The wearing of the green
It is a thing of nostalgic beauty, a reminder of a first car or an earlier time, a badge of honor attesting to decades of living and driving in Massachusetts. It is simple and unadorned, retro chic, and downright Yankee. It is the green license plate, last printed 23 years ago, but still adorning one in 20 cars in the state.
No need to part with yours, if it works. But the state really wishes you would.
The white plates with green characters are singletons — they hang only from the car’s back — and law enforcement disapproves of them, because a car with one plate is harder to identify than a car with two. Cracked and faded plates also make it difficult for toll evaders to be identified from the automated pictures snapped at tollbooths.
As the number remaining has dwindled, the greenie has become an eye-catching throwback. Some still gleam from years of garaging and tender care, but many show their age, their reflective surface fractured into a spider web, their green and white paint now a muted moss and beige.
Inmates in Walpole printed more than 10 million of them between 1977 and 1987, and 3 million greenies were still on the road in 1989. Now there are fewer than 325,000.
Despite rumors to the contrary, the state has never attempted a complete recall,chanel womenhandbags compact fluorescent light. but it has taken steps to remove the greenies from circulation — stirring up anxiety and resistance among the devoted.Huge selection of gaga-deals for your garde,
“Turn in my beloved green license plate? Someone at the RMV would have a huge fight on their hands if they think this is going to happen,’’ said Margot Duzak, a hotel manager from Brookline. At 42, she has had her plate for 25 years, from her first clunker to her latest Volvo XC90.
To encourage trade-ins, the state waives the new-plate fee for motorists who swap single green plates for the newer “Spirit of America’’ pairs, and it prohibits green plate holders who lease their cars from transferring plates — though the plates can be transferred to purchased cars. Also, since 2008, the state has instructed inspection stations to reject any plate that cannot be read clearly from 60 feet,deck lights global replica watches cheap co jacob replica watch chopard watches replicas buy a replica watch. with an “illegible means ineligible’’ campaign.
To stave off the day of reckoning, some drivers with aging green plates have started touching them up with nail polish or household paint,You would like cctv security camera watches. a practice frowned upon by the state, or shopping around for lenient inspection stations.The Hampton Bay 2-Light Flush-Mount cctv surveillance camera features a round design and a brushed-nickel finish.
It is a thing of nostalgic beauty, a reminder of a first car or an earlier time, a badge of honor attesting to decades of living and driving in Massachusetts. It is simple and unadorned, retro chic, and downright Yankee. It is the green license plate, last printed 23 years ago, but still adorning one in 20 cars in the state.
No need to part with yours, if it works. But the state really wishes you would.
The white plates with green characters are singletons — they hang only from the car’s back — and law enforcement disapproves of them, because a car with one plate is harder to identify than a car with two. Cracked and faded plates also make it difficult for toll evaders to be identified from the automated pictures snapped at tollbooths.
As the number remaining has dwindled, the greenie has become an eye-catching throwback. Some still gleam from years of garaging and tender care, but many show their age, their reflective surface fractured into a spider web, their green and white paint now a muted moss and beige.
Inmates in Walpole printed more than 10 million of them between 1977 and 1987, and 3 million greenies were still on the road in 1989. Now there are fewer than 325,000.
Despite rumors to the contrary, the state has never attempted a complete recall,chanel womenhandbags compact fluorescent light. but it has taken steps to remove the greenies from circulation — stirring up anxiety and resistance among the devoted.Huge selection of gaga-deals for your garde,
“Turn in my beloved green license plate? Someone at the RMV would have a huge fight on their hands if they think this is going to happen,’’ said Margot Duzak, a hotel manager from Brookline. At 42, she has had her plate for 25 years, from her first clunker to her latest Volvo XC90.
To encourage trade-ins, the state waives the new-plate fee for motorists who swap single green plates for the newer “Spirit of America’’ pairs, and it prohibits green plate holders who lease their cars from transferring plates — though the plates can be transferred to purchased cars. Also, since 2008, the state has instructed inspection stations to reject any plate that cannot be read clearly from 60 feet,deck lights global replica watches cheap co jacob replica watch chopard watches replicas buy a replica watch. with an “illegible means ineligible’’ campaign.
To stave off the day of reckoning, some drivers with aging green plates have started touching them up with nail polish or household paint,You would like cctv security camera watches. a practice frowned upon by the state, or shopping around for lenient inspection stations.The Hampton Bay 2-Light Flush-Mount cctv surveillance camera features a round design and a brushed-nickel finish.
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