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Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 6 2018, 06:21 PM
YOM plates are now legal in CA for the years that the 914 was made, but what is a correct plate# for your CA 914?
Lets make a list of original CA Blue/Gold license plates as a guide to help you find a set of YOM plates appropriate for your model year. Post your known original plates and model year info in this thread and I will update this first post for future reference:
1970
288 BJG
061 BJW
408 CAF
___ CIL
218 DJW
1971
747 CMA
348 DRC
426 EDO
120 EHB
1972
366 GGA
785 GHD
1973
441 GRR
187 GTT
530 GVS
237 HBQ
890 HHH
878 HVT
069 JBB
797 JDD
309 JSA
1974
508 JYF
421 KEM
696 KKC
262 KMQ
078 KNA
221 KOP
439 LBO
481 LBR
070 LCC
114 LEE
768 LGP
258 LKG
504 LUV
1975
384 MOZ
007 MWY
964 NAC
313 NPA (plates probably issued in 1976, maybe car sat on the dealer lot for a few months)
1976
172 NNV
566 PKH
280 RLC
1977
237 UDI (From a 1974 car brought into CA in 1977, when it received these CA plates)
Posted by: Larmo63 Apr 6 2018, 06:25 PM
441 GRR - 1973 ( early '73 )
Posted by: fixer34 Apr 6 2018, 06:53 PM
Can someone enlighten us other 49 states folks (and maybe non-US) about the significance of the blue/yellow, black/yellow, and other color combination California plates?
Posted by: RAX 914 Apr 6 2018, 07:11 PM
This site explains the differences in California plates from 1969 onwards:
http://www.15q.net/ca.html
It's cool to have plates matching the era of the car
Can someone enlighten us other 49 states folks (and maybe non-US) about the significance of the blue/yellow, black/yellow, and other color combination California plates?
Posted by: Tom_T Apr 6 2018, 07:16 PM
Can someone enlighten us other 49 states folks (and maybe non-US) about the significance of the blue/yellow, black/yellow, and other color combination California plates?
Some early 70 MY 914/4s & 914-6s sold in late 1969 had the prior series color scheme black with yellow (gold) letters plates - but the rest 1970-76 were blue with yellow (gold) letters (DMV & CA calls it "gold" because of the gold rush history).
Here's a quick summary of the variuos years & styles FYI -
http://www.lamag.com/driver/the-colorful-history-of-california-license-plates/
Another good one with pix of plates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_California
Tom
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Posted by: Tom_T Apr 6 2018, 07:26 PM
YOM plates are now legal in CA, but what is a correct plate# for your 914?
Making a list of original CA Blue/Yellow license plates, here is what I have so far:
Plate # Model Year
426 EDO 1971
421 KEM 1974
696 KKC 1974
481 LBR 1974
070 LCC 1974
114 LEE 1974
258 LKG 1974
504 LUV 1974
964 NAC 1975
Please post your known original plates and model year and I will add them to this first post.
Jeff,
YOM has been legal for a long time, but it only went up to 1969 plates, so that limited it to early 70 MY 914s sold in late 1969.
What is new is that recently the State extended the date out to 1985 for YOM, so now all 70-76 914's are eligible for YOM plates.
For the 49-staters, YOM is "Year of Manufacture" program which enables the owner of a classic car to find/buy a set of 2 period correct plates for their car, & if it's not an assigned plate number, then they can apply to have it put on their car/registration to replace whatever later plates are on it, or if it comes in from out of state.
PS - This YOM is also good for trucks/commercial vehicles, motorcycles & trailers. A couple of years back I did a YOM on our vintage restored 1960 Avion T20 trailer (#2 T20 made, looks like Airstream). It wasn't excessively painful at the Santa Ana DMV cuz the gal doing them knew about YOMs, & I'd verified that it was an unassigned plate (NOS) before I purchased it, & did the same for the MY sticker - so it sailed throu since neither were then assigned to another trailer.
Jeff, I did verify a couple of months ago with the auto plate collectors group that the letter series can be out of order, since they were issued to various DMV offices, AAA, etc., & it depended on how quickly/slowly each place went through them.
You'll also find some of the later 76s & maybe a few 75s which have the additional digit added (7 digits like found on the next white/blue series).
