Personally I think it looks super fab as it is :beer: plates look perfectly fine to me and I would let the ones fitted now age naturally, the only plates I would love and am considering myself for my oval over the standard black pressed or standard raised letters would be the hand polished raised letter plates that are hideously expensive, but they are slightly overkill on a beetle really but if you want to throw a bit of money at the car and dont need anything else! :lol:
We have kept the og very tatty but nice flat pressed plate on the rear of our 356 even though it is rough, and just had a new front made up in the type you have already.
Owens 50 beetle has later smooth semaphores as it does'nt bother him one bit as he prefers them to work well. Also the car was missing one grooved anyway and they are like hens teeth to find in good condition these days! Ditto the black 50 in my avatar has old black smooth ones too although the rest of the car is pretty correct. I agree it can be seen as a period update as it was so often done.
I do love to see other peoples splits with proper grooved ones though, but equally I would'nt lose sleep over not having them as I think it is one of those acceptable things nowadays :d
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"it'll wreck the patina you haven't worked so hard to create" - 50Karmann