welcome to blackplate.org
For as long as I can remember I’ve had a fascination for the cars of the 1950s and ’60s. Growing up in central California meant there was never a shortage of these cars for me to admire, daily drivers that enjoyed a dry climate, mostly flat roads and until recently not very much in the way of urban gridlock traffic. Because so many of these cars were driven by their original owners, the black plate was a natural but important attribute, like a seal of authenticity that in actual fact meant very little. By the same token, a car of that era wearing a modern plate (god forbid, personalized!) just has less appeal. There’s not much rational explanation for this, but I can’t deny it and the sentiment is shared among most of my car-geek friends.
With this site, I’m looking to catalog and share some of my experiences owning and maintaining a small and ever-changing fleet of mostly black-plate cars. There are a few similar blogs out there, and hopefully this one will add to the pool rather than dilute it.
