British Columbia licence plate: Vintage antique
Issued today 1966 to today. Historic plates for car, van, and truck, issued by Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), as delegate of the Province under the Motor Vehicle Act. One of 13 British Columbia license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999999, for example749709(9 any digit)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 1966 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, and truck.
- Colours
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Characters
#12326EBackground#FFFFFF - About this plate
- British Columbia runs TWO parallel old-vehicle regimes and they are not the same thing. Division 22 (ANTIQUE MOTOR VEHICLES), enacted by B.C. Reg. Reg. 34.05(1)(b) calls the resulting plates "'vintage' number plates" in terms. Reg. 22.03(1)(a) is the unusual part: the licence is "valid for as long as the vehicle is in existence and continues to be operated as an antique motor vehicle", a NON-EXPIRING registration, which is why BC antique plates carry no validity marker of any kind.
Legal basis and sources
- Division 22 ss. 22.01-22.04, enactment note B.C. Reg. 55/66 https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/26_58_06
- reg. 34.05(1)(b) naming them 'vintage' plates https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/26_58_10
This plate in your app
The series id is ca-bc-vintage-antique. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of British Columbia's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-bc \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-bc-vintage-antique")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-vintage-antique.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-vintage-antique/template.svg
