Remembering radiator license tags on our Model-T Ford

Mattie’s Corner

(Ed: Mattie’s’ Corner from March 14, 2003) Can you believe that in the early days of automobiles in Texas that car owners had to make their own car tags or license plates? Registration of cars began in 1907 when you paid a small fee, but then you made your own tag. By 1917 the state began making little round license plates. My parents bought a 1918 Model-T Ford and I rem...

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