Originally Posted by
KevinC
These are both vanity plates. Kinda. I've been wanting to put a retro Arizona plate on at least one of my cars for some time. These were issued through '95. My pair were originally issued in '89. If you have an older plate that was previously yours or in your family, you can move it to a current car. If not your own, no dice. But I had an idea. What if I buy an Ebay plate, that if it's old enough, the sequence is now out of the system and registerable as a vanity plate? Tested my theory and found that most of the older plate sequences indeed showed "available" when checking the DMV (errr MVD in AZ) site. Then I stumbled on these - actually 3 of them, in sequence, never put on a car (were probably the fronts, not required to display here). 2 of the 3 were "available". So I ponied up the $25 each and got "new" vanity plates with these sequences. Wham, slap on the old ones instead, and I'm totally legal. LOVE these plates, they're well-made, fresh as the day they were stamped down at Florence prison, have nice reflectorized numbering, and last forever - unlike the current ones which are all gradually delaminating. Plus it's cool to have 2 plates in sequence.
