lic plate trading?
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Dr.Jass
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I gave away everything that's not either going on one of my cars, or came off of one. I do have some bitchin' plates for my current cars, though... Michigan allows you to use the year of plate for the car if it's over 25 years old, and it's a permanent registration, so I dug up these gems for my collection. Top to bottom, we have:
A pair of NOS 1961 plates for the wagon. These are commercial plates; there was no '61 MI car plate. It was a metal tab under the upper RH screw over the '59 plate.
A pair of very-nice used '73 plates for the Challenger, which I can use with the NOS '74 decals I found. What's cool about these is they're probably as close as I'll ever get to the actual numbers that were on my car in '88, which was 965-VKZ. If I don't use these, I'll use the plates I was given in '88 when I bought my old Challenger, which are '73 commercial plates. Stretch has at least one of them; Kevin may have the other if Stretch doesn't. They were NOS at the time and one has never been bolted to a car.
And the pièce de résistance: An original '79 MI manufacturer's plate. This is what Chrysler, Ford, and GM would have had on pre-production prototypes during street testing and driving. These are serious collector's items and very hard to find. Again, I was able to find an NOS correct-year decal, so it can be used on my Imperial if I don't find an '82 (which I don't think exists anyhow). As far as I know these, like dealer plates, were not issued in pairs though standard MI plates were.
A pair of NOS 1961 plates for the wagon. These are commercial plates; there was no '61 MI car plate. It was a metal tab under the upper RH screw over the '59 plate.
A pair of very-nice used '73 plates for the Challenger, which I can use with the NOS '74 decals I found. What's cool about these is they're probably as close as I'll ever get to the actual numbers that were on my car in '88, which was 965-VKZ. If I don't use these, I'll use the plates I was given in '88 when I bought my old Challenger, which are '73 commercial plates. Stretch has at least one of them; Kevin may have the other if Stretch doesn't. They were NOS at the time and one has never been bolted to a car.
And the pièce de résistance: An original '79 MI manufacturer's plate. This is what Chrysler, Ford, and GM would have had on pre-production prototypes during street testing and driving. These are serious collector's items and very hard to find. Again, I was able to find an NOS correct-year decal, so it can be used on my Imperial if I don't find an '82 (which I don't think exists anyhow). As far as I know these, like dealer plates, were not issued in pairs though standard MI plates were.
TheIronSausage
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thrashingcows
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69.5CUDA
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lol your a bastard....i too have some ODD ones i wont part with but ive got BOXES of generic stuff
i recently found a set of NASTY rusty hardly holding themselves together 1930's? plates id have to go look...my wife talked me into grabbing them...if you dropped one it would fall apart..but you can read them..ive got some comercial ones(typicly dated and silver with red)
funny yours are winte/wonder mine are pacific wonderland..from the same era..and the metal tab thing went away in 58 and the dates died in 52 i belive save for comercials
ive got my garage door covered with plaes..id just like to trade for some "other states"..even current production stuff
i recently found a set of NASTY rusty hardly holding themselves together 1930's? plates id have to go look...my wife talked me into grabbing them...if you dropped one it would fall apart..but you can read them..ive got some comercial ones(typicly dated and silver with red)
funny yours are winte/wonder mine are pacific wonderland..from the same era..and the metal tab thing went away in 58 and the dates died in 52 i belive save for comercials
ive got my garage door covered with plaes..id just like to trade for some "other states"..even current production stuff
