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But gas is high in DE, at least compared to MD & VA... Not necessarily bad as the other savings no doubt off set the cost...

Im not worried about being limited on driving with the antique plates. I think the black and white virginia plates will look good on my black car. Ive been waiting to get these for years now!

You may be able to get your antique plates now. It's usually 25 model years old. Since the 2012 model year has started your car is technically 25 years old :).

Im going to check today since my old plates expired today. I would hate to have to renew my plates for just a month before buying the antique plates lol.

Shadow the taxes on the shop are 22K a year. Thank god my grand father bought the building in  early 1900. If not between a mortgage and taxes i could note make it. Especially on the body shop. The insurance companies are paying JACK. We are lucky we just have taxes and utilities. But some of the other shops ar paying 10K a month for rent!!!! Basically i want to move but i dont want to leave the kids. My girls all live here and my wife wont move. I looked at some property in NH. But it is to cold for an old dude like me. So i will look south and see what gives. But like i said my wife is being difficult with a move. You know friends stores the kids ETC.

you gotta be 30+ here in FL to get Antique tags. They don't really limit you much with them. I once met a guy who had an old 70's dodge with an antique plate on it, this dude drove it as his work truck. He delivered pizzas in it. the only real advantage to getting one here is that its waaaaaaayyyyyy cheaper to register and renew, and plus you get the satisfaction of everyone behind you knowing you've got the ability to keep a 30 year old car on the road.

It used to be 20+ years here but I guess the fact that 20 years now doesn't mean as much as 20 years did 20 years ago. 20 years now is something from the 90's at this point. 20 years ago, back in oh, 91, something 20 years old would have been from 71. that's not the kind of car that usually lasts 20 years. But if you could put a plate on every taurus honda and toyota on the road thats between teh age of 1991 and 1981 right now, they would make absolutely no revenue at that rate. So they had to bump it up to 30 years so they could still make revenue on the regular $300 registrations and $60 annual renewals.

This means I've got a good 7 years yet before I can run them on mine. Oh well no matter to me. In FL we have a custom state plate, with the Florida Panther on it, proceeds go to helping keep them from going extinct or something like that. I figure what better plate to put on my Cougar, than one with a freakin Cougar on it. Only problem is, with the custom plate, with custom letters, on top of the very literal $300 registration fee, I'm looking at close to $400 to get my car legal. That was a real number given to me by three different DMV workers. This is the reason why I own a 3000 pound lawn ornament.