Anyone here collect license plates?

[IROC]

Originally Posted by azasadny

My friend has been collecting license plates for about 60 years or so and was one of the first members of the Michigan License Plate Collectors Club and has an incredible collection.

There's a restaurant in Lansing (right near the Kellogg Center at MSU) called The Roadhouse IIRC that has literally thousands and thousands of license plates plastering the walls and ceiling. Amazing.

[Z-man]

I have a small collection of plates as well, including a vintage NJ plate, and a plate from South Africa. I would be interested to see what this fellow has.

-Z

[azasadny]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

Any affordable guns from the WWII colection (if there is such a thing?).

I'd like to get my first spoon one day.

Back to your regular programming...

My friend has 3 M1911A1's that were featured in the Clawson book. The guns will easily sell for $4-$5k once he decides to sell them. They are "like new", but with the patina that accompanies a 60-some year old Parkerized gun.

[azasadny]

The next time I visit my friend's house, I'll take the camera and get some pics of the more interesting license plates. He lives in a seniors place because he can barely see and he gave the house to his son and daughter-in-law, but they live in TN and come up a few times a year to visit and they stay in the house. It's a nice house and would have sold for $150k back when you could sell houses in Wayne County, MI. Now, you could buy it (and many other houses like it) for $50k.

[cgarr]

Some of my friends used to make them

[Shuie]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Folks like this are the biggest customers of the antique plate dealers you see at swap meets. It's cool to match the plate style to the car...

Yep, we can register the cars here with the old plates. I have '64-'65 plates for my 356 and I just bought '70-'71 plate for my 914 on eBay. There are actually folks out there who collect and sell the old state inspection stickers too

[azasadny]

I tried to register a set of 1974 MI license plates for my '74 911 and because the plates were "personalized" ("74 TARGA"), the Secretary of State refused my request to reuse them.