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When it was launched in , it became the first Texas plate to use three colors - blue, red and black. History of Texas License Plates. Specialty License Plate Revenue. Specialty license plates give your vehicle a personal touch. The license plates catalog of our website gives instructions on how to apply for these plates. For additional assistance, please contact your local county tax assessor-collector's office. Order Specialty License Plates. You may check the availability of a personalized phrase, letter or number combination through myplates.

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Be sure to remove the registration sticker from the windshield of your old vehicle when you take off the plates. Many specialty license plates are available as souvenir plates. In late , this new baseplate featuring the state flag was introduced. Again, no vowels or "Q"s were used on this base. This variation was issued through approximately , when a new slogan was added to the plate.

Plate stickers were used on this plate through , when replaced by windshield stickers, so an inordinate number of these issues are found with the "94" stickers, as this was the last year that plate stickers were used.

These plates were phased out by the end of through the replate process. This plate was a continuation of the above "Flag" base, with the slogan "The Lone Star State" added at the bottom.

This variation was used from the "GTY" series of these plates through nearly the end of the series at ZZZZ, with a break in between for a special plate issue in Texas undated Passenger issue circa Plates issued to expire in January, and beyond used windshield validation stickers rather than plate stickers, so plates of this era did not carry stickers at all.

This special issue became the standard Texas baseplate in , briefly interrupting the Lone Star baseplate. This series started in the "VJL" series and ran through the late "W" plates.

These plates were used exclusively with windshield stickers, so no plate stickers are used. This plate brings up an odd situation, as Texas had already introduced a Sesquicentennial issue 10 years previous. This plate actually marks the th anniversary of Texas statehood in , while the plate celebrates the independence of Texas from Mexican control in Texas was an independent republic from to After the Years base was discontinued in , the state returned to the standard Lone Star base.

This format held until the late "Z" series of plates see next. Some later-period Lone Star plates in the ABCD format were stamped on a new base with the state flag moved to the right of the state name. This is thought to be a manufacturing error, as these bases were intended for use with the next numbering format.

These plates all occurred in the late "Z" series, such as this one. Some early issues of this new ABCD format plate were stamped on older left-flag bases. I suspect that the number of these is equal to the number of "Z" plates stamped on right-flag bases, as they were probably just mixed up. This is the correct format for this issue of Texas plates, with the reversed ABCD format and the flag on the right of the state name.

Continuation of the above baseplate, at some point in the early Cxxx series, the state finally removed the sticker boxes from the top of the plates. Since windshield stickers were implemented after , these boxes were obviously not necessary.

This re-tool may have also been caused by the state gearing up to produce its subsequent graphic plates, as seen below. The flag plate series was discontinued after plate number JGPZ. This graphic baseplate was introduced in starting at plate number JGRB. The plates feature a graphic of a cowboy riding the range with oil fields in the background at the bottom, and a space shuttle, stars and moon in the sky above.

The state-shaped separator remains, as does the slogan "The Lone Star State". The last time this format was used was for plates issued between and , all of which were long replaced by the time these came out.

Initial plates in this series were made of steel, with a change to aluminum occurring around the Fxx series. The state of Texas described this new background as "silver", as it was covered with 3M Scotchlite sheeting. It is worth noting too, that reflective white background sheeting varied over the course of production runs. Some with a more yellowed tinge and others a brighter white, however all reacted differently to the extended exposure to the elements of the Lone Star State over the course of several years.

This type was issued until a new exempt version was issued in late As the older exempt plates continued to get used into the early 's, they began to truly show their wear from the elements and it was time to commence a general re-issuance of EXEMPT license plates in the Lone Star State. The new plates followed the same numbering sequence as the previous issue, continued on the black over reflective white "silver" background and continued to use the 5 point star as a separator between the first three and last three digits of the registration number.

The difference for this new issue was that the title EXEMPT was embossed at the top center of the plate just below the state name, and a step border was used. In , the last of the 5-point star exempt plates were issued.

Texas Exempt license plate number was observed on a DPS recruitment vehicle at that time using that type. Texas Exempt license plate number is seen below as an example of the last issuance with the star. In , a new style of exempt license plate appeared similar to the "star hyphen" plates, but replaced with an embossed state silhouette between the two sets of three numbers. As time went on, the reflective white background sheeting used on these plates was a brighter white as opposed to the inconsistent backgrounds used prior.

There was also a transition from the use of aluminum to galvanized steel to manufacture these plates. In , somewhere in the series, a new version of the Texas Exempt license plate was unveiled. The plate was similar in construction and layout as the previous issue, and the numbering sequence continued uninterrupted.

The significant change however, was that the state name and the state silhouette were silkscreened in red. These plates continued being issued in some parts of the state through The only embossing would be the step border on the galvanized steel plate.

The state name was silkscreened in large blue font at the top center of the plate with EXEMPT screened in smaller red font just below it. The registration number was screened in dark blue with the state silhouette being used once again as a hyphen between the two sets of three numbers. A small bar code was screened in the bottom right corner margin of the plate. It was on the later version of this base where a small graphic "map" of the state was added to the top right corner of the plate which was now made of aluminum again.

It was also on this later base that the numbering began again in the series. These plates were used until the Texas Highway Patrol got their own agency-specific license plates in late In late , something great happened for the Texas Highway Patrol. They were issued with their very first agency-specific graphic license plates.

Known as "the patch plate" due to its large full-color silkscreened emblem which occupied the entire left center field of the plate and centered between the upper and lower left mounting holes. The state name was silkscreened in dark blue bold capital font at the top center of the plate. The registration number consists of five digits including lead zeroes also screened in blue.

A small blue bar code is situated at the bottom right corner just above the crease of the step border. Sometime around , a change to the appearance of the Texas Highway Patrol license plates took place.

In fact, the photo below from Sgt. Ryan McKittrick shows that the change from the blue character base to the black was between the numbers and By March of , the registration numbers were up to the series. The period photographs also seem to show every angle of the motorcycle with the exception of the rear where the license plate would be attached. Municipal and county law enforcement motorcycles during the early years utilized a mixture of exempt and regular motorcycle license plates.

For the purposes of this archive, we will showcase Texas motorcycle exempt license plates as a likely hypothesis as to the type of license plates used by the THP cycles during those years. As with some of the other Texas exempt license plate examples shown above, our thanks go to Don Cantello for providing photos of these types. Cream over maroon. Maroon over light gray. Yellow-orange "gold" over black. Dark purple over yellow-orange "gold". Black over yellow-orange "gold". Cream over black unconfirmed.

ZX stacked left TEX over number up to 3 digits. White over black unconfirmed.