# New Mexico license plate: Horseless carriage

> The New Mexico horseless carriage license plate: format 999999, for example 637059, documented since 2026, car.

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Part of [New Mexico license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--new-mexico) (8 registration series).

![New Mexico (United States) license plate, Horseless carriage (documented since 2026)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nm/us-nm-horseless-carriage/new-mexico-license-plate-horseless-carriage.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `999999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | ~2026 → today (documented from 2026; the format is likely older) |
| Class | historic |
| Issued for | car |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `us-nm-horseless-carriage` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--new-mexico/horseless-carriage) |

Sources:

- [New Mexico MVD on horseless carriage plates, citing Motor Vehicle Code Section 66-3-27 NMSA 1978: the 35-year rolling threshold, the collector's-item and exhibition/educational-use conditions, the plate-stays-with-the-vehicle rule and the five-year revalidation at $7.50](https://www.mvd.newmexico.gov/vehicles/license-plates/)

## About this plate

HORSELESS CARRIAGE. Included despite having no sourced format because the ELIGIBILITY RULE is the fact worth having: a five-year revalidation cycle on a historic plate is unusual (Florida's equivalent is permanent, "valid for use without renewal so long as the vehicle is in existence"), and a rolling 35-year threshold silently changes the eligible fleet every year in a way a fixed cutoff never does. The format gap is recorded, not papered over.

## Who can have one

"A 'horseless carriage' is a motor vehicle at least 35 years old, owned as a collector's item, and used solely for exhibition and educational purposes" (MVD, citing NMSA 1978 § 66-3-27). A ROLLING 35-year threshold with a USE RESTRICTION, contrast Florida's fixed 1945 model-year cutoff for its horseless carriage plate and its rolling 30-year antique threshold, and New Mexico's own 30-year year-of-manufacture threshold in the entry above. Three different thresholds in two states, and New Mexico runs two of them side by side.

## How long it is valid

the plate remains with the vehicle on transfer of ownership; it must be REVALIDATED EVERY FIVE YEARS, $17.50 initially, then $7.50 every five years

## Other historic plates here

- [Year of manufacture](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--new-mexico/year-of-manufacture) (documented since 2026)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nm/us-nm-horseless-carriage.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/new-mexico?series=us-nm-horseless-carriage
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-nm` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "us-nm-horseless-carriage"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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