California license tag

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Gianni Ripoli · #1 Post by **Gianni Ripoli** » Sat May 17, 2008 5:41 pm

California license tag

In the trunk of a recently purchased Speedster I found a black and yellow dealer tag w/o a sticker.
Description:
Left side vertical IG next vertical DLR w/tag number 4837. Any help with the meaning of IG. My research indicater black and yellow tag we used until 1963.

Any help appreciated.

Thank you,
Gianni

John Alfenito · #2 Post by **John Alfenito** » Sat May 17, 2008 6:01 pm

The CalPl8s Website (where I borrowed that image) has loads of info on all incarnations of California plates.
It says: "The small number with a letter is the "Dealer Issuance" number, it is how many plates were issued to this dealer. 9 plates would be 9A, the tenth plate would be issued 1B. Yellow and Black plates used the 12A scheme for dealer issuance numbers, when the numbers were 2 digits, the digits were side by side and stacked over the letter. Issuance numbers on the Blue plates went to 123A, and plates after that were issued with 12A issuance numbers."
I guess that would make a "1G" the 55th plate issued to that dealer? Wow.
By the way, the "D" on the right indicates the example above was an issued "duplicate" plate.