littlebeast13 wrote:Illinois has been issuing plates the last few years, at least around here, with just random 7 digit numbers. I got my car 8 years ago, so my plate still has a letter followed by 6 numbers since they were in that phase from the mid 90's till the early part of this decade.
I remember when the plates used to be 2 or 3 letters followed by either 4 or 3 numbers. Always made license plate spotting more fun to see letters in the mix. Of course, we still have a buttload of vanity plates floating around, I believe at one time IL had more vanity plates than any other state....
lb13
Goes to show what I know, I thought you lived in Missouri. I've always thought that Illinois must have free vanity plates (or that you could pick your plate number) because the letters always seemed to spell out something, although I seem to remember more letters than just three.
Vanity plates are such a racket, I've never understood it. You can't see your plate, you're in your car! Colorado not only has vanity plates, they have 'designer plates' as well. It started out with just a 'blue denim' as an alternative to the "green and whites" and then they came out with a colour one with a purple mountain (I guess for purple mountain's majesty). I'm not sure if that one was specific to El Paso County since it depicts Pikes Peak.
Now there are plates for every damned thing! Firefighters, Respect Life, Cancer, bunches of others I can't recall right now, I even saw one in the Costco parking lot today that was orange and had "Bronco Country" on it! The only ones I think you have to qualify for are the Veteran, Purple Heart and the like, plus the Pioneer Plate (you have to have proof a relative lived here when Colorado became a state). Otherwise the only requirement is that you pony up the simoleons.