Year of manufacture license plates

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by dmjlambert

Yes, they allow restored, repaired or repainted plates if they match the correct color scheme for the year. It would probably be acceptable to paint the letters black to get past registration and then further enhance or correct it by stripping the black paint off leaving the original red, and I really doubt it would ever be discovered as a problem, just an anomaly that only those reading this paragraph would even know about. Nobody would care except perhaps Sheriff Buford T. Justice.

Sheriff Buford is the one Bull you don't want to p!ss off. He might just write you up for the scratches to the lacquer on his billy club when he was "inspecting your broken taillight.''
My AZ YOM plates are exposed to constant Arizona sunshine and UV ĺight. The Yellow reflective finish isn't too bad, ɓut the Black lettering is getting bleached out. I may be able to mask off the Yellow background and touch up the numbers with Black Krylon, but it will take some careful detailing. Also the truck won't be street legal with the plate off it.
I've heard of an outfit you can send your plate[s] in to get then recoated with the reflective surfaces, but it also has a state sticker indicating 1971, and their process would destroy that sticker.