West Virginia license plate: Standard wildwonderful

Retired Documented 2006 to 2023. Standard plates for car, van, and truck, issued by West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 8 West Virginia license plates.

West Virginia (United States) license plate, Standard wildwonderful (documented 2006 to 2023), sample 6BU 646

Format, years and the law

Format
9LL 999, for example 6BU 646 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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

Years issued
Documented 2006 to 2023; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and truck.
Colours
Characters #1F3160 Background #FFFFFF
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE PREVIOUS WEST VIRGINIA STANDARD BASE. It earns its place in an L2 pass for one reason beyond being the predecessor: it demonstrates, within a single unchanged design, that a US state will ADD A SERIAL ARRANGEMENT mid-base when a block exhausts. The 2023 overlap year is the honest shape of a rollout, with old stock issuing on.
How numbers are issued
reported: series reset to A for all months from the January 1995 base, two-letter series progressing in standard order (AA-AZ, BA-BZ ...), with series S and SA-SZ reserved for optional Scenic plates

Legal basis and sources

  1. the same statutory frame governed this base; West Virginia's plate law did not change at the boundary https://code.wvlegislature.gov/17A-3-14/
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_West_Virginia

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-wv-standard-wildwonderful-2006. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of West Virginia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-wv \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-wv-standard-wildwonderful-2006")'