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News and postings from 2012

Weekly Posting 1/15/2012

Steve Noll sent details about House Bill 2101 introduced in the PA House on 12/20/11. (You may recall back in August Steve provided information on an effort to address funding and look at future transportation funding.) This bill extends the registration period to every other year and eliminates registration stickers. It also grants a two-year exemption from inspection for current model-year vehicles newly registered in PA with under 5,000 miles on the odometer, stating that a certificate of exemption will be affixed to the windshield. Driver license renewals go from every four to every eight years.

HB 2099 is of interest as well — it has the proposed structure of fees for various registrations. Passenger goes from $36/year to $49… so $98 every two years. The one-time vanity charge goes from $20 to $30.

Brendan Sherry provides this Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. image.

Shawn Bergan provides this nice grouping of high resolution validation stickers. Note that they are all PA0000 stickers except the 72 SAMPLE image. Between 1959 and 74 these were used on newly issued plates. The PA0000 would indicate that the plate was a "natural". Renewal stickers had a serial number. Today they still seem to be in limited use but I can’t explain their current use.

While we're on the subject of stickers, here is a pair of Snowmobile registrations and validations for 2009 and 2012.

Here's grouping of historic Tractor Dealer plate images. While this plate type dates back to 1916, I have no early images. The 1935 is really a BMV artist's depiction or design of what that plate was to look like. The colors should be yellow on dark blue. The '64 plate was borrowed from eBay and uses a TX prefix with a keystone separator after the 3rd character. The 1966 plate image was taken from an old BMV document, as was the 1971 plate image. These last two are likely samples. Note each plate uses a different format. Actually a total of six images was added. Unfortunately several are from non-traditional sources. If anyone has images they would be willing to share, they would be very welcome.

Weekly Posting 1/8/2012

I spent Saturday afternoon at Temple University for a basketball game with my son Jim. (His alma mater (Dayton) had a game with Temple and a great win.) It was also a good day for plate spotting. We parked near the Temple Police Dept. so their cars made great photo ops. This first grouping of Temple University Official plates show a nice low number plate. Actually there is an image of the # 1 plate in the ALPCA Archives (members only).

This next group of images shows the front and rear combination. Temple University Official is one of only a handful of PA plate types issued in pairs. Very few vehicles actually had two plates.

And finally a new Temple University Official high. I actually saw T0219U but was unable photograph it. I also noticed that Temple has quite a few vehicles without official plates. Many were using standard passenger or truck plates. I can’t explain this. Could Temple have discontinued using official plates or could PennDOT have stopped issuing them?

Sticker Shock — the image on the far left was provided by Jordan Irazabal, and has the most stickers I've seen. The other plate is a close second.

Here is another, but only the second image of an NRA Foundation plate. Image was taken at night and provided by Tom Perri.

Added this first generation Emergency Medical Services sample tag to the Special Organizational Plate History Page.

This Marine Corps League plate image has also been added to the Special Organizational Plate History Page. This image was provided by Jordan Irazabal.

Happy New Year

Weekly Posting 1/1/2012

This unusual looking Flagship Niagara plate image was provided by Jerry McCoy. There seems to be a number of these 5-digit (4-digit is normal) Flagship plates in collections but not on the street. I’ve also seen F/N00052, 00053 and 00285. None have wear marks around the bolt holes, so it would appear that none were ever registered. This plate has a sticker but since the sticker date is 3-04 and these plates were discontinued in 1997, there should be evidence of more stickers. This is likely some kind of test plate.

Here's an example of the first version of Municipal plates. This first series dates back to 1971 and is on the Plate History Page. Plate image was provided by Tom Perri.

Here's a pair of older (1st generation) Temple University Alumni plates. These plate images have been added to the the Special Organizational Plate History Page.

This 1st generation U.S Air Force Reserve sample plate has also been added to the Special Organizational Plate History Page.

Here's another pair of Person with Disability plates that depicts the spacing variations on some of the latest plates. Tom Perri provides these images. It is Tom's opinion (and I would agree) that the change happened at 23000 PD. In his photo archives he has 24258^PD, 24672^PD, 24777^PD, 25886^PD, 26559^PD, and 27491^PD, all confirming the shift to the left.

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