Plate of the Week: 2005 Vanity
Last week we took a look at a circa 2003 Commercial Sample plate. This week we look at a circa 2005 Vanity plate.
We have been unable to decode the cryptic message on this plate, but that’s not important right now. What is important is that this plate has two characters not normally seen together on New Jersey license plates – O and Q.
From 1992 onward, the letter O was only found on plates for Omnibuses, Livery, and Limousines as well as vanity plates. We should also note that the letter O (along with the letter I) can be found on remakes of pre-1992 passenger plates.
The letter Q is a different story. As expected, it can be found on vanity plates, but since 1964 it has been the exclusive province of the historic plate which always has a pair of Qs in the serial. Even the Historic Vanity plates have a stacked pair of Qs on them. Although back in the early oughts there was a documented spotting of a Firefighter plate with a Q in the serial, but that was probably an isolated error.
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