This forum posting is all about vintage custom license plates. The original poster was bummed out that he could not find plates with the numbers “273″ on them a few years back. But he did find them and posted pictures on the forum. After his post there were other posts by people showing off their vintage plates, and also telling the poster that his plates are cool.
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Old car show in Weston, all sorts of old vintage cars with vintage number plates. This is the families fifth time running the car show.
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Vanity plates on cars are still popular since their inception in the early 1900′s. In the US, they can be spotted on any street – often with clever or humorous messages. Dennis Cowhey from Chicago actually quizzed drivers on the motives behind their vanity plates and found that many of the plate owners were extroverted people with big egos. Today, there are certain restricted words and letter combinations for license plate owners – but that doesn’t stop clever motorists from finding a way!
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Drivers make a ST8MNT to world
The Velocity channel has a new season of Cafe Racer premiering today. The channel, devoted to automobile enthusiasts (with shows on auctions, vehicle restoration, and motorcycles), further appeals to the crowd through this show surrounding the people and places that made vintage motorcycles matched up with customised number plates popular. These old bikes are then rebuilt into new masterpieces.
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Third season of Caf? Racer to premier on Velocity channel
On April 15th, vintage car enthusiasts gathered for the “Vintage Classic and Old Car Awareness Drive” event in Gujarat, India. The Gujarat Vintage and Classic Car Club set up the first-ever rally in Ahmedabad to generate public interest and to celebrate vintage cars also with vintage number plates. Many of these international vehicles included car models like Austin, Contessa, Ambassador, Morris Minor and Buick.
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Vintage cars delight Amdavadis
This article discusses how a classic car rally will display 10 different decades of cars with vintage number plates, ranging all the way down from the 20’s to 2012. This will be a three day event that will be set up in ten decades of racing and there will be over 80 contestants.
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Manx Classic Rally to feature 10 decades of racing cars
Over 2,000 cars and motorcycles are expected at Brooklands on May 5 for the annual Auto Italia celebration. Though Brooklands closed for racing in 1939, it is still a vibrant venue with a museum and stretches of the original banking from its racing history. Selected Italian cars with vintage number plates will run on the infamously steep Test Hill and the adjacent Mercedes-Benz World test track.
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Italian cars gather at Brooklands
Easter is always a big event in the World. In Garden City, it is the 57th year of the Vintage Car Annual Easter Parade. Thousands of citizens participated and enjoyed the parade. According to one of the resident there, it is an event suitable for all ages. It is fun and it can encourage families to spend quality time together. A lot of vintage number plates can be seen as well.
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Easter Day Vintage Car Parade Draws Huge Crowd In Garden City
I can’t recall the categories but I think one is Oldies but Goldies. What’s the Grand Touring Greats? Basically there’ll be A series challenge, My interpretation, a sensibly prepared calender spec acceptability for cars. All the races look to be with the HRDC Calender for 2012 so if you look at their calendar you’ll find out where these races will be with these classic cars and their vintage number plates. Its on the calendar. Heck, the Europeans are angry at Britain! Life just can’t get better. I think there’s a fairly broadly accepted spec for cars and their engines, it certainly reads as if a close series should emerge.
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You bought it! That’s the phrase you might hear if you buy a classic car at an auction. And buying classic cars at auction is more popular and there are more of them out there than ever before. Given the economy of the last few years, many muscle and classic car enthusiasts have had to part with a prized auto, often at a steep financial loss. And that doesn’t even take into the hundreds of hours that have been put into restoration and upkeep.
However, their loss might well be your gain. You may be able to obtain cars that would have been entirely out of reach previously. There are cars out there waiting for you that you’re going to look good in cruising down the highway, unless of course you wind up with a case of buyer’s remorse. That can happen for a couple of reasons. The first of these is paying too much. Regardless of how badly you want the car, u need to do your research. Find out what the value of that particular model is, and if there are any features present that make it special and perhaps worth a bit more, and then set a limit and stick to it.
The other big cause of remorse is not getting what you thought you were buying. That happens more than you might think, and more often from ignorance than dishonesty. Too often, a seller will check the car number plates on the dash or door, and look no further. Unfortunately, this does not guarantee you’ll get what they say it is. Quite often, engines or transmissions will not match the frame numbers, since in vintage vehicles these are often replaced at some point, and sometimes without regards to authenticity. The car registration numbers need to all be of the right era, at the very least. There are plenty of resources to check these numbers , both online and other. So do your homework. Remember, it’s always a case of buyer beware at an auction.
