Plated Protection
Submitted By: Sherrie
Favorite Comment: Fixer April says, “Some people pick up little knickknacks when they travel. Some people just pick up whatever they find on the side of the road and nail it to their car for a memento.”
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That’s one way to recycle.
Now I know what I’ve been saving all those old plates for. Hoarding WIN!
CLearly need a license (or two) to do that!
My boy is licenced to Chill! Just get ‘er done!
Ugly in all 48 contiguous states.
I had a similar idea for an art car. Yeah, that’s what I’ll call it, an art car . . .
I worked as a semitrailer mechanic in Arizona and we got new (to us) trailers in from all over the US and had to put new plates on them. I saved a whole bunch of them and was going to pop-rivet them to a crappy old Valiant or some other POS car until it was completely covered with them.
Too bad I ended up broke and sold them all for scrap (aluminum, along with my five-gallon bucket of airbrake fittings, hundred pounds or so of copper cable and pipe, half a dozen freeway-salvaged knackered aluminum ladders, I got enough money to move back to California, and civilization).
Would you like a ticket with that fail?
This is a really low-tech version of the old “license plate switcheroo” trick featured in all those mafia wheelman movies. “My license plate was reported in association with a bank robbery? Plenty more where that came from – I have a perfectly clean one patching up my spoiler.”
I think this is what happens when someone gets tired of wussy ol’ bumper stickers and wants to collect something more manly to stick on their vehicle as they visit each state.
Maybe he has the right idea. Has anyone ever seen a rusted license plate?
All that Michigan road salt takes it’s toll on the sheet metal.
Officer: “Did you happen to get the license plate when the blue car sped away from the scene?”
Witness: “Which One?”
The car used to be named Rusty. I haven’t come up with a new one yet…probably have to use some creative license….
Reminds me of pilots listing their kills on the side of the plane.
“I thought the ad said the fenders were GOLD plated, not OLD plated.”
At least it looks better than the contact paper on the tub.
They drove all the way from Michigan to Colorado to get license plates to fix the car.
Only in michigan.
they should do the whole car that way
Quickly! Follow the car with the license plate 3026..no EM…no ….. just follow that black car
I wonder if he’s also got a plate in his head.
I wonder where he’s from. Is there anything on the car that says he’s from a particular state? No? Oh, well, I guess it was too much to ask for…
@cayton
Brilliant. It cannot be that, though. I don’t see any white canes taped anywhere.
I visited New York a few months ago & I was shocked at the rust damage on the locals cars. Watched one old boy close the door on his Chevy & rust hit the deck. I’m from So-Cal, not use to that kinda thing.
Some people pick up little knickknacks when they travel. Some people just pick up whatever they find on the side of the road and nail it to their car for a memento.
Do I see pop-rivets? That’s like the grandpa of duct tape and zipties. Generational win!
Smart guy- I’ve NEVER seen a license plate rust out. Besides, it probably doubled the structural integrity of the POS.
Ford’s latest attempt at being hip and Eco-friendly- take a little post consumer recycled content, slap a honda logo on it and call it the Revolution (literally)
Okay, let’s see. It’s registered as a black Honda Civic to Mrs. Samantha Brown. And a red Ford Escort to Mr. Tom Smith. And a white Cadillac El Dorado to Mr. Alex Parker. And a…
I am laughing so hard right now my stomach hurts!
Somebody definitely tagged his rear fender.
It’s like the middle ages. Plate armor is back in style!
“Sir, may I see your licen… oh come ON now!”
Poor Civic !!
Hey! that’s the guy who cut me off earlier… I tried to right down his license play but I couldn’t figure out which one was which.
Hmm, now why didn’t they turn them inside out? And I believe it is illegal to have multiple plates on your vehicle. They are obviously geniouses though.
Same thing I thought… Why would you use the colored side!!
Hey! That’s my car! I know, it’s hard to tell, and especially hard to find in a parking lot, but it’s mine!
@Epic Ideas
Apparently in Colorado, too.
@meguu and Epic
Naw those plates are too nice to be real Michigan plates, he must be a Canadian!
I like how the licence plate has been blurred out.
That’s what you get when you take your car to the auto-body shop that hires former prison inmates!
I KNOW THE RECESSION IS BAD BUT DETROIT TAKES THE CAKE
Dispatch to all cars, watch for leave without pay bearing Michigan 3026JK and Colorado VE2921 and New York V7441A and other plates.
Don’t come to Georgia, they’ll ticket you for the expired plates.
If I’m right, I know the guy driving the car. It is in Michigan, but it’s definitely NOT in Detroit. That’s Up North.
I wonder how many tickets this dude would get if he was caught on a red light camera?
Hey, I did the same thing to my car in NH… just not as many license plates (yet).
Too cheap for bondo, too dumb to patch the holes or dents with sheetmetal.
@Armann
Indeed! Good thing they blurred out one of the 14 plates on the car.
I been every where man I been every where. Reno Fargo Chicago Buffalo Minnisota…….Hank Snow!
Showing off the many “party plates” he’s earned in his college career.
license to overkill
Cop sais: “Hmmm… Now wich one of these to I send the ticket to?”
dispatch, we have a black honda civic with licence plate 3026 JK, A62, EM RO6, N73, the man may be intoxicated and appears to have traveled to more places than Jesse James…please respond.
What surprises me is that they actually “found” these plates by the side of the road.
Aspiring filmmakers take note: remake Spielberg’s “Duel” as a comedy by changing the ominous tanker to tiny Honda!
“I love my car, but the registration fees are killing me!”
“They thought me mad when I proposed my new idea for an armored car, but I’ll show them yet! Just…give it a year or four.”
Only in Michigan… *facepalm* I swear, we’re not all like that, really.
Why’d they block out the actual plate? It’s like the car isn’t recognizable without it.
To confuse those radar cameras right?