Was: Re: CarFax give owner's name? / Red Station Wagon - now Re: Plates

[Steve Sears]

>> A while back Ontario opened up the registration of Year-of-Manufacture 
>> plates for old vehicles (Ontario issued yearly plates until 
>> 1973)....giving some of the local ALPCA folks a conniption since now the 
>> "old car" set would be actively pursuing plates for their vehicles.
>
> Wouldn't that provide an income source for the ALPCA folks?
>
> Or does it just create more competition for already-rare plates they think 
> *they* should get?
>
> -- 
> Huw Powell

Actually, it was partially the competition aspect - but there was one guy 
that was a self-appointed "purist" that was very skilled in his ability to 
get his Letters to the Editor published in Old Autos (Canadian Bi-Weekly 
newspaper).  We got into a letter writing sparring match spanning about 3 
papers.  In his opinion, once the plates had been used once, they should not 
be put on anything but a wall.  If they were allowed to be reused, then 
people would be refinishing old plates, modifying (like changing an "I" to 
an "H"...now who'd do that?).....and all sorts of other atrocities to the 
plates.  Strange.  I'll keep my cheap "Historic" plates on my DKW, and 
display the older plates in the back window (German Export Zoll plate, 
Connecticut 1962 tab plate and the 1962 Ontario plate)
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ
1980 Audi 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes