Vatican City license plate: Cardinal red

Retired From 1930, no longer issued. Government plates for car, issued by Governatorato dello Stato della Città del Vaticano. One of 8 Vatican City license plates.

Vatican City license plate, Cardinal red (from 1930, no longer issued), sample SCV 818

Format, years and the law

Format
SCV 999, for example SCV 818 (9 any digit)

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
From 1930, no longer issued. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car.
Colours
Characters #CC0000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
The two accounts cannot both be right about the modern position and neither is preferred here.
About its years
The START is inherited from the 1930 Regolamento that reportedly created it and is no better sourced than that.
Format notes
THE SERIAL GRAMMAR OF THIS SERIES IS NOT ESTABLISHED. No source states it. This row exists to record a documented historical CLASS, not to support validation.

Legal basis and sources

  1. it.wikipedia.org https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targhe_d%27immatricolazione_della_Citt%C3%A0_del_Vaticano
  2. ENTHUSIAST REFERENCE, DISAGREEING: red-on-white SCV 1-100 for the Pope and Cardinals https://www.targheitaliane.it/vatican/vatican_i.html

This plate in your app

The series id is va-cardinal-red. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Vatican City's series:

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