if you plan on getting original year plates for your car might want to hurry up before the end of the year due to new law changes...
2011 changes to YOM
From www.txlicenseplates.com (http://www.txlicenseplates.com/):
After Jan. 1, 2011, YOM plates will only be allowed for new registration as "antique". Antique vehicle registration does not allow the car to be driven daily but only infrequently to car shows, antique shows, etc. After Jan. 1, 2011, if you want classic registration, which allows for daily driving with no restrictions, your car will have to use the state issued "specialty plate" unless you have grandfathered YOM plates. But if you buy your YOM plates now and get them registered before Jan. 1, 2011, you'll be grandfathered and can continue using them as long as you don't let your "classic" registration expire.
"Classic" registration will no longer be allowed for every-day driving.
"Antique" registration will not be affected.
You have until January 1, 2011 to have plates approved for use, but until September 1, 2011 to actually register them.
Here is a link to the law (you'll have to scroll down to Sec. 504.501)
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/TN/htm/TN.504.htm (http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/TN/htm/TN.504.htm)
Here is the text:
Sec. 504.501. CLASSIC MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAVEL TRAILERS.
(a) The department shall issue specialty license plates for a motor vehicle that is
at least 25 years old. The license plates must include the word "Classic" or a similar
designation, as appropriate.
(b) A person eligible for the license plates may instead use license plates that were
issued by this state in the same year as the model year of the vehicle and are approved
by the department if the plates are approved for the vehicle before January 1, 2011.
The department may require the attachment of a registration insignia to the license
plate in a manner that does not affect the display of information originally on the
license plate.
(c) There is no fee for issuance or approval of license plates under this section.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1320, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by: Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1136 (http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/html/HB02553F.HTM), Sec. 32, eff. September 1, 2011.
Sounds like Idaho. :(
Missouri has a similar law. You are supposed to keep a log of the miles you drive if your car has "historic vehicle" plates. I asked a cop about it and he said he would not even think about asking for the log if he pulled me over, it wouldn't even occur to him.
Tercin
I found the original plates that were on my Pinto, but they are in too bad a condition to reuse.
Too difficult to find a good set for my 72 Olds.
I guess I will use the cheapo crappy ones the state are issuing now.
We have a similar law in Washington.I have my truck licenced as a collector, as such I am not to drive it over 500 miles a year and cant use it for hauling loads or anything like that.BUT I use it as I see fit and have never been bothered.The liberals in WA just want the old polluters off the road,the police could care less.