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Best Antique California license plates: Any license plate on which you're authorized to scratch your name with a sharp object, has got to be a cool license plate. So, it ,must be the 1916. California has always been the motoring innovator; (hey, they had right-on-red back in 1947.) So, the old 1916 porcelain license plate from California is not just the first tabbed base, its arguably the first vanity, and the first graphic as well. Best of the "Not-so- Old California license plates: Is anything more classic, more reminiscent of sunshine and "vroom-vroom" than the yellow on black '60s base? Toughest/Most Rare California plates: Oh, these Californians were smart - quickly followed by New Yorkers, for squeezing the most mileage out of pre-states in a big population state, thereby saving all that tax money. Thanks to this policy, by the time the pretty red 1914 license plate came out, it was the biggest first issue ever.

Look at it this way: for which other state can you STILL get a genuine first issue, (a first-issue porcelain license plate no less), starting arounf forty bucks for a banged up one?

OK, enough rambling: the toughest old California license plates are the matching bear, the matching poppy and the matching bell. Followed by ANYTHING issued pre blue-base IN PAIRS.

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