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Yesterday, 05:58 PM | #1 |
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1972 california commercial license plate.
So for us Californians trucks are registered as commercial and have different plates.
For a passenger vehicle in '72, the format would be 123 ABC. My '72 C10 format is 1A12345 on blue plates. My question is, is that the correct format for a '72 truck?? I tried researching DMV and on line. Can't find anything. How far back did commercial plates for pick up trucks go? I know that the letter can be elsewhere instead of the second character on the plate. Last edited by desert-rat; Yesterday at 11:05 PM. |
Yesterday, 06:09 PM | #2 |
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
They were ##_###_ 'Letter' where _ is a space. Black with yellow letters from '63 to '70, and blue with yellow letters for yours. I don't recall what format the plates were prior to '63, but there were indeed commercial plates before then. I do know that '55 to '62 plates were yellow with black characters. Is your license plate white? I'm not familiar with the car/truck format for those.
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
Pop moved here in june 71
It was xx219 J when they re-registered it. I've yet to find a pic of the entire sequence. Black plate yellow character
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
The original Cal plates on my '68 C/10 Stepside [bought 6/73] were Black w/ Yellow digits:
10 566 A Note the spacing. When I registered the truck in Arizona in 1974, I had to surrender the Cal plates to the MVD, who returned them to the DMV. [By military regulations, my vehicle registration had to match my drivers license by state] I might have a '50s Cal commercial plate in my garage. It's Yellow w/ Black digits. I'll look later.
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Yesterday, 07:37 PM | #5 |
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
The black with yellow commercial plates were used until the local DMV offices ran out. Small towns could have had a lot of them in stock.
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
My ‘71 is an original San Diego truck with black and yellow.
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Yesterday, 09:24 PM | #7 |
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
That's the exact format of the original California plates on my '72 (Fremont) K20, including the colors. They are still on the truck.
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
I'm not sure if adds anything to this thread, but here is a picture of the plates that were issued in Orange County for my new '69 truck purchased and registered the last week of November, 1969.
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
Case in point, though I'm kind of surprised that the black/yellow plates were still being used in '72. Given the strange things we see from year to year with our trucks, I shouldn't be surprised, I guess.
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
I had a 74 truck in Ca. it had blue with yellow letters/numbers and plate was 1L26450, or close to it.
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
If you're purchasing plates check for back registration fees prior to purchase.
I bought this pair. And they have 547 in fees to re-register. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handbo...icense-plates/
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
In California a c10 does not require a commercial plate. All c20 require commercial unless a permanent camper was mounted. If a c10 has commercial plates it is because the truck was likely registered in a corporate name and used as a commercial vehicle. If you have a c10 registered as commercial you can save a few bucks a year by changing to private.
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
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For instance, if your truck has a tonneau cover or a camper shell, you can get non-commercial plates.
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
The CA title on my C/10 says COMMERCIAL on it. For some reason, it's got blue & yellow plates. My assumption is that it spent the first few years as a government vehicle (CalTrans), in which case it would have had exempt plates that were then replaced with regular plates when it was sold off. My blue & yellow plates are 66 069 L. From what I've found, the L series is from approximately 1972.
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
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Camper shell or bed cover can get car tags with hoops to jump thru
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
Even a Chevy Vega Panel "truck" has to have commercial plates. I bought one, and if I had known before I went to the DMV, I'd've popped the panels and put in some windows that I had. My 3/4T truck is registered as a "housecar", so has non-commercial plates. This required bed(s) and a toilet, as a minimum, as well as a "permanent" camper shell- bolted on, as opposed to easily removed with camper jacks.
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Also FWIW -- mine is an early '72, built in August 1971. No idea when it was sold and first licensed, though.
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Re: 1972 california commercial license plate.
Plates are distributed across the state to DMV offices, so it could be tough to tell what year a plate got matched with a truck.
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