Category Archives: License Plates

I should’ve updated with a CH or two, but never did.

The Dallas-Fort Worth Cyclone Club is looking for 200 applicants to get a Texas license plate in cardinal and gold. (Meanwhile, in Iowa, we have specialty plates up the wazoo but the university/college plates are limited to in-state institutions. I … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since I updated this. I haven’t been out much.

It’s now mid-February, so the last stragglers holding on to their 1998-2003 plates have had to give them up. New letters are now up to CBE. With the replacement cycle, Iowa currently doesn’t have any active combinations from that sequence … Continue reading →

It looks like a race with the calendar to see if the B’s are exhausted before the new year.

Probably not going to get to the C’s before the new year but we’ll see. On a related note, are the old REAP and college football plates, especially the stamped ones, being replaced too? It seems like those are just … Continue reading →

I am a little surprised it’s all the way in September and we’re still in the B’s. On the other hand, a lot of early plates were replaced with Z’s before those ran out.

It’s been a little while since an update, but the letters haven’t advanced much that I’ve seen.

If every combination has been used, that’s 1,352,000 plates in 13 months (ZHL to BHL) — 104,000 a month, covering one-third of about 4.18 million vehicles in the state.