FYI - my 73 2L was first registered 11/9/72 & has 530 GVS.
Tom
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Posted by: 914 7T3 Apr 6 2018, 07:35 PM
Just assigned these to my '73 two weeks ago.
Posted by: Mueller Apr 6 2018, 08:53 PM
I have the ugly whitr platrs, blue plates on list once car is up ams runnung. Car sat too long so new plates , same with our '78 Volvo
Posted by: Larmo63 Apr 6 2018, 09:00 PM
The state of California taxes us for the license plates we ACTUALLY WANT on the cars that WE ACTUALLY OWN.
(rant over)
Posted by: RangerDick Apr 6 2018, 09:03 PM
Original with the vehicle
Posted by: SO.O.C914er Apr 6 2018, 09:23 PM
I had these on my car since 1980. 
Posted by: Gustl Apr 7 2018, 12:17 AM
348 DRC - 1st registered on 5-28-1971 (my current car)
280 RLC - don't know when it 1st registered, but it was my ex MY'74 1.8
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 7 2018, 12:50 AM
280 RLC - don't know when it 1st registered, but it was my ex MY'74 1.8
Wolfgang...your '74 plate seems out of sequence. Was the car originally sold in CA or was it bought in another state and later brought into CA or do you know?
Posted by: Gustl Apr 7 2018, 05:41 AM
Hi Jeff, the COA says it was delivered to Jacksonville, FL
I bought it in 1999. The pre-owner (from Orange County) told me that he had it for 2 years and that he bought it from a guy (from south CA) who had it for 21 years. So it's very likely that it came to CA in 1976 (+/-).
Posted by: cal44 Apr 7 2018, 06:52 AM
1974, plates are original to car 078 KNA
Posted by: Blue6 Apr 7 2018, 09:26 AM
Jeff,
A DMV employee friend of mine told me, 1970 MY were issued up to_ _ _ CIL, with very few exceptions. Sometimes a remote rural office might have an old set of plates, which result in a 1971 getting an early plate. He said back then they went through 2 1/2 to 3 letters of the alphabet each yr.
Posted by: Ed_Turbo Apr 7 2018, 02:06 PM
Thanks for putting my plates down Jeff. 
Forgot to include Bozzani frame 
-Big Ed
Posted by: pete000 Apr 7 2018, 04:08 PM
Pretty sure this came on our 74 when it was new...
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Posted by: Larry Hubby Apr 7 2018, 08:46 PM
Originally a 1970 914-4 bought in May of that year
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 8 2018, 03:08 PM
The list is growing folks...thanks. How about some more from the years not well covered yet.
Posted by: markhoward Apr 8 2018, 03:46 PM
Not sure if this is still the situation but once my friend had YOM yellow and black plates on his 57 Lincoln. When the car was sold, he kept the plates and tried to put them on his 56 Chrysler. Plates were 56 issue, having a 57 sticker when it was on the 57. Even though it did not have stickers when he tried to put them on his 56, the DMV would not let him because they said they now have that particular plate recorded as a 57. So it seems that once you put a qualifying plate on YOM for a specific year, you cannot put it on a different year car even though that year is valid for YOM issue otherwise. Has anyone else ever tried something like this with success?
For the plate list, do we only want original issue blue plate numbers for 914's or should we include other makes? Seems that we would want any make having original issue along with the where the car was first registered. Where is important since the DMV distributed plates to field offices in batches and less populated areas went through their plates slower the big cities.
Posted by: jcd914 Apr 8 2018, 09:30 PM
1971 914, brought to California from back East somewhere by the PO, so I don't know when it was first registered in CA.
Jim
Posted by: 914_teener Apr 8 2018, 10:04 PM
MY 1973 
This car was sold to a PCA guy in Michigan.
So don.t know about the plates. I had the front plate restored before it sold early this year.
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 8 2018, 10:36 PM
Not sure if this is still the situation but once my friend had YOM yellow and black plates on his 57 Lincoln. When the car was sold, he kept the plates and tried to put them on his 56 Chrysler. Plates were 56 issue, having a 57 sticker when it was on the 57. Even though it did not have stickers when he tried to put them on his 56, the DMV would not let him because they said they now have that particular plate recorded as a 57. So it seems that once you put a qualifying plate on YOM for a specific year, you cannot put it on a different year car even though that year is valid for YOM issue otherwise. Has anyone else ever tried something like this with success?
