Barn-find woodie wagon visits the DMV; why CA black-and-gold plates matter; now we ship it back east

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Tom returns to California one last time to get the car inspected and visit the DMV. Why? To keep its original black-and-gold license plates. Why is that important? John explains the significance of black and golds. Tom does paperwork.
With his remaining time, he adjusted the seat mountings. The Minor is a small car; Tom is 6'3". Even an inch makes a difference. To prevent the car becoming another Lucas joke, he used his remaining time to clean and replace every bullet connector he could get to.
Next came "cargo Tetris": packing the car for its trip back east. Bonus: Tom discovers mid-Sixties Blue Chip grocery stamps under the rear seat! Everything fit into the Traveller (we didn't get video of JD's motorboat engine, but more on that later).
Second bonus: The shipping company had a truck in the area that same evening! Except the gate wouldn't open. Oh well. Tom flies back home. Good news: JD can drive the car onto the next truck. Bad news: The car won't start. Solution: Push it up the ramp into the truck (a Morris is light).
When the car reached New Hampshire, Tom discovered the problem. And all our plans for fettling it went out the window. Would we be able to get it shipped in time for its long trip through The Netherlands and the U.K.?
As always, we are devoted to Bryan 'Woody' Wood. He makes the video magic you are watching out of the clips, images, voiceovers, and random emails + texts we toss at him. Do you need videos? HIRE WOODY! You can reach him at: frink5k@gmail.com.
Our sincere thanks, once again, to the generous + patient JD + Beth, who let us work on a shabby old car in their driveway. JD offered up his stash of boat-building tools, and even shot some video for us on Tom's phone.
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@chuckmaddison2924 Месяц назад

Here in Australia, we can change the plates every day . Used car yards do it all the time. They can tart the car up to look like it was cared for, then put new local plates on it. Plates can give an indication of place of origin within the state.

@MatthewBerginGarage Месяц назад

I bought a 1958 Morris Minor woodie as my first car in 1973. I paid $10 for it and an additional $5 for the safety. The person who gave me the safety as far as I know never ever looked at it once. I loved that car. Being a Canadian car it had the funny round heater/defrost unit just above the speedo. I finally had to retire it for rust and rot but it was a great car.

@rupe53 28 дней назад

Sounds unusual that an engine would have lost most of its compression overnight unless some carbon broke fee and hung up the valves. Some compressed air and a valve adjustment might solve that issue without removing the head.

@SalAvenue 28 дней назад

Great back story in the history of CA plates. Were you able to keep the black/yellow plates? Hopefully you were and can put them back on through the DMV’s YOM program. They’d look so much better on your car than those new ubiquitous 9 series plates they assigned you.

@TemptingFateTours 28 дней назад

Yes, it took Sacramento a while to think about it, but eventually they issued new paperwork for the car under its old plates. However, note this was NOT the Year of Manufacture program, which applies only to pre-1963 plates. It's not for plates whose series is still active (the original black-and-gold AAA 000 to ZZZ 999 series).

@NYCS19339 Месяц назад

Swapping bullet connectors is something everyone should do

@arcturius Месяц назад

FYI: When your Morris Minor received its black plate, it was issued from the Hollywood DMV office (edit: not Pasadena ). They issued plates with starting with the letters JLA-xxx to JTF -xxx. State-wide beginning in 1963, Northern California DMV offices issued letter plates starting with "AAA" to "EMG". Southern California offices issued "EMH" to "KVZ" and "NTA to "RDA". The range of "KWA" to "NSZ" were originated the two Sacramento offices, one of these being the main DMV HQ.

@TemptingFateTours Месяц назад

Whoa, great info, and thank you!

@TomRymes Месяц назад

@arcturius: correct me if I am wrong, but JQK-281 isn’t in the range JTG-xxx to KAN-xxx.

@arcturius Месяц назад

@@TomRymes You are correct, mistake on my part. It was the Hollywood DMV office which issued plates JLA-xxx to JTF-xxx

@DYT-jx4jp Месяц назад

Thks for video update! Bummer on the new problem 😢

@lilorbielilorbie2496 Месяц назад

Now it's been a few years since I lived in California. But when I did cars plates where totally different from truck plates. And I don't mean 18 wheeler's just regular trucks. In 1967 when my Late Dad bought a brand new 1967 Ford F-100 Camper Special. It got a black and yellow plate. Back then the truck plates started with a letter followed by 6 numbers. And if my memory serves me right. The price for the sticker on the plate was that a truck was half of what a car sticker was. And the lowest it could go was .$ 12.00 for a truck and $24.00 for a car.

@LAmonk76 Месяц назад

Wonder why you could not keep the 60's plates when it was registered?

@TemptingFateTours Месяц назад

We hung onto them, but CA's process and the decades between the car's last registration (1968) + when we asked to reactivate the number (2023) meant a special department in Sacramento had to weigh in. So they issued us temporary new plates to make the car legal until they could reactivate the old ones. That make sense?