When does a Pickup become a " Historical Vehicle"?

[RobertRyan]

Saw this the other day. It is a F100 Traytop( image quality is not that good)
but it had " historical vehicle" plates, by expanding the photo you can see them. What is your definition of an historical Pickup and would a F100 qualify?

[wilber1]

25 years in BC.
Must own another vehicle that is insured for every day use.
Cannot be driven to school or work.


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[GTO66]

In Florida it's the type of insurance you carry which restricts how much you can drive the vehicle, not your antique plate. There is a horseless carry plate available to certain vehicles which may restrict driving.

[drsteve]

mich800 wrote:
Not sure how we could answer you country's criteria for a historical plate.

Here (Michigan)it is 26 years and there are use restrictions to run a historical plate.

Yep, no historical plate for your daily driver no matter how old it is.

[hornet28]

The name Suburban was used as far back as the 30's. Carryall was the windowless panel trucks

[JRscooby]

My brother will not put antique plates on his 70+ year old Chevy "Carryall" (Before the "Suburban" name") because he would rather pay the tax, and drive it when he wants.
He uses it to tow his TT that turns 80 this year.

[jake2250]

I bought into a partner deal with a friend. A 1973 Mack fire truck. Registered it as Historical.
Went to pumper demonstrations, parades, etc.
We broke down once and it took us until late night to get it fixed.
Had to Flat bed it to a lot that would store it because you are not permitted to drive Historical vehicles at night!

[MitchF150]

Scott.. First car was a 64 T-Bird.. Nice.. And you still have it in mint condition!!
WOW....

Mine was a 71 LTD from Grandpa. Sold it to me when I was 15 for $10. I think he said that's what it cost to transfer the title. 🙂 It was a white 2dr with the 400ci in it. Wish I still had it.. It was a fun car to have in HS.. Wish I still had all of my old cars come to think of it! Oh well...

[ScottG]

That's one nice rig Mitch! One of the most handsome truck platforms ever and it so nice to see it in an unmolested state.

And Thanks Biofgren. It was my first car when I was a kid in the late 70's.

[MitchF150]

Dad's old 71 F250 Camper Special - Custom has the WA state historical plates on it.. He "refreshed" it a couple of years ago. He bought it brand new in late 1970 in Southern California. Had the old black and yellow CAL plates on it too.. I was around 7 years old then... Wish we had those old plates!





He could not find a green steering wheel.. The original was cracked in several places so he just replaced it with what he could get..

It has the 390 2bbl, auto, power brakes but no power steering...

We used this thing to camp from day one, slide in campers, travel trailers, just sleeping in the bed... Such fun and pretty much why I'm a Ford guy myself.

Mitch

[blofgren]

ScottG wrote:
I have historical vehicle plates on my 1964 Thunderbird. You can get them when the vehicle is a certain age and falls under the usage rules required by the state (non DD, etc.).

Their great, no more yearly tabs or any other fee's what so ever.



One can even use old original plates:

Beautiful!

[ItsyRV]

Arizona has 2 plates, Classic and Historical.

Classic must be listed on some register of classic cars by a recognized classic car association. There are limits on use.

Historical must be over 25 years for standard passenger class registered vehicles. For non standard passenger registered vehicles, they are supposed to be over 25 years with a connection to something that makes it special. Most motorized RV's in AZ with Historical's are those that are over 25 years and the first or last year of a chassis production, or less than 10 of that model remaining in use, or special design, or a one year only production, or one that is commemorative, and of course those with a direct historical connection to AZ.

You rarely see AZ Historical plates on RV's and I only know of one Classic plated RV in AZ.

[colliehauler]

In Kansas it has to be 35 years old to qualify. That body style Ford was built from 67 to 72 and I had a 72 F-250 camper special with a 390ci. The factory A/C was mounted under the dash. It had two fuel tanks (and needed them) one in the cab and another under the bed. It also had two sets of disc brake calibers on each front wheel with outstanding braking. The C-6 Transmission was rugged with a full floating limited slip rear end.

[ScottG]

Bedlam wrote:

ScottG wrote:

FlatBroke wrote:

ScottG wrote:
I have historical vehicle plates on my 1964 Thunderbird. You can get them when the vehicle is a certain age and falls under the usage rules required by the state (non DD, etc.).

Their great, no more yearly tabs or any other fee's what so ever.

Won’t be long until your new neighbors coming from the state a little south of you put a stop to that.

IDK, Californy still has them.

You didn't see this?

https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2373&Year=2019&Initiative=false

I'm not seeing anything different from when I did mine. What am I missing?

EDIT: Are you talking about the renewing every 5 years? No, I han't seen that. That would suck but it has only been introduced so it may or may not happen.
And hopefully I'm grandfathered.

Scott

[winniman]

That truck is like 50 years old. I think it should qualify. Model A cars are 100 years old. That's ancient history. Didn't the Egyptians drive model A s.

[Iraqvet05]

Missouri has historic vehicle registration for any vehicle over 25 years old. A mileage log is supposed to be in the vehicle and it cannot be driven over 1000 miles a year. My neighbor has his 73 C-10 registered as a historic vehicle.