For the plate list, do we only want original issue blue plate numbers for 914's or should we include other makes? Seems that we would want any make having original issue along with the where the car was first registered. Where is important since the DMV distributed plates to field offices in batches and less populated areas went through their plates slower the big cities.
YOM plates are reassigned. When you go in to DMV they even want to see the year registration sticker which must match your car that it will be reassigned to. So you are supposed to find a set of plates (yes both are required) with a ~40-year old registration sticker visible. Right, good luck with that. Just find plates you want to use and the registration tag in the correct years is available elsewhere. Once reassigned to a vehicle...its final. The sole purpose of this list is to help folks locate model year correct plates to be as accurate as possible.
For this list, we only are interested in listing originally issued CA Blue/Gold plates so the car must have been sold in CA originally - not imported at some later date. Could be plates from a different car make, that is not as important as documenting that the plates are from a certain model year, for our purposes.
Posted by: infraredcalvin Apr 8 2018, 10:45 PM
1975 384 MOZ
1976 172 NNV
Posted by: Edward Blume Apr 9 2018, 05:00 AM
Dad's car was bought in early 1977 (secondhand) and assigned this plate. The car was originally sold in Oklahoma.
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Posted by: sb914 Apr 9 2018, 07:41 AM
73 2.0 pretty sure there original 
Posted by: Robnxious Apr 9 2018, 08:43 AM
I believe these are original to my 1974
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 9 2018, 09:36 AM
Dad's car was bought in early 1977 (secondhand) and assigned this plate. The car was originally sold in Oklahoma.
Interesting Ed. I included it as a book end for the list. Still Blue/Gold and disclosed as a 1977 issue. Nice.
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 9 2018, 09:39 AM
I believe these are original to my 1974
This looks like a 1977 issue too. The car was likely brought into CA at ~3 years old, in 1977, so it would be a 49-state car. If you you can confirm I will add it to the list.
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 9 2018, 09:41 AM
1971 914, brought to California from back East somewhere by the PO, so I don't know when it was first registered in CA.
Jim
Probably sometime well after April 1980, given its numerical sequence.
Posted by: pt_700 Apr 9 2018, 11:56 AM
747 cma on my '71. i'm the 3rd owner and believe these are original to the car.
Posted by: Ferg Apr 9 2018, 12:03 PM
I need to look through my stash, I think I have some blue plates from 914's bought long ago.
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 9 2018, 12:16 PM
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Posted by: burton73 Apr 9 2018, 01:26 PM
This was on my 74 V8 car but I only have one. What do I do? Car has not been reg in CA for several years and in non opt. I do not want to pay high back registration costs to bring it current.
Bob B
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 9 2018, 02:08 PM
Ask google for the places that will replicate a second plate for you. Check with DMV to see what their reqs are on that.
Posted by: markhoward Apr 9 2018, 02:28 PM
Hope this is not abusing the thread but I am interested in a pair that would be correct for a 76. Ferg, if you are open to selling/trading something from your stash, I have a pair with DPD and another with BWN. Going to use DPD if I can't find something better.
If it helps the list, I can see what stickers are the earliest ones applied but imagine BWN would be 70 and DPD not much later. Have a single plate 346 SIR which was original issue for a 77 (non teener) sold in South San Francisco. That car caught on fire but at least it was not a 914!
I need to look through my stash, I think I have some blue plates from 914's bought long ago.
Posted by: 90quattrocoupe Apr 9 2018, 03:23 PM
73' 2.0L 513UJS
Posted by: 90quattrocoupe Apr 9 2018, 03:38 PM
Double post
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 9 2018, 03:41 PM
73' 2.0L 513UJS
It appears this plate was a later 1970s car, not original to 1973.
Posted by: yeahmag Apr 9 2018, 05:25 PM
1974
Posted by: infraredcalvin Apr 9 2018, 07:26 PM
This was on my 74 V8 car but I only have one. What do I do? Car has not been reg in CA for several years and in non opt. I do not want to pay high back registration costs to bring it current.
