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In Germany you can get a "historic" number for cars, when they are older than 30 years and in quite original condition. The yearly tax is lower, the insurance, too.
Yes, especially for me as an license-plate-fan, it caused also the problem, that you must have a special, modern plate.
It's very sad, that for this regulation, the absolute most of old, original license-plate -especially from towns or counties, which don't have own plates since decades any more, are gone irretrievably
Where I lived in the past and now, I had (until a changed law last year), the theoretical possibility to buy a car with such ancient plates and registrate it on my name, just to keep the plate, but I was never lucky. Nowc it's too late.
Perhaps I should have bought the car in 1992 with such a plate, offerend by friend of mine. But I had no money - and was coward, because I was afraid of the reliability of the car. It was a Simca 1100.
The following year I tried to catch an Audi 60 with old plates - it was sold one day, before I had called the seller.
The old registration of a K 70 was expired, because the former owner didn't take enough care. I really would have bought the (quite rotten) car and would have -surely illegally- cut out the FIN-number and put it into annother, better K 70, just to save the license-plate.
In the 90ies, when I lived in Dortmund, I had the (real fictious) chance again, but I could get one of the last 3 (three!) cars at that part of the town, which still had plates from the time, before the village belonged to the town of Dortmund.
So me as an old-plate-lover had tried several times to get a vehicle with an ancient plate, while otherwise some idiots are giving up them just for saving tax. :mad:
Yes, especially for me as an license-plate-fan, it caused also the problem, that you must have a special, modern plate.
It's very sad, that for this regulation, the absolute most of old, original license-plate -especially from towns or counties, which don't have own plates since decades any more, are gone irretrievably
Where I lived in the past and now, I had (until a changed law last year), the theoretical possibility to buy a car with such ancient plates and registrate it on my name, just to keep the plate, but I was never lucky. Nowc it's too late.
Perhaps I should have bought the car in 1992 with such a plate, offerend by friend of mine. But I had no money - and was coward, because I was afraid of the reliability of the car. It was a Simca 1100.
The following year I tried to catch an Audi 60 with old plates - it was sold one day, before I had called the seller.
The old registration of a K 70 was expired, because the former owner didn't take enough care. I really would have bought the (quite rotten) car and would have -surely illegally- cut out the FIN-number and put it into annother, better K 70, just to save the license-plate.
In the 90ies, when I lived in Dortmund, I had the (real fictious) chance again, but I could get one of the last 3 (three!) cars at that part of the town, which still had plates from the time, before the village belonged to the town of Dortmund.
So me as an old-plate-lover had tried several times to get a vehicle with an ancient plate, while otherwise some idiots are giving up them just for saving tax. :mad: