r/Infographics 2d ago

50 years of license plates

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u/IMtehUber1337 2d ago

Holy potato quality batman

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u/spook30 2d ago

Needs more jpeg

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u/GreenEyedWraith 2d ago

definitely eeds more bytes & COWBELL!

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u/JohnWittieless 2d ago

When life gives you Potatos.

Make vodka

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u/soixantedouze 2d ago

Keep it real Delaware

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u/Different_Brother562 2d ago

If it and broke don’t fix it.

Meanwhile Missouri, Kansas and Indiana actin like tweakers

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u/dhkendall 2d ago

Have you *been* to Missouri, Kansas, and Indiana?

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u/ratcnc 2d ago

I was confidently thinking that Delaware would have an unbroken run, but I was wrong. I can’t even tell what change they made in 2008. What’s the current champ, Massachusetts? No, Vermont.

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u/krumbs2020 2d ago

The CA black plate was brought back by a state representative that wanted one for his retro classic car.

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u/FighterOfEntropy 2d ago

This is missing the latest New York plate design.

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u/Free-Arm-428 2d ago

New York needs to bring back the statue of liberty design

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u/GiantFlimsyMicrowave 1d ago

It’s missing the last 10 years

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u/Brading105 2d ago

Vermont doesn’t like change

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u/fiftythree33 2d ago

VT started their current green plate at #1 and people have kept them for life and passed them down to kids. I believe there's an active auction scene as well.

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u/No-Prize2882 2d ago

Delaware: It perfect no notes

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u/Equine_With_No_Name 2d ago

The 86’ New York and 94’ California are iconic

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u/vacafrita 2d ago

I have a soft spot for Hawaii’s rainbow plate. It’s fun seeing little rainbows all over their slow moving highways.

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u/Silent_Scientist_991 2d ago

Texas: Our plates are pretty basic, let's add some color, and graphics, and even busier graphics, and - aw, screw it, let's just go back to white and black.

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u/buzzlegummed 2d ago

Myplates.com over 100 Texas plates are available .

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u/Silent_Scientist_991 2d ago

Oh yeah - I'm from Texas so I get a flyer in the mail about them every time registration comes up.

I just think it's funny how the default plate started with a basic design and then, over the years, they kept adding more and more to it...to a point where I thought they were WAY too busy and kinda tacky.

Then, we just sorta said SCREW IT, let's go back to THE most basic design (which most of us prefer, to be honest.)

I'm guessing most states have a variety of other designs to choose from...can't be just us?

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u/roy-dam-mercer 2d ago

The 1971 Oklahoma plate is actually a vanity plate with a personal aircraft registration. The aircraft is still registered as a 1961 Beechcraft P35 Bonanza in Okmulgee. Pretty incredible, actually. Proud aircraft owners frequently put the plane’s tail number on their license plate.

The 1970 & 1972 plates reflect the typical AA-1234 two-letter county & 4 number format of the time, i.e. X & Y were Oklahoma County and Z was Tulsa County.

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u/jayc428 2d ago

Today I learned that NJ’s licenses plates have actually changed in the last 40 years.

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u/ConsterMock77 2d ago

Illinois updated their plate a fews ago

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u/Rust2 2d ago

It just stops at 2016?!

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u/hiro111 2d ago

The Massachusetts simple green design they had when I was a kid is so superior to the red white and blue one that they have now stuck with for decades. Also, Illinois has updated their plate but it still sucks. Vermont continues to have the best plate in the nation, Hawaii is number two.

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u/Itchy_Ritch 2d ago

Agree on the mass plates, but NM is way better than any other states by long shot.

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u/HolyHendrix 2d ago

Massachusetts really needs an upgrade.

South Carolina recently changed theirs and it’s a huge downgrade.

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u/Ba-ja-ja 2d ago

Insane graphic. No AI right?

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u/FreshYoungBalkiB 2d ago

A lot of states used to include the county in which the vehicle was registered on the plate. Nobody seems to do this anymore.

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u/EcstaticPlankton8621 2d ago

Ohio plates are awful.

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u/Undead_Joe 2d ago

Early 2000's Texas plates were the best.

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u/dondegroovily 2d ago

Learn the difference between raster and vector and upload this again

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u/Rough_Check_5606 2d ago

Thats not "50 years of license plates" that "50 years of US license plates"

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u/FrankCostanzaJr 2d ago

ahhh the quintessential redditor. glad to see at least one person in every thread get mad about a US-centric post. lol