Bob B
If you registered as PNO prior to the registration expiring (March 2009) then there are no back fees.
Posted by: Edward Blume Apr 9 2018, 07:40 PM
Dad's car was bought in early 1977 (secondhand) and assigned this plate. The car was originally sold in Oklahoma.
Interesting Ed. I included it as a book end for the list. Still Blue/Gold and disclosed as a 1977 issue. Nice.
More like RobW Jeff. I can dig out the exact date my Dad bought it from a dealer 2nd hand in 1977 if you need it.
Posted by: Edward Blume Apr 9 2018, 07:43 PM
Dad's car was bought in early 1977 (secondhand) and assigned this plate. The car was originally sold in Oklahoma.
Interesting Ed. I included it as a book end for the list. Still Blue/Gold and disclosed as a 1977 issue. Nice.
More like RobW Jeff. I can dig out the exact date my Dad bought it from a dealer 2nd hand in 1977 if you need it.
Duh, I reregister it every year in December... so the plate is from December 1977.
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 9 2018, 09:24 PM
Dad's car was bought in early 1977 (secondhand) and assigned this plate. The car was originally sold in Oklahoma.
Interesting Ed. I included it as a book end for the list. Still Blue/Gold and disclosed as a 1977 issue. Nice.
More like RobW Jeff. I can dig out the exact date my Dad bought it from a dealer 2nd hand in 1977 if you need it.
Jeff's my stage name. I am Alan Middletown...
Posted by: type47fan Apr 11 2018, 01:27 AM
My 1972 (VIN 4722910834) first registered in May '72 in La Mesa, CA
My 1976 (VIN 4762903947) first registered in April '76 in Buena Park, CA.
Posted by: 7TPorsh Apr 11 2018, 09:25 AM
I see only pics of 914s...any blue plate on any car during the specific year would apply...
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 11 2018, 08:47 PM
Do you have plate info for the 1970-72 cars?
Posted by: burton73 Apr 11 2018, 09:40 PM
Here are the plates on my 1970 San Fernando garage find. The PO worked at GM in Van Nuys California building Camaros.
See the date on sticker 1985 same as #41 but not anywhere near as nice when found
Bob B
Posted by: Wyvern Apr 11 2018, 11:48 PM
Here is the YOM form you will need at DMV
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/8e00c021-99d4-41dd-b475-0e9b740c7dad/reg352.pdf?MOD=AJPERES
My DMV told me that for the YOM plate that for 1970 and newer the correct year sticker was NOT needed ? As long at it was 6 characters (or even 7 for 1980).
That would make sense as annual registration would have got a new "year sticker".
So you just need a "Blue plate" with any 6 characters..
The number / letter sequence to be any 6 characters (and following the info here better if it was the correct actual sequence)
Can anyone confirm that ?
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 12 2018, 06:31 AM
My DMV told me that for the YOM plate that for 1970 and newer the correct year sticker was NOT needed ?
My experience was different. Pleasanton DMV. Sometime I will write up all they put me through to get my YOM plates approved. Suffice it for now to say they did require to inspect two identical plates, with one having the correct (for the car model year they would be applied to) year reg sticker attached and visible. I had originally submitted the correct 1974 plates but with a later sticker and which after several weeks in Sacramentos's hands, were rejected. Same plates submitted later with the correct 1974 sticker - approved. BTW the form they have with the requirements listed, does not include this sticker requirement. GRrrrrr...
Posted by: Wyvern Apr 12 2018, 08:47 AM
Interesting Jeff...
The year sticker requirement just doesn't make sense to me as the annual registration would move up that each year.
I found this from the CA legislature. (nothing about stickers there )
AND verbiage about "old car hobbyist" being a resource for validating year sequence of plates ! I am thinking the list would be a great tool. This data base may be much more needed and powerful than you thought.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1429
Posted by: 914 7T3 Apr 12 2018, 09:21 AM
Regardless, you can buy the sticker for the year that you require on Evil Bay.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw=&_ssn=40fordsteve&item=321419422368&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2046732.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xcalifornia+1970s+yom+stickers.TRS0&_nkw=california+1970s+yom+stickers&_sacat=0
Posted by: Robnxious Apr 12 2018, 10:59 AM
I believe these are original to my 1974
This looks like a 1977 issue too. The car was likely brought into CA at ~3 years old, in 1977, so it would be a 49-state car. If you you can confirm I will add it to the list.
