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Currently the house acroos the street is being torn down ,One entire outside wall is covered in 1917 - 1942 plates ....alot of 1932 plates...
They are painted white from there current duty as siding on a house
Should I go grab em or are they pretty much worthless...?

grab them quick .. most states allow you to run a tag of the cars vintage and you never have to buy another .. i`m looking for a 69 heart of dixie alabama tag .. mite make a mint on ebay

I got a quote for 499.00 to buy a vintage 48 california plate, grab em! I didn't buy it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grab them and I'll pay a finder fee and shipping to my shop in PA.

If you don't get them you will be sorry later when you see a plate you "Could of gotten" go for some BIGG BUCKS like stovens said....Joe

3 pair of cali 32 plates soo far
1 pair worlds fair 39
1 pair nebraska 32 plates
about 50 unmatched 32 plates and about 10 different worlds fair 39 cali plates.....
going back now to save more before the bulldozer gets there.......

7 more pairs of 32 cali
and about 75 random unmatched plates ,but no more worlds fair plates......
All told about 150 plates gathered and theres atleast 250 more good uncut /unrusted ones on the house...probably another 3 or 4 hundred partial and rusted ones there too...just too much work to get off the house.

Going to try to snap some pics of the house.......

In Cali you need a PAIR of serviceable plates to be able to use them. I found a pair of '51 Cali plates DMV cleared....$500....grab as many pairs as you possibly can.....could be worth a lot of $$$

Originally Posted by ceh383

In Cali you need a PAIR of serviceable plates to be able to use them. I found a pair of '51 Cali plates DMV cleared....$500....grab as many pairs as you possibly can.....could be worth a lot of $$$

ofcourse the contractor got the cream of the crop, i was talking to him today and he found pairs of original plates in good condition, the one shawnlee manage to get will need to be refurbished for sure.

More pics ....anyone see anything on the wall that calls out to you,better speak up,they will be gone tommorow mourning....still time to pry a few more off..........
These pics are after I striped the ones I have and theres still tons of em....
I just spied 2 more 32 matched pairs in the photos ,I am goin back again..lol

There is a guy in my area that refurbs tags like that, then sells them for atleast $100 a pop. He'd probably cry if he seen all of those.

Good Grief!
Charlie Brown


What a find.

Holy smokes, what a great find. Grab as many as you can get. It will probably never happen again, actually no probably about it.......Bob

shawnlee28
If you see any california plates with com on theleft side grab them. They are worth gold, quite litteraly. Very hard to find matched sets for the ww2 and just after war years! Pairs are very valuable for california, as you need a pair, to register them for use on a old car. Any little metal year tabs are very valuable too. 1945 and 1946 they only made single plates, so grab singles of those. Here is a web site with a ton of info they may be helpfull.
eBay Guides - DMV Clear California License Plates 1951 1956 1963 YOM

Wow, thats incredible! Not very often you see something like that. I wonder where/how they got all those plates in the first place? Anyway, have fun prying them off...hope you can make some big $$$