Mexico license plate: Historic 2016

Issued today 2016 to today. 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 2016 (2016 to today), sample TA-7-L

Format, years and the law

Format
LL-9-L, for example TA-7-L (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
2016 to today. Still 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
AUTO ANTIGUO plates of the entidades federativas, FOUR characters, the shortest serial the 2016 NOM issues anywhere, and the only Mexican format with a single-digit middle group.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Tabla C row 12 'Entidades Federativas, AA-0-A'; Apéndice A Figura 32 (cuatro caracteres) https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is mx-historic-2016. 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-2016")'