Monrovia Car show today

VERY COOL! Thanks for sharing those pics, Bruce!

"Bad Rat" is awesome but with a name like that I think a big block chebby was mandatory.

Sooo.... that Northwest Territories licence plate looks like it was actually bolted to a car at 1 time (and not just bought as a souvenir out of a tourist shop)- wonder how it got there???

Great pictures, Bruce. Looks like a fantastic show!

ALB.......Me too !  That one is hanging in a restaurant in Monrovia Ca. Yes It does look like a real one up close and it still had a registration sticker on it from 1980. I collect unique plates and that one would be a keeper for me.

Anyone out there know if it is real ? If so do you have one or know where to get one ?

I have about 30 plates hanging in my restaurant (Giggeling Dolphin) in Loreto BCS Mex. I  try to get one from every country I have visited as my souvenir rather than some trinket or jewelry. Usually I get them for free too !  The only one I was unsuccessful in getting was from Egypt. What is unique about the Egypt plate is it doesn't have numbers on it like all other plates. It has Egyptian numbers which are really weird. For example, our number 5 is expressed as a "0".  Other symbols are  ^ and / !   It's even more fun to try dialing on their phones !   If anyone goes there, get me one !  

One of the more unique one's is a Calif. Congressional plate from the 18th district.  It was  donated by him when he dined in my place. He's no longer in office.

This winter I will get  (or try to)  a plate from Cuba.  

Also if anyone is going to Costa Rica,  get me another plate from there.  Someone stole my original one right off the wall.  They had to remove 4 drywall screws to do it.  Now I hang them up high.

Al....Did you see the "lightening holes that make things heavier ?  It was one of the Rat Rod frames............Bruce

Bruce- Although some of our Provincial and Territorial plates are colorful and (because of the designs) somewhat unique, the NWT plate is what I consider the most collectable and sought after, simply because of it's shape.  I do like our (BC's) Provincial Parks plates, but you pay extra, so we've got the regular plates on all of our cars.  If you ever come up this way I might be able to be talked out of the licence plate off my very first car- it's hanging up in the garage.  And my son has the Spirit Bear plate on his car- that would be an easy 1 to abscond with- and knowing it would be hung on a restaurant wall in Mexico, he might even like that!                   https://www.knightsinfo.ca/license.html                                                                                    Again, with the registration sticker, wear and marks from being attached to a car I'd say that NWT plate is real- probably lifted from a local motel parking lot in the middle of the night.  I have seen NWT plates at automotive swap meets- I'll enquire next time I see a guy selling old plates.                 

"Did you see the "lightening holes that make things heavier ?  It was one of the Rat Rod frames."                                                                                                                                    If you mean the ones where they boxed them in, yeah, they definitely look like there's more material than if they hadn't drilled the holes in the first place.  I've seen it done in the hotrod world before.  A lot of work for something that doesn't make a car any lighter (and actually ADDS WEIGHT!), but they do look very cool...