Re: [FWDLK] License Plates

["richard main" <shelldrakelimited@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave, you are wrong.  The '51 plate and the '63 plate were black with
yellow letters, but the '56 base plate used till '62 was yellow with
black letters.  I have ten sets of these plates on my wall and on my
'56 Furys.

Richard

> Glenn,
>
> California in 1957 was black with yellow lettering. They used ordinary black
> paint into at least the early 1960s.
>
> The movie studios in California can make plastic plates with any alpha
> numeric combination they want. These are just not legal on the street, but
> OK on the studio set. A friend of mine had some he "retained" after renting
> his car for a movie.
>
> I have considered taking several plates and cutting out the letters that I
> wanted. Then re-welding them back into a plate with the combination that I
> wanted. The only problem is that in Minnesota, the plates were
> "reflectorized" starting in 1956, so I would need to have a special source
> to recoat the plate. I suspect that Minnesota was a leader in
> "reflectorization" because 3M, a Minnesota company, is the original material
> provider. More work than I wanted to do.
>
> You may want to look for some license plate collectors on the Internet.
>
> Dave Homstad
> 56 Dodge D500
>
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: glenn barratt [SMTP:FURY@xxxxxxxxxx]
>  > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 4:01 PM
>  > To:   L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  > Subject:      [FWDLK] License Plates
>  >
>  > Can someone tell me what color the license plates would have been in
>  > Hollywood, California, in 1957?
>  > And does anyone have a good source for manufacturing custom vanity
>  > plates, in the style/color of the originals for the year/city?
>  > Thanks in advance.
>  > Glenn.
>  > 57 Fury.
>  > New Zealand.