Hot Rods Accidental vanity plates

Been saving plates off any cars I sell for years now. I recently bought a 32 coupe and was going through my plates and found these, perfect. Deuce Ford- 5 window and to top it off the last metal tag is 59, the year I was born. Anybody else have coincidental plates?

 

In 1986 when I was going to school in Ohio , one of the ladies that was a secretary had the plate 671 GMC on her plain jane car.

 

Wanted to put this on my '58 Edsel, but I only had the one plate:

And I'm not really a JRK once you get to know me...

 

I considered getting personal plates once but found out it was cheaper to change my name to 387-TGP.. LOL

 

bought a mid 60s suburban the plate was GHK-454, of course I ended up swapping in a 454

 

I bought an Edsel from Delbert Ray and the plates said "4DELRAY"

At the time I lived on Del Rey ave.

Sorta coincidental.

 

always liked this dialog from Fargo

Marge Gunderson: Say, Lou, didya hear the one about the guy who couldn't afford personalized plates, so he went and changed his name to J3L2404?

Lou: Yah, that's a good one.

 

I found these MR 800 plates so naturally I had to put 800 louvers in my coupe...

 

O.K., funny plate story:
I managed an ACCU-TUNE store for an egomaniac who drove a Porsche 944. (pseudo Porsche)
This guy was 30, thought himself to be a real ladies' man...he had hair plugs, because his hair was thinning rapidly...it really drove him nuts.

One day, he came by the store to see how things were, and Power-Parked his car, police style, blocking my #3 stall.
I glanced at his non-personalized plate, standard issue California white...and couldn't believe my eyes!
The plate read 2BLD430. Too Bald for 30!!! I couldn't wait to ask him: "Bob, is that a custom plate?"
When I read it my way... LOL ... he got incensed, started screaming and yelling, went down to DMV, made a scene...In a week, he had new plates.
Stopped by my store to ask if the new ones had any hidden message...

 

Classic...

 

About 10 years ago I had a 55 pontiac with original black plates cov409, went to the local cruise night and went out to dinner. When I got back to the car there was a 62 impala parked in front of me, pinstriped on the corner of the impalas decklid was "the coveted 409" apparently the guy had seen the plates on my pontiac and had been trying to track me down for awhile. We went to dmv later that week and figured out what it would take for him to get the plates, he gave me $500 and paid for all the transfer fees for me to get new plates plus paid my registration for the year.


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GREAT story! I have to say I was 'moved': Square business!

 

THC 565 on my 65 Bonneville. cops always asked me questions about that plate when I would get pulled over.

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better than THC 420, isn't it??? that would be a certain smoking 64 impala with love machine on the window ...

 

For years,my Texas vanity plates read FLATHD for flathead.One night,I saw Don"Big Daddy" Garlits on SpeedChannel talking about his early days of drag racing.I contacted him,and asked if he would like one of my FLATHD plates and he said he wanted one.He sent back to me a full 8 1-2 x 11 photo of him holding my FLATHD plate he uses in his museum of speed in Ocala,Florida.I'm a Texas HAMBER with over 50 years of hot rod flatmotors and I am in the museum of speed;how cool is that. Flatheadjohn47 979-595-7324 cell.

 

On my 1951 YOM plate (bought at a swap meet) the last three digits match the last three digits of the car's body plate number. Not exactly vanity, but eerie coincidence.

 

These are on my Roadster. I had them on my garage wall for a number of years. Picked them up at a flea market. I wanted 50's plates since that is the build era I was going for. As far as the W C you can use your imagination. I wish it was E C for east coast.

 

Western Connecticut ??

 

I work for the Missouri Department of Transportation, so this find has special significance. As I was cleaning up some trash along what used to be the state highway near the north entrance to my property, I found a rusty license plate, circa '50s-'60s from the color on the back of the plate. As I was cleaning off the dirt, I realized it was an "official car" plate, also with the "truck" designation on it. We tried to trace it down through our offices in Jefferson City, but couldn't confirm where it originated. I'm pretty sure, though, that it was off an old Highway Department truck. When I finish my '29 AA, I'll bring it up to MoDOT offices and stick the plate on the front for some photos.

 

Not really accidental, but when I was a kid back in Iowa, the plates had county number listed vertically on the left. Numbers were****igned alphabetically, so Adair county was 01, Adams 02, etc. Also, new plates were issued every year until the 70s in numerical order per county, so the first plate issued each year in each county was 000001. My shop teacher was first in line one year and got 000001.

 

Back in the early 70s, I bought a 69 Mustang, when I got my plates, the number was P51-684, the first 3 digits made it easy to remember.

 

When I went to get the tag for my 32 5w some 20 years ago, they pulled the tag from the top of the stack and it was EZB 032.

 

my roadster was a 50's build. now it has plates that say OLD ROD.

 

Best one I ever saw on my mom's car long before vanity plates ever existed. My dad bought my mom a brand new silver '69 T-bird four door (the cool one with the suicide rear doors), did a set of Ansen sprints (we were dealers at the time) pin line whites, dropped it a couple of inches, had a local painter do some very mild candy blue panel work over the stock silver, and spray a pearl over the whole deal. The plates? MLQ-***.... The coincidence? My mom's name was Mary Lee Quinn!

 

There's a story about a fellow named Tom who bought vanity plates for his MG that read "EDS VW". As a result, total strangers would regularly point out to him that his car wasn't a VW. To which he would happily tell them. "That's OK. I'm not Ed."

 

Our DMV ladies are great, they will dig out a plate that works with the car. Dads 56 has 56 in the number. My old T with the W motor ended in 348 and my 54 had V854 in the number.

 

Somewhere in Massachusetts (I haven't seen it) there is a 67 GTO running around with YOM plate 000-000. I think originally that number was a sample plate, but the RMV gave it YOM status!

 

HOW EASY WAS THAT? And the winner is Western Connecticut 32 Thanks! Got to love the HAMB

 

The guy that bought my 72 Chevy Pickup with a 396 got the plate 396 TOO, I thought
it was a vanity plate until a short while later when I bought a new truck and got 450 TOO

 

In the `50 and 60` you could get sample plates from the North Carolina DMV for free just by writing to them and asking for one. I think they used them to set up the machines that made the plates. Here`s the one on my Avanti.