Fred Dukes wrote:Looking at the DVLA rules on number plates it seems that if you have your vehicle registered as an Historic Vehicle you can put Black and Silver number plates on - it used to be vehicles prior to 1973 - apparently changed in 2015
https://insidedvla.blog.gov.uk/2015/11/ ... er-plates/
I don't think they look right - black and silver - on anything, they were never common, lesser-spotted only around here, not on cars of our era, HAs maybe but unlikely, HBs, and HCs not. These were on the whole bread and butter cars, dealers would have fitted what was cheapest, most common, and legal at that time.
They're going to look even stupider and out-of-place, an abomination on later rolling-exemption cars, it's just wrong, wrong, wrong. DVLA slipped up on this, post 70-71 cars should have white/yellow reflective pairs, period should mean period, period. I'm not overly concerned about period authenticity when it comes to improved safety -brakes, lighting etc. and reliability, comfort and so on, even a little performance tweak, but appearance, and the memories it evokes are everything.
Black, with white letters, front and rear for pre-70-71; yellow/black rear, white/black front for everything later.
Later.