Texas license plates taking on old look

[KevinFromTexas]

There's a photo of one of the plates at the link.

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/...k-2421710.html

Texas license plates taking on old look

By Ben Wear
Published: 8:35 p.m. Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Texas license plates, which have undergone almost constant change since the Legislature in 1917 first required cars and trucks to have them, are about to take a turn for the simple.

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles has ditched the 2009 version, which had a dark blue mountain range along the bottom, a red-white-and-blue Texas map and a mostly sky-blue background, in favor of a plain, black-and-white "Texas Classic" plate with slightly larger letters and numbers. It resembles Texas plates of the 1960s, '70s and '80s.

The point, officials say, is to make the plates more visible to law enforcement officers.