Art & Inspiration Who collects license plates? If so what do you do with them?

Hey Jalopyshots, looks like someone stole the seat off your bicycle

 

Me too. I screw 'em to the inside of my garage door.

 

i collect a few mostly novety plates i just hangem on the wall and let em collect dust i am looking for some 1950 ohio plates would like to find a matching pair of the small plates they issued (ohio had 3 different style plates in 50) to run on my shoebox

 

I have dozens of tags hung up in the garage. The ones from '57 I plan on putting up in my new garage addition. I have mostly vanity tags from VA. Every year I change the tag "number" or buy a different type of plate and hang it up.

I also collect old valve covers and hang them from the rafters.





Just two examples.

 

anyone in here got a 1960 missouri plate?

 

Save those 47 New York plates.......its the only yr one plate was allowed in NY. If anyone has one i'd be interested.

 

Being the innovative sumbitch that I am, I nail them on the wall. I need a 32 Louisiana to complete my set 1932 plates from the lower 48 states. I'm too cheap for Alaska and Hawaii.

 

Have a '33 on my '33, a '62 on my '62 (both registered for use) and a '34 on the wall.......... just need a '34 to hang it on

 

A metal MAN PURSE....wow.

 

Got a few of em. Up until last week they were collecting dust, now my daughter wants to make purses and wallets outta them.

 

....I collect only Wisconsin plates(pairs only) restore them in the wintertime...Great hobby

 

I'd like to do something creative that doesn't destroy the plates. Haven't come up with anything yet though. So most of them hang on the wall.

 

Not a collector, but I saved these while cleaning out my grandfather's garage. He had personalized plates from 1950 on. Now they're garage decoration.

 

I gather lic plates just because they are there.. I have YOM's on several of my cars and a collection of CA plates from '23-41 hanging on the wall in my garage. I also have multiple plates from every one of the eleven Western States. The older Montana plates say "Prison Made" on the face.
I don't care for most late model plates, '75 or later unless they have unusual numbering.
I have a very nice pair of 1936 Utah plates, silver w/black letters... They were in my uncles garage in Ogden, I have had them for over 50 yrs.... anybody interested?

 

Not quite............................

1942-1947; 1950; 1953-'56; 1964 & 1965 were all single-year plates in NYS.

I'll look and see if I have an extra '47 for you.

 

I can post them on the Utah HAMB group with your contact info if you want. Send me a PM.

 

I collect them,Restore them,and use them

 

I love Denise's house. You still like hairy men Denise?

 

hang em on the wall. i try to get at least 1 from each state i been to,and at least one with matching year for each of my vehicles

 

These are my Pa plates, I am working on a complete set of 3-digit, a set of motorcycle and a set of dealers plates. I have wanted ad on here for the plates I need .

 

The hairier the better.

 

I've got most Michigan plates from the early 40's to present. I never actually "collected" them just seem to pick 'em up now and again.

 

I know where I'm goin on the next road trip!

 

I have 1940 though 1991 Illinois plates, all with the same number, as a border in the family room. I bought them at an auction in '91 with 3 months still active on the '91 plates. I paid $40 and out bid a family member of the estate.

 

Hanging in the basement right now and hope to get them hanging in the garage when I finish drywalling it.

 

i used to collect all the plates i could find...id lent them out to friends to get cars home or out for the night ,,,was all good till i lent a set i found on the side of the road...seems they were used in a bank job with a shoot out,,,my friend got to visit the jail and det icives for about 8 hours,,,he didn,t give them back,,,also had a set from guam,,,he got pulled over

 

looking for a set of cleared NY 1951/1952 commercial plates. Please PM me if any leads

 

Collect old lic. plates & dealership frames, mainly Washington, Oregon & California. Look good on the walls of the shop. Any one have a passenger plate from Clark Co. (state of Washington) from the late '50's-early '60's?? PM please

 

I've been slowly collecting Manitoba plates for my garage wall. Oldest so far is 1917.