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My formerly owned 1963 Studebaker Avanti had its original California license plate which had three zeros. I forget the three letters which preceeded the numbers. I'll see if I can find a photo of it.

The first in the series would have been AAA 000 or, when the 7th prefix was added, 1 AAA 000 and up to 1 ZZZ 999 before the prefix changed to 2 (it’s up to 8 or maybe even 9 now!). Prior to AAA 000 were the 000 AAA plates although I don’t recall off-hand the years exactly other than the black with yellow characters ended at the end of calendar year 1969, meaning that there were a few month’s worth of 1970 model year cars with them. The YOM plates I have for my 1956 Clipper are low series starting with A and are yellow with black characters.

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I think the issue is the others floating around. I don't know if the DMV had 10, 50, 100, etc made, so they could register the all-zero plate to my car, but there would be nothing to stop someone else from slapping another sample plate on their car, which would come back to me if the plate were run.

Interesting but I don't think they would be able to do so once yours was already in the system. Maybe your state is different but here it would be denied, same if several people tried to get the same personalized plate combination.