What CA city is your car from? DMV letter prefix 1963-69

[BZ65]

That's cool stale air. Thanks for posting the list and thanks for all the replies when you weren't able to post the list.

[bill may]

[kidvintage]

Stale Air -

Thank you VERY much for following through on your word and sharing this information with the classic car community. I dont know if the domestic car guys have this information or not, but i am sure they will pick-up on it soon. This is a tremendous resource for "black plate geeks" like myself......Aaron, the beers are on me at the next Sacramento Bug-O-Rama.

A few notable things popped out at me:

1. AAA-FEU are all NorCal plates & FEV-KVZ are all SoCal plates. I had no idea that such HUGE blocks of plates were segregated by region.

2. I am surprised at the amount of obscure NorCal DMV's that are out there. It is surprising that there are MANY more NorCal DMV's than SoCal DMV's.

3. The NTA-RDA block issued out of Los Angeles is particularly large. Obviously.

4. It is generally accepted (before this list) that the "R-S-T" plates are from 1966 & the "N-O-P-Q" plates are from 1965. What I infer from this list is that "NTA-RDA" plates should have been issued from LA beginning in 1963. So the preconcieved notion that all "N" plates are 1965 can be thrown out the window. "NTA" was probably issued in 1963 out of Los Angeles. Cool Stuff!!

[bill may]

PHS issued in september 1964 to my 65 bus. L.A. even tho' original owner lived in san diego.
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[Dave]

Stale Air, I imagine your guess is right on the money. I wanted to see which plates were issued from the Crescent City DMV, as the next closest town is Eureka, 80 miles away, and back in the '60's that stretch of Highway 101 was NOT what it is now... need to go to Eureka back then? plan on pretty much an all-day expedition.
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[abritinthebay]

God I wish I could find out what my UDX one was

[Randall]

My '63 Notch left the factory in Sept 1962. The annual CA vehicle registration slip (the one the fuzz asks to see) shows a 'date first sold' of 00/00/1962. My 1963 license plate letters are IMA, therefore it was issued from the Santa Monica DMV office. My brother bought the Notch in April 1970 while attending UCLA, only a 4.5 mile drive from the Santa Monica DMV. I bought it from him in Oct 1971.

The plate letters issued from Santa Monica go from IMA to IPS. (See: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5373345&highlight=#5373345) The three numbers of my plate are 015. So I conclude that my plates are the 15th ones issued by the Santa Monica DMV office for the then new black and yellow plates. Mine don't look so new now.

I dare anyone to come up with a still-in-use black plate that was issued before mine.

[Jon Schmid]

For those of you with "later" letter/number plates, at some point once the yellow to black plate conversion was done the state issued them sequentially, like they do now. No need for the local DMV's to stockpile plates anymore.

[Lind]

[DztBugy]

Blast from the past.
Anyone know which DMV would have issued plate prefix XMW?
Thanks

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