Ford Trucks Specialty Plate

[Machspeed]

Hey friends, looking for a vintage specialty plate as pictured below. Email me if you have one for sale, please.

[Gary Lewis]

Or, know of one for sale?  I'm thinking Mr Find It (David) might find it for you.

[Rembrant]

Machspeed wrote

Hey friends, looking for a vintage specialty plate as pictured below. Email me if you have one for sale, please.

Would you believe that I just gave away one of these plates??>..lol. Well, sort of. These plates are getting really hard to find, and I had looked for one for 3-4 years straight with no luck. I happened to be scanning the online classifieds coast to coast one day, and I came across this ad on the west coast of a guy trying to sell an Econoline grill (as a Bullnose grill) and he was going to throw in one of these Ford plates that he said had been hanging on the wall in his garage for decades. A few emails later, I ended up buying the plate and he mailed it across the country to me...3500+ miles. I had it proudly displayed on the front of my '84.



The province did away with our front plate requirement 20+ years ago, so we can put whatever we want up front. The day I listed my '84 for sale, a friend of mine...also a hardcore Ford guy, even more so than me, messaged me and asked if he could buy the plate. I had no plans of letting it go with the truck, but other than that, it was probably going to hang on the wall in my garage until somebody wanted one. Anyway, months later, I finally ended up dropping the plate off to him just last week. This is always the way. Somebody else one here has one on the front...I think Reamer??

So good luck in your hunt John. I think they look very cool, but they are getting hard to find.

PS: Good trivia question for the guys that are old enough to remember is, what era/years are these plates from? My friend and I were just discussing this last week, and we kinda figured that they were late 70's to the late 80's? Does that sound right?

[Rembrant]

Rembrant wrote

Somebody else one here has one on the front...I think Reamer??

Yes, Ron has one up front, and I think it was his truck that inspired me to hunt all over the planet for one as well!

[salans7]

Rembrant wrote

PS: Good trivia question for the guys that are old enough to remember is, what era/years are these plates from? My friend and I were just discussing this last week, and we kinda figured that they were late 70's to the late 80's? Does that sound right?

Straight from Bill's memory:

NumberDummy wrote

Originally sold in the 1980's/90's Ford Motorsport catalog, list price was around 10 bucks.

[Gary Lewis]

So Angelo's Motorsport catalog should show them?  Cool!  We might be able to track some down with the part number.

[Machspeed]

Ohhhhh jeez Cory, you're killing me....LOL! Just gave it away....

Maybe he'd want to sell it?

I remember these plates back in the day, thinking they were, as you said, a late 70 to 80's thing. Strange that I showed no interest in them back then.  

[Machspeed]

Cancel this request. Found something else.

[Gary Lewis]

Tease!  What did you find???