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.\u00a0Then, last week, I saw a black Jeep that had done the same thing.<\/p>\n
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<\/a> it depends on the governor’s signature on the appropriations bill (so, yeah, fait accompli).<\/p>\n