In Wisconsin, if it's over 20 years old, COLLECTOR plates for the time you own it, 2-1/2 x's the yearly fee for the type of vehicle it is (car/truck/motorcycle) and you can drive it for only 11 months and you have to mothball it during January.

Weather nice in January? (BIORN, it's happened up here, a few times the past 20 years...) You can buy a 5-day "permit" at 1/6th (or is it 1/5th?) the yearly renewal price per class of vehicle.

That way, the state gets it's money out of you if you're putting COLLECTOR on junk.

The other caveat? In order to get the COLLECTOR plate to begin with, you have to have a regular, yearly-registered, vehicle currently licensed.

Without the latter, you're not suppose to get the former.

Knowing how some of our state's employees perform due-dilligence, there are probably more scofflaws on the roadway than there should be.

BTW, COLLECTOR plates are a hard blue with red numbers/letters. Hard to read if you're color-blind or have night-vision issues.

And on some vehicles, they are stone-cold, bug-ugly.

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M. G. Burg
'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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They do have the special plates, but you aren't required to have them to qualify. As a result, my 2.3-16 euro spec 190E has plates just like all the other cars in the garage.