Even 1932 license tags are crazy money ( Alaska )

$1275 and not yet made the reserve ??

http://cgi.ebay.com/1932-ALASKA-Lic...522QQihZ009QQcategoryZ421QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The same seller has a 1932 from Hawaii

I have most of the 48 states ... not all
but I do have a good Arizona ...

I guess I will not be getting Alaska or Hawaii ...

 

Holy .....

How much does he expect to bring in for those? That's obscene.

 

This makes no sense because Alaska and Hawaii were not even states in 1932. Provinces?

 

I remember when they became states ...

They still had license tags ... the District of Washington DC ... is not a state even today but has license tags ...

 

I guess they are so expensive because there were hardly anyone living in Hawaii and Alaska at this time to buy a car in 1932.

 

Damn, I thought the 1932 Arizona plates were expensive. They are all copper. I'm running one on my deuce and I also have a very rough one for a wall display.

 

Holy Alaskan License plates Batman...

 

Yeah, '32 would be real hard to find up here. AK was a territory back then, with very little population (not that we have hardly any even now). The AK highway through Canada wasn't built until WWII, so very few cars were around at that time. I would venture to guess there were fewer than a dozen or so '32 plates issued.

 

............and for a reasonable fee the winner could own this.

 

Wow!!!

 

Holy ****!!! I got 3 sets of 32 plates.......but I guess they're only worth $10 bucks or so because they're Maryland plates. Damn....if only they were Alaska tags, I could of bought me a lift or something for the garage with that money.

 

-I'd bet 6Volt has it nailed. There's very few early rods up here, partly because relatively few got shipped up back in the day, and the fact that most of those have rotted away in our not-steel-friendly weather for the past fifty years.

I've run across a few old junkers and junkyards, but really, late 40s is typically as old as you'll see. I can recall running across one old Model A stripped shell when I was a kid, but as 6V notes, the one and only road up wasn't finished 'til what, '42 or '43, and really wasn't something you drove with the average family sedan 'til the mid fifties.

And even though 30s cars were (relatively) dirt cheap by that point, most weren't in the sort of condition you'd want to drive two thousand miles through sp****ly-populated wilderness over potty gravel and corduroy roads.

Of course, before '58, it was still a Territory too, and only had the most primitive territorial government at the time. I'd bet that more than half a dozen plates were issued- police and government work trucks would have had them- but I'd bet the overall number of plates, statewide, for 1932 was still under a hundred or so.

Doc.

 

I thought I might be able to afford a 32 Alaska tag that went through Ebay a few weeks ago. It was torn off section. It was about 1/16 of the tag with the date and enough letters to tell it once was part of 32 Alaskan tag. I couldn't even justify the bids on that. I need a 32 Louisiana for my set. They are pretty pricey too. I got a pretty rough Arizona and did some body work.



I've decided mine is a "pre-war" collection of 32 tags. I don't need that late model ****.

 

anybody happen to know where I can scrounge up a 1928, 1932 and 1960 m***achusetts plates. I've got a 28 roadster and a 32 ford with a 1960 homebuilt ***le. I THINK I could use either a 32 or 60 plate with the 32. I'm debating whether or not I should save the 1960 homebuilt ***le for some other off the wall project.

 

I thought I did good last week when I got 418 bucks out of my 32 California set.

 

I've got a few plates that will be keepers, but most of the ones I run across I just flip. I had an Alaska truck plate from 1940 that brought the most for any plate I've had. Bought a box of plates at an auction once because there was a '56 California plate sticking out of the pile. Never knew there was a 1930-1940 run of Florida plates in ther too.

 

Early Alaska plates are rare.

The rarest are either 1921 or 1922. There are only two known. I remember reading back in the 80s that one of them had sold for an absolutely obscene price (5 or 6 figures).

 

Looks like I need to go back to AK and bring back some plates.......
I know some 'secret' spots.....

 

Just keep checking the bay. I have 1932 M*** plates and if I remember, they were cheap.

I bought them cause my pops was born in M*** in 1932, and I own a 32 Ford to commemorate his birth.

 

I have some 32 texas plates that have not been issued. They still have the original paper covering on them. What are these worth? Probably not much.

 

I once found a small building (about 12 x 12) while out 4-wheeling several moons ago that was shingled in 32 arkansas plates in numerical order. Pretty ruff but........

 

418 dollars, that's exactly what I just sold deuceroger

 

WOW I need to sell mine. I picked up my texas 32's for $100 last year at Pate and they have never been in circulation.

But I need them for the truck....

 

418 bucks, wow I paid 50 bucks for them about 10years ago. I thought $50 was to high back then.I guess I made a good investment then. Thanks alot for the info roothawg.

 

...I just bought 2 Texas plates unissued from a friend for $200, and they have a liitle surface rust here and there. Well worth the price.

 

Two years abo I was looking at a barn in New York state that had three suded shingled in unissued plates. I did get a few sets that were inside the barn was leveled for a pool instalation. Got photos somewere.

 

Looks like I need to start counterfeiting 1932 plates... (For any federal or state agents reading this, I am being sarcastic not felonious)

 

In NE you can run vintage plates with the same year of the car. That has driven the price of plates up in this state I have been having to pay around the 150 figure for 32 plates that match the county I live in. By the way I live in 32 county.

 

Up to $1849.99 as of april 16th. ,,,,still 2 more days to go,,,HRP

 

License plate collectors are really insane! Most of the really serious ones only collect plates and aren't into anything else. They even have a national convention every year where they all go and sell/swap plates. I'll bet that where the really insane prices come from on Ebay. I know one guy from Box Elder (west side of South Dakota) that has thousands of plates. I was looking for a pair of '34 South Dakota plates to run on my 3W so I stopped by his place because I couldn't call him because he doesn't always pay his phone bill. He lives in a trailer house, and when I stepped inside, there were stacks of plates everywhere, on the walls,the countertop, everywhere. I could see he had a spot cleared off on the one piece of furniture, a couch where he slept. As we looked for a pair of '34 plates,we went through the trailer house with each of the three bedrooms packed with stacks of license plates with no bedroom furniture. He told me he also had an old gas station in town that was filled with more plates. He even told me that when South Dakota stopped making embossed (stamped) license plates, he bought the old equipment from the State Prison!! And I thought us old car guys were CRAZY!!!