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April 2, 2021

Thanks Wanda: New Collection Hitting Site Soon!
With two shots in my arm and the unmitigated support of my wife and our pups, I arose yesterday at 4:00 am and headed to the Tampa airport for a 6:00 am flight to Charlotte, where I rented a car and drove to Easley, SC to visit with our new GAP license plate friend, Wanda […] read more
February 8, 2021

Nepal, Monaco, Suriname, Ryukyu Islands, Australia, and Guam Plate Auction
In our role as the Mortician of Motoring Memories, there is no limit to the effort to which we will go to acquire interesting and collectible license plates for our friends and customers! For example, while scanning ads for ‘in person only’ auctions (our favorites because they’re usually small, in remote locations, and in this crazy Covid time, easy to […] read more
December 14, 2020

Rare 67-Liberty County plate
From 1938 through 1976, Florida plates were issued by each of the 67 counties based on the ranking of counties by population census taken in 1935. Various suffix letters were used to designate weight class, type of vehicle, and replacements, for example. In 1965 Florida celebrated the 400th anniversary of the founding of St Augustine, […] read more
September 29, 2020

All The Places You Go: Decorating With License Plates
When Norb Bolger and his wife, Karen, decided to enhance their Ontario, Canada home with a pool and ‘recovery’ area, the decorations they chose were license plates of the places they had been together…yes!!…as you can see, while the collection is not yet complete, they are not always lounging by the pool!…we’re glad they have […] read more
August 24, 2020

Vanity License Plate For Katie
…in 2013 Katie began working with Great American Plates, uploading plates for sale to our website…since then she has processed thousands of plates, in addition to keeping our records up-to-date, scrounging around town for more plate stashes, and refereeing marital plate disputes…she is currently training a new ‘temp’ to lighten her load…look familiar?!…we rewarded Katie’s […] read more
August 10, 2020

Social Distancing For 1915 Tennessee Plates
…to continue our commitment to social distancing, a few days ago we drove solo from Lakeland to Knoxville (650 miles) to inspect an incredible collection of Tennessee license plates, along with a large number of other state plates…about 2,250 in all…included were three  complete sets of TN plates, including one 1915!!…it will take several days […] read more
July 27, 2020

1965 Florida Plates for Ruthie and Caleb
A few months ago we were contacted by Caleb Wolfram…he was inquiring about one of our 1965 Florida plates in our personal collections he had seen on the Great American Plates website…as many of you know, Florida previously identified its plates with the county coding of 1 through 67, with 2 the designation for Duval County…and guess […] read more
June 9, 2020

All 50 US State License Plates in France
…in 2014 we received our first order from a young man in the south of France…as an executive with a major airline, Fred began collecting and displaying plates from all 50 US states, shown here after a 6-year effort proudly hanging in his garage!…along with his prize VW Bug and other airline memorabilia…Fred and his […] read more
April 28, 2020

1964 Chevy Corvette
WOW!…take a look at the Whaley’s beautifully restored 1964 Chevy Corvette, proudly displaying a 1964 Missouri license plate supplied by GAP…Ms. Whaley advises her husband has a few more tasks to complete, but given all the extra time on his hands, the inaugural ride is not too far away…be proud, and be safe! read more
November 18, 2019

1939 License Plate For A Packard Hearse
…one of our good license plate customers, Greg Zora, recently bought a set of 1939 plates for his Packard hearse…he has owned it for 48 years!…when he bought it back then it had a legitimate Rhode Island plate on it…you guessed it, it read “STIFF”!…it was subsequently recalled by the state registry…it now sports that […] read more

400th Anniversary Florida License Plate Collection
Christmas came early at our house!…thanks to Jeff Francis, ONLY 56, 62, and 67 to go…took Jeff 27 years and me 15, so far!!…THANKS Jeff!!!!! read more
October 10, 2019

License Plate Nut
“…my grandfather is a license plate nut…he used to take me and my brothers to the zoo, the movies, and the beach here in Pensacola, but now he drags us into all the antique malls, yard sales, and junk stores…he claims he will fund our college educations, but we think we should fund his therapy […] read more