Yes, it happend South of Hannover (not far away from the towns Wolfsburg, Braunschweig and Salzgitter, where VW-plants are located). A guy in the car-registration-authority denied to give one customer with a perfect 1975-Golf a historic-license-plate (that one with the "H" after the numbers. His reason "It's just a VW Golf. This will never be a classic."

The owner went to the court, but I don't know, how the decision was.