[elmariachi]

FYI I went through this back in May registering my car. The local tag office here in Harris County (Houston) showed me a memo from TXDOT to all county tag agencies warning them to STOP allowing replicas to be titled as 60's era cars. It spoke of significant penalties for fraud if someone even tried to tag a car like that going forward.

However, you can still run the black '66 plates. The tag office titled/registered my car as a 2009 Assembled Vehicle (ASVE) and I had a new set of 1966 vintage plates I had bought and had them with me. They inspected the plates for authenticity, checked them in the system to confirm they weren't tied to another car, and then assigned them to mine.