Florida license plate: Horseless carriage
Issued today 1957 to today. Historic plates for car, issued by Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV). One of 10 Florida license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999, for example156(9 any digit)The words are the category and the number is the whole serial: a separate series running since "Horseless Carriage No. 1", for vehicles built in 1945 or earlier, a fixed cutoff, not a rolling age.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 1957 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- HORSELESS CARRIAGE. 1, ch. 57-326' (Laws of Florida 1957), replacing the L0 pass's 2025 statute-edition year. Florida sets this historic threshold by a FIXED MODEL YEAR rather than a rolling age, the opposite design choice to the Antique series below, which is rolling, and to Germany's H plate. The Netherlands' pre-1978 dark-blue rule is the fixed kind too.
- Who can have one
- motor vehicle for private use manufactured in MODEL YEAR 1945 OR EARLIER, operated on the state's streets and highways
- How long it is valid
- permanent, 'valid for use without renewal so long as the vehicle is in existence'
Legal basis and sources
- § 320.086(1): model year 1945 or earlier, the separate numerical series from 'Horseless Carriage No. 1', distinguishing colour, permanent validity, manufacture-cost fee; History line opening 's. 1, ch. 57-326; s. https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/03...
- leg.state.fl.us http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0320/SEC086.HTM&StatuteYe...
- 30 amends § 320.086: '(1) ... manufactured in 1945 1927 or earlier' (strike/underline); s. 319 effective-on-becoming-law; approved by the Governor 8 June 1999 http://laws.flrules.org/1999/248
This plate in your app
The series id is us-fl-horseless-carriage. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Florida's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-fl \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-fl-horseless-carriage")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-fl/us-fl-horseless-carriage.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-fl/us-fl-horseless-carriage/template.svg
