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Mexico license plate: Historic 2001

Retired Documented 2001 to 2016. Historic plates for car, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT). One of 43 Mexico license plates.

Mexico license plate, Historic 2001 (documented 2001 to 2016), sample QU-61
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-99, for example QU-61 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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

Years issued
Documented 2001 to 2016; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, truck, and motorcycle.
Size
300 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
One-back AUTO ANTIGUO format of the entidades federativas, four characters, and the same shape the 2000 NOM gives to SCT road-inspection vehicles (row 13, AA-00), which the 2016 NOM keeps for inspection while moving historics to AA-0-A. A four-character Mexican string is therefore genuinely ambiguous across eras and classes and a parse API must say so.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Apéndice C row 11 'Transportes Privados (Autos Antiguos), Entidades Federativas, AA-00' https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=774741&fecha=26/01/2001

Before and after

Mexico license plate, CDMX historic (2016 to today) Replaced by CDMX historic 2016 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is mx-historic-2001. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Mexico's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/mx \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "mx-historic-2001")'
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