Princess Plates - DECIDED

[vulgalour]

I'm going to be paying http://www.tippersvintageplates.co.uk a visit soon to get some plates for the Princess.  This is more vital than you might expect, I need to get the new rear number plate recess done so I can fit the rear number plate lights and thus tick another MoT requirement off the list.  To do that, I need to know exactly what size the plate is so I can make the recess the correct size to fit it.

 

I've narrowed my choice down to two, I just can't decide which one to go for.  Rivet Digit is cheaper but the Pressed with a black border is probably more in keeping.

 

Rivet Digit

 

Pressed

 

Which to go for?

 

EDITED TO ADD:  Did a forum usual, bought some that aren't anything like what I thought I wanted.

[mercrocker]

Maybe you should google a few wedges and compare them but for me the top one looks the most in keeping....

[Cavcraft]

The pressed ones look horrible imho.

[Asimo]

Pressed is much neater but the rivetted job has a nicer font.........

edit - pressed also available with silver border, might look better.

[Sigmund Fraud]

If I was a Princess owner in the late 1970s, I would accept nothing less than a riveted plate !

[Pillock]

Riveted. 

[alf892]

Riveted definitely look better.

[Skizzer]

That style of pressed plate stopped in the early 70s. Rivet digits all the way, or acrylic in pre-2001 font (which Tippers don't do but various others will).

[fred]

Rivet digit my good man

[Felly Magic]

Riveted because 1970s

[AndyW201]

If the car was restored to factory original spec, then the riveted ones would get my vote, but with the slight custom job on the car, I dont think they'd go.

 

I'm with skizzer on the acrylic, old font plates, the car may be a 70s design but it is on an 80s reg and the acrylic plates would suit the 'modified in the early 80s' vibe for me.

[HMC]

Short of a serck (seems impossible to get a true serck font- you'd think someone would still have some of the old press tooling lying about somewhere) So I'd go with the riveted.

[vulgalour]

Skizzer:  I've got some pressed plates liberated from a '79 Princess, so someone must have been making them past the early 70s

[stuboy]

riveted

[For Fiats Sake]

another vote for rivited.

[Noel Tidybeard]

rivets ftw

[trigger]

Rivet is the only answer here. I had Tippers rivet plates on my Civic, they looked a million dollars.

[Vin]

Rivets all the way...

[Rod/b]

Written on a cereal box in marker pen

[Rod/b]

Also bear in mind you can get square cake tins so riveted square plates, shallow square sponge tin frenched into the back, job's a good'un.

[oldcars]

Rivet ones.

[tooSavvy]

CARDBOARD AND MARKER PEN!!!!

MrSavvy lost front plate so I inkprinted a plate, over two A4 sheets, and stikkie laminated it. Did for a week until I picked the lost one up from our hotel (in Carlisle), where staff had found it!!

 

TS

[Angrydicky]

Neither. DMB Graphics pre 2001 acrylics with the original dealer font on the bottom, as a replica of the original rear one you still have with the York? dealer. 

 

They'll be cheaper than Tippers as well, also more inkeeping and original as most dealers had switched to the acrylics by 1980/81.

[plasticvandan]

Acrylic.something funky.

[fordperv]

Riveted all the way out of the 2 choices

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Given what you are planning (custom purple, no bumpers...?), silver on black acrylic. No it's not legal but neither are the thousands of wankers with butchered number plates on their Range Rovers, Audis etc. 

[danthecapriman]

Skizzer:  I've got some pressed plates liberated from a '79 Princess, so someone must have been making them past the early 70s

We had a 2001 Y reg Transit van delivered new at work with pressed metal plates! No idea why as all the others had acrylic plates.

 

 

Anyway, for your Princess I'd go for riveted plates. I've got some on my Capri and they do look good on 70's cars.

[EssDeeWon]

What Dicky said, the old font in acrylic with dealers name along the bottom. My 79' BL product had this, and they were the original dealer plates.

 

Deffo not pressed though.

[Des]

Knitted.

[eddyramrod]

Old-font acrylics, as others have said.  Riveted as a second string, but some way behind.  Pressed... just NO!

 

Have you considered using US-size plates?