How many of you have one license plate that you picked up at a swap meet or garage sale and wish you had the second one. In California you can register and old plate to your hot rod. Google "YOM California DMV". If you are looking for that second plate post it here. I have a couple myself that I would not mind having the second one or if I have one somelse needs.\ let me know.
Here,s an unbelievable story... As a car nut of course I have collected many old plates and hung them up in the ba*****t. one day i,m at the dump looking in the s**** metal bin and i spot a pile of old plates back to 55! I jump in and scoop all that I could find and head home. I thought I,ll just hang these up with the rest of them. When I went to hang up a 64 plate the one I already had was only 4 digits off! Must have been issued the same day. When I got up to the 72 plate I almost flipped when I realized I had the matching plate already hanging up in my ba*****t! What are the odds I,d be at the dump that day and find the matching plate?The 72 plate had been hanging in my ba*****t for years and I didn,t even know where it came from! Ran out and bought a lottery ticket but you know how that story ends.....
i try to put a 48 Indiana plate on this year .In Indiana I would had to pay for 2 tag plus the 1 I bought of epay..the dmv couldn't make easy to use my 48 plate
An Old License Plate registry site would be cool. You can always go here! http://www.licenseplates.tv/platemeister.php ~Jason
I just picked up more single California plates from the 30's and 40's. I will post some pictures soon. Chris
At one time I had over 3000 plates at one time (OK, yes, it got a little out of hand!), but I'm down now to my own personal collection of about 300 or so and I no longer sell plates. I've probably had close to 8-10k plates (mostly NYS) in the 35 years of collecting them and have never, not even once, been able to match up a single plate with its mate. I have however, had a dozen or so consecutive numbered plates.
Here's an interesting story about a plate I have. Illinois has offered a Horseless Carriage plate in the past. It was issued a the state fair at the Secretary of State's annual car show. According to a reputible plate collector, Illinois was the first state to offer a plate for antique cars. The first year was 1949. A few years ago I was at a friend's shop in Texas. He has quite a collection of most anything auto related. I was looking through his license plates and found a pair of Illinois Horseless Carriage plates. They were 1949.........number 1! I didn't realize what I had found. A year or two later I was back at his place still not knowing the history of the plates but I was interested in them so I asked if he would sell them. He had already sold one of the pair to a collector in the East, but he still had one of the two. I ended up buying it and brought it home. I started researching the plate and discovered just what I had. According to some collectors, I have half of the first pair of antique plates ever issued in any state! What makes it really weird, the plate is number 1 for 1949.........I was born in 1-49
most states could take a lesson from Oregon,they have respect for old cars.you only pay a 1 time fee and the plate (YOM) is good for ever yeah ya never renew.............and its cheap
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