Hot Rods Interesting License Plates

A recently purchased a truck and recently purchased plates for it. I thought they would stop THE question, but NOPE!
I'm keeping one eye open for something old and "interesting" but for now, this is it.

 

Plates.. And more plates.... **clic pic**

 

^ That's cool ^

 

MANY years ago car that was following me had a personalized license plate that caught my eye in the rear view mirror. Looking at the plate it was 3M TA3 I'll let you figure out what it read in my rearview. Apparently the person who scanned applications for plates to make sure they weren't in poor taste, etc. was off work the day that plate was approved.

Lynn

 

I knew a guy that had a bike with that on it. Nobody ever noticed because of it being a bike, but we all knew. You could see it in the shop window when he backed up to the curb and parked.

 

Yeah, we know.... He was lookin' for a soul to steal...

 

Nice shot, BLUSHU. Seems you and I are neighbours. (The city that smells like it sounds.)

My photo, not my car...



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The car looks old enough to me....

 

1940 nebr plate on my 40 ford, number "40" on the left is the county #, each county has their own, number on right is the sequence #. I finished the car when I was 61. I have collected 1940 plates from all 48 states & Hawaii, Wash DC mounted in their location on a map

 

Here's the 1950 NJ plate on back of my 32 Roadster. Bought the pair at a swap meet for $20. Johnny Helmuth showed me how to register them in NJ. Also here is another set of NJ plates I found. Mantuajohn

 

License plate shingles on the edge of my great grandfather’s granary.


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Please forgive the off topic car. Like the OP, I bought the plates, then later realized what it said. Gets a lot of attention (some bad).

 

Plate pairs for my 35 Chevy & 64 Ford. I just need the year decal for the later


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Would have looked good on my 69 Cobra Jet Mustang. Thus my Hamb name.

 

Some I bought from the Bob Klessig estate sale. Only Bob could get Wisconsin to issue a FAAT ROD plate, and actually run it, too!

 

1986, I was managing an 'Accu-tune' shop, the owner, 'Bob' was a new MidEast-American, very stylish gent, 40, drove a red 280ZX, 'distinctive' to some...
His Calif. license plates read '2BLD430'.
Bob was balding, so when I saw the plate and 'read it'...(we all do that, right?)
I asked him if they were custom plates. "No, Mike...Why?"
"Uh...'cuz they read, 'Too bald for 30'."
Bob read the plate, and displayed some displeasure...he jumped in the car, headed down to Alma St. DMV, and returned an hour later with new plates.
Bet the lady at the window was surprised...

 

So is this classified as a barn find? Just saying....

 

I started collecting 1932 license plates but they just got too expensive so I registered the 1932 South Carolina (The Iodine State) plate and run it on my old beater. HRP

 

Well; I don't have pix.

But:

I used to have ATCH.

I used to see a car in town whose plates read URABUS. Always wondered what it meant. Then one day he was behind me at a stop sign. In the mirror it said...

When Missouri first started issuing personalized plates in the early 70's I knew David Wayne Ingersol. Yep; he got DWI plates.

 

a 1921 Alaska license plate will set you back more than $20,000 these days.

 

Tag on my wife's o/t car.
When she saw the issued tag, she ordered the special frame

 

Love the part where the Merc kept "smashing-into-the-back" of the Porsche.
Prolly 9 months later a VW was born!
6sally6

 

i was driving home from work and a corvette drove by me and had a hot babe driving it. the plate said 4 1 bj

 

On my FLHTP ex Mt Prospect Illinois Police bike (really) I have the plate
WUZFUZ. It had cop brakes and cop tires on it when I bought it, long replaced now.
Bent

 

About 20 years ago around town there was a red Mercedes 2 seat convertible with a lady driving it. I can't remember what letters she left out to make the max allowed but it said WELL KEPT.

 

There is a house in Searcy Arkansas that is entirely shingled with 1932 plates. The governor got a (illegal) kickback from the number of plates made in 1932 so there were many many made and never used.It is still the most common plate to find in that state