North Carolina license plate: Specialty index
Issued today Documented since 2026. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (NCDMV). One of 10 North Carolina license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLLLLLL, for exampleAUCSNBF(L is any letter)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
- Documented since 2026; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer.
- About this plate
- The count is NCDMV's own "more than 100" and is recorded as an agency estimate, not a count: unlike Virginia, North Carolina does not expose a faceted search that would reconcile a total. What North Carolina gives instead, and no other state in this group does, is an honest statement of the LIMITED-PRODUCTION model, which is the fact that explains why enthusiast catalogues and state lists never agree anywhere in the US. The right L4 move here is not to chase a count but to capture stock state over time, the way the Florida monthly active-plate report should be captured.
Legal basis and sources
- NCDMV: 'more than 100 causes and interest groups'; the limited-production/out-of-stock model; the membership and award verification gating; the establishment process; and the death-transfer restrictions https://www.ncdot.gov/dmv/title-registration/license-plates/Pages/default.aspx
This plate in your app
The series id is us-nc-specialty-index. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of North Carolina's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-nc \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-nc-specialty-index")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nc/us-nc-specialty-index.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nc/us-nc-specialty-index/template.svg
