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January License Plate ReportJanuary 31, 2006 Sighted on Martha's Vineyard during the first month of 2006, in order:
By my count that's 24: not bad, not great. Back when I spent more time in town, I'd usually sight between 30 and 35 in January. The usual first-month haul includes the West Coast and most of the Northeast (Delaware invariably plays hard to get). The Midwest fills in last on my map -- Kansas is a very good catch for this early in the year, and Oklahoma is astonishing. I didn't see an Oklahoma in all of calendar 2005, but I've seen one twice in the last week at the Vineyard Haven post office. Maybe this will be a North Dakota year?? North Dakota is the perennial spoiler in the license plate game. For the last eight or ten years, I've had this hunch that many cars formerly sporting out-of-state plates are now camouflaged with Massachusetts tags: the state Registry of Motor Vehicles is burning through the number-plus-letter combos. Until around 1980 all-number plates were still being given out; these were followed by 3 figures + 3 letters, then by 4 figures + 2 letters, and the current series has the letters in the middle, i.e., 2 figures + 2 letters + 2 figures. The earlier patterns were easier to follow: I could hazard a pretty good guess whether the car was originally registered on the Vineyard or not. The current one -- feh. The combinations don't stick in my head very well. I still haven't made my 2006 map yet. Coloring states in is more satisfying than just writing them down. With February upon us, it's time to hop to it.
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