Indiana allows the use of "year of manufacture" license plates on a vehicle that qualifies via a simple checklist. Since this is just a fun car for the occasional roadtrip or weekend rumble to the ice cream shop (the Zed Drei is still my daily driver for gas mileage reasons) I paid the tariff.
Still, since this is the very newest Mustang...and the first year of this body style...to qualify for the year-of-manufacture plates, I'll be keeping my papers handy any time I go runabout in it for the next year or three. I'm just happy the "Amber Waves of Grain" plate matches the car so well.
EDIT: Also waiting for the inevitable "Those are 1996 taillights!" emails. Yeah, I know they are. The originals are dumb-looking and in a box someplace.
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