Texas Antique Plates

[cericd]

Originally Posted by RustyPile

@kglowacky My current antique plate expired a couple months ago.. I took my never issued '71 YOM plates to the accessor's office.. They took a look at them and checked their records. Renewed the registration using those plates. Gave me a small metal tag for the expiration sticker, to be attached to the rear plate. Total fees including tax and county bridge fees is $66. Good for 5 years and no Safety Inspection required.

Did they say whether or not you would need to run your front YOM plate?

Reason I ask is the way I understood it is if you register as a Classic, you receive two plates and must run both but if you register as Antique, you get one plate and it must go on the back. That's assuming you are not running YOM plates. Didn't know if it changes to needing to run both front and back plates with an Antique registration once YOM plates are thrown into the mix.

[franken]

Its hard.
https://www.txdmv.gov

[dmjlambert]

Originally Posted by Hutch

I bought my plates from a guy off of Craigslist for $70
The story was a friend of his bought a historic ranch and house estate in the Texas panhandle that had been owned by the county tax assessor
At the end of the year he would take all of the leftover plates home and stored them in his garage
He said there were hundreds of plates on multiple pallets

The ones that I bought had this advertising in between the plates

If you could find the contact or listing for the Craigslist panhandle guy with leftover plates, it would be great if you can share. I'm not seeing what I like on ebay, so letting that search rest for a while.