Green letter MA plates

[siorange]

Hey guys, just wondering if any of you guys were able to successfully re-register the old green letter plates from the new red lettered ones. For those of you that don't know, there was a law that got passed in MA back in the 80's that required a front and rear plate at all times. Before that, they used to issue single green letter plates, no fronts required. When the law passed, the green plate owners were allowed to keep it until they turned them into the RMV (plates no longer legible, owner wants new plates and etc). I found a few of the green plates on ebay but none of the sellers could answer my question. I also emailed the RMV and just got a plain NO response. Don't know if thats the law or if its just the RMV response to try to discourage people from registering them. Thoughts anyone?

[Blake260]

im pretty sure they are still registrable since i still see them every once in a while although i have heard that they are much more expensive to register since MA wants them back. I have been thinking of doing this with an old mass plate in my garage

[siorange]

Let me know if you find out anything! It looks so much cleaner with the filler instead of a front plate. I think if you have one registered to you already in the past it might be easier to register it again. I think transfering it to someone else is the hard part.

[gtfearons]

I have an old green plate still registered on one of my cars. It costs the same as the others. The only way I would lose it is if I took the car off the road and turned it in. I could transfer it to another car if I wanted. If you have an old plate lying around I doubt they they would let you re-register it.....I tried that with a trailer and they said that plate number was canceled. I was told by the inspection station that they can fail you if the old green plate is faded as to be un-readable....nothing a green sharpie could not fix!

[siorange]

Okay so let me get this straight, you can transfer your currently registered green plate over to someone else but non-current green plates cannot be registered again? Time to go proposition random people for their plates unless you want to give up yours.