So I was digging through a disorganized pile of crap trying to find something and I stumbled on the license plate that Indy Guy sent me last new years game. I really appreciate it and I like having random license plates around (probably gonna start putting then up on the wall in the shop), but Indiana, your license plates suck. You don't even stamp the edges anymore? Just a flat piece of material with numbers printed on. We may have crappy designs here in Kentucky but at least our characters are still stamped. Even Tennessee atleast has the rolled edges to make it less flimsy.
That is all. Thanks for reading.
In reply to Daylan C :
Ohio went from stamped numbers to printed, first for specialty/personalized plates, and then for everything.
And the font for the printed plates sucks.
I'd LIKE to get a personalized plate for the RX-7, but it still wears the Bicentennial plates that I got in 2001, which are stamped, and I don't want to replace them.
Wisconsin plates are stamped still but we have had the same design for 25+ years. We need some new ones. I would get collector plates for the Viper but they are so ugly!
Minnesota went to those flat plates not too many years ago. I'm sure they're less expensive to make but I miss the old stamped ones.
I get a kick out of New Hampshire. Theirs say "Live Free or Die."
... and NH is one of the states that still uses prison labor to make license plates. Kind of a kick in the nuts.
Ours are printed here in Texas. Not sure when the change happened
Texas plates always look counterfeit to me. Like they are something someone made in MSpaint and printed on their inkjet.
No texture, no color, no graphics. Just black and white.
Michigan’s historical plates are ugly as well, but 30$ for 10 years is a whole lot better than 120$ per year for tags!!!
Yeah, Texas went from one of the coolest (IMHO):
To one of the worst...
No idea who came up with that idea, but I'm bettin bean counters were involved.
Duke
MegaDork
7/29/19 8:25 a.m.
Delaware tags are boring, flat, and haven't changed in decades; dark blue with gold text. Well, about 5 years ago they went from a plain, boring typeface to one that was comprehensively awful. Some characters were straight stroke sans serif but some had serifs and some were variable stroke width. No one who had actually looked at the whole alphabet could have chosen that font, and there was no reason to change it in the first place. Backlash was instant and they eventually went back. Thankfully, we didn't happen to buy a car in that couple of years, so we didn't get stuck with one.
In DE you own your tags and can keep them forever. Low-digit tags can be worth a lot; double digit tags sell for 6 figures. Yes, really. Once you have a certain amount of money I guess you'll spend it on anything, just to prove you can. The first 7500 tags were small format, black and white. Technically only these specific tags can be this way, but lots of people get bootleg ones made with higher numbers. All they do is show off the screw holes in your car where a normal tag would have gone:
Delaware did offer stamped, old-school Centennial plates marking the hundred-year anniversary of the first Delaware license plate:
Those always struck me like Kramer's coffee table book about coffee tables.
Duke
MegaDork
7/29/19 8:28 a.m.
Delaware low-digit tags for sale - you thought I was kidding. And these guys don't even have any of the really low numbers.
VA plates are stamped and we have like 300 plate options. a basic personalized tag is $10 a year.
https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/dmvnet/plate_purchase/select_plate.asp
Hungary Bill said:
....To one of the worst...
No idea who came up with that idea, but I'm bettin bean counters were involved.
Hah! The TX plates look almost the same the temp plates they now use in CA (printed on paper). They went with the temp paper plates on new cars because too many people were driving around new cars without plates (to avoid various tickets) and never putting the plates on.
It always seemed a bit stupid to me that you could drive around a car with no plates and no one seemed to care as long as the car looked new (which, depending on the car, could theoretically be a pretty old car).
We've got the flat printed plates in Georgia now too, but at least we still have some colorful options.
I'm stupid sentimental when it comes to cars. I have a key from my old Mustang, a 99 GT which was my first "real" vehicle purchase. I also have both plates, which I'll remember the tag number until I die - NUX292.
Here is a 21 year old stanger_missle, circa 2002, thinking he is hot stuff in his white GT:
