European style license plates legal

A total of nine character spaces won't get depleted anytime soon. Third, a number of automakers seem to have forgotten to accommodate an American-style front plate when designing front fascias, meaning in many U. A European-style plate creates a little less visual dissonance if it has to be placed within the grille. Ideally, we should move to a vinyl sticker option, as in the U.

Fourth, Puerto Rico already has this option, because the U. Finally, the European format works well with privately imported cars, as more European cars enter the country via the year rule. Should Euro-format plates be an option in more states, or is this an unneeded idea? Car Life. Type keyword s to search.

Today's Top Stories. There are a few very practical arguments for such a plate format. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano. Then I am trying to decipher from the photo I believe it says FJC 43, and followed by a couple more letters stacked on top of each other. Note: The area the plate attaches to is made for european style plates.

I saw another Cooper later in the day that had the area embedded that could only take a typical US style plate. I did a search to see if the US actually issues this style plate, but I am coming up empty, and wondering if it was a stateside issued plate, some sort of import type plate, or if the car is using these plates illegally.

Anyone see something like this? After a bit more searching, looks like I found the type of plates. They are plates issued to US military forces in Germany for their privately owned vehicles. The only difference I noticed compared to the one shown in the photo is that the USA was up top and I didn't remember a NATO symbol in the blue area there was no symbol at all.

The Wikipedia page says they quit using the plates, and were supposed to be issued German plates by this year. Damn you ppl are quick! I guess that's why, they're all being issued German civilian plates now. Heh, what does "European style" plates mean? I guess the outer measurements are similar, other than that, it's very different from country to country.

Yes to the size reference. I'll try to find a google image. Here you go. I kinda wondered about it, but I didn't put too much thought into it. A lot of cars from Europe come in through the Jax seaport. Every now and then you see diplomat cars come through with their tags still on. I have a US Forces in Germany from the 60s from my grandpa. One of many plates I have hanging on the wall.