Black & Silver Number Plate Rule Changes

Personally i prefer the correct plate for the age of the vehicle, but as with most 'upgrades' personal choice as always. For me seeing black plates on 240z looks right, the same plates on the back of a 260z with the different lights... nope! the brain is so conditioned to seeing the yellow and the style of lights together i cant get past it, they stick out like a sore thumb. :leaving: :conf2:
 
Bazzateer said:
To me any post 1972 reg with black plates just looks wrong. They may suit the style of car, they may match the colour scheme of the car. But black plates on anything after an L suffix is just weird to me. Come the revolution I'll sort it!
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What about a pre 72 with black plates and fitted with modern low profile track day tyres like R888, A048's etc compared to a 73 car with black plates but on period correct profile tyres and thread pattern.

What would bug you more ? :D:p
 
datsfun said:
What about a pre 72 with black plates and fitted with modern low profile track day tyres like R888, A048's etc compared to a 73 car with black plates but on period correct profile tyres and thread pattern.

What would bug you more ? :D:p
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The 73 on black plates.
 
datsfun said:
What about a pre 72 with black plates and fitted with modern low profile track day tyres like R888, A048's etc compared to a 73 car with black plates but on period correct profile tyres and thread pattern.

What would bug you more ? :D:p
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The 14" wheels would bug me most :p
 
I reckon I don’t agree with a lot that people do to modify theirs cars, some of it utterly shocking and they should be arrested for it....... but that’s my opinion, just mine.

Black and silver plates though are a totally different scenario.
They are totally shocking after L suffix at best.
 
toopy said:
Personally i prefer the correct plate for the age of the vehicle, but as with most 'upgrades' personal choice as always. For me seeing black plates on 240z looks right, the same plates on the back of a 260z with the different lights... nope! the brain is so conditioned to seeing the yellow and the style of lights together i cant get past it, they stick out like a sore thumb. :leaving: :conf2:
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Right, that’s it! You’re not allowed to look in the garage when you come over tomorrow!!

Truth be told, I vexed over this one for quite sometime and I didn’t want black ones on my car. But having done it, the car looks 300% better and it really suits the black grille and black light panel plastics at the back.

But I have to admit, seeing them on a fiesta I passed my driving test in does irk me.

So I guess each to their own!
 
I have mixed views on this. I wouldn't usually put black plate on a '73 on car but considering my Fairlady Z would never have had UK plates back then (JDM) and that the Fairlady based on the 260Z still has earlier style bumpers and front lights, I think it looks "period" if you can see past the actual letter used. You can always apply a private pre reg plate without a year letter (as I have on my 2013 camper!) to address that but then would you argue a pre reg plate on anything later than early 60s vehicles is also not how it would have been and is wrong?
 
You could buy a cheap pre 73 suffix letter plate. That would look OK to me on a S30 as the later body is much the same as the early one and the reg would fit with the black plates.
 
But for the purist, is it the vin plate not matching the reg date or the look of a more modern car not matching "period" or just the offensive wrong letter on a number plate that is the problem? Surely we should celebrate these cars are still on the road. In many cases, restored cars have more bits from other cars on them than original anyway so does it really matter what year it appears to be? Unless your car is concours, and there will be very few, I think do what you like!
 
The rules change and people take advantage of that to fit with their personal preference, which is absolutely fine and i fully support that, but to a lot of people it would appear this is one of those times when 'just because you can doesn't mean you should.'

Having seen the aforementioned plates on Ali's car, it looks good, i think the dark blue paint works in favour of the change, in fact it would probably look great with my dark purple paint! have i changed my mind.... no, if i bought Ali's car tomorrow i would revert the plates back, personal choice :driving::D
 
I'm always tickled by these discussions, especially when it comes to the question of "where do you draw the line"? Most of us have quite non-stock cars that have deviated from what was "correct" for the car. Hell, mine's even the wrong colour all over!!! Then we fuss about plate colours or indicators being below the bumper or LED lights or 14" wheels v 16" wheels and so on.

The thing I LOVE about the Z scene is that every car is different and is what the owner wanted the car to be to them. I'm not entering my car in any competitions so I just go with what looks right / good to my eye. When it comes to your car, your opinion is the only one that matters. Even a fully stock / concourse car isn’t everyone's cup of tea!

Ps. Always a pleasure to see you Mr. Toopy - even if you did throw up on my driveway when I raised the garage door :p
 
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AliK said:
I'm always tickled by these discussions, especially when it comes to the question of "where do you draw the line"? Most of us have quite non-stock cars that have deviated from what was "correct" for the car. Hell, mine's even the wrong colour all over!!! Then we fuss about plate colours or indicators being below the bumper or LED lights or 14" wheels v 16" wheels and so on.

The thing I LOVE about the Z scene is that every car is different and is what the owner wanted the car to be to them. I'm not entering my car in any competitions so I just go with what looks right / good to my eye. When it comes to your car, your opinion is the only one that matters. Even a fully stock / concourse car is everyone's cup of tea!

Ps. Always a pleasure to see you Mr. Toopy - even if you did throw up on my driveway when I raised the garage door :p
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the wrong colour? you shouldn't even be allowed forum membership if its not one of the correct colours for the year.
 
franky said:
the wrong colour? you shouldn't even be allowed forum membership if its not one of the correct colours for the year.
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LOL, correct colour for the year..... mines not even a Datsun colour and its got a rear seat..... burn it, burn it now with the owner in it! :p

Did i mention the sunroof?!:puke:
 
toopy said:
LOL, correct colour for the year..... mines not even a Datsun colour and its got a rear seat..... burn it, burn it now with the owner in it! :p

Did i mention the sunroof?!:puke:
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Mine’s a VW Group colour!!!


But your sunroof? Well that I contend is dealer option period correct!! :p

Although your shiny new alloys at 16” - pah!!! Just plain wrong! ;)

Back on topic, I got emailed an article from FBHVC a couple of months ago (forgive me if it’s somewhere in this thread already and I haven’t seen it) ...

https://fbhvc.co.uk/news/article/changes-to-black-silver-number-plates-from-01012021

edit: just realised it was on the first post!!!! I really should scroll up more often!
 
TimFZ said:
But for the purist, is it the vin plate not matching the reg date or the look of a more modern car not matching "period" or just the offensive wrong letter on a number plate that is the problem? Surely we should celebrate these cars are still on the road. In many cases, restored cars have more bits from other cars on them than original anyway so does it really matter what year it appears to be? Unless your car is concours, and there will be very few, I think do what you like!
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Nothing to do with the vin plate. For me, as black reg plates were never fitted new to M,N,P,R,S,T,V,W suffix cars it just looks wrong to fit them (legal or not). "Looks" wrong, not "is" wrong or illegal. Just my opinion.

You know what they say, "Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one". ☺
 
Bazzateer said:
Nothing to do with the vin plate. For me, as black reg plates were never fitted new to M,N,P,R,S,T,V,W suffix cars it just looks wrong to fit them (legal or not). "Looks" wrong, not "is" wrong or illegal. Just my opinion.

You know what they say, "Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one". ☺
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As I said, no British plates were originally fitted to my car so British plates may "look" wrong. If it's the letter that gives the "look" then an older plate or private plate should then make it "look" right. Even if it isn't.
 
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