New Jersey license plate: Street rod

Issued today 2014 to today. Historic plates for car, issued by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJ MVC). One of 11 New Jersey license plates.

New Jersey (United States) license plate, Street rod (2014 to today), sample R1830

Format, years and the law

Format
R9999, for example R1830 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
2014 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car.
About this plate
STREET ROD. Its own series and not a variant of Historic because format, eligibility and fee all differ. Note that New Jersey requires PRIVATE CLUB MEMBERSHIP as a condition of a government registration class, a delegation of eligibility to a non-governmental body, and the only example of it found anywhere in the mid-Atlantic group.
Who can have one
NJ MVC: 'modified antique automobiles manufactured before 1949 that are registered in a New Jersey street rod club or an affiliate of the National Street Rod Association Inc.', a FIXED model-year cutoff (before 1949) PLUS a club-membership condition.

Legal basis and sources

  1. NJ MVC: street rod eligibility (modified antiques manufactured before 1949, club or NSRA affiliate membership), series R1000-R9999, 'Street Rod' bottom rim, $15 fee https://www.nj.gov/mvc/vehicles/historic.htm

This plate in your app

The series id is us-nj-street-rod. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New Jersey's series:

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