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Triumph TR6 - Ontario vanity Plate

I got this from Brian Thomas of Kingston, Ontario, and who is running the Canadian Classic to be held from July 15th to 18th.

Don Elliott, 1958 TR3A
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From: Len Mansell <lenmansell@rogers.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 2:39 PM
Subject: Ontario Licence
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I owned a 1972 TR6 at one time and have a Ontario licence plate that I thought someone may want to have transferred into their name. ( 7T2TR ) I don't know what the proceedure is, or if it is possible. My motivation is not to benefit from this, so if one of your members is interested, I can be contacted at the following,

regards,

Len Mansell
JFI Financial
17-3420 South Millway
Mississauga, Ontario. L5L 3V4

Phone 416-410-0446 ext. 2
Fax 905-569-1139
Cell. 416-543-3294
email lenmansell@rogers.com


Don Elliott

Hi Don

Ontario plates like that are not transferable. Tried that before. Original Plates for the Buick were "T-Type" Car and plates owned from new by my passed away nephew 52. Could not transfer no matter what. Brilliant Ontario MOT move like most of there thinking? Even when turned in you can't use the same phrase. The owner has that for life and when I pointed out the owner was deceased. The little darling stared at me and said. Well how would we know? Give me a new set of plates lady and let me out of here!

Someone may be able to use as a front plate or for shows. I like it.

Len sounds like a good guy. Hope he gets back into the old Brits.

Bill
Bill Brayford

Another interesting point is that if you go to a "flee market" like the big one up in Barrie, and you pick up a set of original plates that match your year of car, you can take them to your "friendly" MTO office and have them transfered to your name and use them on your car. Not sure if original owner needs to be contacted or such?
Rick C
Rick Crawford

Hey Rick

Are they so called vanity plates?

If so I have been screwed out of a set of plates returned to MOT by a clerk and her super!

Bill
Bill Brayford

Bill
No not vanity plates. I am talking original plates stamped out by the guys behind bars.
As you know, I have an original Ontario 1971 plate on the front and my vanity plate on the rear...not exsactly legal but then no cop has said anything yet. I do carry my other vanity plate under the front seat:)
Rick C
Rick Crawford

from what i,ve been told, as long as the plate isnt in use you can have it validated.
for ex, if your 69 plate was bwo 123, and there was
one which was issued in 73 as bwo 123 you would be sol
malcolm
malcolm

oops should have said still in use you,d be sol
malcolm
malcolm

Hey Bill,
I bought PONY UP for my 66 Mustang several years
back and when I sold the car I requested to MTO
that the plates be allowed to stay with the car as they wouldn't really make sense on anything but a
Mustang. They agreed and re-registered the plates into
the new owners name.
Maybe I found the only nice clerk there?
Christopher Trace

Hi Chris

Well unfortunatly John was unavailable to to make a request on my part. But you would think a little common sense might prevail since I had the plates and the bill of sale was from the owners estate? I did check a year later and was told the plates and wording were not in use but the wording was still unavailable.

Latest in Guelph is the Friday night combined Police and Ministry of environment crackdown on racers. Ride type check points any thing that looks custom is fair game. Last one gave out 53 fines. Nailed a young fella in a real nice little truck because he had a 5" screen on the console. Plus a band across the windshield bottom. And his side marker lights were white rather than red or yellow. $300 and some in fines. His father is a retired Police officer and he is livid and went to the paper. Seems the screen is not a TV. Anyone looked in a Caddy SUV or Beemer lately? The windshield strip is one way advertising fully legal I think since all our city buses have them? And the marker lights come from a production car. Aha racing in a 63 horse 4 cylinder Nissan truck that must be it?

Just for interest and a bit of humor in the paper lately. A farmer here was fined $60 bucks after he was charged with obstructing a county road last Feb. while blowing snow off his own 1/8 mile roadway. Seems the wind was blowing from back of tractor and the snow was causing a small whiteout on the sideroad. Young lady OPP officer coming across the situation not only charges him with obstructing roadway she nails him with assault on an officer? Why? Because the snow was hitting her as she made her way down the road to the tractor to give the ticket.

The Crown withdrew the assault charges only at the trial in June. Of course the farmer had retained a lawyer. Assaulting an officer is a pretty serious offence.

When the crown withdrew the assault charges the Judge pointed out with a smirk that that was a wise choice on the crowns part and fined the farmer the minimum $60. The lawyer of course advised farmer he should sue the OPP for his costs and concerns since he would certainly win. Wanna bet $10 grand? Read your tax dollars blown like the snow due to shear gross stupidity.

Not sure whats in charge anymore? But there overpaid!

Bill
Bill Brayford

It's unfortunate that our brethren to the north have let their goverment out of control just as we have here.

I can't resist: Too often Civil Servant is an oxymoron, neither civil nor serving.

Charlie
EC Smith

Bill
I have seen a good example of our tax dollars at work. At the local dump the boys where checking out utility trailers behind cars and trucks. You could say they had a field day. Some trailers where so bad that they became part of the landscape.
I have also noticed the local volunteer fire department large parking lot used as a vehicle inspection site. It is about time we/they get the "junkers" off the road. When I travel to the US, I notice a LOT more junkers on the road than in Ontario.
Rick C
Rick Crawford

This thread was discussed between 06/07/2004 and 16/07/2004

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