Silver on Black number plates

[Duratec John]

What is the thing with "Silver on Black" number plates is it to try and make your cars look older ?
All vehicles manufactured after 1 January 1973 must display number plates of reflex-reflecting material, white at the front and yellow at the rear, with black characters. This type of reflecting plate was permitted as an option from 1968:

[paul mex]

+1 I don't get it either ?
But each to there own I guess

[lee bishop]

Annoys the crap outta me too!

[l j shaw]

The police round here, seam to be strict on this issue, not many have black and silver number plates on for long. Unless it's correctly age related.

[vannin]

the cut off date around here was 1990 for black plates

[melaniejusty]

They do look well on mk1 & mk2 escorts

[Moose]

They do look crap on mk2 escorts

I agree

[Mogsmex]

not just me then............. I think they look very very wrong on anything after an L plate

[loydpg]

Also, front plates removed and placed in front windscreen!!! Are they trying to hide something???

[grum]

Annoys the crap outta me too!

at last ........ a second thing in common

[LOUIE]

I agree

Seems a conversation we had last week john

[cyd1245]

think they can look nice on the right colour car, especially Rivera blue cars

[GAZ W]

They look shi te on mk2's...end of

[Chesney]

They look shi te on mk2's...end of

agreed son

[kas750]

What is the thing with "Silver on Black" number plates is it to try and make your cars look older ?
All vehicles manufactured after 1 January 1973 must display number plates of reflex-reflecting material, white at the front and yellow at the rear, with black characters. This type of reflecting plate was permitted as an option from 1968:

Seemingly not!

Taken from the latest newsletter of the FHBVC.



Non-Reflective Number Plates
At every meeting with DVLA we learn something completely new! In this case it is that the end date for black and white (or silver and white) number plates is linked to the historic tax class date. So we were told that non-reflective plates are now permitted on vehicles built before 1 January 1975.