Tennessee allows for a car 25 years or older to be registered with a vintage plate, also known as "Year of Manufacture".

Fill out the Certification for Antique Registration (PDF). The car must be 25 years old, no engine modifications, and only driven in club activities, tours, parades, or exhibits and only be used for general transportation on Saturday or Sunday.

For cars 1912-1966, a plate must be the same model as the vehicle. After 1966, new plates were only produced in 1966, 1971, and 1977. So, a 1974 vehicle would use a 1971 tag.

The cost is $26.75 for permanent registration.

In Georgia, a Year of Manufacture tag can only be used if the car from 1970 or earlier. You must fill out an Affidavit of Ownership (PDF) and bring the vehicle to a county clerk's office for inspection. Current license plate must be kept in the vehicle at all times along with the affidavit. The cost to register is $20 per year.

You can do it...but I wouldn't reccomend it. Alot of the cops around town are rookies and have no clue about that kinda stuff.

Unless you like spending time on the side of the road and spending more time in court I dont think the cool factor is worth it.I am absolutly sure East Ridge PD would light me up for it no matter what I said. :lol:

I was unaware that you could do that in tn,  i think i am going to go regular for right now, i don't like having to many reasons to be pulled over. I have the 62 TN plate on the front

In Georgia, a Year of Manufacture tag can only be used if the car from 1970 or earlier. You must fill out an Affidavit of Ownership (PDF) and bring the vehicle to a county clerk's office for inspection. Current license plate must be kept in the vehicle at all times along with the affidavit. The cost to register is $20 per year.

§ 40-2-41.1.  Authentic historical Georgia license plates

   (a) As used in this Code section, the term "authentic historical Georgia license plate" means a license plate originally issued in the year 1970 or earlier and originally required to be displayed on motor vehicles operated upon the streets and highways of this state in the year 1970 or earlier pursuant to former motor vehicle registration laws of this state.

(b) The owner of any antique motor vehicle manufactured in 1970 or earlier shall be authorized to display in lieu of and in the same manner as the license plate otherwise required under Code Section 40-2-41 an authentic historical Georgia license plate which clearly represents the model year of any such antique motor vehicle, provided that the owner has properly registered such antique motor vehicle for the current year as otherwise required under this chapter and has obtained a current Georgia license plate or revalidation decal for such antique motor vehicle. Such currently valid Georgia license plate shall be kept in such antique motor vehicle at all times but need not be displayed in a manner to be visible from outside the vehicle.

(c) For purposes of this Code section, the authentic historical Georgia license plate shall be furnished by the owner of any such antique motor vehicle.

(d) No later than January 1, 2006, the commissioner shall have installed within the department's computer information system applicable to the registration of motor vehicles the necessary program which will include in the information relating to the current Georgia license plate or revalidation decal issued for an antique motor vehicle the information relating to the authentic historical Georgia license plate authorized to be displayed on such antique motor vehicle.

HISTORY: Code 1981, § 40-2-41.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1999, p. 791, § 2; Ga. L. 2001, p. 1021, § 2; Ga. L. 2002, p. 415, § 40; Ga. L. 2005, p. 593, § 1/SB 117.

Some idiots "under the gold dome" wanted to make some changes to the law this past session but thankfully it failed. I wrote each of them and told them the law was just fine as it is and that it took us years to get it enacted so LEAVE IT ALONE.  They wanted to make it so anyone who had a car over 25 years old could do this. I did not support the law because it would get into the tags where there was the revalidation sticker issued and IMHO that looks stupid. 1970 was the last year of the single year tag in GA. so you do not have those revalidation decals. These clowns that get elected just have to have something to do each session so they do some of the most stupid things like change a single word of a current law etc.  :roll:

After 1970, GA plates don't have a year on them.  Up unitl 1971 you got a new plate each year.  Then the state figured out it was cheaper to give you a little sticker instead of a whole new plate (of course, the tag didn't get any cheaper, the state just got a big boost in revenue).  You got a plate in 71 and kept it for many years.  The plates have changed a few times over the years and there are all kinds of specialty and vanity tags avalible from GA.  So, to keep it easy on the guys and gals that have to enforce the laws, a color coded sticker with the month, tag #, and year printed on them (with the month being the only one the average person can read from over 2 feet away) is placed on the plate.  Let's say that stickers that expire this year have a Green sticker . . . one of the state's finest pulls up behind you and sees your sticker is Blue, which was last year's color, or they see it's Green but the month says AUG and this is September, they know that you are driving on an expired tag.  It's a simple system and it works pretty good.

Now let's say they changed the law and you could put a YOM tag on your 1978 bus.  That was a tag that was used for a wide range of years . . . maybe you do find one that have a 1978 sticker on it.  Everytime a cop with decent vision gets behind you, you'll probably get pulled over because it's not OBVIOUS that it's a 1978 tag and is OBVIOUS that it isn't a current tag.  Well, they could fix that by just having you place a current sticker on the old tag, but now it's no longer a YOM tag. :?

On the other hand, if you are driving an old car and it's got an obviously old tag with a year stamped in it, any officer who knows the law will assume that your legally running a YOM plate and unless you give him/her some other reason to hassle you, they probably won't give you a second thought.

That's why the GA law was passed allowing it up YOM plates only up to 1970 and why it isn't really practial to change it.

An option for 71 and later I would like would be to let us have a picture of a Bug, Bus, or whatever vehicle we're driving on an "antique vehicle" tag.  I get antique tags anytime I get a tag for anything old enough . . . but like you said that old model T looks kind'a stupid on Homer the Superbus.  I've thought about printing out a "Superbus" logo and sticking it over the model T and see how much I get hassled about it.   :lol: