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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
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 6, 2023

2023 Automobile License Plate Collectors’ International Convention (ALPCA)
After an 1,850 mile drive across our beautiful country just before the Fourth of July Weekend, the Plate Princess and I arrived in Denver, Colorado for the 2023 Automobile License Plate Collectors’ International Convention…another 450 or so collectors joined us for an enjoyable four day meet…lots of plates to buy, sell, or trade, and plenty of […] read more
August 3, 2021

1956 VA License Plate for a 1956 MG
WOW!…meet Winburn’s 1956 MG…her Uncle Bob passed it on to her and she anxiously wanted a pair of 1956 VA plates to commemorate the gift…it took us a while to find a great set, but now her only problem is trying to figure out how to mount the front plate!…any suggestions would be welcomed! read more

1962 License Plate Collection
Congratulations to our New Zealand license plate friend, Terry McKeown!…he patiently worked with us as he assembled a beautiful 1962 US plate collection….he then mounted the plates and framed them very neatly for a colorful display…all managed at a distance of over 8,000 miles!…cheers, Terry. 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
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
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
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
September 9, 2017

Plates for “Kitty”
How about this beautiful, original 6-cylinder Powerglide 1950 Chevrolet!…Tim Edwards of Union, OH recently pulled it out of storage, where it had been kept since 1960!…he christened it ‘Kitty’ and installed the pair of Ohio tags supplied by Great American Plates…what a jewel. read more