Does having NOS raise your insurance

Big Bill it, was Hagerty, will even

There's some verbiage in the little piece of paper you have to sign when you get the plates that is something like "will be driven only for travel to-from shows and events, maintenance, and occasional pleasure use." I'm paraphrasing, but I think I got the intent about right. Basically what they're saying is you can't use it to commute, which kind of sucks because that's when I do most of my driving and it would be awful nice to take an old car for a spin every now and then. Of course, I have bent that rule a few times, but it's not a good idea to make a practice of it. I certainly don't want to think about what might happen if I were to get hit my some idiot and it could be proven that I was on my way to work. (this is MD by the way.)

The appeal of the "historic" plates is lack of safety inspection (VERY stringent, difficult to pbutt, and expensive here) cheaper registration fees, and cheaper insurance rates (my ins. co. gives me a break when I have historic plates and sign pretty much the same form that the state uses.)

I may actually run my '55 through inspection so I can get regular plates on it, but there are a few issues that need to be addressed first, such as mildly dry-rotted front bushings, lack of a heater blower (need to find a 12V one to replace the 6V original,) and bad wiper blades (you wouldn't think the last would be that hard to fix, but when it's that old, finding good original blades to refill is somewhat problematic) I never ran my '62 through although it would probably pbutt with only a few small repairs, mainly because it has glbuttpacks on it and I hate exhaust work.

nate