New license plates being phased in for the nation's 250th birthday next year which as we know from history was started in Philadelphia when we told King George III to sod off:



I think they should have included the wooden yoke at the top of the Liberty Bell but suspect they left that off so that Pirates fans from Western PA wouldn't complain about the "Phillies logo" license plate. Or maybe the arched "PENNSYLVANIA" was meant to be the yoke of sorts as part of the design.



Just found out that I can get my US Army Veteran plate reissued in this design to replace the ugly blue/yellow/white one we all have.

Nice...

Ours was redesigned for the MO 200 anniversary.
Similar colors, etc.

Looks good.
I like the old TX plates that had a lot of the TX icons on it. Then they went to an ugly bluebonnet inspired option as the default.
Now it's a simple white with black text that looks great, if a bit simple.

The old one that I liked, back when they were stamped

As a lifelong residence of California (all but 7 years living here) I am ready to bet California will be changing up too.

Will either be a muted hammer & sickle or something showing illegals getting into the country and sapping the state's resources while growing pot in the middle of the Sierras.

we should have a contest to photoshop up the 'best' California plate and see if we do better

let the hand-wringing and tooth gnashing begin

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Originally posted by PASig:
New license plates being phased in for the nation's 250th birthday.....

I like that!

They don’t look good on cars. I’ve seen 2 in the last week and you can’t see the Liberty Bell at all.

Looks better than the Pennsylvania's old Military Retired license plate with a YELLOW AMERICAN FLAG on a blue background. I hand painted mine with red white and blue Testors model paint. I got stopped by a State Trooper and he complimented me. (He was National Guard!).

I think the current IL plate, a recent redesign, is ugly. The merged city skylines just doesn't work for me.

When they shipped me the new ones with the sticker already applied I only changed the rear one and when I got next years sticker I re-installed the old one with the new sticker.

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Originally posted by KML:
They don’t look good on cars. I’ve seen 2 in the last week and you can’t see the Liberty Bell at all.

Yes the Liberty Bell is way too faint. It’s basically invisible past 4-5 feet

Better looking than current ohio plates...
Ours look like a kindergarten finger paint project gone awry. I'm still pushing a 12 year old plate that's borderline on condition not to have to run one.

I very much wish we would go to something similar to the Texas plates. Basic white plate, black letters. Clean, understated.

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by KML:
They don’t look good on cars. I’ve seen 2 in the last week and you can’t see the Liberty Bell at all.

Yes the Liberty Bell is way too faint. It’s basically invisible past 4-5 feet

When they don't have a gap (at this point any non-personalized plate), if the middle digit is a 3, 5 or 8, it looks like a dollar sign, with the bell sticking up and down beyond the digit.

Some nice ones!

Currently, I'm supporting our local botanical garden with this personalized plate:

Speaking of License plates, has anyone seen the standard PA plate painted black with white letters?

They definitely weren't the D.A.R.E. plates.

I spotted two modified cars with them.
I thought illegal to go that far in repainting a plate.

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Originally posted by TRIO:
Speaking of License plates, has anyone seen the standard PA plate painted black with white letters?

They definitely weren't the D.A.R.E. plates.

I spotted two modified cars with them.
I thought illegal to go that far in repainting a plate.

It's an illegal mod

That's a decent looking one along with the tag line. "Let Freedom Ring!"

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
As a lifelong residence of California (all but 7 years living here) I am ready to bet California will be changing up too.

We will have to out of necessity. When I bought my car a year ago, my plate starts with a "9". I remember our first family car in 1984 had a plate with "1". We are finally running out of combinations after 40 years.

I had thought that repainting would be illegal.

The one I had seen may have been decals like here.

Funny to me that this actually makes the plate easier to read, yet illegal.

Oops!

Seems like we had a plain zero in our current plate but they decided to go with a zero with slash to differentiate between zero and “O” and now it’s being read as “8” by license plate readers

PennDot/DMV is aware that on new liberty bell plates the 0 (zero) is being read as an 8 by a lot of jurisdictions

Oklahoma changed ours also. We had a nice blue one now it looks like it is out of Russia being red with a star.