There are several ways to get the DMV to approve an old car carrying vintage plates.
Good morning Honk: Let me tell you a little about my quest. I purchased a 1940 Packard and it has the original license plates on the car. The lettering is black with a yellow background — they are in excellent condition. I went to the Department of Motor Vehicles to try to register the car with these original plates. They are telling me I need to get the original owner of the car to sign paperwork releasing the plates from his name to mine. The problem with that is the owner is deceased.
If certain criteria are met, the DMV allows an owner of a car that rolled off of the assembly line in 1969 or before to wear what the agency calls Year of Manufacture license plates. In short, if the vintage plates are in good condition and used the year the vehicle was new, they can be used. And, the plates do not need to have come from the same vehicle.Ronald Ongtoaboc
, a DMV spokesman, who confirmed that Ronnie could get the previous owner to release the plates. As Ronnie mentioned, that gent has died, and Ronnie wasn’t aware of any relative or representative who could legally sign over the plates, either. There was an owner between the original one and Ronnie.“The YOM plates will only become available again after the plates are no longer active, usually after inactivity over four years and the plate record is purged,” Ongtoaboc told Honk in an email.
Honk relayed this info to Ronnie, thinking it was his best bet. Ronnie has documentation that appears to show the plates were last registered in December 2017.Ongtoaboc kindly asked for Ronnie’s contact info from Honk, so he could pass it along to a DMV specialist to see if Ronnie can have his original plates on his beautiful Packard.
Ronnie did get a call back, and a DMV official told him the car was last registered in 2020. So he intends to slap on the standard-issue plates and try again to the get originals on his Packard in late 2024 or thereabouts.
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