<VV> VA antique vehicle plates

[Kent Sullivan]

You might check the registration for your car. Here in WA state, the "EXP"
field is marked "PERM" for antique-registered vehicles. I have used that to
stop an errant LEO in his/her tracks more than once. 

--Kent
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[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of mhicks130 at cox.net
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:35 PM
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Subject: Re: <VV> VA antique vehicle plates

Thanks for the responses.  I went to the horses mouth (so to speak) and
called the state police office in charge of state safety inspections.  He
said he that antique/vintage plated cars are exempt from safety inspectons
both by Governor's proclamation (that started the inspections) and by state
code and he told me where to find them online.  He also said he had a '74
Vette :) and he kept a printout of the code in his glovebox.  He also said
the way the the restrictions are written for the antique plates, you can
drive your car every day.  It allows for pleasure drives and there's no
limit on them other than they can't be more than 250 miles from your home.
You can't drive it to work all the time though.

I'm confident my car would pass inspection but it's a hassle getting my 2
transportation cars inspected every year - I don't want to do a third if I
don't have to.  If I find myself wanting to use the car more often and in a
more utilitarian way, I'll change over to regular registration and get
inspections.  I haven't decided that at this time.  I like driving it now
but I'm sure I'll feel differently when it's cold (my car's a convertible).


I can't believe the York County sherrif's department doesn't know the law on
this.  It wasn't that hard for me to find out and I'm just a guy.  I'll
definately be keeping a printout of the governor's proclomation and the code
section with relevent lines highlighted for easy reading.  Hopefully that
will fix things. 

Well at least my immortal soul was saved from eternal damnation so this
morning wasn't a total loss!
 

mike

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