That's odd, since the car was originally sold in So. Cal, and I bought from 2nd owner who bought it in 82. It's a CA original car, but yeah, after looking at it, the plate isn't original, according to the website I looked at. Interesting though. It has SOME smog on the original engine, but not sure what came stock and what didn't (had the charcoal canister )
Posted by: lonewolfe Apr 12 2018, 11:30 AM
‘72 914 5/72 production plate is 773 THA.
Posted by: 914 RZ-1 Apr 12 2018, 09:55 PM
1972 mfr date Feb
161 UDG
Posted by: craig downs Apr 12 2018, 09:58 PM
313 NPA 1975
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 12 2018, 11:06 PM
‘72 914 5/72 production plate is 773 THA.
Not a 1972 plate, later issue.
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 12 2018, 11:07 PM
1972 mfr date Feb
161 UDG
Not a 1972 plate, later issue, probably 1977.
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 12 2018, 11:10 PM
313 NPA 1975
Is this car a 1975 model or a 1976 model, with a late 1975 VIN date and can you be certain this is the original CA plate for this car when brand new? I ask because the plate is a little later than the other 1975s and there were 1976 models that have an earlier plate.
Posted by: craig downs Apr 13 2018, 09:36 AM
I am pretty sure that this is the original plate because I have had this car since Oct. 1977. I looked at the vin number and it is around the middle of the range for the vin numbers of 75 cars.
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 13 2018, 10:27 AM
I listed it with the 1975 car but plates probably issued in 1976, maybe car sat on the dealer lot for a few months before selling, or maybe it was a dealer demonstrator car
Posted by: SirAndy Apr 13 2018, 12:42 PM
I'll look up my /6 when i get home, don't have the plates but it's listed on the title.
Posted by: SirAndy Apr 13 2018, 08:09 PM
I'll look up my /6 when i get home, don't have the plates but it's listed on the title.
Meh, either my /6 came from out of state or the registration lapsed at some point, the plate listed on the title is from the '80s.
1QHQ500
Posted by: SirAndy Apr 13 2018, 08:15 PM
1QHQ500
I spoke too soon, i actually found a pic with the original license plate on the car!
218 DJW
Posted by: infraredcalvin Apr 13 2018, 08:55 PM
I listed it with the 1975 car but plates probably issued in 1976, maybe car sat on the dealer lot for a few months before selling, or maybe it was a dealer demonstrator car
You’re probably right, 172 NNV is from my 76 930, it was delivered to the dealer on 03/30/76.
Posted by: Blue6 Apr 13 2018, 10:03 PM
Andy, were you the original owner of that 6? If so, did you buy it in ‘71? That’s the only way the plate could be original to that car.
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 14 2018, 08:33 AM
I spoke too soon, i actually found a pic with the original license plate on the car!
218 DJW
Perhaps /6 #374 also sat around on the dealers lot for a few months before it received its plates.
We need to consider that this list can only study the issued order of license plates by DMV in its rough and approximate order that we have categorized by model years, and that there appears to be minor timing overlaps where an earlier car received a sequentially later plate. it is reasonable to recognize a minor amount of tolerance in the timing of when an original plate was issued, relative to the model year of the car - because the process is inexact. Contributing factors are that certain cars may have sat unsold on dealers lots for awhile and that plates were sent to every DMV office in the state in small groupings, which resulted in plates not having been issued in perfect sequence by VIN number. As long as its a close enough match I think its reasonable and that is the real benefit to this study.
Posted by: SirAndy Apr 14 2018, 06:52 PM
218 DJW
And then i found this today while cleaning out the garage ...
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Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 14 2018, 08:59 PM
Get those babies restored and keep them with the car.
Posted by: abes914 Apr 14 2018, 09:46 PM
This is from my 1975.
Not a lot of info from previous owner
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 14 2018, 09:55 PM
This is from my 1975.
Not a lot of info from previous owner
From 1980 or later, not original CA issue to car in 1975
Posted by: SirAndy Apr 15 2018, 12:20 AM
Know of anyone who does that kind of work?
