The first time I saw it, I did a double-take. It was a black muscle car with two white stripes across the center from front to back. On the back, instead of the standard Iowa license plate, was a white-on-black one. It seemed that this driver was a long way from Dordt College, whose specialty plate is white-on-black. Indeed, the driver had covered up the college-specific features with a frame and sticker. Then, last week, I saw a black Jeep that had done the same thing.
Turns out this is so common that the state is going to offer that “look” as a custom plate July 1. The WOI story makes it sound like it’s a fait accompli, though KIWA Radio says it depends on the governor’s signature on the appropriations bill (so, yeah, fait accompli).
It’s like, how much more black could this be, and the answer is none. None more black.