Old Car Dealers in the Detroit Area

**Ray1936** · March-03-23, 02:06 PM

"Yeah,the MCL number is a coincidence. As for the 1970 plates, I've always had good 20/20 vision, so I really didn't have a problem best as I can recall. It was, though, a pretty sick combination of colors."

I remember back when a fellow named Richard Austin was Michigan's Secretary of State. A slogan going around at the time was "His only job is to pick the colors for next year's license plates. And each year he blows it."

Yeah he sure did in 1970. LOL!

**shovelhead** · March-03-23, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by Ray1936

"Yeah,the MCL number is a coincidence. As for the 1970 plates, I've always had good 20/20 vision, so I really didn't have a problem best as I can recall. It was, though, a pretty sick combination of colors.

I remember back when a fellow named Richard Austin was Michigan's Secretary of State. A slogan going around at the time was "His only job is to pick the colors for next year's license plates. And each year he blows it."

Yeah he sure did in 1970. LOL!

Yep, butterscotch and white, greaaaaat color combination to honor some small college in this state with no forethought on visibility especially on motorcycle plates. If I remember correctly 1970 plates were originally intended to have tabs for renewals but due to complaints from law enforcement on how bad those were for visibility. So it was 72 for that implementation with the color change of white on maroon for the plates for 71.