number plates - old style plates needed

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colin

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Hi all,

just wandered if anyone knows a supplier for the old style metal number plates with raised black plastic lettering. Mine are looking tatty and i dont fancy the new style plastic laminated ones.

Tried local suppliers no luck, i have tried cleaning the old plates up but they spoil the overall look after just having a respray.


thanks
colin
 
Hi Colin,

I tried to get a set of raised digit plates for my 1977 car. The response was no chance, I think partly because the law had recently changed (2001 september).

If it is the plain black/silver type then you shouldn't have a problem, try the practical classics adverts. There was also a place in or near Blackpool.

Colin
 
colin said:
Hi all,

just wandered if anyone knows a supplier for the old style metal number plates with raised black plastic lettering. Mine are looking tatty and i dont fancy the new style plastic laminated ones.

Tried local suppliers no luck, i have tried cleaning the old plates up but they spoil the overall look after just having a respray.


thanks
colin
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The trouble is - it's now illegal to produce them in this country...I THINK that there's someone on eBay in Ireland who will do them...

The rear plate on my 2200 auto is tatty and I'm rebuilding it, letter by letter :(
 
Hello Nick,
why illegal to produce them in this country?????
Black and silver / white plates are perfectly legal for cars registered before 1973 and as long as you produce your documents (log book and form of identity) then you can have new plates made.
OR HAS BIG BROTHER DONE IT TO US AGAIN WHILST I'VE BEEN ASLEEP???
A quick web search reveals several suppliers around the country.
My "local" supplier no longer advertises so she may have been a casualty of the new rules for number plates-by-post.
Regards, John.
 
There are lots of people who'll make them for you, last weekend at beaulieu there was a chap selling stamped aluminium with black background, alloy cast silver letters, white & black plastic letters. Also seen people at Tatton park before.

Unfortunately just can't remember the stall name so we'll have to keep an eye open for them perhaps at the NEC.

Obviously sold for display purposes only !
 
Have a look at auction no. 200025021728 on ebay, they do plastic digits on alloy plates, as well as all other types.

Never used them myself, just did a quick search, but they do seam quite cheap.
 
www.classicplatesonline.co.uk.
They have the silver digits on black (which I ordered for the Oxford one morning & they arrived the following morning) but can't see the black digits on yellow/white. You can ask them anyway.
 
JohnGlinn(Cardiff&District) said:
Hello Nick,
why illegal to produce them in this country?????
Black and silver / white plates are perfectly legal for cars registered before 1973 and as long as you produce your documents (log book and form of identity) then you can have new plates made.
OR HAS BIG BROTHER DONE IT TO US AGAIN WHILST I'VE BEEN ASLEEP???
A quick web search reveals several suppliers around the country.
My "local" supplier no longer advertises so she may have been a casualty of the new rules for number plates-by-post.
Regards, John.
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John
Black and silver plates can still be perfectly legally produced for pre-1973 cars, however, as I understand it, UK law now means that any new plates (apart from black and silvers) have to be in the new style, which look utterly wrong on P6's or any other car of the period.

This all went down a couple of years ago, at least. Nice Henly's produced reflective plates with black stick on letters are now, unfortunately, a thing of the past.

Cheers
Nick
 
stick on letters are now, unfortunately, a thing of the past.

are you sure?? As in diss the local town to me including bury st edmunds there are several places where u can get the black stick on letters and numbers(I know as i have just got some on monday just gone for the front of my classic tractors..(anyone local to me J lawes or finbows as its known sell the black letters/number)
 
Do you mean the correct original type and size of plastic numbers/letters, or ones in the new type of font?
 
I think they mean black vinyl stick on letters numbers, you used to be able to buy blank reflective yellow plastic and seperate numbers/letters and make your own plate. Usually for making trailer plates.
 
Ah, yes. Fortunately I bought a new pair of alloy reflective classic number plates with the seperate no's/letters just before all this new regulation nonsense came about. So glad I did now.
 
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