Vintage Vehicles Can Now Display Original Model Year Tags

Act 2006-612 allows owners of antique or historical vehicles to register their vehicles using an original Alabama license plate issued in the vintage vehicle’s model year, beginning Oct. 2, 2006. Original Alabama license plates through 1976 qualify.

http://www.revenue.alabama.gov/whatsnew.html

I actually found this out by accident but it turns out a guy I work with was instrumental in getting this passed. He owns a 49 Buick so we talk old car stuff anyway. What's cool about this for me anyway, is I had an old 1972 tag (found it in a junk store in Calera) on the front of my El Camino and now, come October, I can make that my vehicle's official tag. Pretty cool!

This is awesome, I've never heard of any other state doing this. Now I gotta wait for an '86 to become an antique. hahaha

Oregon does thisand I think Washington state does too. The big one in Oregon is too have a car that would have originally had the "Pacific Wonderland" plates. They're getting hard to find.