Finally got around to the final two plate swaps...Firebird & Camaro. Firebird went first, had been sitting about 2 months, fired right up by the shift interlock switch wouldn't release, after a few minutes of bumping the brake pedal and jiggling the shifter I was able to shift it out of park - not the first time it's done that, and it's annoying, so I took the console apart (2 minutes) and just unplugged the shift interlock. In GMs of this era energized = locked, so simply unplugging it unlocks it.
Then I swapped the rear plate and removed the big ugly front plate holder, found some black plugs it fill the holes for now, but I paint matched a set and have them ready to go in whenever I get a chance. This car probably benefitted the most from losing the rear plate, these were styled after the Pontiac Banshee concept and you can really see it without the plate obstructing the beak. Used it for some last minute Christmas shopping too and was reminded just how well this car still drives....Fantastic low-cost DD if you don't care about stuff like modern tech or safety.
Next was the Camaro, which hadn't moved since it was shipped down here and parked on the lift nearly 3 months ago. Started right up though, even though it wasn't on a maintainer. The front nose on this car looks awkward without a plate, so I decided to run the original 1984 Ontario plate that it wore when it was delivered to my dad in March 84, and that it continued to wear up till around 2010 when I swapped over to Historic....Doubtful that the cops here will care, especially since it's got historic registration down here, but if I do get pulled over I'll swap it with something else.
