page_title: Vehicle registration plates of Italy
section_title: 1976-1985
hierarchical_section_title: Vehicle registration plates of Italy / History / 1976-1985
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kfz-Kennzeichen aus Italien (Rom), alte Serie vor 1985, front und heck selbstfotografiert, 2005, GNU-Lizenz
context_page_description: Present Italian car number plates have black characters on a rectangular white background, with small blue side-fields. The current numbering scheme, in use from 1994, is unrelated to the geographical provenance of the car. By law, Italian plates can only be made by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato and issued by local departments of motor vehicles.
context_section_description: The front plate was kept intact as in the 1927-1976 period. The rear plate, instead, began to be manufactured in two pieces. 
  One, sized 10,7 × 33 cm, had black background with white digits, contained the progressive number and, in a very small font, the repetition of provincial code above and the Republic emblem. 
  The other had black background with orange letters and contained the official provincial code and had two variants.  One was 10,7 × 33 cm large, the other one was 10,7 × 20 cm large. Only one of the latter two was used depending on the type of plate holder that the plate was destined for: for a rectangular plate holder, the small provincial code piece was installed left of the progressive code, put together with rivets in specifically designed holes in the progressive code
  For cars that were designed with the previous number plate holder (Square), or too small for a rectangular plate, the long provincial code piece was installed above the progressive code.
  This change resolved the plate positioning problem on cars of foreign production, eventually the rectangular European system was preferred over the squared plate holder of Italian designed cars.
  Schematic representations:Front Plate
  Rear plate (Rectangular)
  Rear plate (Squared)
caption: 1976-1985 front and rear Italian car number plates. ROMA is the provincial code of Rome.
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