Pennsylvania License Plates

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2002 passenger

2003 passenger, with 2000 and 2001
stickers exposed (Pennsylvanians are good at placing stickers all over their plates).

Issued from 9/1999 until 12/2004.
Plates issued: DAA-0000 to
FYC-9999

2006 passenger

Updated design, with solid blue and yellow bands, and new web address.

Issued since 12/2004.
Plates issued: GBA-0000 to present high.

2002 truck

Issued from 9/1999 until mid-2005.
Plates issued: YAA-0000 to at least YRR-9810 (highest registration spotted in the YRR series).

2007 truck

Issued since mid-2005.
Plates issued: YSA-0000 to present high.

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	Click for image of plate on vehicle		1978 Notre Dame Alum?
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One that got past the censors? Click for image of plate on vehicle				Why? ?
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Click for image of plate on vehicle	Click for image of plate on vehicle Photo courtesy of John McDevitt.	Photo courtesy of John McDevitt.		Plate was on the front of a 1977 Plymouth GTX. Click for image of plate on vehicle
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Press Photographer (issued in pairs - only the rear plate is stickered)		Square & Round Dancers (caption covered by dealer plate frame)

		NASCAR (Jeremy Mayfield - #19). Currently available NASCAR plates can be found here.
		Norwin Band Aides - slogan covered by plate frame

Series began at 10000.

Classic Car Plates from
20000-20999 were made with conventional PA dies.

Classic Car designation on top,
Pennsylvania on bottom.

Format changed to C + 5 digits,
following the exhaustion of
5-digit plates.

First Classic Car plate spotted
with a validation sticker. Photo
taken 6/15/2007.

First Classic Car plate spotted with a permanent sticker. Sort of redundant, since these plates themselves represent permanent registrations. Photo taken 8/1/2008.

Owner placed a picture of his
own vehicle (1955 Chevy) over
the original graphic of a 1920
Oldsmobile. Click here for a
photo of the 1955 Chevy.

Issued until early 2005. Replaced by Antique Vehicle plate (images in first column of this row).

Antique Motorcycle

	License plates that I have had on my cars.
	Remakes of plates issued prior to 1999. Any registrant who wanted to keep his number on the new www.state.pa.us base plate had to order the number/letter combination as a vanity plate, for the standard $20 one-time vanity plate fee. Few Pennsylvanians have opted to keep their old plate numbers. W-31235 was formatted as W31-235 when originally issued.
	Plates that should have been replaced with www.state.pa.us plates between 2000 and 2002, and should not have had expiration stickers later than August 2002.
	Validation sticker placed on clear plastic plate frame, instead of on the plate itself.
	Truck plate on a car (Chevy Malibu).
	1957 PA plate on a 1957 Corvette. Photo taken at a 6/24/2005 car show. Interesting in that Pennsylvania does not have a YOM (Year of Manufacture) license plate program for its antique vehicles, like many other states have.
	636B was made 1000 plates after 636A, but 636A was issued nearly 2 years after 636B was mailed from Harrisburg. 636A was issued from a local tag agent, who likely had the plate in his stock for a while.
	Unique (?) sample plate - it was on the front of a DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) vehicle at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. Photo taken 9/22/2001.
	Plates with repeating numbers.
	Saving the two best for last: Pickup truck spotted on PA Route 136, with "Farm Truck" painted on the bumper, in lieu of a license plate. Click image for newspaper clipping with the photo.
	1971 bicentennial plate (legal on vehicles between 1971 and March 1977) on a vehicle in 2003! Photo courtesy of John McDevitt, ALPCA #9271.

^{hits since February 14, 2007}

Issued 11/1993 - 2/2000 (plates can still be renewed)	Issued 11/1995 - 2/1997 (discontinued due to readability problems, but issued plates can still be renewed)	Issued 4/1996 - present
Issued 9/1996 - 4/2005 Issued 4/2005 - present	Issued 12/1998 - present	Issued 2/2000 - present (replaced owl plate)


		Washington & Jefferson College (plate caption hidden by a redundant W & J plate frame)		Indiana University Of Pennsylvania

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Photo courtesy of John McDevitt.	Photo courtesy of John McDevitt.	Photo courtesy of John McDevitt.
Click image for pic of plate on cycle. Click here and here for side and front views of this unique "motorcycle"



		Similar to the disabled veteran plates to the left, but this plate adds handicapped parking privileges.



These university plates are issued to university-owned vehicles, and are among the few Pennsylvania plate types issued in pairs.