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“13F,” “1999,” and “Z64” are among the many 191 plate numbers the Mass. RMV is raffling off.
For those who covet an irregular license plate corresponding to “13F,” “1999,” or “Z64,” now’s your likelihood to say a kind of or 188 different plate numbers within the Registry of Motor Autos’ annual low plate lottery, which closes at 5 p.m. on Thursday.
Any Mass. resident (aside from MassDOT workers and their fast households) with a legitimate driver’s license and registered automobile can enter the raffle.
The RMV doesn’t settle for requests for particular plates, however will as a substitute distribute them to the lottery’s 191 winners within the order listed on this web page.
Massachusetts drivers’ preoccupation with low-numbered plates dates again greater than a century. In 1903, the state turned the primary within the nation to situation a license plate — to Frederick Tudor, son of the highly effective Boston “Ice King” and Tudor Ice Firm founding father of the identical title. Tudor’s plate was numbered merely “1.” It turned a standing image that recognized him wherever he went, and different members of Boston’s elite started clamoring for their very own low plates.
Lottery winners shall be introduced by Sept. 15.
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