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URL: http://riceornot.ricecop.com/?auto=89304
Submitted by: wannabemustangjockey
Comments: 10  (Read/Post)     Favorites: 0  (View)
Submitted on: 05-11-2013
View Stats Category: Car
Description:
1951 Mercury convertible
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#1
5-11-2013 @ 10:48:35 AM
Posted By : Skid Reply | Edit | Del
There was one identical to this for sale in the Tupelo area around 10 years ago. Given the recent-looking CA plates, it might be the same car.

#2
5-11-2013 @ 03:27:21 PM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey  Reply | Edit | Del
#1, Those plates are actually an old design issued sometime probably around 1988-1990.

#3
5-11-2013 @ 04:50:54 PM
Posted By : Skid Reply | Edit | Del
#2, Ah. I knew they weren't the current design, but I figured they were more recent than that.

#4
5-11-2013 @ 05:52:19 PM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey  Reply | Edit | Del
#3, It's not unheard of to transfer an older plate registration to a 'newer' (or just different) car. But that's normally done with vanity plates and such, not as often with standard-issue plate numbers.

#5
5-12-2013 @ 12:56:49 AM
Posted By : DiRF  Reply | Edit | Del
#2, So, they went to the cursive-style "California" on the plate after that?

#6
5-12-2013 @ 01:13:50 AM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey  Reply | Edit | Del
#5, Yeah, around 1994 or so. In the late '90s it gained a "Sesquicentennial - 150 Years" message on the bottom to commemorate California's 150th year as a state (2000). In 2001/02 it reverted to the regular cursive plate and then in 2012 gained "dmv.ca.gov" in ugly stretched letters on the bottom.

#7
5-12-2013 @ 05:59:58 AM
Posted By : Skid Reply | Edit | Del
I figured the late '80s was the ubiquitous orange sun graphic plate seen so often in movies and TV, but that must've been earlier.

#8
5-12-2013 @ 08:14:11 AM
Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck Reply | Edit | Del
This style just looks like a color palette swap of the earlier yellow-on-blue that was still around in as late as the 80's

#9
5-12-2013 @ 01:41:00 PM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey  Reply | Edit | Del
#7, http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/plates/licenseplthistory.htm
My information was close, but the site is a bit wrong as well. Blue and yellow plates did not end in 1982 because my 1985 Pontiac was issued with one. I think they mean the six-digit 123 ABC combinations ended in 1982, because blue plates were still issued with 1ABC123 for another few years..


#10
5-12-2013 @ 03:20:52 PM
Posted By : DiRF  Reply | Edit | Del
Oh man, I completely forgot about those sun plates... they looked awesome!

[edit] Wow... the stretched-text URL on the bottom of the new plates is atrocious.

[Edited by DiRF on 5-12-2013 @ 03:24:20 PM]


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