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[Clem Cole via TUHS]

Yes I believe that is right.  I had forgotten that Shannon had it before
Armando.  I don’t remember which of us had it first, me in MA or Shannon in
NH. We both landed in NE nearly the same time, but he did preceded me.  So
I’m going guess he must have had the NH plate a year or so before I did.

That said, Armando had it on his (Datsun - not yet Nisson) Z car.
Somewhere we have a picture of both his Z and my Capri parked next to each
other.

An interesting factoid. In those days NH had two plates, but MA only had
one.  Someone told the story of his replacing the real plate on the front.
In my case, I got another plate from him and that was my front plate. When
the new series was issued and I got two and kept the second one in the
garage even though the colors were different front and back.  Many folks
(including a cop at one point) looked at the front and thought I was from
NH.


That scheme worked for a few years but I got flagged at inspection time and
was forced to bring the car back with both plates.    I thought about
switching back, but by then MA had pretty much pulled the older green
plates from the road and I decided just to leave it be.


Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual

On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 10:27 AM Kevin Dunlap via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
wrote:

> Bill Shannon had NH Unix plate first. After Bill moved to CA, Armando got
> it.  I believe Jon "Maddog" Hall now has it.
>
> -Kevin
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 7:16 AM Tom Lyon via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
>
> > Bill Shannon had the real New Hampshire UNIX plates at the time of moving
> > to California/Sun in 1982.  He upgraded to VMUNIX in California.
> > Photo: https://photos.app.goo.gl/QSGYnuxhfvBk1ZUc9
> >
> > But maybe after Armando.  Or did Armando have the Massachusett plate?
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 7:02 AM Ron Natalie via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > To my knowledge, there were only two issues of licenses.   The original
> > > Armando ones that say UNIX with Live Free or Die and Unix is a
> > > Trademark,
> > > and the later ULTRIX ones (I have them both).   If there were others, I
> > > somehow missed them.
> > >
> > > Armando related a story that he had the actual NH UNIX vanity plate on
> > > the rear of his car and a DEC one on the front (complete with the
> > > license expiration tabs).
> > > The front one went missing for a while, and when he inquired, many
> > > people wrote to him saying they hadn’t seen it in various parts of the
> > > country remote from NH.
> > > I think he eventually got it back.     Isn’t Armando kicking around
> > > here?
> > >
> > >
> >
>