I'm obsessed with license plates. I think it's kinda

I use licence plates to tell what season it is, as where I live has no seasons. When I see Quebec plates, I know it's winter.

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Ours are super boring. Also, OP, you're weird. Weird is not bad, though. Just weird.

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>tfw your license plate will never be a polar bear

I've got one of OPs plates on my car. But with a white sticker in lower right since they discontinued expiry stickers several years ago.

>>1016868
Love that plate. Think i've seen it 4-5 times since being in Alberta. Saw a caravan of two on the Yellowhead in BC near Kamloops, they looked like they'd be driving for a while, obviously... damn I wanna go to NWT so bad.

Nothing wrong with liking license plates.

It's just another form of stamp collecting.

I love Alaska plates, but American Samoa was the weirdest I've seen. Also have seen USVI, Guam, Hawaii, Mexico.

>>1016880
At Glacier National Park, you see all sorts of American and Canadian plates. I saw 2 Hawaii plates there recently. Not sure if they were rentals or if it was actual Hawaiians driving around the whole USA

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>>1016839
I like plates too. My favourite is probably pic related for its simplicity, but AB has a good one (fuck those new designs they thought about).

>>1016916
You mean Alberta? Yes I like it too. I like how Canada/US/Mexico's license plates are the more square type... i'm a sucker for designs/art on plates so the Euro ones usually leave me wanting more.

Alberta/BC/Sask's plates are nice with the mostly blank plates but a little
tasteful design thrown in (Rose, Wheat, little BC flag). Looks really clean.

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>>1016839
My brother lives in Tennessee and he has one of these fuckers on his car

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>>1016919
Vanity plates are still kinda cool. Minnesota, my home state, has some comfy ones

Do you masturbate to them like the tiles guy?

>>1016857
I like our chilean plates. Clean and sleek design that doesn't distract to much from the car's design.
Then again, if you're like OP you may find them boring.

Oklahoma is my favorite american license plate because of the archer.

California just reminds me of socal which is annoying. It's also kinda boring looking.

>>1016871
>in Alberta
Literally the only times I've seen Northwest Territory plates in southern Canada was in Alberta lol

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>>1016933
I just found out these are available in Illinois.
Don't ask why it's a gif, I just downloaded it.

Without fail, if I see an out-of-state plate, they're driving like a fucking retard.
If you come from a state that only requires you to have one plate on your car, I don't fucking trust you.

>>1016848
Hello florida

t. quebec

>>1017200
How many years ago did you retire? How big is your pension?

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in NS we have these cute plover plates~ this thread reminded me to look into how to get one

>>1017173
It's the only province that has a major-ish road connecting to Yellowknife, so it makes sense. There's a road from BC but it's pretty minor.

>>1016872
>it's just another form of autism
Fixd

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>>1017302
Enviro/conservation plates are best plates

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>>1018003
>drive a car
>"protect our environment"

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>>1016916
FYI the UK plate you posted is wrong.
It is the German font in the UK format. Not legal.

UK one would look like pic related. A lot more boring.

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>>1018033
Yep.

>>1018003
>A E S T H E T I C

>>1016839
SK license plates no longer have registration stickers. Looks much cleaner

>>1018122
OP here, I fucking hate the California plates and all they stand for
>>1018374
Yes, I see them all the time here in AB. They look great!

>>1018374
Preferred them before they added the unnecessary slogan. License plate surrounds from car dealerships seem to be specifically designed to cover it up.

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>>1018498
>License plate surrounds from car dealerships seem to be specifically designed to cover it up.

They're certainly not maximizing their own advertising space.

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>>1018485
>all they stand for
...like being proof of a registered vehicle? California plates are pretty boring but they get the job done. Pic related is based and I love when I see an old California plate.

>>1019790
>stand for

I mostly mean stand in the sense that it shows where the car is from and from that you can make interesting assumptions about who's driving it etc.

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>>1019812
ah, I see. Well, I'm finally registering my vehicle in Texas after living here for 4 years for school, I wish I could get pic related plates but alas they are old.

>>1019858
They haven't had those plates in like 10 years.

>>1016839
Hi OP, you're not alone. I have a similar interest in license plates and I'm always happy to see new ones. I love the license plates of my home country because they indicate the city or landkreis (=county) where the car is from. Pic related. I once saw a tractor with the license plate BU for Burgdorf, which hasn't been given out since 1974.

