Re: Replacement for acrylic personalised front license plate

Hot Rod Roy said: You rear plate is a genuine "personalized" license plate, available at extra cost to California residents, plus an additional annual renewal fee from the California Dept. of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Since it is a metal plate, have you considered making a plastic duplicate, by placing the plate (upside down) in an oven with a polycarbonate plastic sheet on top of it. Bake it at a temperature high enough to let the plastic sheet soften and conform to the metal plate. Let it cool, and you have a duplicate that can be painted on the back side. That should be even more accurate than your broken front plate! You might try photographing your rear plate, then printing it at the right size to replicate the California script! The script on your existing front plate is pretty close! The front plate would not have the month and year stickers. The Sesquicentenial text can be deleted, too (optional).

That's an interesting story about your ability to keep the California plates on the car!

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Thanks, Hot Rod. That's a good suggestion that I'll look into. As you say, getting a mould from the rear plate would provide a base for painting in the rego. You have correctly noticed the slight variation in the 'California' script...well observed! Our Kiwi vanity plates are plain vanilla b/w, just like the standard ones. Apart from the damaged front plate, the car is in extremely tidy condition with no paint blemishes at all. I need to do a few cosmetic things on the interior (like damage to trim where screws have been overtightened, dang it!). And of course the famous driver window rattle needs a fix - these things are easy enough to get here as we have plenty of support for Corvettes.

Topic: Replacement for acrylic personalised front license plate

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