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That’s downright recent. Back when it was blue with yellow. Some used to say “you’ve got a friend in Pennsylvania”Pennsylvania?
Blue line at the top, yellow at the bottom
Maybe US Government plates might qualify
Which US state license plate design has been around the longest?
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I know Ohio has that one particular plate that has been the same since 1967. Not one you would want on your car though...
Party plates!
Besides the Michigan colored one? (have one of those)
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This reminds me of Seinfeld...way back when, I said I want a plate issued in Manhattan, just as Elaine tried to say 646 was 212 times 3, then they added 1 to the middle number.
So I went to the DMV on 31st or 30th, this was in the early 90's so not positive. The funny thing is would anyone truly notice the pattern 5XX-123 on the standard Liberty plate, as being one issued in Manhattan? lol
I live in PA and have for over 20 years, and it's amazing that we have an early 80's NY alpha-numeric pattern: ABC-1234. I think we have the most boring uninteresting plates (we even had stickers for expiration until I think 2017--and now there is a silhouette of the state in its place), but, to get a "vanity" plate? It's only about $40 more one time, so I got one to support a local organization--that's where ours are more interesting since they have the logo of the said organization.
So I went to the DMV on 31st or 30th, this was in the early 90's so not positive. The funny thing is would anyone truly notice the pattern 5XX-123 on the standard Liberty plate, as being one issued in Manhattan? lol
I live in PA and have for over 20 years, and it's amazing that we have an early 80's NY alpha-numeric pattern: ABC-1234. I think we have the most boring uninteresting plates (we even had stickers for expiration until I think 2017--and now there is a silhouette of the state in its place), but, to get a "vanity" plate? It's only about $40 more one time, so I got one to support a local organization--that's where ours are more interesting since they have the logo of the said organization.
The red numbers used to fade quickly, so that was probably what prompted the change.
There's a blog I read, that often talks about license plates.... I would post a link, but I don't want to because each and every post eventually turns into a nutcase political rant, so I'd rather not give the guy the clicks.
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According to a web search, the changes which appear very minor, are official license plate generational change. I would not have identified the changes without the web search description of the official/formal changes, which seem very small, but I guess not according to the Alaska DMV.
Blue and yellow?
Delaware must have been the first to issue “reflective” plates…I remember when the letters would reflect WHITE when in your car headlights
Someone should quantify that a plate has to have been attached to a car in 19xx and aside from validation stickers it will be the same piece of metal and stay legally valid. The California and Delaware examples seem to be at the top of this contest.
Seems like there are a few "well these plates pretty much look the same." If one is compelled to unscrew an old one and replace it at renewal time, the old style is, in fact, invalid.
Seems like there are a few "well these plates pretty much look the same." If one is compelled to unscrew an old one and replace it at renewal time, the old style is, in fact, invalid.
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California is different than I’m used to because apparently the plate stays with the car. So an old car could have the same plate forever. When I bought my 300CD in LA, I drove it home across country because the plate was mine since it stayed with the car and I had a bill of sale.
Delaware gives up plates when you sell a car, they just have so few people and no desire to change the plates.
KY is that way also, which was completely foreign to me when I first sold/bought a car here.
Every other state I've lived in (plenty), the plate is yours and you're supposed to turn it back into the DMV when you sell the car or aren't using it anymore. I imagine that rarely happens.
Yep!
State of Delaware does not directly reissue the small black plates. They just allow the recipient of certain low number digits sets below a threshold to apply to a third party service to make state approved black plate with the allowed low numbers on them and with a valid registration sticker, be installed on a registered Delaware vehicle.
If a low digit is issued, the state still hands the owner a standard blue/gold plate and the owner can then either at the DMV itself or at home on a computer, apply for replacement plate in black. If you applied your registration sticker to the new blue standard plate while waiting on the reissued replacement black plate to come in, you still have pay for out of pocket to get a new duplicate registration sticker.
About the only people I see with the reissued small black license plates in Delaware are old money or people who want you to think they are native old money.
I remember seeing those little Delaware plates on old cars when I was a kid. THOSE were originals. Ha-ha, retro hadn't been invented yet.
Back in '73, on my first trip to California, I saw quite a few old black plates. Wasn't one featured on a Beach Boys album cover?
Back in '73, on my first trip to California, I saw quite a few old black plates. Wasn't one featured on a Beach Boys album cover?
That's the first plate I had when I moved to NC in 1984 and was still using the same plate when I left in 2010. It wouldn't surprise me if that's the longest running plate today.
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