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March 7, 2022

Presidential License Plate? The License Plate Detectives on the Case!
Several years ago my wife and I attended an auction in Maine, at which a number of license plate collections were being offered…among other plates that caught our (my) eye was a DC porcelain #20047 alleged to have been solicited from and donated by President Woodrow Wilson to a high school class in the early […] read more
November 30, 2021

Marking Important Dates with License Plates
…one of our previous GAP BBs highlighted the Houghtlin Family license plate collection mounted on the porch rafter of their NC cabin…each member has a birth state and date plate of their own…and with the birth of Jack George Curtis, the family bumper now hosts 11 plates!…what a great tradition Mark and Chrisann have continued…we’re […] read more
November 15, 2021

ALPCA Meet: Porcelain License Plate and Specialty Plate Haul
Leaving on a balmy day in Florida, traveling to Leominster, MA for the Colonial Region’s ALPCA meet was a leap of faith, weather-wise…but we had three Cambridge-based stockholders who would not be denied!…even with a little bit of winter sleet to cool things down…the meet was a record-maker, complete with a museum collection sale, a […] read more
October 13, 2021

Hersey’s 100 License Plate Haul
This past week the Plate Princess and I traveled to Hershey, Pennsylvania to stroll through some of the 5,500 acres of the Hershey Fairgrounds property to enjoy the Classic Car Show and the Giant Automobile Parts Flea Market…she lasted about four hours worth of license plate scrounging, which is about what it took for us […] read more
September 1, 2021

Planes or License Plates
During the past 15 years we’ve had the pleasure of talking with many nice folks we’ve never even personally met…one such gentleman is Jon B., our newest friend from Fairport, NY….at 88 Jon decided to reduce his inventory of collectibles, choosing to give up his license plates instead of his personally restored MIG fighter jet…it […] read more
August 2, 2021

Off to ALPCA License Plate Convention!
Yes, it’s that time again!…finally, an in-person international ALPCA license plate collectors’ convention!…our 16 year-old grandson, Cayman, and I are headed to Covington, KY to buy (surely), sell (hopefully) or trade (maybe) some of our 12,000 license plates…CJ is ‘in training’ to become the future CEO of Great American Plates, and you can see the […] read more
July 14, 2021

1931 Florida Plate…Plumbers Flashing
…my wife and I live in a home here in Central Florida that was built in 1925…as most older homes in Florida, it is raised off the ground to allow for air circulation for cooling…when we bought it, I decided to crawl under it and see what ‘treasures’ I could find!…a lot of contractor trash, […] read more
April 23, 2021

Starting A Plate Collection in France
Our newest license plate collector from Villelaure, France, Damien D., just received his first order from Great American Plates, and was so satisfied with it he displayed it at the front of his wife’s car around her French license plate!…might he have been trying to garner her support for his new hobby?!…tres bien, Damien read more
April 5, 2021

Perfect 1966 Pennsylvania Plate for the Perfect Car!
Rick K. of Pennsylvania waited and waited for his dream car, and he found it!…a beautiful two-door Chevrolet 396 Super Sport…it only lacked a pristine 1966 PA tag to get it on the road, so he contacted GAP and had us overnight our best one!…the lipstick red shows it off rather nicely, don’t you think?!…boys […] read more
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