black ans silver number plates

[retromadness123]

Hello guys, I have a 1982 golf that I would like to get some black and silver number plates, would this be ok for its age or is there a rule to when you can use them, bit confused as I seen them on a K reg car, and in a e36 bmw so what are the rules thanks guys

[jifflemon]

Vehicles manufactured before 1 January 1975 can display the older style plates.

You must have applied to DVLA, and be registered within the ‘historic vehicles’ tax class to legally display them.

[ChasR]

Nov 24, 2016 17:51:30 GMT retromadness123 said:

Hello guys, I have a 1982 golf that I would like to get some black and silver number plates, would this be ok for its age or is there a rule to when you can use them, bit confused as I seen them on a K reg car, and in a e36 bmw so what are the rules thanks guys

Some people think they are invincible from the law or do it to be "cool" or daring etc.

It's your choice basically. Although a friend of mine almost got done for a screwhead (factory fitted as well!) being black on his plate! His plate is meant to say "DG" and they argued it looked like "D6" ; it didn't but I could see what they meant ; the ANPR didn't pick it up. However, he got let off as he got had up for something else (speeding by quite a margin).

The guidelines used to be that they could be used on a pre '73 car only, but I believe this now may be a rolling exemption for anything over 40 years old.

[retromadness123]

Thanks guys, just was confused as I seen on cars which are fairly modern,so just wanted to see what the rules were, so basically I have about 6 years if my car is 1982 , then if the rules ain't changed i can apply for historic tax and change the plates to black and silver, lol

[ChasR]

TBH I don't really find the Black and silver phase that cool!

I'd rather see some correct font plates on with the dealer stuff on them. A bit like I did on my 944. It makes a nice difference:





Or you can cheat like I did on my 323i. I simply put some dealer writing at the bottom of the new plates.

[BT]

Ahhhh, same last 3 digits as my plate "TCR", coincidentally I'm looking to put them on a E36 as well.

As above really, seems to all be covered but thought I'd chime in with something useful. Again I also didn't realise it was rolling.

I have also seen them on almost brand new cars, funnily enough being pulled over for said plates as well. Personally I think when they're not in a period correct plate it looks distasteful. Much like wavy font or trying to make a standard registration plate read your surname.

[badsanta]

Hi all,Black and Silver plates are only legal on vehicles registered Pre Jan 1973 the rolling date is for Historic Vehicle Road Tax exemption,i am an MOT tester and have had a few vehicles turn up with these plates on which arnt supposed to,if you google MOT testers manual and look at section 6.3 u can see all about what u can and cant have Cheers Stu

[bmcnut]

I had a 1971 maxi on white on black plates, perfectly legal, then when i got my MG maestro i had a pair of show plates made, thus.

Authough not suited to the age of the vehicle I thought they looked good, they were just used for shows but there was the odd time i left them on, like the time i got pulled over on the way home from a show and told to remove them. Luckily i had the correct plates in the boot so i cable-tied them back on over the top. Then he checked the tints and told me to remove them too, which was annoying. So id say stick to what it should have, unless you want to get pulled.

[colnerov]

Nov 26, 2016 16:13:10 GMT badsanta said:

Hi all,Black and Silver plates are only legal on vehicles registered Pre Jan 1973 the rolling date is for Historic Vehicle Road Tax exemption,i am an MOT tester and have had a few vehicles turn up with these plates on which arnt supposed to,if you google MOT testers manual and look at section 6.3 u can see all about what u can and cant have Cheers Stu

Hi, This has been raised before, INF104 says as from April 2016 number plates can be black and white for cars registered up to January 1976. The MOT manual says January 1973 so as you are testing to the manual that's the date you go by. This discrepancy from the government doesn't help matters, so are we supposed to have two sets of plates?

Colin