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March 31, 2015

One Auction, Seven Hours, 150 License Plates & A Coveted 1931 Haiti Treasure
On a beautiful Saturday morning in Elgin, Illinois, about 40 license plate scavengers attended the Damisch estate auction of about 425 lots of license plates….the entire event was professionally managed by the Bunte Auction House…plate lots were well-displayed, the auction room was comfortable and spacious, and food service was available…starting promptly at 10:00 am, the […] read more
January 12, 2015

Vanity Vanessa: Fun Word Play with Vanity License Plates
We recently received an order for a pair of ‘vanity’ plates from Crystal Corrigan right here in our hometown of Lakeland, FL…as we came to learn, Crystal has been saving images of clever word-play plates for about five years, most of them displayed on a door in her home!…now she’s actually collecting the plates themselves…she is […] read more
January 5, 2015

Packard and Pennsylvania
While you might not see it on the Grand Concours at Pebble Beach, this 1955 Packard is still near and dear to Phillip Turton…Great American Plates recently found a nice 1955 Pennsylvania plate for him, and as we tell our wives, beauty is in the eye of the beholder! read more
December 19, 2014

Playing Santa Claus: 1931 New Jersey License Plate
Great American Plates recently had a holiday opportunity to play Santa Claus, sending a 1931 New Jersey license plate to Roger Burton, who was not only born in New Jersey in 1931, he actually came to own a 1931 Model A…unfortunately Roger only has one remaining picture of his “A”, shown here with a 1949 […] read more
November 4, 2014

Model A: The Tudor and 1929 NJ Plates
vWe had a good plate friend, Pat Maloney, of Manchester, NJ, order a 1929 NJ plate from us a few week ago for his Model A Tudor sedan…nothing extra fancy, just a tag that was original and presentable…and here it is on his beautiful ride!…to us Model A buffs, the Tudor is special as most […] read more
October 6, 2014

1957 Montana plates for a Chevrolet Bel Air
Satisfying the YOM plates desires of our classic car customers has always been a special source of pride for Great American Plates. Recently Travis Wafstet asked us to locate a pair of 1957 Montana plates for his Chevrolet Bel Air…we did, and he’s shared a few pictures of the results. The beautiful Mission Mountains in […] read more
August 19, 2014

Two Beauties…and the Car, Too!
A few months ago RB and Elizabeth LaGrone asked us to help find a nice pair of 1937 Alabama tags for their pride and joy Chevy Classic…we did find them, but they wanted them to be ‘perfect’, so we recommended them to the Tag Doctor, Rod Pearman…he did his magic, and we know you’ll also […] read more
August 17, 2014

Every Plate Has A Story
Plates are interesting, but tin and lifeless, however the stories we’ve heard and the friends we’ve made over the years are priceless!…a few weeks ago we electronically met Golde Wallingford of Clayton, ID who had inquired about our interest in a ‘pile of old Idaho plates’…living in Florida, we don’t see too many of those, […] read more
July 28, 2014

Rochester or Bust! 2014 License Plate Convention
For four days in July, the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association meets for its international convention…held this year in Rochester, NY, the event drew over 350 collectors and their plates!…Great American Plates was there with its 5,000 plates, hoping to sell more than it bought…NOT!!…it was a very educational and enjoyable get-together, as always…the Plate […] read more
July 7, 2014

The Plate Prince Strikes Again!
…as reported in an earlier post, Charles DeFanti has developed the much-appreciated gesture of awarding antique license plates to his close friends, colleagues, and in this case, a former student!…Adele Kenny, born in NJ in 1948 (sorry Adele, your secret is now out!), she was his student and is now a renowned poet as well […] read more
June 27, 2014

How Much Is That (License) Plate In The Window?!
While on vacation in Key West, one of Gap’s Plate Conchs came across a small junk shop with a Cuban license plate in the window.  The store was off the beaten path of Duval Street and open on during limited hours, so our man sprang into action.  Utilizing his iPhone, he snapped a photo of […] read more
June 15, 2014

A Sign From The Plate Gods
My wife, the GAP Plate Princess, and I were walking to our car in the Tampa Airport parking lot after returning from a huge license plate auction in NH and she spotted this plate on a beautiful red Corvette…I, of course, told her it was a sign from the gods that we had done the right […] read more
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