In OK, you're stuck with the tag your car comes with if you're buying a used car, since they stay with the car at transfer. I managed to find a 1966 tag for my '66 Coronet with the two letters and "66" as the numbers and registered as a YOM tag...that doesn't happen very often! That tag will stay with me and the regular tag goes with the car, if I were ever to sell it (not likely, since I've had it for 25 years!).
As a Colorado native, people there who are natives, tend to want to retain their older plates (from 1978-on), since that pins you as a native or older resident, rather than a Cali transplant trouble-maker with the new-style tags.
Oklahoma used to have two letters and 1-4 numbers (AA-NNNN), but now all the newer tags are three letters/three numbers, starting at 000-999. Tags back to 1980 as issued, are still legal, if they are on the car they were originally issued to. Usually, they weather-decay to a point where they're nearly unreadable, though.
I am looking for 1946 OK truck and 1952 & 1937 OK car tags (1937 is the last year for two tags in OK, but I'll take one!!!), speaking of license plates!!!
