Posted by: gybemaster - 23 June 2011 00:26:11
My 56 Oval has some black and silver plates on it but ther aren't stock. What would have to stock front and rear number plates looked like on a 56 and what were they made up of? (Pics would help me) Anyone know where I can source a decent set at a fair price? All I can seem to find out is plates took a standard size from 57 onwards so from that did it mean people could make number plates as they wish and designed as they wish prior to this year?

Posted by: gybemaster - 24 June 2011 01:42:29
Any ideas chaps?

Posted by: JD - 24 June 2011 13:00:26
[quote=gybemaster]Any ideas chaps?[/quote] No, and those who might know are probably all in Germany at the moment. Someone will answer after the weekend I would think.

Posted by: Si Med - 24 June 2011 18:58:11
My plates which i assumed were original, were black with triangular letters and numbers. The numbers were so faded they could have been silver when first produced

Posted by: gybemaster - 24 June 2011 18:59:52
I'm just curious as I want to get a nice set made but I am curious what colours like white or black were used and what shapes/sizes of plates were used in 56 so I can decide on a particular variant.

Posted by: ianmac - 24 June 2011 20:38:34
Chris, try here, I bought the correct plates for my 51 which had 3 1/2" raised white letters [url=https://pl8s.co.uk/Framptons-Pre-1963-Number-Plates.php]https://pl8s.co.uk/Framptons-Pre-1963-Number-Plates.php[/url]

Posted by: Si Med - 25 June 2011 12:06:59
Mine were the same as the bottom set on ians link, only in white rather than silver.

Posted by: gybemaster - 26 June 2011 18:09:38
Cheers guys...thats great!!! Don't suppose there was a specific colour used as in white or silver or is that sort of thing just down to personal preference?

Posted by: ianmac - 26 June 2011 21:06:12
I've got white ones as I felt they were more correct... but i dont know if thats true :?

Posted by: lucifar666 - 28 June 2011 08:04:46
My UK '57' had triangulated raised plastic digits that had what looked like faded silver paint so I went with that. Check the link https://forums.pre67vw.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=17578&p=1

Posted by: gybemaster - 28 June 2011 15:11:59
I wish I had some nice original digits like that bud, looks like its cleaned up nice to be fair!!! I just need to find out now what plate sizes front and rear + colours would have been really and go from there.

Posted by: lucifar666 - 29 June 2011 08:41:08
I thought that link had the finished plate on, anyway it now looks like this [IMG]https://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r140/lucifar666/GEDC1296-1.jpg[/IMG]

Posted by: gybemaster - 30 June 2011 19:27:04
Wow, to be fair that is rather amazing!!!