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December 3, 2024

Great American Plates Visits Local 2nd Grade Class
While we’ve never been invited to speak at Dartmouth’s or Princeton’s Commencement, the Plate Princess and I were invited to address Heidi Kovach’s Second Grade Class!…the kids were all polite, attentive, and if not enthralled, seriously interested in our business and how it came to be!…they asked great questions, like: “How many plates do you […] read more
November 22, 2024

Byte Update – A Barn Built From 1930 SC License Plates
We are excited to share an updated photo of the old barn from our 2015 Bumper Byte – Sometime ago we were emailed by a gentleman from Greenwood, SC…said he had found our site and wondered if we would be interested in his ‘collection’ of late 1930’s SC license plates…turns out, as seen in the […] read more
November 20, 2024

Casablanca to Marakech – License Plate Hunt
While most travelers were looking for leather goods, beautiful tile work, colorful carpeting, ancient fossils, or elegant jewelry, from Casablanca to Marakech, we combed the souks of Morocco looking for license plates!! We enjoyed the help of several ‘scouts’ and found a couple of dozen plates of all varieties: passenger cars, motorcycles with sidecars, and new car dealers. […] read more
November 11, 2024

Great American Plates Travels to Morocco!
While license plates of the United States has been our primary focus from the beginning, over the years we have come to do ‘business’ in over 30 foreign countries!…we’ve found plates in several sub-Saharan countries in Africa, but this month we traveled to Morocco along the Atlantic and Mediterranean…not unlike Florida’s former system of numbering […] read more
October 22, 2024

25th Annual Lake Mirror Classic Car Show
Once again our 1931 Model A Ford pickup truck, affectionately known as ‘Wilbur’, made the drive to beautiful downtown Lakeland to appear in the 25th Annual Lake Mirror Classic Car Show… a number of his fans actually bragged about being from ‘upstate’ New York and knew of the two funeral homes for which he used […] read more
October 1, 2024

1965 Florida Counties License Plate Collection
Maybe I’m just at the age where little things mean a lot, but just as I was getting ready to renew my ALPCA membership, I got an email from Eric Tanner advising me a 1965 Florida Lafayette County license plate had just been listed for auction on eBay…the county prefix for Lafayette was then 62-, […] read more
August 21, 2024

Two Fuzzy Dice and a 1955 MA Plate
Even though your classic car may not yet be pristine, you still can honor it by embellishing it with a set of authentic license plates…such was the goal of Peter D. of North Eastham, MA when he contacted Great American Plates to help him find a set of original 1955 MA plates….he advised they didn’t […] read more
July 3, 2024

2024 ALPCA License Plate Convention
WOW!…the 2024 ALPCA license plate convention is now in the rear view mirror!…a safe 2500 mile round trip took a little longer than usual as stops had to be made every couple of hours to feed my grandson, but he’s a growing boy!…the convention space was crowded with hundreds of members pedaling their inventories, but we especially […] read more
June 25, 2024

Off to Lansing, Michigan for the ALPCA plate convention!
Lansing, Michigan, here we come!…Hatteras (our 15-year old grandson) and I have loaded the Penske truck this year with about 3,000 plates and will depart for the annual ALPCA plate convention in the morning…the meet begins on Wednesday morning and runs through Saturday…he’s hoping we sell enough plates to make a down payment on a […] read more
February 19, 2024

Tin Treasure – 2,500 Passenger, Motorcycle, and Specialty Plates
OK, so not every plate procurement opportunity involves just two or three plates…much to the dismay of the Plate Princess, a recent buy makes that point!…we were contacted by a young man who had inherited his father’s incredible collection of 2,500 passenger, motorcycle, and specialty plates…as the collection was in the basement (where else!) of his […] read more
December 18, 2023

1944 VW type 82 or kubelwagen
Take a look at Joey Christenson’s amazing classic!…it is a fiberglass replica of a 1944 VW type 82 or kubelwagen….it was built by Intermeccanica out of Canada in 2000…they are also well known for their Porsche speedster replicas…Joey advises it has only 2200 kilometers on it and uses a 67 Beetle chassis and drivetrain….he wanted an […] read more
December 14, 2023

A License Plate Sleigh Ride
On a recent New England license plate shopping sleigh ride, we found some very nice plates in Waldoboro, Maine and Stratton, Vermont…it was 14 degrees during our Maine hunt, warming up to 35 degrees in Vermont…so we stopped on Sunday morning to make a contribution into the church’s collection ‘plate’!…Santa’s ‘making a list’!! read more
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