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Germany license plate: Oldtimer red

Issued today Documented since 2007. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, set by the Fahrzeug-Zulassungsverordnung (FZV). One of 13 Germany license plates.

Germany license plate, Oldtimer red (documented since 2007), sample RS-07525
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-07999, for example RS-07525 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

07 after the district code marks the red old-timer plate, classics commuting to rallies, shows and the workshop. Two digits from the dealer's 06, one crucial difference: this plate may only be used on the vehicle it was issued for.

07
rotes Oldtimerkennzeichen (classic-vehicle event block)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented since 2007; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #FF0000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
ROTES OLDTIMERKENNZEICHEN, the 07 series. PERIOD, honestly: 2007 is an UPPER BOUND, the FZV 2006 states the "07" rule verbatim (source line; in force 1.3.2007) and is the earliest instrument secured for it. Distinguished from the 06 dealer plate by two digits and by one crucial restriction: § 43 Abs. 2 provides that this plate "nur an dem Fahrzeug verwendet werden darf, für das es ausgegeben wurde", so unlike the 06 plate it is NOT freely transferable between vehicles.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 43: trips to and from Oldtimer events need neither Betriebserlaubnis nor Zulassung if the vehicle carries a rotes Oldtimerkennzeichen; Abs. 2 applies § 41 Abs. 2-6 and requires 'einer nur aus Ziffern bestehenden und... https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fzv_2023/__43.html
  2. FZV vom 25.4.2006, BGBl. I S. 988, 'Das rote Oldtimerkennzeichen besteht aus einem Unterscheidungszeichen und einer Erkennungsnummer jeweils nach § 8 Abs. 1, jedoch besteht die Erkennungsnummer nur aus Ziffern und... https://media.offenegesetze.de/bgbl1/2006/bgbl1_2006_21.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is de-oldtimer-red. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Germany's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/de \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "de-oldtimer-red")'
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