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 15 2018, 09:04 AM
There are several plate restorers - google can find them for you. I used Mojo, they did a marginal job to my eye...surely there is someone better.
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 16 2018, 12:54 PM
How about some more info on the 1975-76 year plates?
Posted by: mankowski Aug 24 2018, 10:24 PM
1970 CA license 061 BJW
photo from 2004, before I owned the car.
Would love to get those plates back on the car...
Posted by: Martin Baker Sep 8 2018, 09:56 AM
I bought a car just to get the plates off of it. They were a perfect matching set of California blue plates. The car was a 74 1.8 L. But it was in terrible condition. It had been sitting in the high desert in Nevada for a long time. After I got it home and had the plates checked, it had about a mountain of back DMV fees. Well over $600 I believe. Now they just hang on my wall all shiny and blue.
If you look at the photo some genius used a piece of nylon rope and ran it into the car, through the firewall to control the throttle on the engine, from inside the car. That was a first for me to see that.
Is there any way to make these DMV fees disappear? A friend of mine who ran the plate number for me and found out all this information said absolutely not. He said that they do drop off but since he ran the plates that resets the timer on the back fees.
Total shame because both the plates are perfect. There's not even a scratch on them. I really wanted to put them on my 74 2 liter. The guy I bought my car from wouldn't give me the original blue plates.....dick move.
MB
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Posted by: JeffBowlsby Sep 8 2018, 10:08 AM
I bought a car just to get the plates off of it. They were a perfect matching set of California blue plates. The car was a 74 1.8 L.
Martin, sorry to say these would not be original to a 1974 CA car. Looks like they were issued in 1979.
Posted by: Martin Baker Sep 8 2018, 10:17 AM
Yeah, what my plan was was to get a personalized plate that was 237 VZC and then just use the Blue Plate instead of the modern California white plates. That's no longer an option since that number still has back fees on it. And they've stopped the use of 3# 3 letter combos for that reason.
Posted by: 76-914 Sep 8 2018, 11:13 AM
Pretty sure these are original on my '73. Either way, they're staying on it. 
Posted by: JeffBowlsby Sep 8 2018, 11:37 AM
Pretty sure these are original on my '73. Either way, they're staying on it.
No, sorry, those were later-issued plates, not original to a CA 1973 model.
Posted by: EdwardBlume Sep 8 2018, 12:27 PM
Still looks good with the blue and yellow. Nothing wrong with the late 70’s / early 80s.
Posted by: 914xr75 Sep 8 2018, 01:10 PM
I love the blue California plates on the 914, regardless of whether they are the correct year or not. 99% of the people who see them won't know the difference.
Posted by: second wind Sep 8 2018, 04:12 PM
The list is growing folks...thanks. How about some more from the years not well covered yet.
237 HBQ '73 2.0 Blue and Gold
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Posted by: wes May 14 2019, 04:30 PM
Finally got the California 914HPN blue plates officially reassigned to my car. I’m calling them “914 Horse Power Now” as she now along with the rest of the build has a strong 2056 with the needed hp.
Posted by: horizontally-opposed May 14 2019, 06:02 PM
MY 1973
^ A very, very cool plate for a 914 given a famous 914 racer's initials are HHH, and Hurley signs a fair bit of his stuff that way.
Posted by: Blue6 May 14 2019, 10:17 PM
Finally got the California 914HPN blue plates officially reassigned to my car. I’m calling them “914 Horse Power Now” as she now along with the rest of the build has a strong 2056 with the needed hp.
That is a very cool plate..
Posted by: rgolia May 15 2019, 06:23 AM
PA allows original year plates to be used on antique vehicles with matching registration stickers too. Crappy pic quality but registration stickers are 73 and 74. Car is an early 74. For you California guys the round sticker on the rear window is a bicentennial US Geological Survey from Menlo Park 1980 vintage. Not sure the 914 would be alive today if it didn’t migrate to California for half of its daily driver life. Any San Jose State Alum out there.
Posted by: yellowporky May 15 2019, 08:56 AM
Not 100% sure these are original but the PO said they were and he had owned the car since 1978.
