licence plates

[Healey Nut]

Ok so just for some fun lets see who has the most appropriate/fun applicable licence plates for their Healeys .
I'll start things off .

The first version is actually on the Vantage right now but I may change it down the road to something different for the Vantage .

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[AH100M]

Here's mine - appropriate but not really fun.

 

[Keoke]

Mine is BH MK 111
English Plate is GUY 367

 

[Michael Oritt]

Mine is HISBN1. I think I told the story elsewhere but when I bought my now-ex a BN7 I got this plate for me and HERBN7 for her. The cars were a happy pair but ultimately we were not. I assume she still has the same plate on her BN7. Thankfully I got to keep my ​BN1.

 

[AUSMHLY]

Pulled up next to the red BJ8 at my mechanics shop one day. We both live in the same town. Later meet the owner.
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[BJ8Healeys]

My BJ8 sold new at Harmon-Rowland in Raleigh on 26 July 1966, and has stayed in eastern North Carolina ever since, through 7 owners. The plate seemed appropriate and has been on the car since 1984. It was selected in the first group of the Moss Motors license plate contest in 1990. It gets a lot of comments in this part of the world.

 

[stretchit2]

Earlier this year I took my BT7 to California Healey Week in Morro Bay with the license plate 3000 MK2. Checked into my room came out to find this BJ parked next to me with the license plate 3000 MK3.

 

[CLEAH]

The BJ8 does not have anything special, but when I bought the Sprite, my daughter started calling it Spritey, so that became its license plate.

 

[Dinky]

What are the rules for your licence plates? In England your car is registered with a Registration number which is permanent until the car ceases to exist. Registration numbers of British cars encode the area the car was first owned in as well as the year of registration post 1963
for instance Guy 367 was first owned in Exeter Devon

 

[BJ8Healeys]

What are the rules for your licence plates? In England your car is registered with a Registration number which is permanent until the car ceases to exist. Registration numbers of British cars encode the area the car was first owned in as well as the year of registration post 1963
for instance Guy 367 was first owned in Exeter Devon

The various states of the USA each has its own rules and regulations concerning license plates. Typically, plates are not assigned permanently to any vehicle -- even within the same state, and will change when the car changes ownership and will certainly change if the vehicle becomes registered in another state. Ownership documents (titles) identify the manufacturer's Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) which provides the continuity of identification to the vehicle as its license plates change.
More recently, states are beginning to realize the potential additional revenue to be had by allowing "personalized" license plates. My state of North Carolina has very liberal regulations concerning plates. The one that I carry on my car was specially-made for me as a replica 1966 North Carolina plate with the legend TARHEELY, although there were no personalized plates in 1966. The car is actually officially registered with an antique license plate, which I keep under the driver's seat to show if necessary (with a copy of the applicable law taped to it). In six years, I have never had to show it.

 

[CLEAH]

In my state at least (Ohio) I can transfer my plates from car to car. For many years I have had plates on my daily driver that are my initials, and on another vehicle plates with my initials and the number 1, that I have transferred from car to car. As long as I keep paying for them I can have them my entire life.

 

[Healey Nut]

In Ontario your plates are registered to you not the car so you can transfer them from car to car (for a fee) . You can choose your own personal plates (again for a fee) you can choose whatever you want as long as it meets the numbers and letters rule and is not offensive etc (got to be politically correct)
That's why mine is a creation of the word BRITISH they wouldn't allow plain BRITISH so I had to modify it slightly to meet the rules ..
Im thinking of ADVANTGE for my new toy but haven't tried to see if they will allow it yet .

 

[dougie]

Mine is HISBN1. I think I told the story elsewhere but when I bought my now-ex a BN7 I got this plate for me and HERBN7 for her. The cars were a happy pair but ultimately we were not. I assume she still has the same plate on her BN7. Thankfully I got to keep my ​BN1.

Michael -

Sorry to hear about your split. Maybe that answers why your race stable keeps growing.:eagerness:

 

[dougie]

Ok, back on topic....Here's Larry Paterson's 100M vintage racer which says it all.

 

[PTBJ]

Interesting thread this, especially reading about the different regulations in different countries and states. In New Zealand you can create and own personalized plates, transferring them from one car to another. You can of course sell the plate you own to someone else. The personalised plate number is made up of up to six letters/numbers or a combination. I was lucky enough to buy this plate recently, Its the only "HEALEY" plate in the country and is currently on our 65 BJ8. To my surprise another plate recently came up for sale......65 BJ8. We now :congratulatory: have two Healey related plates and will be swapping the plates around to put the HEALEY plate on our 59 BT7 and the 65 BJ8 plate on the BJ8.

 

[Griz]

In Montana on any vehicle more than ten years old you can buy a permanent license plate. Pay one (inflated) fee and never have to license it again. On the '63 3000 I am presently restoring I have a permanent plate that simply says "BJ7". Griz

 

[Ed_K]

This is the same plate number that was given to the car in 1965 when it was registered in the UK before being flown to the US. As Steve has said, because of the laws for classic cars in our state, NC,
we can display " year of manufacture " plates on classic cars. I carry the state issued antique plate under the seat. It has never been fastened to the the car. I have copies of the documents that state it was
registered by " Chief officer of the Licensing Department of the Greater London Council and assigned DGP-537C " thanks to Steve Byers !

 

[Michael Oritt]

Michael -

Sorry to hear about your split. Maybe that answers why your race stable keeps growing.:eagerness:

Dougie--

No regrets here though I do miss that car.

 

[Editor_Reid]

None of my cars has a personalized plate at the moment, but another option here in Oregon is to find an Oregon plate that is of the same vintage as your old car and is in decent condition (and you only need one for the rear), and you can register your old car with it. Thus it will look like it did when new. You pay a one-time fee and it's good for life, and changing to a different vintage plate is very cheap; $12 or something like that.

In the early 1970s I put a "personalized" British plate (ordered from Moss Motors, if I recall correctly) on the front of my Healey and the cops never said a thing, even though it didn't match the "real" plate on the rear. It read RJT 713 (by initials and birthday), and I always figured that the cops didn't want the confusion of looking at what they thought would be British registration documents, so I never had to "explain" it.

 

[Dinky]

This is the same plate number that was given to the car in 1965 when it was registered in the UK before being flown to the US. As Steve has said, because of the laws for classic cars in our state, NC,
we can display " year of manufacture " plates on classic cars. I carry the state issued antique plate under the seat. It has never been fastened to the the car. I have copies of the documents that state it was
registered by " Chief officer of the Licensing Department of the Greater London Council and assigned DGP-537C " thanks to Steve Byers !

The plate is a southwest London one.