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I'm rarely at the DMV in NY for more than 30 minutes. As for historical plates, check ebay. For a '71, your plates are a bit harder to find- you need the blue plates with orange lettering, I think 66-72, and you have to then get the '71 registration sticker. Those are findable separately. Ebay is a good place to look. For me, '73 is when they switched to the orange plates with blue letters, '73-'86. Registration sticker was droppen in '73 in favor of a window sticker. Much easier to find (and I have a stash of them at home). What's the holy grail for me is a set of orange plates with xxx-Qnn, which would have been a Queens county issued plate in the '70s. I'm trolling Ebay for those. Yes, I know too much about NY State License Plates. On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:52:13 -0500, Aaron Clow <cars@tiserves.com> wrote: > BOB2TYPE3S@aol.com wrote: > > >historical plate with similar restrictions, so it really isn't much of a deal (other > >than the cost). Our registration fee is very reasonable though, but our state's > >been messing with getting older expired plates out of their system. > > > > When I was considering the options, I went to the DMV website and I > could use either "Historical" or "Vintage" Plates. The NYDMV has two > different categories. I went looking online for original '71 NY plates. > Couldn't find anything. Trouble is (as I'm sure some of you know), they > have to be original-issue plates with NO re-painting of any kind on > them. If you want "Vintage" plates you even need to have the '71 sticker > on them from wayback. I imagine there are a lot of people in NY with > vintage/historical cars that have already looted any leftover supply of > vintage plates... I think I'm going to just turn in the plates for the > winter. The only good thing is that the NY DMV has a "special" line for > plate surrender. I've never had to wait more than five minutes. Getting > it registered again is the real headache. Usually takes over an hour. > > Aaron > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >