Category Archives: License Plates

Not to be confused with DGB, the recent sad football flameout at Missouri (now Oklahoma). A first-generation (1997) Appanoose County plate was spotted in the wild recently, having now evaded two replacement cycles.

The question has been answered: Iowa will not be skipping “D” in the first position of the alphabetical side of the new cycle of license plates.

The sighting of a CZ-series plate in early December is a good bookend for 2014, and also signifies that it took 32 months for the first three letters of the alphabet to be run through. Remember, the letter-number combinations replaced … Continue reading →

We’re jumping through the C’s rather quickly now, so the question of “Will Iowa’s cycle include D as a first letter this time?” will likely be answered sometime early next year if not sooner. The 1997 issuing cycle jumped from … Continue reading →

I have seen some CQ’s out there, so this cycle does not look like it’s skipping letters. The replacement cycle has slowed down quite noticeably, although every once in a while I have seen an old 1997-series plate still floating … Continue reading →

Here’s a big jump that raises the question of whether CO’s and CQ’s were used in the current cycle. They should, because I’m pretty sure they were used the first time around. EDIT: Incorrect reference to Tama County in 1997.

Previously, Iowans looking for vanity (or as they like to call them now, “personalized”) and specialty license plates could look online and even type characters in to see how it would look, but couldn’t finish the process or see if … Continue reading →

This update had a bit of a drought for a while, as the 1998-2003 letters were replaced all at once and now replacement plates are only for those issued in 2004 (the early N’s). I haven’t seen any CL’s or … Continue reading →

If you thought we didn’t have enough specialty plates in Iowa, here’s another one: The Boy Scouts of America. This is the announcement of its availability, BUT the state needs 500 applications before the series is created. (The short piece … Continue reading →

But not the CKC of the Chicago-Kansas City expressway.