Don't consider it advertising, just celebrating it being OLD..(like me) & regular plates here in TN are like $ 20. Each year. The Antique pate is permanent & one time (as previously mentioned) cost of only $30. & done................

 

Can’t take it with you.

I’ve spent money on much stupider crap than vanity plates

 

Me too, But Antique plates are not vanity plates.

 

My 95 FXDS is coming up on 30 years. Strange how that sounds old when we're talking about machines, but its almost a kid when we're talking about humans.

 

A classic to me is a bike that made a difference, like the Z900 Kawasaki or the Yamaha RD250LC and the Sportster. Something that people will remember for its contribution to riding motorcycles. So, any Harley is a classic, (even Twin Cams because they brought Harleys to the masses) and bland pieces of **** like Suzuki GS500's or anything British with a 2-Stroke Villiers motor (apart from the BSA Bantam) is not a classic and never will be.

 

1993 FLSTC

 

In my eyes Harleys lost something in the TC era. Again, I'm not busting the TCs, I've owned several of them myself and enjoyed them.

But the Knucks, Pans, Shovels, and Evos had a flow to them. A bit more personality. Almost like each bike was a little different than the previous one that rolled off the assembly line. They were designed by a person who carved one out of clay or assembled one from pieces. Those were the days when people still put hands on them as they were being built.
Once computers started designing them, they lost that individuality and became cookie cutter machines.

 

In SC an antique plate is one time fee, registration never expires, no annual tax.

It made me feel old putting an Antique plate on my Softail, I bought the bike new in late `88.

 

I remember when if you went to a Harley dealer and bought a bike, it would be a Shovel or an Ironhead.....they were all the same as each other and as a wrench I found that they all had the same problems as each other too...

 

And several of them would arrive at the dealership with notes stating what was wrong with them and what the dealership had to fix before they could be sold. Now they still show up with problems but Harley would rather just sell them and let the problems reveal themselves to the customer and have them bring it back under warranty.