Re: IML: California black license plates (Texas)

["dansgarage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <dansgarage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim!...not sure which state you are located in but when I went to register and insure my two 66 Imperials here in southern California I happened to find ut that AAA had just started insuring 'classic cars'. Here the local AAA office can do everything, except give you the driving test, that you would normally have done at the DMV....and wait in line 3 hours for! It took me 10 minutes at the AAA office! I did have to explain to the lady that Imperial was NOT a Chrysler (for Insurance purposes) and used the example that even though Lincoln is part of FORD you don't call a Continental a FORD CONTINENTAL....and she was fine with that, especially when she checking in the book and actually was able to fine a 'IMPERIAL' listing for the catagories that were OK to use on the Insurance card (and the Registration card as well).
.....if you have to go the route of using the local DMV office...Good Luck in finding someone who even knows what an IMPERIAL is anymore!!....just look for the oldest person there and maybe you'll be lucky!!
Good Luck!!
Dan Melnik


---- Bogart3147@xxxxxxx wrote: 

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My problem is not with plates so much as getting my car listed as an  
Imperial Crown over being listed as a Chrysler Imperial.  I'm dealing with  that with 
the insurance company now and will pursue it with the state a little  later.
 
Timothy Callaway
1965 Crown 4-door
 
 
Texas is a lot more liberal (not a phrase you see every day) on this  
subject.  My 58 has had a series of plates on it.  When it came  time - oh 
blessed day, would that it would return again, soon - to register  it, the 
plates from the 1980s were discarded in favor of modern ones.   At a certain 
point, for delightfully few dollars, I bought a good set of  1958 Texas car 
plates - black with white letters - from an e-bay seller  conveniently 
located right here in San Antonio.  We exchanged paper for  tin at a gas 
station.  I made photocopies of them, went down to the  main DMV office, 
filled out a form, paid a pittance and was allowed to put  them on the car.

Hugh 




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