Showing posts with label license plates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label license plates. Show all posts

Monday, April 8, 2013


Saturday, April 6, 2013


Sunday, March 17, 2013


Thursday, March 14, 2013


Wednesday, March 13, 2013

It's got to be Navy, I figure. HSC, Helo carrier? what the 40, and the 07 mean, who knows. Doesn't change that the marker was a great idea

Sunday, October 21, 2012


Sunday, October 7, 2012

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/10/california-dmv-vintage-license-plates.html

For an extra $50, California car enthusiasts will soon be able to order vintage license plates, including the black plates with yellow lettering issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles in the 1960s, thanks to action taken by Gov. Jerry Brown.

 Among the hundreds of bills signed by the governor last week, AB 1658 is aimed at Californians who restore and drive vintage automobiles, as well as residents who are just nostalgic for the good old days.

 Other plates to be offered after Jan. 1 include those used in the 1950s, with a yellow background and black lettering, and those issued in the 1980s, with a blue background and yellow lettering.

 The DMV will only produce one of the designs once 7,500 applications have been received for that design statewide.

Friday, September 28, 2012

Ever seen anyone ventilate a license plate before?



Even the back plate is trimmed and rolled over to get it to fit in the car makers formed area

Wednesday, September 26, 2012


Putting the Holman Moody decal across the hood this way sure grabbed my attention, but then I glanced at the plate, and noticed the aging and color treatment that they've given it, as it is not a 1960' plate, it's just the right colors. The new plates are easy to spot, because they have 7 characters. All the yellow letter on black background plates for cars were 6 characters, the first 3 were letters, the 2nd 3 were numbers. Of course the commercial vehicles (includes El Camino and Ranchero) were different and easy to distinguish from the cars plates

 also the front and back have a different texture in this aging and coloring example

pretty cool to go to this trouble to make the plates seem to be the right ones for the decade. If this car really had the black and yellow plates for a car from 1965-66 they would probably be something like ppp111 through sss-999

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Wednesday, September 12, 2012


It's the plate of a co-workers girlfriend, and it's a lot more complicated than I guessed. I'll post the answer here in this post tomorrow.

One good guess from J King, that backwards it would be "In a VII (roman numeral 7)"

Because a roman numeral was integrated into this, "Eye for an eye"
 I IV an I

Sunday, September 9, 2012

thanks Jay!

Saturday, September 1, 2012



Saturday, August 25, 2012

from Facebook

Tuesday, March 27, 2012









 handmade license plate mount... from a street sign. I love it



 wow, luggage turned into an audio video mobile/portable/removeable case... cool!
even a Von Dutch touch



Ummm, good sense of humor? No, commentors Fred and TouringBubble said this was a factory transmission, VW automatic stickshift, when you pushed down on the shift lever the clutch engaged, you still had to shift, just without the foot clutch


Roth above, and blowing my mind, this Roth decal was on another car... when was the last time you've seen a real Roth decal?








Dealership plates? WTH?
What is with the stand up area? They were factory accordian style expandables