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>>1019866
pic

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>>1019867
>no logical pattern
what a mess, you do it wrong m8

Here it's like this:
-1st letter-voivodeship code(land)
-2nd or 2nd + 3rd letter- powiat code(county).

Btw the most exotic number plate I've seen was Mercedes w124 wagon with japanese numbers, few trucks from Turkey and one from Kazakhstan.

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>>1019914
>mfw owned a few DGR cars and had my car searched every single fucking time i visited germany because somehow everyone on DGR plates smuggles weed from Netherlands.

>>1019861
Your reading comprehension is p.bad

>>1019951
>Not understanding that I'm remarking that the plates are so old that they've already replaced their replacement.

>>1019953
>needing to make that point after I said alas they are old.
Wew thanks for the unnecessary clarification

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Favorite vanity plate offered by your state, go.

>hard mode: no sports team affiliations unless it's college

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>>1019867
>>1019914
I like the Polish system. I can never memorize what the initial letters stand for. But I like the details like KR for Kraków and KRA for the surroundings, and OP for Opole and OPO for the surroundings.

The pattern behind the German license plates is this:
It starts with one, two or three letters which stand for the city or district. Large cities get short signs, because they usually have more cars so there's more options on the license plate. B for Berlin, M für Munich, K for Cologne - but HH for Hamburg, because Hamburg is part of the Heanseatic league. The next biggest city with H is Hannover, so the single H goes to them.
The sparsely populated areas get the longest names, for example NWM for Nordwestmecklenburg or OPR for Ostprignitz.
You can easily tell which state the vehicle comes from by looking at the coat of arms after the abbreviation TR (for Trier). Trier lies in Rhineland-Palatine so that's where the coat of arms is from.

>>1016839
>>>/o/

>>1020256
>I like the Polish system

leave

>>1020256
delete this post

>>1020268
>>1020269
no need to hate guys
for once we have something figured out

>>1019966
Already posted mine, >>1016933

>>1020268
>>1020269
why

2bqh north american plates are the best. I'm a sucker for designs and Euro/south american plates are just kinda boring :/ and too similar

>>1019914
Ok that is cool as fuck seeing Kazakh plates in Boland

>>1016871
Albertafag here too, I went up to Yellowknife a few years back and out into the surrounding area on a snowmobile trip. Not for everybody obviously but I thought it was amazing up there. Do it if you get the chance.

There's a pretty sofisticated community of enthusiasts in my country that collect the highest seen numbers on license plates.
It's like dubs threads on 4ch

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Just a boring europan license plate coming through.These are issued since 2001.The middle letter means the region the car is registered in.

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>>1020490
This is the older type, but these are still valid, so you can still see cars with these.
The first two (sometimes just one) letter means the county the car is registered in, so there were lot more combinations compared to 14 we have now. I remember that jeseník country had "J" or "JE" so there were cars with plates reading "JEB" which pretty much means "fuck."

>>1020490
What are the green and red hexagons?

>>1020503
They look like registration/tax stickers.

>>1020503
These are stamps that confirm your car is roadworthy and that it falls under the emision limits. You need to get your car checked every few years and they always give you a new one.

>>1020480
Spain?

>>1020480
I know about this thing in Czech Republic, takže buď seš taky čech, or I don't know.

>>1020549
Su moravák, takže nvm

>>1020494
Jeseník county had only JE, JEA and JEB series afaik, because the county was founded only in 1996 and had very small population.
There are some other interesting facts, like Přerov not having the PRC and PRD (=fart) series.

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>>1016839
This is my custom plate. Rebel starbird on the front and the frame on the rear plate says 'My other ride destroyed the Death Star'. I like Star Wars and decided why not. I wanted to get XWING for my motorcycle to go with it but some bastard already took it. Still considering XW1NG or something but it bugs me.

>>1020573
Back to rebbit

>>1020707
Wish I knew why people say this. I honestly tried to understand reddit some years ago but gave up. Never could figure out how the hell you're supposed to follow who's replying to who or actually find anything on the site.

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>The best place on earth
Stay smug, BC

>>1020877
Maybe if you're a chinese trustfund kid, too expensive for normal people.

>>1020877
>>1020893
this just in, not all of bc is super fucking expensive. just the only area people think exist is expensive.

t. central bc

>>1016919
radical

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>>1020494
I think we had JEB as well, but I'm not sure.
This was the worst combination I can think of kek

Fun fact: 15 years ago, a chemicals plant named AZF exploded near Toulouse (south west of France), making a lot of death. Now you can't have a license plate with "AZF" in the county

>>1021183
>I'm not

kek

Op, are you around Lloyd and do you ride bicycles?

