I think I might have the oldest plates on my F150.
For the past few years or so the DMV has sent me a notice with my renewal that my plates are old and if they can't be read I might get cited. They want $15 for a new plate. I go out and check the plate and I can still read the numbers so, I pass on their offer. These plates came off a truck I bought in 1985 and every year Virginia sends me a little sticker for the corner. I never scraped any of the old stickers off and now there are 17 stickers piled up on each other.

The numbers are still blue but, the white background is kind of cloudy grey. The plate also has two month stickers. I guess over the last seventeen years, I was late renewing and the plates lapsed. They should have got me when they had the chance.

 

That's kewl the DMV sent me notice that i am supposed to return my Oldsmobile's Plates but they are still waiting for them!! What idiots why should I return my plates when I paid for them fair and square?? Just because they are revoked doesn't mean it doesn't hold my cars info.... My Trucks plates are in my parents name so they can't touch 'em.....

 

Raoul,

I had the same plate # for at least 25 years but there was a time in Massachusetts when you had to change your plate every year.....so every Jan. 1 you had to go outside with a screwdriver in the freezing cold and take off your old plate to replace it with your new plate...same # but they changed colors every year.....yup, we are from the government and we are here to help....go figure?

 

Yep, Virginia used to do that too until the early seventies. White one year, black the next. Made an expired plate stick out like a sore thumb. They gave up on that tactic here when they found out I was getting creative with spray paint.

 

Raoul
I'd like to suggest that the next time you get a new "tag" you remove as many of the old ones as possible. There's a little trick that malcontents here in the Big City like to do: they get a knife and peel off a couple of layers of your stickers (including the new one) thereby renewing their license for free and leaving you to get a ticket for expired tags.
My wife has an interesting antidote to that, after puting the sticker on she takes an X-acto knife and cuts an X across the tag; if you try to peel them off, they come off in pieces and are pretty much useless.

 

Man, I can't go removing any of my seventeen stickers.
They took a tenth off my 1/4 time at the track.

and the ones on the back keep people from tailgating.

 

did they help with the weight transfer im inspection went out in jan and i just noticed, got to remember to check that thing every once in a while

 

sheesh thought i was doing good. i've had my plates for 5 years.

 

Just got new plates yesterday. But thats because i had to get rid of the temp. tag.

 

I have had the same plate since 1980.

 

Don, we're talkin' tags here, not dental work.

 

I started driving in 1991

ALL MY PLATES ARE NEW AND WORTH NOTHING!

So whats the going rate for a plate from the reign of Xerxes?

 

Sometimes I just remember weird things.....

David Letterman:
Do you have a plate in your head?

Max Headroom:
I've got a whole set of china!!!

 

Hey Indyfan got some bad news for you..... You know how your Wife cuts an X on the year sticker??? It is still possible to remove the sticker by Stealing the plate putting it on a burner for 10 second than carefully remove it with a razor blade and then carefully put it back together on the other plate.....you see when they do this they have all the time in the world to be careful in their houses it only takes ten seconds to rip the plate off destructively.... sorry to bust that bubble.....you are better off just letting them steal the sticker because it is cheaper to replace the sticker than the plate....This is what people do when the DMV doesn't let you renew your tags....Cops don't even ask questions when they see the sticker on his or her car.....I did some work with the police and found this out by that...

 

Crash
By that logic I could also leave the doors unlocked so they don't break my windwows or leave the keys in the ignition so they don't rip the wires out to hot-wire it. The idea is to make it difficult for the amateur thieves, the pros will have their way no matter what.

In 25 years of owning cars and motorcycles I've had 3 tags stolen and not one single license plate, I'll stick with the odds.