This is a 1973 car
Posted by: JeffBowlsby May 15 2019, 10:00 AM
1977 or later according to the first post listing.
Posted by: SRS914 May 18 2019, 12:26 AM
797 JDD 73 2.0
Posted by: JeffBowlsby May 18 2019, 08:24 AM
797 JDD 73 2.0
That sounds original to 1973. Post a photo?
Posted by: 914_7T3 May 18 2019, 10:24 PM
797 JDD 73 2.0
That sounds original to 1973. Post a photo?
1973 Letters G-K for the most part.
Posted by: Steve May 19 2019, 08:44 AM
1975
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Posted by: JeffBowlsby May 19 2019, 08:40 PM
1975
Sorry, not a 1975 CA plate. Later than that.
Posted by: Steve May 19 2019, 11:27 PM
1975
Sorry, not a 1975 CA plate. Later than that.
That was on the car when I bought it in 1986. I think this car was an out of state car. It had no EGR or CAT lights or other smog on it when I bought it. It was a stock 2.0 four.
Posted by: Tdskip May 20 2019, 11:08 AM
069 JBB
1973 car (mine)
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1973-porsche-914-17/
Posted by: Tdskip May 20 2019, 08:17 PM
I love the blue California plates on the 914, regardless of whether they are the correct year or not.
Agree!
Posted by: 914-300Hemi May 20 2019, 08:58 PM
My build date is 10/73 and I think they are original plates
221 KOP
Posted by: horizontally-opposed May 21 2019, 12:27 AM
My build date is 10/73 and I think they are original plates
221 KOP
^ Seems to make sense.
My 1973 914 is a late 1972 build (September or October?), the 193rd car for the 1973 MY by the VIN sequence. It wears its original CA plates 187 GTT.
A guy working in the office park back in the early 2000s started the restoration of a silver/black 1973 911S coupe…until the car came back from having its paint stripped and the shop involved told him he'd be better off finding another silver/black 911S coupe in better (and original)l condition. So he did. He eventually drove it to work one day, a Southern California car gorgeous in silver, and it was wearing blue/yellow plates...with 188 GTT. So wish I had gotten a picture of the two cars together.
Posted by: horizontally-opposed May 21 2019, 03:13 PM
Interesting thread going over on the 911S registry board...
http://www.early911sregistry.org/forums/showthread.php?146046-CA-Blue-Plate-re-registraton-contacts-help/page3
Which included this gem, for black CA plates:
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Posted by: eric9144 May 21 2019, 03:29 PM
Build date also 10/73, 74 MY, pretty sure its the original plate 262 KMQ 
Posted by: horizontally-opposed May 21 2019, 03:37 PM
^ Interesting that your "KMQ" blue plate corresponds to the black plate list above for the San Diego DMV. Was your car sold new in San Diego?
Wonder if they ran XXX 111 for black plates and 111 XXX for blue plates, using the very same letters for a given DMV office?
Posted by: eric9144 May 21 2019, 03:47 PM
^ Interesting that your "KMQ" blue plate corresponds to the black plate list above for the San Diego DMV. Was your car sold new in San Diego?
Wonder if they ran XXX 111 for black plates and 111 XXX for blue plates, using the very same letters for a given DMV office?
Purchased at Sierra Porsche in Riverside, but original owner lived in San Diego. Thought it was pretty neat that detail lined up also. I'd imagine the plates were issued through a San Diego DMV branch.
Posted by: horizontally-opposed May 21 2019, 03:56 PM
Anyone know what Porsche dealer would have been near Lancaster in 1973?
Posted by: JeffBowlsby May 21 2019, 04:46 PM
Pete, the P-car dealer was Endres Motors in Lancaster. More dealership here: http://bowlsby.net/914/Classic/Swag.htm
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Posted by: horizontally-opposed May 21 2019, 04:56 PM
Pete, the P-car dealer was Endres Motors in Lancaster. More dealership here: http://bowlsby.net/914/Classic/Swag.htm
Thanks, Jeff!
Posted by: horizontally-opposed May 21 2019, 09:49 PM
So, the building is still there. Love finding stuff like this. Thanks again for the point to, Jeff!
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/info/dealers/endresmotors_lancaster_ca.php
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