Thread: Making Your Own Number Plates

Shouldn't that be RTA is another word for CASHlab

There is still hope (against hope) that the RTA won't have it's fingers in our wallets much longer.

A new agency NSW Roads & Maritime is to replace the RTA and NSW Maritime maybe by the end of the year. RTA to be killed off

Whether the new agency will require us to have life jackets in our cars and we'll get tickets for using bald tyres as fenders is yet to be seen.

You used to be able to use imported plates ie UK plates and register them as custom plates or if you brought the whole car over, register it as is. My grandad bought his mid 70's Benz panzerwagen back with him after he retired from his assignment in Germany in the early 80's and registered it here with Stuttgart plates on it until it was sold about 10 years later to which he was able to keep the plates as a keepsake.

I was trying to get a set of L reg plates for the Rangie before they changed the rules a few years back.

Andrew

I'm really looking forward to the VicRoads registration process when I import my G4 RRS and her '79 Triumph Spitfire later this year. You guys make it sound like *so* much fun

Originally Posted by Mike_S

I'm really looking forward to the VicRoads registration process when I import my G4 RRS and her '79 Triumph Spitfire later this year. You guys make it sound like *so* much fun

Oh it is.
You will just love how personal they get. Dealer gave us the euro style slim line ones for free with the new car so $60 saved.

Here we get an annual fee plus the purchase price. And thats just for off the shelf, custom is even more

Originally Posted by clubagreenie

Here we get an annual fee plus the purchase price. And thats just for off the shelf, custom is even more

Only if you order "personalised plates" which may actually be the old standard plates.

You can get white background black lettering plates for a single one off fee or if you are lucky you still have the old two letters/three (or four) number plates with no annual fee as long as you keep them in your name every year.

I imported a car and was gifted nice personal plates to go on it. The plates were not big enough to cover the existing fixings on the front or rear and looked sad on an otherwise stunning car. I had the same number made up onto UK size plates and had them sent over. They have been on the car for over 4 years with no problems. Always in the back of my mind I wonder if they would become an issue. I did ask a friendly policeman about them once and he said that as long as they were legible and close to the original he could not foresee a problem, adding some of the correct issue ones were hard to read given the tiny fonts so mine were ok by him. I have seen quite a few non standard plates around so believe this is the case.
I always carry the original in the boot just in case........