>>1016839
I was on the Canadian side of Niagra Falls, and the parking lot there was packed with license plates from all across Canada and the Eastern USA (I'm from very western Canada). It was pretty cool to see all those

>>1020877
>implying it's not

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>>1022126
I've learned Canadians fuckin' drive. In Glacier National Park (USA) I saw just about every Canadian plate (and US plate) but PEI, NVT and Newf/Lab. I was stoked to see a New Brunswick. Saw two Hawaii. Even saw a Hawaii on campus in Calgary yesterday.

On the transcanada you always see MB and ON driving west. That's like seeing NY and Pennsylvania plates in Montana and Washington (which you do see but not with the same frequency).

In my campus lot I see SK, MB, YK, ON, BC, QC and NS daily which is always so cool!

The only region of the US I don't see enough is the deep south. Sure, I see Florida all the time but that's due to the snowbirds. I rarely (if ever) see the carolinas, georgia, alabama, mississippi, louisiana, kentucky, tennessee, west virginia or arkansas.

>>1022118
I do ride bicycles but I'm in Calgary. I'd like to make it to lloyd tho.

>>1022243
>always see MB and ON driving west. That's like seeing NY and Pennsylvania

I don't mean to imply MB is that far east, mostly meant Ontario.

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Pretty boring, but easy to read.

Old license plates/historic plates are inverted colour and of course without the EU badge, like them way more.
You can customize the plate to some extent, but it's always letters to numbers.

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>>1022243
>I've learned Canadians fuckin' drive

When I lived in East Tennessee, there would be Quebec plates with alarming frequency. "Je Me Souviens." I think they all came down to see the Smokey Mountains. That's a lot of driving. Never Ontario, NB or anything else though. Not sure what the francophone angle was.

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I like how lebanese number plates are in both roman and arabic numerals. It helped me a lot when tried to learn arabic

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Danish

>>1022440
Yeah! They love RVs too. I knew a quebecois at my old college who had an RV and he was 18 or so. I was in the badlands of South Dakota and I saw two Quebec plates, both on RVs.

I think it's the retiree culture there honestly.

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>>1017302
Mah Nova.

I also dig our camper plates. Have the one from our childhood trailer on my wall (not pictured).

>>1022459
There are no Roman digits on that plate you dimwit

>>1022461
*fnis*

>>1022500
lol

>>1022106
Germany has some regulations on what combinations of letters or numbers can't be on a license plate. Among those are:
>HJ
>KZ
>NS
>SA
>SS
everywhere

>AH
>HH
>SD
in some places

>IS
in a few places

>S:ED
>N:PD
>N:SU
>WAF:FE
>IZ:AN
>HEI:L
>BUL:LE
>MO:RD
>SU:FF
in certain cities or districts (indicated by the letters before the colon)
>88
>888
>8888
>188
>1888
>8818
>HH 18
in Brandenburg, a state which has issues with Neo-Nazism.

>>1022743
Why would waffe be banned? I understand most of those are linked to Nazis and neo-nazism, but waffe just means weapon, no? Like in waffenfabrik.

>>1022744
You are correct. I don't know why WAF:FE is banned. Neither wikipedia nor the website of the district give a specific reason for that. They just say it is not allowed. Maybe they want to eliminate the connection between the name of their town and weapons. Their letters aren't a great choice anyway: WArendorF.

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Mine kinda looks like this (albeit, a little newer). It is pretty plain, but I enjoy the minimalism of the plate.

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>>1017194
>tfw I grew up in Maine, and now live in one-plate Pennsylvania

Whenever I visit Maine I think I subconsciously drive shittier because people expect me to

Also, based old-school red lobster plate is the best plate

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>>1020494
>so there were cars with plates reading "JEB" which pretty much means "fuck."

Has the same meaning in the USA famalam

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>>1022876
>vacationland

vacationland? who the fuck goes to Maine on vacation?

>>1023062
Have you been to maine?

>>1023094
"slogan committee, what have you got?"
"It's Really Fucking Cold. Mostly"
"Almost Canada!"
"nah, those are not gonna work. I got it! Vacationland!"
"well, I think Hawaii would be the state most accurately described ..."
"I said VACATIONLAND! Call the DMV and let 'em know"
"y-yessir."

