The purpose of a license plate is to provide an accurate identity of a vehicle and the owner of vehicle at all times. Other names used for license plate include: Car tag, Number Plate (United Kingdom), Tag, Vehicle license plate and vehicle registration plate. New York was the first state to mandate license plates on motor vehicles...
Drive around parking lots in Florida or Georgia or any state without an official front license plate requirement, you will find cars with European license plates installed. This trend was started by a small auto accessory store in Miami back in 1984. Car Boutique supplied the South Florida market with custom German type license plates. No...
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As the baby boomer generation population decrease, the Gen-X collectors are stepping into the market. There may be fewer collectors of high end cars with expensive price tags, so younger car collectors are entering the market and snapping up lower cost name plates like the classic Land Rover Defender, Range Rover HSE, Toyota...
Manufacturing custom license plates to match Year of
Manufacture (YOM) license plates is a very tedious task. There is the
issue of layouts, font styles, colors, border types and special symbols.
Any manufacturer has to acquire tools and dies for 50 states and go back 60
years to 1934 -assuming cars built 25 years ago (1994) qualify for YOM license
plates. This...
License Plate also referred to as a Vehicle registration plate was first issued in France back in 1893. In 1901 the State of New York mandated the issue of license plates and Massachusetts followed in 1903. In the beginning, license plates were made of leather, steel, porcelain, copper (Arizona), acrylic (mostly in the United Kingdom), and finally, Aluminum which...
