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Can anyone give me suggestions or hints on how to restore license plates so that a clean crisp appearence between the base color and the numbers color can be obtained? This is a neat pair of 1962 Michigan plates that have the prefix GM. If I don't stay away from the bead blast cabinet pretty soon, there will nothing left of them. Thanks!
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A couple suggestions for you Oldie. I don't know exactly where you are at but if you get your plate painted the white background find a sign shop that can re-letter it for you. Or send me an e-mail and I'll give you a price to do it. [Sign painters are kinda obsolete,since the computer took over.]
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Rod, thanks for the information. I saw that you were on line and though you might respond. I'll send you an e-mail and if the price is right, I'll bring them to the next LMR meeting. Dick
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Hi Dick, sorry, I didn't know who I was responding to. Yeah bring the plate[s] when you get them ready and I'll letter them for you.
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Thanks Rod, we'll get together. These plates are for the wife of my ex-boss at GM. They live just up the street and we exchange taking care of each others pets when we're out of town. She just bought a '63 Corvair two door with a puffer (turbo) engine just like she had in 1963. She knows nothing about the hobby and I told her to hold off on the license plates until I could get these originals restored.
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Oldie, here is the web address of a fellow who does a great job of plate restoration and the price for the work is not bad. http://www.darrylsplates.com\ 
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Thanks for the License plate restoration information. I added the site to my Favorites for future reference.
Dick
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JYD, he did my 29 Calif plates and Calif is real tough on the color matching for restored plates and they wanted to know if they had ever been used on a car. Nice work for the money. Kirk
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Ya, you can't beat it and his work appears to be top quality! I've got that dude bookmarked on my computer! Thanks for the info! :)  :)
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