Found plate

**dhbfaster** · November 30th, 2015, 07:27 PM

Very cool Jeff. I was looking for the info on this when I first got the falcon but never found it. I'll keep my eye out for some nice 61 plates! Any idea what the official colors are (other than just green and white) in case I need to touch them up?

Here's some other interesting plate info I found when I was poking around:

Washington license plate history:
http://www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistr...sphistory.html

Colors: (but nothing exact):
http://www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistr...latecolors.pdf

A collector...apparently people are faking these old Washington plates!
(This guy has 14403 plates in his collection!)
http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Washington2/wa2y2k.html
http://www.plateshack.com/washington/washington4.html

What the??? There is a collectors association for license plates! I've been missing out!
https://www.alpca.org

Yes, quite a subculture...

**SmithKid** · November 30th, 2015, 08:21 PM

This probably isn't for everybody..... But this guy does a beautiful job repairing and repainting plates. He will repair even a small tear in the metal in the basic price. I know. I had him do mine (I used a truck plate found at a local swap meet). Pretty timely too, though he's in Marysville and I took it to him and picked it up. He even sells the stickers if you need them (mine did, as it's a 1963 stamping and requires a sticker).

http://oldlicensefarm.com/

**dhbfaster** · November 30th, 2015, 08:35 PM

Wow, the amazement continues. Darn, there goes my hobby business idea.

This is almost embarrassingly fascinating.
So what's the deal with the 58-62 plates and the stickers?
You can use any 58-62 plate but you have to have a 61 sticker in order to register as a 61? And I assume the sticker has to be original too?

**SmithKid** · November 30th, 2015, 08:43 PM

I believe it's refered to as YOM (Year Of Manufacture) program. You can only use whatever was the legal plate when your vehicle was manufactured/registered. For 1965 this was a plate stamped in 1963 with a 1965 sticker. Only the rear plate is required as this is a replacement for your collector plate. Supposedly, when the gendarme plugs in the plate number, he gets back your collector plate number.

**Luva65wagon** · December 1st, 2015, 12:30 PM

Don, I believe one of the links you posted showed what is up for your year. I clicked on the image and saved it from that page. You would probably need to find that style plate and get a '61 sticker for it.

wa61.jpg

Keep in mind you can also just get collector plates issued by the state. That's what I have on my wagon.

wacollveh2.jpg

I would also warn - though I'm not 100% sure what would happen in this case - if you locate and buy only one plate, there is a possibility that the other plate is already owned and installed on somebody else's car. I doubt the State will issue the same plate number on two cars. But you might not find out until you are at DMV. I bought a pair of plates at the swap meet for my Ranchero ($50) to negate the potential of this.