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Romania license plate: Communist

Retired 1966 to 1992. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Direcţia Regim Permise de Conducere şi Înmatriculare a Vehiculelor (D.R.P.C.I.V.), Ministerul Afacerilor Interne. One of 11 Romania license plates.

Romania license plate, Communist (1966 to 1992), sample 39-RR-9955
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Format, years and the law

Format
99-LL-9999, for example 39-RR-9955 (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
1966 to 1992. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE COMMUNIST-ERA MARK. Vehicle-type digits, regional letters, sequence, the reverse emphasis of the modern mark, which drops the type entirely and leads with the place. The transition is the part worth carrying: issuance stopped with the 1992 reform, but these plates remained VALID UNTIL 2000, so Romanian traffic ran both systems side by side for eight years and a photograph from the 1990s proves nothing about a vehicle's registration date.
About its years
Both boundaries are secondary and neither is instrument-dated. The 1966 start is the reported adoption of the numeric-type-prefix arrangement; the 1992 end is the reform. ISSUANCE ended in 1992; VALIDITY did not, see notes.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Romania

Before and after

Romania license plate, Standard 1992 (1992 to 2007) Replaced by Standard 1992 1992 to 2007

This plate in your app

The series id is ro-communist-1966. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Romania's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ro \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ro-communist-1966")'
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