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Quote from: 557 on February 05, 2020, 09:52:27 PM
Culver carburetor in Culver City ,ca. rebuilt em last time I checked....

Did Culver Carb close? Tried googling Culver Carb and came across a company named California Carb & Auto Repair in Lawndale, says it bought Culver Carb in 2007.

Quote from: J_Speegle on January 28, 2020, 11:08:58 PM
Was attempting to bring to the attention of readers the  sequence -  3 letters followed by 3 numbers - was different from commercial and trailer plates and you see guys placing those on cars as well as letters (in the three letters and three numbers) that don't match what was available during the year of the car's production

Sorry to hijack this thread. Until recently, there was no way to retrofit an old style plate onto a 1963 or later car in CA. Cars that had been continuously registered in CA with their original plates could retain those plates indefinitely, but once the registration lapsed, if you then re-registered it in CA, they would force you to put the currently issued plates, or a vanity plate, on the vehicle. This situation made it easy to tell if a car had spent its whole life in CA, and gave rise to the term "original CA black plates" in car ads. This is no longer true. You can no longer tell if a 1963 or later car has its original plates, unless the owner can show you all of his yearly registration paperwork. The way to retrofit plates is called the Year of Manufacture program, or YOM. CA does not allow putting the wrong pattern of plate on a different type of vehicle, like a commercial or trailer plate on a car. Some people paint later plates, with a different pattern of letters and digits, yellow on black, to make them look like the 60's plates, but yes, if the pattern of characters is not 3 letters followed by 3 digits, they are not correct.

As for the cars with the correct 3 letters followed by three digits pattern, but the actual first letter not being "available during the year of the car's production", there are no hard and fast rules on which letters were used which years. Yes, there is a general flow from A to Z, but depending on where in the state you resided, the local supply of plates could change from one letter to the next quickly, or slowly, depending on population, etc. The distribution of plates was not centralized and perfectly followed the alphanumeric sequence. Of course, simple facts like a 1964 car that was brought into CA in 1968 would tend to have a later letter sequence.

Quote from: J_Speegle on January 28, 2020, 09:48:47 PM
Always wonder why owners want to slap on an old black and gold plate that isn't right for the car 

That is not an old plate. That is a newly issued sequence, true, it can be put on any car of any year.  California supplies that type of plate painted in those colors, as a retro look. Genuine 60's yellow on black plates were 3 letters followed by 3 digits.

 Could the location of the picture be McCluskey's, with the Torrance airport in the background?

Quote from: FL SAAC TONY on January 08, 2020, 07:24:43 PM
five beautiful things to improve your car

See your own earlier post above, #146

How about the fuel cost factor? California is not good in that regard, especially for those of us with thirsty motors.

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Quote from: sd427 on December 29, 2019, 09:57:39 AM
I believe you need to tell your browser to trust the security certificate.

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Not very computer savy, so what do you mean?

Depends on your browser. When trying to use a secure connection using https, if you get that type of message, there may be a button that will display more info, and start a process that confirms to the browser that you wish to trust the security credentials being used by saacforum.com. The process is different for each browser. Is there a computer savvy kid around you can ask for help?

Click on Profile, then Forum Profile. Fill in the text box labeled Personal Text, with a string like "Member Since yyyy". It will then show up on all your posts, even retroactively for your existing posts.

I believe you need to tell your browser to trust the security certificate.

Quote from: honker on December 27, 2019, 03:50:15 PM
what concerns me is at the top of my computer screen it says "not Secure" in red !

Mike

Try switching your URL or bookmark to be https://...

Yep, LA area was covered pretty good on Friday, got mine.

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