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Looks like not all Historic Vehicles can display B&W number plates.

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Seabeowner:

--- Quote from: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on March 25, 2025, 05:28:59 PM ---Seems odd that they bothered to change the legislation at all Julie,iirc it was up to August 1973 previously.

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Seems it was an unintended consequence of legislation passed in 2015 that allowed all historic vehicles to display B&W. So they set a new date to prevent suddenly making existing historics post 1973 illegal when their owners had innocently displayed B&W. Even classic owners also did not like the 2015 change.

andy120t:
I imagine that in 1973 there were a few 71/72 car owners quietly sporting the yellow and black plates to make their 'old' cars look new!

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
There was a roaring trade in reflective plates back then even for 1960s cars. As a student I used to make the plates up on a Bluebells jig, all the letters were rivetted on. Didn't half make your palm sore if you had to make dozens.

SumpMagnet:
Never had a 70's bike with a black/silver plate. All were 1974 on, and all only ever had yellow reflective plates.
I could, I guess, put a black/silver plate on my F2, but that just wouldn't look right to me.

Athame57:

--- Quote from: SumpMagnet on March 25, 2025, 10:25:08 PM ---
I could, I guess, put a black/silver plate on my F2, but that just wouldn't look right to me.

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Well, you'd be allowed to, but the introduction of cast or comstar wheels on the CB750Fs doesn't seem to sit well with the black plate to my eye.

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