Showing posts with label license plates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label license plates. Show all posts
Before states charged car owners for registration and license plates, some cites got greedy and started their own vehicle tax and registration plates
this is just one of the interesting olf things that a guy has inherited from his families stuff... his grandparents kept everything, and when weeding out the junk from the interesting, he decided to make a website of the more interesting things, and do a bit of research to learn about the rare and unusual items.
browse through if you like historical interesting things"They Kept Everything" http://familyephemera.tumblr.com/page/3
1913 Pope Hartford
and more remarkable, that gentleman on the far side of the car, with the white motorist jacket... was one of the team that found and brought the Peerless down from the mountain http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/07/old-man-of-mountain.html
Have you ever seen as many of the early brass registration tags on one vehicle? I haven't! I've never seen more than one. The one on the far right indicates (and the owner told me) that this was used as a bus... tourist type, from Tonopah to Goldfield I think he said.. they are Nevada towns that were the hub of the goild rush between 1900 and 1902 http://www.rockhounds.com/rockgem/articles/tonopah_goldfield.html
the above and one of the below are this same car, the one on the far left below is a Pope race car
License plates buried behind a dealership in 1929 just unearthed

Found in Hot Rod Delux magazine. Awesome magazine
Trusting that having the right color registration sticker will fool the cops... busted, because I look at these when stuck in traffic
Some people collect the whole set of colored registration stickers
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/unusual-way-to-display-registration.html
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