CODE OF VIRGINIA SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES FOR STREET RODS (§ 46.2-747) On receipt of an application, the Commissioner shall issue special license plates to owners of street rods. For the purposes of this section, “street rods” shall mean modernized private passenger motor vehicles either manufactured prior to 1949 or designed or manufactured to resemble vehicles manufactured prior to 1949. HISTORY: 1985, c. 452, § 46.1-105.13; 1987, c. 696; 1989, c. 727.