New use for cool license plates, Ukulele by Owen Burke

in the county fair wood working area

License plates buried behind a dealership in 1929 just unearthed

A plumbing company excavating the former site of a Packard dealership in Santa Ana recently dug up about 50 matched pairs of license plates, some sequential numbers. Leftovers that didn't get registered that year? Shady business from the loading dock? We'll never know.

Found in Hot Rod Delux magazine. Awesome magazine

the vanity plates at this years BMW clean car concours

Rubicks Cube. Clever vanity plate

Trusting that having the right color registration sticker will fool the cops... busted, because I look at these when stuck in traffic

That red decal, which appears to be 2006, is the same color as the currently legal 2011 red color sticker. That some of the red was accidentally peeled away exposing the yellow one behind it made me look close to see why some was missing. Poor technique I guess.

Some people collect the whole set of colored registration stickers
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/unusual-way-to-display-registration.html

The most interesting signs, awards, and petroliana I found at the Mendenhall Museum in Buellton

The above is the art work of Pete Millar, and is actually an ad for Isky Cams























I've never heard of the Pontiac Trail




I wish I knew the story of how this cop car door left the cop car, and became a wall ornament for it's life after law enforcement

Cool mileage map








Biggest Sun test bench I've seen













a Mickey Thompson timing tag, wow
Amazing, how did any paper souvenirs last?
Awesome that Vice Grip was giving out trophys, and this is the first I've seen
The above roadster was hand carved



all of these are only a small fraction of the cool stuff at the Mendenhall Museum of Petroliana in Buellton Ca, just about 30 minutes North of Santa Barbara http://www.mendenhallmuseum.com