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India license plate: Vintage

Issued today 2021 to today. Historic plates for car and motorcycle, issued by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Government of India. One of 16 India license plates.

A pre-2021 vintage registration keeps its original plate for life if the owner never applies for the VA mark, its absence proves nothing about a car's age.

India license plate, Vintage (2021 to today), sample KA VA AB 1234
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL VA LL 9999, for example KA VA AB 1234 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

For once the rule is explicit: "VA stands for Vintage". State code, VA, a two-letter series, a number, and the mark is optional: an already-registered fifty-year-old car may keep its original number forever.

VA
Vintage (vintage motor vehicle (50+ years))

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

Years issued
2021 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
340 × 200 mm · every country's size
  • India license plate, Vintage 200×100 mm (2021 to today)

    Vintage 200×100 mm

    historic · 200 × 100 mm

How the region is encoded
State code only, rule 81B has no district element, and the mark is allotted by the State Registering Authority rather than by a district office
Who can have one
Rule 81A explanation: a vehicle of category L1/L2 (two-wheeler) or M1 (four-wheeler) "which is more than fifty years old from the date of first registration after first sale including any vehicle imported into India subject to the condition that such vehicle should be maintained in its original form and should not have undergone any substantial overhaul, which includes any modification in chassis or body shell or engine". Registration is valid ten years, renewable for five (rule 81C).

Legal basis and sources

  1. egazette.gov.in https://egazette.gov.in/WriteReadData/2021/228336.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is in-vintage-2021. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of India's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/in \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "in-vintage-2021")'
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