For those of you who have 25+ year old cars and have the collector license plates for them..

I'm a December baby, so I just renewed my vehicles. Got my sticker for the Ranger a few days ago, but I was surprised to get an enitrely new plate for my 69 Nova SS yesterday.

Did you get a new plate as well during the cource of the year? I noticed my plate number is HA0xxx, so I guess HA stands for "Hobby Antique".. I *liked* my old 190xxx plate, and not a big fan of the www.GEORGIA.gov style..

Just wonderin'...

damn you're old!
-TP

As I understand it, owners of "ordinary" plates just get a new sticker. Speicialty plates, and new registers get the new plate. I got a new plate for my SUV as I have an SCV specialty plate, but only got a sticker for my trailer with its ordinary plate.

SCV plate starts out CV**** which I assume stands for Confederate Veteran.

A 69 Nova eh? Cool wheels! Wish I still had my 68 Cougar XR7. Sigh.

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Originally posted by Rebel:
A 69 Nova eh? Cool wheels! Wish I still had my 68 Cougar XR7. Sigh.

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Hmmm ... new cars. Best car I ever had was an original '64 1/2 Mustang. Flipped it in '71 and got another Mustang (Boss 302). It was a helluva lot faster, but it just wasn't the same.

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Originally posted by Rebel:
As I understand it, owners of "ordinary" plates just get a new sticker. Speicialty plates, and new registers get the new plate. I got a new plate for my SUV as I have an SCV specialty plate, but only got a sticker for my trailer with its ordinary plate.

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See, that's what threw me. The one I have/had on the Nova now is a Hobby/Antique plate already, and they sent me a new Hobby/Antique plate instead of a sticker. Did you have one already too, and they sent you another one?

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A 69 Nova eh? Cool wheels! Wish I still had my 68 Cougar XR7. Sigh.

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Yeah, those are nice too. I'm about to start driving the Nova again - too danged hot to in the warm months. Overall it's in excellent shape, just need to do a few minor things to it. I'll drive it to the next event that's closer to my house.

And Pez - I'm not old. I'm just drawn that way.

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Originally posted by phat.bak:
Hmmm ... new cars. Best car I ever had was an original '64 1/2 Mustang. Flipped it in '71 and got another Mustang (Boss 302). It was a helluva lot faster, but it just wasn't the same.

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I've got a 66 Mustang in the other garage bay I'm looking to sell. Complete restore job, though. If you want to relive those mustang days, that is..

Originally posted by phat.bak:
Hmmm ... new cars. Best car I ever had was an original '64 1/2 Mustang. Flipped it in '71 and got another Mustang (Boss 302). It was a helluva lot faster, but it just wasn't the same.

Phat.Bak that's cool. I too had a 64 1/2 Stang.
289 High Performancefastback Dark Green. Ran if off the road at Lost Mountain going way to fast. It was the first Mustang in Marietta bought it at what was then Strother Ford on Hwy 41. I sold what was left and bought a 67 Vette 427 tri power with 435 hp stock. Now that was one mean ride.

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I've got a 66 Mustang in the other garage bay I'm looking to sell.

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Oooh! Talk to me!

Really. I could be interested. I'll drop you a note tomorrow.

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Did you have one already too, and they sent you another one?

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Yep. Those with specialty plates got new ones.

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I've got a 66 Mustang in the other garage bay I'm looking to sell.

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Oooh! Talk to me!

Really. I could be interested. I'll drop you a note tomorrow.

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I'll make sure he does. AG's Maxima would love to be garage kept

I had a 1965 Buick Gran Sport, which was the Buick answer to the GTO and Olds 442. It was basicly a Skylark with the Electra 225 engine, a 401 CI V8 with enough torque to spin the wheels all the way through 1st and 2nd gear and blow out a rear tire in one run, at about 80 mph. Don't ask how I know that. Big Detroit Iron with BIG power ... all of those "muscle" cars were impressive ... GTO, 442, Malibu 396SS, Nova 396SS, Torino, Roadrunner, Charger, 383 Barracuda, and others. The good old days ... except they got about 14 mpg.

