I was walking in from lunch yesterday and saw this license plate. Not quite like the one I saw a couple months ago while driving to work which had 5 years stretched halfway across the "10,000 lakes", but it still makes me wonder. This one had others under the 06 too - apparently this year they must not have trusted them to stick or something.
I'm not sure why that'd be though. It can't be for saying you've had your car for a long time, since the max you can collect in MN is 7.
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Any idea why 7 years? I can't think of a reason why the state feels the need to switch up plates.
My guess (pure speculation) is that it's to prevent plates from being beat up too badly. Semi-routine, especially if the owner has to pay for them, is cheaper than stopping people and writing a ticket that their plate is too messed up and they need it replaced. I think collector plates are permanant, which seems to support that.
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I always thought that people did that as a badge of honer type thing. Similar to when people display all of the different Bethel parking permits on their window.
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