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BUGTHUG
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| vwluver74 wrote: |
| My 61 ragtop costs $69 to register. My 59 chevy flatbed truck is a bit over $1800 a year to register. If reg's only cost me 20 dollars per vehicle id have everything I own tagged! |
Why is the 59 chevy so much? Just get an antique about $50.00. If your in Kansas?
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Russ Wolfe
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:58 am Post subject: |
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My wifes SUV is over $250 a year to register.
Used to be in Iowa, any car over $25 years old was $10, and any truck over 25 was $25.
My son lives in Sandy Eggo. I hate to see what his 28 ft motor home costs to register.
And they wonder why people are fleeing California.
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vwluver74
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| My 61 ragtop costs $69 to register. My 59 chevy flatbed truck is a bit over $1800 a year to register. If reg's only cost me 20 dollars per vehicle id have everything I own tagged! |
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Ken J
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Location: Charlotte
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:17 am Post subject: |
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| Russ Wolfe wrote: |
Iowa just doubled the fees I pay on my VW's.
I put 3 of my cars into storage, to I would not have to pay the license fees. I was informed that if/when I took them back out of storage the fees would be doubled. From $10 to $20.
The ones I am keeping plates on, went from $10 to $16. |
Russ, I can see that you've never lived in California. When I moved there quite a few years ago, I registered a fairly new Mercedes station wagon and an older Mercedes sedan, both diesels. In Illinois, any diesel vehicle was a flat fee of around $15 if I recall. I almost crapped my pants at the California DMV when the clerk told me it would be $1800 to register both cars!
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:49 am Post subject: |
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Oh, the humanity! Those prices are outrageous! 
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Russ Wolfe
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Iowa just doubled the fees I pay on my VW's.
I put 3 of my cars into storage, to I would not have to pay the license fees. I was informed that if/when I took them back out of storage the fees would be doubled. From $10 to $20.
The ones I am keeping plates on, went from $10 to $16.
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Ken J
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North Carolina is going with the flat plates, starting with the personalized ones. I just got one. It does look fake. They claim it reduces the cost. Maybe they'll lower our license plate fees.........Bwaaaaahaaaaahaaaaa!!!
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theastronaut
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Is there a plastic cover over that one?
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Nope! Just the tag itself inside the Leroy Cannon dealer frame pictured in my earlier post.
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Russ Wolfe
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I have heard it from my neighbor too. He is an Iowa highway patrolman.
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cdennisg
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| Cops do not like them as they are harder to read from an angle. |
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| Idaho went to the flat plate a few years back. Cops don't like them because you can't read them from an angle. |
Must be an echo.
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blankmange
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| picked up new plates today: Missouri still hands out stamped plates... |
Bigger prison system?   |
gotta do something with the tweekers...
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Russ Wolfe
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| blankmange wrote: |
| picked up new plates today: Missouri still hands out stamped plates... |
Bigger prison system?
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blankmange
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:15 am Post subject: |
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picked up new plates today: Missouri still hands out stamped plates...
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Russ Wolfe
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:12 am Post subject: |
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Is there a plastic cover over that one?
This washed out just from a camera flash.
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theastronaut
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3M has lobbied and convinced the various states that the flat plates are better.
They own the patent rights to the reflective material and process they are made from.
The patent rights had run out on the old reflective paint system. |
Have they not seen them at night? With glare at an angle? The letters and the background have the same sheen, making the letters completly invisible. I'm tired of this new "better". The pic isn't edited to block out the numbers, thats the glare from a street lamp. The letters on a raised letter tag would be visable.
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Russ Wolfe
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Cops do not like them as they are harder to read from an angle.
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a.wilson
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| Yeah, you'd think so. The plate itself has "security" features, but making modifications to a legal plate, I'm sure is do-able. |
Kind of what I was thinking, done out of fraud.
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| 3M has lobbied and convinced the various states that the plates are better. They own the patent rights to the reflective material and process they are made from. The patent rights had run out on the old reflective paint sysytem. |
Lets hope 3M is right they are better. 
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cdennisg
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I was actually wondering about this very thing. I had figured that someone had come up with the new system for reflectivity and for applying the numbers. They would then lobby each state to get them to jump on board under the auspices that it would save a pile of money for the state. Now I know who did that.
There was nothing wrong with the old plate design, it just didn't make enough money for gubmint contractors.
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Russ Wolfe
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3M has lobbied and convinced the various states that the flat plates are better.
They own the patent rights to the reflective material and process they are made from.
The patent rights had run out on the old reflective paint system.
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glutamodo 
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| Yeah, you'd think so. The plate itself has "security" features, but making modifications to a legal plate, I'm sure is do-able. |
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