Re: '56 license plate

Posted by Larry51 On 2010/4/18 7:53:08

Alburton, looks like a very nice resto job that you've done!

I'm envious that you guys can get such interesting plates of various types. Here in Australia things are changing now, but back in the 50's you got a plate like 'BCX 289' which was yellow with black letters. The next guy had to take 'BCX 290' and so on, for the next million plates! Anyway, we eventually (1970's??) got to have a few choices and personalised plates (at first just with initials of your name, not much else . . .), but for our nice old cars there are virtually no 'fancy plates' like those you have, unless you go back many years and get a very old and expensive (but plain) three-digit plate from the early years.

I reckon I'll buy a couple of USA plates sometime and fit them to my '51, then just hang the club plates over them on outings. It will add a lot of character