Ferrari Mailing List: Re: How much does it cost ? PROVA license plate.

[Doug & Terri (dnt]

Michael notes “Here in Québec, it's $250. cad plus $30. cad annual fee.  How much is it elsewhere ?”

 

California – all the regular fees and charges plus $43 for special plate.

 

When I registered the car from Minnesota to Kalifornia the DMV didn’t like my VIN.  Only five numbers??  Can’t be.  I showed her on the frame the 5 number VIN where it also lists the engine and body type.  Her eyes light up – there she says is the rest of the VIN - - - F 1 0 6 A S * # # # # # * and thus my 308GTS is maybe one of a few that is tattooed with its engine and body type as the VIN. 

Alas.

DOUG

 

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Subject: [Ferrari] How much does it cost ? PROVA license plate.

 

Michael Savard

1981 308 GTSi 

 

Le 05/11/18 07:20, George <ygpz4re [at] hotmail.com> a écrit :

"but I can assure you, the staff that work in these organizations have absolutely no clue about any history of anything automotive-related. No clue whatsoever. None. Zip. Zadda."

 

Well....  Not always.  When Dad passed his old Jag off to me, I found a "year of manufacture" plate (i.e. a plate from 1954, with "54" stamped right in it) and had it restored to put on the car (VA does allow restored plates - not all states do).  When I went to the DMV to do the final registration, they couldn't figure out how to put the "x-xxx" format number into their computer.  One of the bright ladies there finally figured out that if they dropped the dash and put in a leading 0 (so, "0xxxx"), it all worked.  It shows up on the reg card that way (with the leading zero), but the DMV looks at the leading zero mathematically, that is, it adds nothing to the number.  And as a trivial aside, the year of manufacture number ("54") is also part of the reg number, so someone else could have the exact same number, but on a '55 or '56 or....plate and it's a "different" reg number.  Interesting, that.  ;-)

 

Maybe this isn't what was meant by the comment above, but it was refreshing to see the DMV folks working the problem to get a resolution satisfactory to me, rather then just themselves.

 

gp

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