Montana plates have become a familiar sight on expensive cars thousands of miles from Montana. For some California owners, ...

It took 46 years for the current sequence to run out of combinations.

The legislation targets the so-called Montana license plate loophole ...

California license plates have followed a familiar 9-series sequence for nearly 50 years. That configuration began with 1AAA000 in 1980 and ended with 9ZZZ999 this year. More than 110,000 plates with ...

California has come to the end of the numbers in its license plate sequence, and is switching to a new format. Since 1980, the state has used a seven-character sequence: one number, three letters, ...

California is nearing the end of numbers available for its current license plate format. It has taken more than 45 years to exhaust the entire available library of numbers. The change in format will ...

Q: It was interesting to read your column about the change in sequence for California’s license-plate numbers once 9ZZZ999 is reached. Will the state consider improving the look of the plates when the ...

Home to nearly 40 million people, it was only a matter of time before the Golden State ran out of license plate numbers. Since 1980, the Department of Motor Vehicles has relied on a seven-character ...

California has closed the Montana license plate loophole. After more than seven months of legislative shuffling, CA State ...

For the past nearly 50 years, California license plates have followed a familiar 9-series sequence. Moving forward, though, that configuration may look different. “The long-existing California license ...