Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026

The weekly Burger King meet up of the Whiskey City Cruisers was notably lightly attended this evening, and I realized what was different: Recently deceased Jim Boles, the guy who had been doing on the social media work for the Cruisers, was no longer around to promo the Monday night Burger King meetups.

So I decided to make it my job to schedule promos for the meetup on both my personal FB and the NCG FB page. Done and done.

I have yet to return to the garage to work on the window removal on the driver’s door. I’m going to have to drill out the two stripped screws. I would do it tomorrow, but I have to be at Fiscal Court at 6 p.m. tomorrow night, and I’m not sure I want to labor over the driver’s door window and then go to a meeting.

I’m planning instead to record a video about Kentucky’s classic car license plate laws, including the difference between a Historic Vehicle tag and a Street Rod tag.

One of those differences that’s a little unfair (in my book) is the fact there are no restrictions on the use of a vehicle with the Street Rod plate. And you can actually personalize that plate, where you can’t a Historic Motor Vehicle tag.

Anyway, I also plan to touch on the Classic Car Project title, which is designed for project cars. You can’t get tag with this title, but it does prove ownership.

1956 PLYMOUTH BELVEDERE PLATES. The Plymouth had historic tags on it when I purchased it, and they were transferred to me when I bought it. The plates are in the trunk.

No happy with the historic tag, I had a reproduction of a 1956 Kentucky plate made that states “56 Plymouth.” And while that exceeds the state’s six-digit personalization now employed, it didn’t really matter since the plate isn’t actually intended to serve as the Plymouth’s actual registration.

The historic tags also come with restrictions for the use of the vehicle. I’m sure Kentucky’s restrictions are similar to those of other states: You can’t use a car so tagged for general transportation. Only uses approved include car shows, parades, exhibitions, special events, and the occasional pleasure drive.

There’s quite a bit of abuse of the plates from what I hear. All you need is for the vehicle to be 25 years old. My 1998 Dodge Durango qualifies, as does my 1995 Suzuki Sidekick. Your vehicle is still assessed for taxes, but at a reduced rate. I overhead a rookie city police officer give an older man a bunch of shit for using his historic plated pickup truck as a daily driver. The cop told the man if he saw him again driving with historic plates, he would write him a ticket.

I haven’t driven my Plymouth extensively just to drive it, so I have never attracted police attention.

My 55 Chevy wagon has a regular personalized plate on it, and avoiding those restrictions is exactly why I went with a regular plate instead of historic. As noted, you can’t personalize a historic plate anyway.

Well, we’re supposed to head to a pancake breakfast in the morning, but my GLP-1 stomach is already upset. If it calms down I’ll be able to go.

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