Year Of Manufacture Plates

Just curious what states and provinces or other countries allow " year of manufacture" license plates. I think they look great on my Indian except I had no where to put the renewal sticker so reluctantly cropped and pasted it as shown.

[vph-d]

Colorado allows the use of "year of manufacture" for bikes and cars. They stipulate limited use of these plates, to and from shows, etc. However, Colorado recently released a 5 year
"motorcycle collector" plate for machines 25 years and older.
VPH-D

[scoop]

North Carolina allows any state "year of manufacture" plates. You must have a valid NC plate in your possession to use the old plates. Put new plate under the old plate , in the toolbox, or as a Highway Patrolman told me, "fold it up and put it in your pocket."

[Kozy]

Michigan also allows year of manufature plates with the historic vehicale plate restrictions on use of the bike. My biggest restriction has been the cost of the historic plates!

[Ohio-Rider]

North Carolina allows any state "year of manufacture" plates. You must have a valid NC plate in your possession to use the old plates. Put new plate under the old plate , in the toolbox, or as a Highway Patrolman told me, "fold it up and put it in your pocket."

Same here as in NC. Anyone in the buckeye state looking for one, need only to contact Lenny Fetterman (419)693-4382. he's got them all, including side car plates as well, and no they ain't cheap.

[Barry Brown]

Hmmm, sounds like we have a pretty sweet deal here as far as I know there are no restrictions on vehicles with year of manufacture plates. On my 1936 truck I have a different type of plate, an "Historic vehicle" plate and it has restrictions. The vehicle has to be going or coming from a show, going or coming from a repair garage or out for 'testing purposes" I have been out "testing' this old truck quite a bit! The nice thing about that plate is that it is inexpensive. I have heard that B.C. has a collector motorcycle plate that can be rotated around one's collection. Can any BC listers elaborate. Cory?

[Barry Brown]

North Carolina allows any state "year of manufacture" plates. You must have a valid NC plate in your possession to use the old plates. Put new plate under the old plate , in the toolbox, or as a Highway Patrolman told me, "fold it up and put it in your pocket."

Do you mean if i lived in NC I could run , say a nice California porcelain 1913 plate on my 1913 Harley? If so, i wonder if they would let you run a 1913 Manitoba plate? ( as long as i had an NC plate in the tool box) That actually sounds like a pretty cool deal if you were lucky enough to have a bike that had enough history in another state to warrant it.

[Ohio-Rider]

After re-reading scoops statement i must revise mine. In Ohio it must be a "Ohio" year of manufacture plate. Our historical plates are also quite inexpensive with a one time fee. The year of manufacture plates are expensive and have a tendacy get stolen so mounting them securely is a must.

[fabercycle]

Barry,

How about a photo of a side view of that 36 Chief?

[Barry Brown]

IT'S A FOUR

[scoop]

Do you mean if i lived in NC I could run , say a nice California porcelain 1913 plate on my 1913 Harley? If so, i wonder if they would let you run a 1913 Manitoba plate? ( as long as i had an NC plate in the tool box) That actually sounds like a pretty cool deal if you were lucky enough to have a bike that had enough history in another state to warrant it.

Yes. In North Carolina you can run any states plate on an antique as long as it is the same year of manufacture as your bike or car. I am currently displaying a California plate and a Texas plate.

[Perry Ruiter]

Hmmm, sounds like we have a pretty sweet deal here as far as I know there are no restrictions on vehicles with year of manufacture plates. On my 1936 truck I have a different type of plate, an "Historic vehicle" plate and it has restrictions. The vehicle has to be going or coming from a show, going or coming from a repair garage or out for 'testing purposes" I have been out "testing' this old truck quite a bit! The nice thing about that plate is that it is inexpensive. I have heard that B.C. has a collector motorcycle plate that can be rotated around one's collection. Can any BC listers elaborate. Cory?

Yeah in BC we have two types of plates for old bikes. Vintage, which sounds basically like your "Historic vehicle" plate, cheap but lots of restrictions and Collector, which isn't all that cheap but the only restriction is no driving to work. It's the collector plate that can be floating and move around from vehicle to vehicle. I've never had enough running bikes to make it worthwhile. I think the break even point is around 3 bikes. No year of manufacture plates allowed, but old BC MC plates are rare and expensive regardless ... Perry

[William McClean]

Nice photo

Nice 4 Barry !

The stable isn't to bad either. Is that real or an artist backdrop ?

[Barry Brown]

that's my summer shop. It's the old grainery that was used with my mill. the guy who took the picture moved some of my junk around. I added those hand forged 1830 gates for security.

[Ohio-Rider]

Very nice Barry. That shot should be put in magazine some where. It truely is great.