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Norway license plate: Historic veteran

Issued today 1991 to today. Historic plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Statens vegvesen. One of 17 Norway license plates.

Norway license plate, Historic veteran (1991 to today), sample W-62054
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Format, years and the law

Format
L-99999, for example W-62054 (L is any letter, 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
1991 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
NORWAY'S VETERAN PLATE IS A FORMAT, NOT A DESIGN, the exact inverse of the Netherlands, whose oldtimer plate is a distinctive dark blue carrying the original serial, and of Spain, which issues a dedicated H- serial. Pre-1913 amt marks became available again from 2013.
Region code notes
DANGEROUS TO DECODE, and the reason this warning exists: a county letter on a veteran plate issued after 1991 is the OWNER'S CHOICE from the historic alphabet, not a record of where anything was registered. The decode table gives the letter's historic meaning; it does not license an inference about this vehicle. Only P and Q are unavailable.
How numbers are issued
the owner chooses; any previously used county letter except P and Q, with three to six digits in any combination
About the format
A match says only "this string has a shape Norway has issued"; it is not a claim that the plate is a veteran plate, because the very same strings are ordinary registrations.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2-15: a vehicle first registered more than 30 years ago (alternatively of a model year more than 31 years old) may be assigned plates of the registration order in force at its first registration; §§ 2-16 to 2-18... https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/1990-01-25-92/KAPITTEL_2
  2. 2026-07-16): county letters revived from June 1991 for vehicles previously on them or imported of model year 1970 or older; all letters except P and Q; telefonnummer plates selectable; plates follow the vehicle on... https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjennemerke_for_motorkj%C3%B8ret%C3%B8y_i_Norge

This plate in your app

The series id is no-historic-veteran-1991. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Norway's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/no \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "no-historic-veteran-1991")'
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