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jimmynotch
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I need help to settle a bet. I have a vintage german "oval" license plate and I had heard that these were used back in the day only on cars slated for export. Is this correct? 
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Used for Tourist cars and Export cars.
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Oval plates, which I've also heard referred as "Zoll" Plates, are for Tourist delivery vehicles. In more recent years, tourist plates have been marked with a red band with the expiration date in month and year at one side.
I was lucky enough to find my 1962 Type 34 with the rear tourist plate still on the car and the reciept from Heinrich Weigmann Volkswagen in Hamburg, the Victoria Auto Insurance form and Tourist Registration booklet in about 25 languages still in the glove compartment.
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Oval plates, which I've also heard referred as "Zoll" Plates, are for Tourist delivery vehicles. In more recent years, tourist plates have been marked with a red band with the expiration date in month and year at one side.
I was lucky enough to find my 1962 Type 34 with the rear tourist plate still on the car and the reciept from Heinrich Weigmann Volkswagen in Hamburg, the Victoria Auto Insurance form and Tourist Registration booklet in about 25 languages still in the glove compartment.
Allyn
1960 Sedan (Otto), 1962 Type 34 (Heinrich), 1963 Sunroof Sedan(Yoko), 1963 Type 34 (Franz), 1965 1500 S Variant (Sandy), 1967 1600 Variant (Gunther), 1982 Volvo Turbo Wagon aka the Turbo Brick |
"Zoll" means an export tax. This was paid by the factory or delivering dealer to the Bundesrepublik Government when they got the plates. These were a temporary tag put on cars temporarily operated in Germany but ultimately meant for export. The reason for this was to show the Bundespoleizi CLEARLY that the car was NOT subject to the TUV inspection. If you tried running a car over there in those days with American spec lights, for example, they'd stop you and fine you heavily, then make you get the car fixed. These plates became known as "tourist" plates because if you got a car on European Delivery as a tourist, those were the plates that were on the car when you took delivery of it in Germany.
'justsayno' just cleared up a mystery for me: I've got several sets of "long" plates with the red band from Koeln in my collection, but I've never seen a red band plat in Koeln. I was wondering what the deal was! 
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