Compliance plates mistakes

Compliance plates would be quite straightforward you would have thought, but as we have seen before with Australian Fords, sometimes there can be slight anomalies, like below.



This is the single plate from a November, 1972 XA GT. But if you look carefully you can see that the cowl has the holes drilled for the twin plates, and the four holes not covered by the single plate have rivets in them. It appears that new twin plate cowl panels may have become available for fitting to cars, before the actual twin plate requirement came into force.

Note too the single plate is displaced towards the driver’s side to centralise the plate within the eight hole spread..



In comparison with the early style XA plate a seen in the photo at the top of the page, and again here.



Of interest too is that the description of the XA is ‘FALCON GT SED.’ when it is a hardtop.