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Nice looking outfit, I had a Swallow Jet 80 on my Triumph many years ago, great fun in the snow!
Is the black and white numberplate a sliding date thing now? My old Guzzi was registered on an R plate, I thought it was only pre 72 that could have black and white plates?
Sorry off topic
Regards Chris
The date thing is indeed a sliding thing. It’s not ‘blindingly’ obvious but in short, eligibility for registering as historic is after 40 years (technically 40 years and a few months). Once registered, the plate is optional, but not without first gaining ‘historic’ status. Legally.
The Cali rig makes a good looking outfit.
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You are so right about the Cali outfit Barry, they fit together so well it looks like a factory job.. Nice one Godfrey 
Interesting stuff about the plates too, didn’t know that.
Another thread needed please Chris 
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Black and white plates are allowed on Historic vehicles, but the DVLA stopped the rolling date thing with vehicles built before 1980.
This is due to a correction made by the DVLA on January 1, 2021, which clarified that vehicles built after January 1, 1980, are not allowed to display traditional black and silver plates.
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Good clarification @Don-Spada, thank you. This has indeed changed since last I slogged my way through the various related DVLA and GOV.UK guidelines. I confess that, in my case, I didn’t look again because, frankly, a black and white plate wasn’t something that I was overly excited about fitting, even though my own bike was (is) eligible by age and has the necessary ‘exemption’.
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Gotta admit, last time I was in Singapore I in picked up a black/silver one for my 2010 V7, just because I thought it kinda suited it.
(They still use those plates widely over there, both on the back and front of bikes).
Occasionally I have popped it on, but mostly I stick with a ‘proper’ one to avoid unnecessary attention from The Plod.
The guidance may have been updated, but I put one on my 1978 Spada because the yellow one cracked. The MOT guidance said it was not allowed but the DVSA website said it was…
Can’t take credit as I bought it ‘as was’ and just tidied, tuned and fixed her up. However, it was the kind of thing that I was looking for.
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