<VV> original plates on a collector car

[shortle]

Bill, I doubt you could persuade the bureaucrats to let you do that as they seem to have zero interest in history. All they know is what's written in the rule books.Car collecting does not not fit in their scheme of things.
Timothy Shortle in Durango CO
Working on the '63 Rampside today getting it ready for our tri state next month 


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>From: Wrsssatty at aol.com
>Sent: Apr 4, 2010 11:29 AM
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>Subject: <VV> original plates on a collector car
>
><One of my Corvairs came with its original plates and I have been  very
>thankful that the previous two owners did not keep them. ***"By original  
>to a car" I mean the very first set of plates the car ever had.>
>
>This presents an interesting question.  I've long dreamt of locating  my 
>big sister's '63 Monza.  She bought it new at a year-end close-out sale  in 
>late August.  I still have its original plates but they were for '64 as  West 
>Virginia, in those days, was issuing '64 plates by late August '63 when she  
>titled it (she bought it in Ohio to save on sales tax).  I wonder, if I  
>found and acquired the car, if I were for some reason to go back to West  
>Virginia to register it, if I could persuade the West Virginia DMV  that the '64 
>plates should be allowed for this '63 model car since they were  afterall 
>the first plates that the W.Va. DMV issued for the car when it was  brand new?
> 
>~Bil Stanley
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