Yeah, but gas was LOT cheaper back then!

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Originally posted by Strapped-4-Cache:
Yeah, but gas was LOT cheaper back then!

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Yes and no ... I think it was about 30 cents a gallon for "high test", but adjusted for inflation that is almost $2 now. Money went a lot farther then. I remember that big '65 GS cost $2800 brand new ... wish I still had it. But you could buy a new Volksbuggen for about $1600, and it got great gas mileage. But going up a hill with four in a bug you needed to pedal ... and the heater would cook one of your feet while your head gathered frost. The good ol' days.

Back in the muscle car days, a high performance engine had roughly 1 horsepower per cubic inch and got 13 MPG and you had to replace the plugs and points and set the timing, adjust the carb every few thousand miles. Today we're still getting roughly 1 HP per C.I. but the enigines are pushing close to 30 MPG and you can drive 70,000 miles before you need to change plugs. Amazing!

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Originally posted by CharlieP:
...you could buy a new Volksbuggen for about $1600, and it got great gas mileage. But going up a hill with four in a bug you needed to pedal ... and the heater would cook one of your feet while your head gathered frost. The good ol' days.

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I've owned three of those little cars, and still have the hobby/antique tags hanging in the garage from the last one. All you say is true, but they're fun cars to tinker with, and there's just something fun about being able to pull an engine by doing nothing more than putting the car up on a couple of jackstands and loosening four 17mm bolts. You could pull an engine, overhaul it and reinstall it in an afternoon if you were motivated to do so.

Yeah, I'm a VW fan. I was tempted to use one of my former handles as my geonick, but resisted the temptation. I didn't want to have to continually explain the significance of NO_H2O or Bug_Nut to non-VW people.

Hopefully I'll show up at a meeting one day in a nice 21 window bus sporting a Massive Type IV powerplant from Raby's Aircooled Technology. OK, maybe that's a dream, but I can't have a Beele anymore. With three of us and the fourth waiting to be adopted into the family I have to have more room, so I am planning to get a microbus one day for the family. Nothing fancy, but they get decent gas mileage, can seat the family in comfort and can hold a TON of stuff if necessary.

Now I just have to convince PennyWise that it will be a good investment...

Regards,

S-4-C

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Back in the muscle car days, a high performance engine had roughly 1 horsepower per cubic inch and got 13 MPG and you had to replace the plugs and points and set the timing, adjust the carb every few thousand miles.

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I feel cheated.
My Land-Rover was built in those days but only gets 70 hp out of it's 2.25 liter (137 cu.in.) engine. That's only ½ horsepower per cubic inch and I get 13 MPG and have to replace plugs, points, set the timing, and adjust the carb every thousand miles.

I never have to change the air filter though.
It's an oil bath air cleaner and it just needs cleaning and an oil change when the engine gets its oil changed.

Ain't old technology grand?

~erik~

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Originally posted by Aksor:
Back in the muscle car days, a high performance engine had roughly 1 horsepower per cubic inch ... Today we're still getting roughly 1 HP per C.I. but the enigines are pushing close to 30 MPG and you can drive 70,000 miles before you need to change plugs. Amazing!

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The 1 HP per CI is close, but most of them were a little less than that. My 65 GS got 325 HP from 401 CI, and the 389 GTO with one 4 barrel carb got 335. But the GTO got 360 HP out of the same 389 CI on the version with 3 x 2-barrel carbs and ram air induction. The 360 HP GTO was a real screamer, the sound of those 3 carbs sucking air through the hood scoop was something to hear. But I agree that modern auto technology is amazing in other ways. I rented a Chevy Monte Carlo on a business trip a while back, a comfortable full-sized car, and it got 30 mpg ... amazing for a car that big.