Model A license in Wis.

In WI you can put any plate you want on your A if its registered as an historic vehicle. Don't need to register the tags either, you can change them weekly if you so desire.
 
The following links will tell you what you need to know about Antique and Collector plates in Wisconsin.

http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/drivers/vehicles/personal/special/antique.htm

http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/drivers/vehicles/personal/special/collecto.htm

With Antique Plates the vehicle can only be driven for special occasions such as display and parade purposes or for necessary testing, maintenance and storage purposes.

With Collector Plates the car can be driven for pleasure on any type of drive. You are discouraged from using you car to go to work daily, although this is not stated in the link above. Also you cannot drive the car during the month of January.

Most of the Model "A" owners that I know have Collector Plates. Don/WI
 
Any time I am driving my A I am testing, testing the brakes, testing the engine, testing the gas mileage, if nothing else I am testing how far I can go before I need to fix something....all I ever get done is testing, unless I happen to go some place to show it for some special occasion.... :) The big thing is don't use it as a second car with antique plates!
 
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My friend says that any time he takes his car (with antique plates) out, is a "special occasion."
 
All states are different. NC AA plates are renewed each year and cost $10 more with no benefit. Sort of a vanity plate. Also cars must be 35 years old to be Antique. Ohio you buy the plate just one time and keep it till you sell or move. I paid Ohio $8.50 for my plate on the Tudor in 1966. I think I got my money worth. As for using AA plates on car or truck that is used for common transportation or hauling (such as firewood or junk) Terry Bond and AACA has tried repeatedly to correct this with the State of Virginia with no luck. VA. Cops do not want to enforce this law.
 
I got a kick out of the Colorado regulation. For Horseless carriage plates you can only use it for parades, meets, shows, or other special occasions, and to and from said occasions, Or other use when said use will not impede traffic.
 
59mgaguy said:
All states are different. NC AA plates are renewed each year and cost $10 more with no benefit. Sort of a vanity plate. Also cars must be 35 years old to be Antique. Ohio you buy the plate just one time and keep it till you sell or move. I paid Ohio $8.50 for my plate on the Tudor in 1966. I think I got my money worth. As for using AA plates on car or truck that is used for common transportation or hauling (such as firewood or junk) Terry Bond and AACA has tried repeatedly to correct this with the State of Virginia with no luck. VA. Cops do not want to enforce this law.
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That is incorrect about Ohio now. They are good for 50 years now. I have actual expiration dates on both my Model A's with Ohio Historical plates.
 
lookin-backtexas said:
Don, is that part of the law in Wisconsin or just common sense?:eek:
Fred
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That is part of the law for Collector Plates. Obviously common sense with a good restored car in wisconsin where they use too much salt on the roads. Some people do use their "Collector" car which is often an old beater as a second car. Don/WI
 
super flat said:
It is the law in wisconsin. It helps keep regular old cars with colector plates from daily use ( for a month ). Gary:D
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Gary:
I understand why they would discourage driving collector cars on the salty roads in January. I drove the Model A shown in my avatar from Dallas, Texas to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in 1986 to attend the joint MARC/MAFCA World Meet (2,500 miles round trip) and saw lots of pretty countryside enroute. Part of our goodie bag contents included a bumper sticker that promoted Wisconsin tourism and read, "ESCAPE TO WISCONSIN". Several of us from Texas attached them to our Model A spare tire covers with a slight modification when we headed home . . . here's a photo of mine still hanging in my barn.



I used to work for a company headquartered in Milwaukee and they loved having the national sales meetings there in early February to get those of us who lived in the sunbelt "acclimated". It would be 15 degrees and snowing to beat the band. They would tease us that we were going to have brats and beer in the park after the meeting.

Periodically I would get a call from the home office and they would ask, "What's the weather like today in Dallas?" I'd reply, "Oh, it's probably 72 degrees." They would then say, "Man, it's 10 degrees here and we're having a blizzard." I replied good naturedly, "Don't you guys know that Milwaukee is the reason God created the U-Haul trailer?" ;)

Fred
 
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Franchise_24

When did they pass that law? I wonder if my plates are grandfathered? Thanks for the heads up on the law change. I moved to here on the Outer Banks 9 years ago and haven't kept up with Ohio law. And since I still own Ohio property and keep the A up there most of the time I still keep the same Ohio plate on.
 
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