The Orange County Register columnist known as Honk is thankful for his readers, not least because of what he learns from them. Among the insights of the past year:

There are no plans to redesign the standard-issue California license plate, which became the norm in 2011, a Department of Motor Vehicles spokesperson said.

If you have 1984 Olympic license plates, you can keep renewing them, but they haven’t been available to get for decades and even replacement plates are long gone.

In fact, once any style of specialized plate has been discontinued, such plates cannot be replaced but can continue to be used.

Once a car or truck rolls off of a dealership’s lot, the new owner can get cited for not having two plates. Even for Teslas that often don’t sport front license plates.

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