2-3 years ago there was old beat-up BMW 520 from early 80's in my neighbourhood, and it had some very, very old german plates - I can't remember what exactly was written on them, but they looked different than old german plates I used to see (especially during summer holidays in Greece in mid 90's). If something like that comes up I'll let you know. I also like old plates, and I'm seeking for Republika Srpska cyrilic plates, since they are very, very rare. On one junkyard they have one with "МД" written on it (stands for Modriča, Republic of Srpska now), but junkyard owner doesn't want to sell them ("it's illegal, what if police comes" ans similar things ). Funny thing is that they are standing on one Porsche 944! But since new environment-protect law is voted last summer, 90% of junkyards will be closed and cars will be scrapped, so maybe owner of the junkyard will change it's opinion soon (he also has about 20 cars with old Yugoslav license plates, one with star, but he doesn't want to sell them because he is afraid of police, altough selling old plates that are not in use isn't illegal ). Fortunately, in a "military shop" (or as we call it - military junkyard) old military plates can be found from time to time.



Oh yes, this is forst action of that kind in Serbia, but 1000 euro bonus can be used only for buying domestic Fiat Punto . Government wants to put domestic industry on it's feet, and since Serbia is poor country they gave these subventions only for Punto, since it is only car produced in Serbia (for now). Also domestic tractors, trucks and buses can be bought in the same way.



Thing with currently used plates is that nobody wants to be nostalgic about time when they were introduced - that was 1 year before NATO bombing, there were terrorist attacks on Kosovo and you could see that war was about to start, image of Serbia in the world was very bad (and still is, we have "tails" from that time ), GDP was going down like crazy (and after 1995. everything looked much better), 1000 documents were needed to get a visa to go anywhere, salaries were low, corruption and crime everywhere (just seek for the movie "Vidimo se u čitulji", where actual criminals were talking about their acts, on TV )... Very bad time for both Serbs and Montenegrians, no one wants to remember "third Yugoslavia". But if we are speaking of "second Yugoslavia"(1944-1992) - hell yeah, there are a lots of things to be nostalgic about ! That's the reason why I got "second Yugoslavia" plates - to put them on my GS on next GS-iade we are organising, since GS was also one of car-icons in ex-YU.


F*cking German bureaucracy!! :mad:[/quote]

I completely know how you feel - I have to add f*cking Serbian bureaucracy!