CA black plates....just picked up a car....

Yes that's true, but the "NEW" plates cannot be ordered with the old letters and numbers sequence.

I just checked the California DMV website and it didn't send up any red flag notice when I checked the availability of my old long-out-of-the-computer license number from the '69 Dart I sold over twenty years ago (and still wish I'd kept). It looks like I could re-order the original plate number for my current '69 Dart project.