![]() On to the United States: Yellow on blue California license plates were issued from 1969 to 1986, and (for lack of anything better to say) are a common sight on vehicles in '70s and '80s TV shows. To complete the motif, this plate has a dab of gold paint hand-applied inside the pan: See it? ♦ The "C" prefix indicates a light commercial vehicle registration though unless you're an expert you'd probably never deduce that just from looking at the plate. Yukon ho! The depiction of a prospector panning for gold has been used on Yukon Territory license plates since 1952. Why were they replaced? Because they rusted in the salty air of "Canada's Ocean Playground" like nobody's business! ♦ Non-reflective plates with numbers in the 2-00-00 to 38-49-99 range were supposedly replaced in 1979 with new ABC-123 format tags reflective plates with numbers around 38-50-00 to 65-00-00 were likewise replaced in 1986. ♦Īccording to Joe Sallmen, Nova Scotia license plates of the '70s were subject to a replacement procedure that I find somewhat interesting. The embossed province name and plate number are painted in different colors, requiring a manufacturing process more complicated than usual but producing a very distinctive design as a result. ♦įrom an even more easterly corner of Canada is this Newfoundland and Labrador license plate. License plates manufactured in correctional institutions are typically the exception to the rule in Canada: This particular plate (along with the two below) looks to have been made by Waldale Manufacturing, a company that has made plates for every province aside from Ontario at some point or another. ![]() New Brunswick is notable for being the only province to issue bilingual license plates (as this 1985 example would attest), and for making the unusual move of going through several issues in the '70s that were completely identical to each other aside from the year stamped in the corner. You can still see Ontario license plates like this on the roads.although seeing license plates like this that haven't been eaten by rust is another matter! ♦ Note the variation regarding the presence or absense of the date and fully-enveloped sticker box in the lower corners as well as the use of a combined month-year sticker on the newer plate. I quite like the design itself, which in spite of (or perhaps because of) its simplicity just manages to have a lot of character. These early 1980s license plates from the Canadian province of Ontario are favorites of mine.and not only because of the very cool alphanumeric combinations. Forces license plates were made by the Lorton Penitentiary in Virginia, which made D.C. Whether that's just coincidence or not is hard to say, but many U.S. The character dies on this plate are actually similar to those on 1952-57 District of Columbia license plates. Note the extra-long bolt slots presumably to facilitate fastening the plate to either American or European cars, and the bilingual "Expires (Verfaellt)" notation on the validation sticker. Forces stationed in Germany in the 1973-83 timeframe. Here's something you wouldn't see on the road around here any day: No, it's not a "generic" American plate rather, it's one of the sort used on vehicles by U.S. Finally, the lack of a lower-right bolthole indicates that perhaps the die used to cut it broke in the midst of manufacture, or perhaps that the people who make the plates are just sloppy about details! ♦ Colors are yellow on reflective robin's egg blue an unusual scheme also used on some West Virginia non-pass plates I have. ![]() The drilled hole at upper left suggests that it was mounted to a vehicle in an unusual way perhaps on a European-specification car with a different license plate mounting arrangement. The lack of a validation sticker suggests that it was a front plate. The "T" prefix indicates that it was a truck registration. It's also from Nassau the capital inhabiting the island of New Providence. So, what to make of it? Obviously, it's from the Bahamas. My cousin, however, has, and took the time to fetch this souvenir for me during her time there. I've never been to the Bahamas.or anything in the way of "exotic" island locales. This was actually on my dad's Hino Contessa when he had an opportunity to study and work in Guam in the early '70s. This issue was used from 1970 to 1973 and depicts a pair of latte stones, which formed the foundation for ancient houses on the island. ![]() I'll begin with what I consider to be the most visually-interesting license plate I own, from the Pacific island and U.S. Lately I've been expanding and improving my collection, and this is a "catch-all" of some highlights, in and outside of my direct collecting interests: I've accumulated a modest collection of license plates over the years, primarily from North America. ![]()
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