Colorado’s green license plates are back — but demand isn’t

Colorado’s retro license plates — with inexperienced mountains, white horizon and lettering — grew to become obtainable at first of the yr.

• Sure, however: Thus far, few persons are making the change from the usual, reversed white mountains, inexperienced horizon and lettering.

What’s taking place: The “historic background” plates, as they’re labeled by the state’s motor autos division, are costly.

• Since their January launch, fewer than 600 individuals have bought them, state information reveals. That is 0.008% of all plates.
• They price $118.60 when issued and $75 to resume, plus taxes.

Actuality test: Most speciality plates, corresponding to these supporting Colorado universities and charities, are nearer to $50-$75 to challenge and usually carry a $25 renewal payment.

• And it isn’t even an embossed plate like the unique, however fairly a digital print.

Of observe: The most typical speciality plates in Colorado help main charities.

What they’re saying: The associated fee is said to the laws in 2019 that introduced the retro license plate again to life, says Derek Kuhn, a Division of Income spokesperson. The plate price ticket features a $50 donation to incapacity causes, a part of the laws that helped get it by the Legislature.

The underside line: To get the old-school Colorado plate, it’s going to price you.