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OnDoutside

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2. I find it surprising there's no standard national US plates

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Nov 23, 2023, 04:53 PM

Nov 2023

In the EU while numbering is up to the individual country the general format of the plates are very similar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_vehicle_registration_platew

In Ireland we have a straight forward system in the format

IRL on the far left, then

999 XX 999999

The left 999 stands for year and first six months or second six months

XX stands for County

999999 is a sequential number

So if you see

232 C 12765

It means the car is the 12765th car registered in Cork in the July to December period of 2023.

If it was Jan to June it would have been 231 instead of 232

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Kansas adopting new vehicle license plate design, jettisoning eroded embossed tags [View all] TexasTowelie Nov 2023 OP

What about other states? I've only ever had the raised embossed kind intrepidity Nov 2023 #1

NH, MA, Vt all have plates embossed + coated. Mopar151 Nov 2023 #3

Another Brownback "innovation". LastDemocratInSC Nov 2023 #4

I find it surprising there's no standard national US plates OnDoutside Nov 2023 #2

How many old plates do you have and what do you do with them? bucolic_frolic Nov 2023 #5

I have a couple hanging in the garage BOSSHOG Nov 2023 #6