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Originally Posted by spinning wheels
A lot of the black background and yellow letter/numbers plates have the 1963 stamped on them. But they were not made in '63.
The CA plates started switching to blue background with yellow number/letters in '69. In 83/84 they started to issue the reflective white background with blue numbers/letters, but mainly on passenger cars. Pickup trucks have commercial plates, not sure about Suburbans, and had a few more years of blue background with yellow numbers/letters.
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Actually, it was '72 that they switched to the blue/yellow numbered plates.
The years get confusing, don't they?
If you go to the DMV website, they lay out a history of the changes. 70 was the last year black/gold plates were issued, which would explain why so many ended up on 71's that were bought at the end of 1970.
They do say that in 83 they switched to the sun background (remember "LA Law"
)...but we bought an 86 Bronco in 1986 that had, and still has blue/gold plates. If the website is correct, then I am guessing someone transferred them from an older vehicle before it was sold to us? Only thing I can come up with.