License Plates of America

License Plates of America is a full-color, 122-page reference manual illustrating and explaining over three thousand license plates from the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Each year, dozens of new license plate designs appear on North American highways. Police have faced an impossible challenge to identify them quickly and reliably, and to distinguish legitimate plates from counterfeit or expired plates—until today.

Which state hasn’t required motorists to change plates since 1942? In which state could 100 motorists have the same plate number at the same time? Where in North America are the plates not rectangular, but cut out in the shape of a polar bear?

The answers can all be found within the pages of License Plates of America. Here’s a sample page.

122 pages
Over 3,300 license plates illustrated
Full color
Softbound
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 978-0-9758805-8-6

About the Author

John B. Northup is a license plate researcher who has consulted for the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the 3M Company. He is an information architect by profession and lives in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area.