Does Your State Allow Year-of-Manufacture Plates?

72bluNblu said
Thanks for the number break down, I hadn't looked into it at all as far as what actual numbers would be correct. I don't think I care enough to have the vanity plates made and then reproduced in blue, if I was going to do that I'd just run the black and yellow vanity plates like I do on my Duster. Plus I think there's supposed to be a rule that they won't let you copy the pattern from a previously regularly issued plate, to keep people from having reproductions made like that. But I suppose someone would have to catch it.

Looks like it does limit my '72 to using only 6 digit plates. But that kinda makes sense, since before you needed the "base plate" plus the right year sticker. So like if you had a '67 you needed a '63 base plate (black plate) with a '67 reg sticker. So the blue plate is actually less restrictive, I just need a blue plate with 6 digits, which was basically anything issued from '70-'79 right?

The DMV doesn't look at the sequence as long as it is the right series ie Blue 000AAA and you have a sticker for the right year even if the plates are too early (I hate that).

The black plates follow the same rule as the blue plates, a pair of original black AAA000 plates and the correct sticker.
There were the same number of black plates as there were blue (6 digit) plates.

Correct you cannot request a standard sequence plate as a vanity plate, I was referring to true vanity plates like "FABO", get your plates and put them in the trunk, find a company that makes reproduction plates and have them make that plate in blue. Since the blue plate could have originally been a vanity plate most would never know.

Alan