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3. Louisiana, 1957. They did a school colors theme for a few years, which led to this hideous gold-on-purple, which was used again in the early 60s: //www.city-data.com/forum/attac...1&d=1299474582
5. Illinois 1964. They went through some wild color combos in the 50s and 60s: red on aluminum, white on bright orange, navy blue on orange, orange on navy, gold on dark green. This is the white on lavender: //www.city-data.com/forum/attac...1&d=1299474780
Georgia, one year in the 60s had peach/pink on dark green plates. Not to be outdone, British Columbia in the late 50s/early 60s went through maroon-on-aqua, aqua-on-maroon, maroon-on-hot pink, and hot pink-on-maroon. Egad.
I like dark backgrounds. North Carolina has had white backgrounds since 1967, with red, blue or green text. It's sooooo tired looking!
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Your newer plate for NY is now the older plate. Here's the new NY plate. I'm beginning to see a lot of them on the road now. IRL it's really really orange!
I grew up with the older plates, as a kid, and remember them on my father's Ford. A 4 door blue cloth interior car where we'd all line up for the summer ride. when I moved back, there it was or resembling it. I think I remember the blue/orange one too that followed or preceeded the orange/blue one?
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