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[Michael Philbrick]

Well, I can view a ham license here in Seneca in the printed flat format on
plastic and believe it or not, it has a slashed zero. But for the life of
me I can't remember my keypress sequence to get that to happen in a
document.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 4:50 AM Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us> wrote:

> * On 2024 19 Sep 07:31 -0500, Michael Philbrick wrote:
> > For those of us
> > in the over 50 group, I find it hard to believe the state is having such
> a
> > challenge with license plates as for years of our driving experiences,
> one
> > received a new plate yearly.
>
> I think one would need to be considerably older than 50!  Most likely
> 65+ to have owned a vehicle when plates were issued annually in Kansas.
>
> The state stopped issuing new plates each year in 1975 for light and
> medium duty trucks.  Passenger cars might've been '76 but my memory is
> foggy on that one.  Those actually issued in '75 were steel.  I have a
> couple of rusty examples on the wall.  In late '79 I bought my first
> pickup at the tender age of 16 and for it I received an aluminum plate
> that was still embossed with '75 in the upper right corner.  Like the
> originals issued in '75 it was green.
>
> A few years ago I learned that the legislature had authorized the DMV to
> issue a special sticker for antique vehicles that fell into the '76 and
> later group since annual plates had been discontinued.  On a '76 medium
> duty grain truck I have the aluminum plate I got in '79 only with an
> orange sticker that has "1976" on it as the antique plate even though
> the plate itself is embossed '75.
>
> As I recall in 1980 all vehicles got a new blue plate that was embossed
> with 80 in the upper right corner.  I have a few examples laying around
> of that period too.  In 1984 I got my first ham plate for my Blazer and
> it had a white background with blue lettering.  I always thought it was
> a rather attractive plate--better than some they've conjured up.
>
> Now I have the printed version on both the Acadia--plated as a car--and
> the Dakota--plated as a pickup.  That has to give the HP in other states
> fits, but I only use the Dakota locally so that probably won't be much
> of an issue.
>
> 73, Nate
>
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*Michael Philbrick*
Odd Job Technician
Retired Guys LLC (fictional)
*Cousin to my genealogy relativesNØUDF to hams*

*Retired science/CTE educator*
Seneca, KS
mdp.seneca at gmail.com
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