The extra charges is why we never got vanity plates in Florida. My year of vehicle (1955) plate was slightly more to have legalised but I believe it is actually cheaper than regular tag. Our other old cars have antique plates which are also cheaper than regular tags. My truck and RV are expensive. I've heard some states charge by the value of the vehicle. As things cost more and we make less, we have to cut corners someplace.
I don't remember what the cost is here in MO but I do know that the core charge is based on the value of your vehicle. Man, I am getting ripped off. I shouldn't have to pay a thing if it's based on the value. Hell, they should pay me just to have to deal with it!
Personalized plates here are $30 extra upfront, $15 extra per year after that. They have lots of other backgrounds for places for $10 extra and I see just as many of those running around as the standard plate. My 20+ year old cars cost $50 to $70 a year for registration. Newer cars and trucks are much more. But that's all a drop in the bucket compared to the governor's plan to raise every registration by an additional $120. Hope to god it does not pass.
My collector plates on the Mercury were a one time payment of 300 bucks. I pay 75 a year on the Caprice (I need to put Collector Plates on that, too) and I pay 85 a year for my Silverado.
I got hubby plates for his truck a couple of years ago, they read "GOTTAGO" ... and he usually does...
Sadly many retirees can not afford to drive anymore. I believe that is the plan for the future. All States are raising tag and license prices. Add to that gas prices, higher insurance, etc. many are hurtin! And in the boonies where we live there are no buses, trains, or taxis. We're gettin too old to walk 10 miles to town and carry two or three bags of groceries back home. My next tag shoud read "2POOR"
Shouldn't that be ? Anyway, this reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer got a proctologists vanity plate by mistake: Laughs ensued. http://youtu.be/tujqM2u-BVo Larry David; comic genius.
Mine aren't vanity plates but they might as well be. My wife Amy bid on this Torino for me in September 2008 from the hospital bed where a few hours later she'd deliver our youngest daughter. So when I went looking for year-of-manufacture plates from '76 for my car, I had done all the research, and since my car was built 7/76, I needed Nxx000 or Pxx000 plates to be date-correct for summer/fall 1976. Then I saw these: And I couldn't believe I found plates with my wife's name on them to put on the car I love that she bought for me for $355. Only an extra $15 a year to keep these on it, and I made it in under the wire for grandfathering on "classic" registration. Nowadays, you can only get "ANTIQUE" registration with year of manufacture plates, which doesn't allow you to drive for work or pleasure, only maintenance, shows, and parades. Screw that. I want to DRIVE my car, not look at it! Sure it means I have to pass safety inspection but I can handle that.
So is it true when New Yorkers retire they are required to move to Florida? .... I never tire of the reruns of that show.
There is something about seeing a classic car with period plates. To me, it just screams "the owner loves me", I've been doing my research to see if I can get my Vista Cruiser registered with the "Arizona 73" plates. So far, no luck shy of calling the MVD. The search continues... Oh and @Occupant, thats a sweet Torino! You don't see many of those around, and with those plates it makes it even more unique.
I tried to get "CHK5WGN" (Chuck's Wagon, play on chuckwagon), but just received notice yesterday that I was denied.
Back in 1959, the state of New Jersey issued all its residents new cream colored tags with black letters. Previous to that, they were black with orange letters, I believe. Ours was BPN-622 which got transferred off the '59 Ranch Wagon when Dad bought the new '63 Country Sedan. The '63 got handed down to my two older brothers and when we got rid of the car in '71, my bro kept the plates. He gave them to me a few years ago for Christmas and they're in amazingly good shape. It's always been my intention if I ever get a car of late fifties/sixties vintage, I'll order new vanity plates BPN-622, but put the old plates on the car. They're still the same color, so I don't think I'd get in trouble. Wouldn't that be cool?
