How is the Hot Rod/ Street Rod Car Culture in WY? (Sheridan: club)

[Joe33]

In Wyoming you can get a special plate for anything with 4 wheels and lights. You cant drive it on Federal highways but you can drive it anywhere else. Many people have quads with plates and drive them to work.

[WyoNewk]

Originally Posted by Joe33

In Wyoming you can get a special plate for anything with 4 wheels and lights. You cant drive it on Federal highways but you can drive it anywhere else. Many people have quads with plates and drive them to work.

My son has a golf cart that's licensed to drive on the roads. He can't use it on the golf course that his house is on (rental carts only), but he can drive it to the club house to rent another cart.

[noihoforus]

That is just cool. Licensing a quad or a razor could come in very handy...

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by noihoforus

That is just cool. Licensing a quad or a razor could come in very handy...

My 4 wheeler is licensed and I use it for my primary transportation. Just today I had a doctors appointment and also needed to pick up grocerys. I live 21 miles from Sheridan. It takes me 30-35 minutes to get there running on the county roads. License plates for my 2006 Honda 4 wheeler run me about $40 a year. Insurance runs me about $70 for 6 months. I get about 35 mpg. I had rims made so I can put standard 14 inch car tires on it (a heck of a lot cheaper than tearing up my expensive knobby's). On pavement I can run 55 mph, on the gravel I can run 45. Actually I could run faster, but 45 is the speed limit. hahaha

I also have a Ford truck. My insurance lady gives me a bad time. She won't let me list my 4 wheeler as my Primary and my Ford Truck as secondary on my multi vehicle policy. However, I put about 2500 miles a year on the 4 wheeler and only about 1000 miles a year on my truck. hahaha

Wyoming has all kinds of special plates, as previously mentioned. Let me tell you where Wyoming is screwing up on that. If you want "Veteran Plates, it's $50 extra. If you want National Guard Plates, they are Free. Now this one really ticks me off and I don't know what our legislatures were thinking. If you want Gold Star plates, a parent of a veteran who lost his or her life in Iraq or Afghanistan, the price is $30 extra." National Guard, Free, loss of a sun or daughter, $30. Go figure.

If you have an old hot rod or an old restored car, you can license them regularly and drive them any time any place, but if you license them as antique's, you are limited on when and how you drive them.

[noihoforus]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

My 4 wheeler is licensed and I use it for my primary transportation. Just today I had a doctors appointment and also needed to pick up grocerys. I live 21 miles from Sheridan. It takes me 30-35 minutes to get there running on the county roads. License plates for my 2006 Honda 4 wheeler run me about $40 a year. Insurance runs me about $70 for 6 months. I get about 35 mpg. I had rims made so I can put standard 14 inch car tires on it (a heck of a lot cheaper than tearing up my expensive knobby's). On pavement I can run 55 mph, on the gravel I can run 45. Actually I could run faster, but 45 is the speed limit. hahaha

I also have a Ford truck. My insurance lady gives me a bad time. She won't let me list my 4 wheeler as my Primary and my Ford Truck as secondary on my multi vehicle policy. However, I put about 2500 miles a year on the 4 wheeler and only about 1000 miles a year on my truck. hahaha

Wyoming has all kinds of special plates, as previously mentioned. Let me tell you where Wyoming is screwing up on that. If you want "Veteran Plates, it's $50 extra. If you want National Guard Plates, they are Free. Now this one really ticks me off and I don't know what our legislatures were thinking. If you want Gold Star plates, a parent of a veteran who lost his or her life in Iraq or Afghanistan, the price is $30 extra." National Guard, Free, loss of a sun or daughter, $30. Go figure.


If you have an old hot rod or an old restored car, you can license them regularly and drive them any time any place, but if you license them as antique's, you are limited on when and how you drive them.

Sometimes there seems to be no rime or reason to what legislature does....but I still favor Wyoming goverment to most other states on most issues...

[noihoforus]

Also good to know to regular register ones old cars as opposed to antique....and very smart about 4 x 4 street tires...

[Joe33]

The special plates are sponsored plates. The fee goes towards the group that sponsored the plate. Not the state.

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

My 4 wheeler is licensed and I use it for my primary transportation. Just today I had a doctors appointment and also needed to pick up grocerys. I live 21 miles from Sheridan. It takes me 30-35 minutes to get there running on the county roads. License plates for my 2006 Honda 4 wheeler run me about $40 a year. Insurance runs me about $70 for 6 months. I get about 35 mpg. I had rims made so I can put standard 14 inch car tires on it (a heck of a lot cheaper than tearing up my expensive knobby's). On pavement I can run 55 mph, on the gravel I can run 45. Actually I could run faster, but 45 is the speed limit. hahaha

I also have a Ford truck. My insurance lady gives me a bad time. She won't let me list my 4 wheeler as my Primary and my Ford Truck as secondary on my multi vehicle policy. However, I put about 2500 miles a year on the 4 wheeler and only about 1000 miles a year on my truck. hahaha

Wyoming has all kinds of special plates, as previously mentioned. Let me tell you where Wyoming is screwing up on that. If you want "Veteran Plates, it's $50 extra. If you want National Guard Plates, they are Free. Now this one really ticks me off and I don't know what our legislatures were thinking. If you want Gold Star plates, a parent of a veteran who lost his or her life in Iraq or Afghanistan, the price is $30 extra." National Guard, Free, loss of a sun or daughter, $30. Go figure.

If you have an old hot rod or an old restored car, you can license them regularly and drive them any time any place, but if you license them as antique's, you are limited on when and how you drive them.

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by Joe33

The special plates are sponsored plates. The fee goes towards the group that sponsored the plate. Not the state.

Don't care if it gets thrown away. You still PAY it, no matter where it goes.

[wyolady]

Originally Posted by branDcalf

I only see a few classic car buffs in the state. There used to be a drag racing track in Douglas, but it closed.

Sorry to respond to such an old thread, but Douglas Motorsportspark did NOT close. We have drag raced there every other weekend so far this summer, along with plenty of other racers from WY, CO, SD, MT and NE. The National Open a couple of weeks ago was huge.

Here's their schedule.

Douglas Motorsports Park Home

They have been threatening to close for close to 10 years. Racers actually run the track now.

[casper1991]

The streetrod/hotrod community is very robust here in casper. I drive a 650 horsepower hotrod on the streets plus i run nitrous haha there are no laws on engines plus no emissions. Sometimes you even see dragsters crusing on the roads