Taking car off the road- YOM plates- DMV people?

[airhead]

OK, I just sold my Mustang and need to take it off the road. I had historic plates, and then applied to use the year-of-manufacture plates last year. (Original blue plates that I supplied.) When I renewed my reg, both plate numbers were still listed on it. I never had to turn in the historic plates, so I figured that’s what I’d surrender to DMV, and I let the new owner have the vintage ones. The DMV lady tells me today that they treat them like custom plates and I have to turn in the YOM plates, and have the DMV hold them for X amount of time. Or go to the police station and report them lost. She said NY needs all plates accounted for. Well, then what about the matched set of empire golds they let me keep? Just let me take my damn car off the road! So I either have to go take my plates back, give them to the DMV, and pick them up in a year or something, at which point someone else can register a car with them. Or go to the police station and report them lost, in which case I’m sure those vintage plates would never be usable again. I know people pay big money for the much older plates in show condition, so I can’t see them wanting to trust the DMV with them.

But… the guy who bought the car went to a different DMV, and they told him I have to surrender the historic plates and the vintage ones would be clear to use (once the new owner applies for them) again. This makes much more sense. So which DMV is right?

[95dime]

send pauly a pm. not sure how often he frequents on here though.

[evilsrt]

I had to go through this when I got my Belvedere. Previous owner had vintage plates from 1967 that I wanted to keep on the car. Basically you need to write a letter to the custom plates unit in Albany and tell them you want to transfer the vintage tags to the new owner. The new owner must apply for the historical registration and vintage plate by mail. The local DMV office couldn’t help. Whatever you do don’t give your vintage plates to the local DMV office.

The info you need is here. http://www.dmv.ny.gov/cpl8faqs.htm

Scroll down and you’ll see this.

@DMV Website

Can the DMV reissue vintage plates to another registrant?

If a historical registration expires, the DMV can reissue the historical plates or transfer them as original historical plates.

If the vintage plates are currently registered to a vehicle:

The current registrant brings the vintage plates to a local DMV office. The DMV indicates on the registration record that the vehicle plates are stored. ([SIZE=“4”]The DMV office does not store vintage plates. The record indicates this status for insurance purposes and to complete the transfer.[/SIZE])
The office then issues a receipt (form FS-6T). Keep the receipt. Give the vintage plates to the new registrant.
After the registration record indicates that the vintage plates are stored, the current registrant provides the following items to the Custom Plates Unit:

A letter that states that the current registrant transfers all rights related to the vintage plates to the new registrant. The statement must include the name of the new registrant.
A photocopy of the driver license of the current registrant who transfers the rights.
A photocopy of the vehicle registration of the new registrant who will receive the rights to the vintage plates.
The transfer fee.

[airhead]

Thank you! I will be printing that out for the girl who got all snippy with me because I dared to calmly question her knowledge on the subject. It says not once, but twice that they don’t actually store them. So hopefully if I bring them in they will give me proof the car is off the road so I don’t get screwed for not having insurance.

[Pauly]

Thats a reg issue, not my dept. Sorry!