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 These plates are issued to motorcycles.
This type started in 1903. From 1903 through 1911, the registrant supplied their own (homemade) plates.
In 1912, state-issued plates were introduced. These looked very similar to passenger car plates, in color and format (including "C" prefix), though the size of the plate was smaller. This concept stayed the same through 1936. Plates of this style with reversed colors are sidecar plates. These were issued from 1916 through 1923.
While passenger car plates moved to a semi-permanent design in 1937, annual motorcycle issues remained through 1942. They were then revalidated with corner date tabs through 1954.
Annual plates were issued through 1961. After this, the plates were revalidated with passenger-type decals expiring in March.
In 1970, the "standard" motorcycle plate size was adopted and has been used since.
Municipal motorcycle plates have been reported, though most municipally-owned motorcycles (i.e. police) use regular-issue plates. State police motorcycles also use regular-issue plates.
Veteran and "Early American" motorcycle plates were introduced around 2000.
Finally, handicapped Motorcycle plates are issued as well - with 3 numbers followed by an -M& suffix.
Click the image above to see this type in use. |
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1916
4 extra holes along the top, but still a decent affordable example of this type |
1960 |
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| 1969 |
1976 Low number |
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| Early 1970s |
1976
I've seen plates of this style with numbers up to about 150000. |
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1977 Polyvend
This issue started in 1974 at number 300000. I've seen up to around number 393000. |
Another 1977, less yellowed. |
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| 1980 |
1982
This is probably the lowest number I've seen in this style. Some of these plates did not have the dot separator. |
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| Another 1982 |
1983 temporary |
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| 1985 |
Early motorcycle vanity, on a steel plate, revalidated to 1999 |
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| Revalidated to 1991 |
1987
The "CONN" was shifted to the left a bit between numbers 523-343 and this one. |
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| 1988 |
1989 |
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| ca. 1989 |
1990 |
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1997
When the "Map" base passenger car plates came out in 1987, the state name was moved to the top of those plates. The same move was made for motorcycle plates, though no map graphic was added. This took place between numbers 574-896 and 576-300. |
1997 vanity.
A gentleman named Art had this on his 1991 BMW R-100 'Classic'
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| 2000 |
2002 Vanity.
This one was on Art's '93 BMW K75 |
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| 2002 |
Plate used until the general reissue in 2000-2002. |
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| 2004 |
Motorcycle plate with "60 Days" decal. These decals were also used on passenger car plates. I am told they had something to do with delinquent taxes, though I am not sure that is really the case. In any event, it is amusing to see these - the plate expires 60 days from when? From today, of course! |
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