[Mgs] ATTN: Californians

[Douglas Gaither]

I have a '66 MBG that I'd really like to have black plates on (earlier
California color scheme).  I even had some old plates restored and tried to
get them registered to the vehicle, but the DMV would have nothing to do with
any plates that I could not PROVE were registered to the car at some time.

So
my question is... 
1) could I research the original registration to learn the
original black plate number
2) find someone somewhere that could reproduce a
black California plate
3) submit my 'proof' with newly stamped plates 
4) Doug
is happy?

Has anyone out there done this?  Is this an ill-conceived idea?
Doug