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>>1023104
>>1023094
>>1023062
Really, the name comes from around the turn of the 20th century. Maine used to be the hot place for America's megawealthy to summer. Portland, Belgrade Lakes, Moosehead, Acadia all hosted huge mansions to small camps for the more modest tourist. Teddy Roosevelt was a big fan of Maine. His famous Moose-riding photo was taken there. His summer home was on Campobello island, about as far east as you can go.
People took the rail from Philadelphia, New York and Boston all the way up. It's a shame, pic related is one of my favorite maps. It's from 1927, our rail system is a shadow of what it used to be. Anyway, you can see the title on it - Vacationland

>>1023104
You haven't been.

>>1023108
oh, OK. thank you for that.

>>1023134
I'm sure it's not without its charms. I get that you're proud of your state, that's great. but you're letting your pride obscure my point. that slogan is from over a century ago. it no longer applies, nor has it for the entirety of license plate use in the US. I've lived a lot of years in several US states. whenever anyone is discussing vacation plans, Maine has literally never once come up. anytime I've seen a vacation prize on a gameshow or whatever, it has NEVER been Maine. By that logic, Kansas might as well print "Surf's Up!" on their plate.

"There Was A Window Of Time When The Nation's Wealthiest Families All Lived In Large Cities In The NEC And The Cities Got Really Hot In The Summer And There Was No Air Conditioning So We Built A Pretty Good Tourist Industry For A While Because We Stay Relatively Cool Even In July" doesn't fit on a plate so well.

>>1023208
Yeah, well we called dibs on it, we get to keep it. Suck it.

Just went to NWT and got a plate. Love the bear. Can post photo.

>>1023208
You seem really bitter. Not sure why. Maine is absolutely stunning and not everyone likes tropical vacations.

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ours is pretty boring. sometimes I can see UN plate.
and I think people who live in the west bank can see a Palestinian one.

>>1022456
What does that even mean?

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>>1020494
>>1021183
>JEB
Hah. In Hungary, we avoided almost all embarrassing codes, but some remained, e.g. JEW, GAY, etc. In Germany, "brown" codes are also prohibited (SS, SD, etc.) - we haven't even thought about it yet, so e.g. AVH is also an existing code.
Our system started to work in 1990, and the older ones disappeared until 2000 thanks to a renumbering process, which have lasted for 10 years.

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>>1029670
whats "SD" supposed to mean
germanfag here
usually the brown fellows use 88 orr 444

>>1017173
Yeah because literally the only road to Yellowknife connects to Alberta

>>1016857
We should have also used vocals and implemented vanity plates to be honest.

>>1029723
gtfo, /Rice/ poster

>>1029708
>germanfag
>doesn't know what SD was
Dude, no. Please, no.
Anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicherheitsdienst

>>1029710
No, there is a road from BC. Highway 7. It connects with the 1 from AB around Fort Providence.

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Family up in Ft. Smith sent me one of the promo plates from a while back. Need an Alberta plate for my wall.

>>1029753

I never seen a neonazi using "SD"
I dont think its common around those people
a play on word containing SS is more likely to use

>>1029670
>AVH
What does that stand for?
>>1029708
Is this real?

>>1029808
Where do you live? I have a NWT plate like that as well, love it. Since I live in AB i could probably find an AB one too.

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Not my license plate, but coincidentally the same letters and same car dealership. YE means the city of Bodo, and again, Nordvik is actually the dealership I bought my car.

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>>1016839
I share the same level of enthusiasm, OP. I stare at license plates everywhere I go. What also Interests me is how the frequency of vanity plates changes in different states. I looked it up, and Nevada and Virginia have the highest rate at 12% while texas had only 0.5% vanity. I then looked at the DMV websites for those states and found that that cost is a major factor. It's like 300 dollars in texas to have a vanity plate for just a few years, but much cheaper in nevada, for example.

I'm also interested in Florida Plates. I live in Washington and I see Florida plates everywhere and cannot seem to find an explanation. I rarely see other southern states like georgia or south carolina. Heck, I see more florida plates than Idaho plates and that's the state next door.

I saw two cars parked next to each other the other day. One was from Mississippi and the other was Nova Scotia. Blew my mind.

>>1030394
Of course it isn't real.
The AVH code is similar to ÁVH, our infamous secret police in the 1950s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Protection_Authority