACH94 · Jul 27, 2015

vertrkr said:
I waited 2 years but I signed up at day one when they started the program getting deposits to see which decade year plates made the cut. Only the '60 plates got enough response so that's all they make now, no idea of the turn around time now.

Hahahahaha! 2 years was definitely not what I was hoping to hear!!! Hopefully the wait is way shorter now that they are actually sending them out.

unxpctd · Jul 27, 2015

Very cool! In Minnesota you can do that also.....provide the 2 plates and they'll register it.

Awesome idea!

TheBeak · Jul 27, 2015

Love those retro look CA plates.

Not sure how it is in other states now... but in FL, we have about 100 styles of license plate to choose from....

Florida DHSMV - Specialty License Plates Index

SkillzandDrillz · Oct 23, 2015

Got mine last week.

I love the look

CKngAdventure · Oct 27, 2015

SkillzandDrillz said:
Got mine last week.

I love the look

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We have the exact same vehicle. I think I am now sold on the legacy California plates. I wondered how the gold lettering would look and it does not seem to detract.

SkillzandDrillz · Oct 27, 2015

Sweet.

Be ready to wait though...took me 4 months (16 weeks) to receive them. DMV said if somethings up at the Prison, they put them on hold. If you just order new plates without being personalized, you will receive within a week. Hopefully you have better luck than me. Still, super happy with the look. Had about 3 comments over the weekend from driving around.

CKngAdventure said:
We have the exact same vehicle. I think I am now sold on the legacy California plates. I wondered how the gold lettering would look and it does not seem to detract.

DurangoUnchained · Oct 27, 2015

Here in Pennsylvania we used to have these D.A.R.E. plates, and I wanted one in the worst way, but they're no longer making them in this color scheme. Not that I'm anti-drug, but the plate would look great on a white, black or red DD.

dizzyD · Oct 28, 2015

Skillz,
are your plate # random or you chose number?
I've been seeing them around for almost a year now, First one I saw was an all black 2015 Mustang (back in 2014) thought the owner painted the "personalized plates" black and gold...

SkillzandDrillz · Oct 28, 2015

Mine are personalized so I chose them.

They were only released in June this year so not sure what you saw. However, a lot of cars still have the original ones on from the 60s. They look very similar it's just the new ones have to have the reflective paint for safety etc.

dizzyD said:
Skillz,
are your plate # random or you chose number?
I've been seeing them around for almost a year now, First one I saw was an all black 2015 Mustang (back in 2014) thought the owner painted the "personalized plates" black and gold...

dizzyD · Oct 28, 2015

Not sure what I saw either, just that it was out of place on a new mustang!

Got my 60's retro California plates on

vertrkr

Citadel Brian

kpeterha

vertrkr

FSTDANGO3

kpeterha

skitzo.d

KLACH94

Sarlacc

vertrkr

KLACH94

unxpctd

TheBeak

SkillzandDrillz

CKngAdventure

SkillzandDrillz

DurangoUnchained

dizzyD

SkillzandDrillz

dizzyD

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