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License Plate Box

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500
500 Posts: 3,177
edited May 2016 in EggHead Forum
Saw this idea on the inter webs and decided to make one. I'm gonna make some more if I can find more plates. Original link here; https://thecavenderdiary.com/2014/03/16/a-texas-license-plate-becomes-a-box/
I'm gonna use it to hold BBQ sauces for a cookout that's being planned. 
I like my butt rubbed and my pork pulled.
Member since 2009

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  • Spaightlabs
    Spaightlabs Posts: 2,349
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 25,893
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    you must live in a state that re-plates annually. Here in IL we went 17 years before new plates were issued. That was in 1987. Then we went 14 more years with the same plates which finally got replaced in 2001 - so we are now into our 15th year.
    Re-gasketing America one yard at a time.
  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,027
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    Cool idea!
    "The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan

    Minnesota
  • Spaightlabs
    Spaightlabs Posts: 2,349
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    Excellent source of license plates is your neighbor's cars.
  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
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    Lookd cool. But i'm waiting for all the alarmist 'phobes here to advise against it because of coating, paints, metals, etc. :)

     
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  • 500
    500 Posts: 3,177
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    Lookd cool. But i'm waiting for all the alarmist 'phobes here to advise against it because of coating, paints, metals, etc. :)
    I ran it thru the dishwasher first. I think nuts or M&M's would be fine. I don't think I'd put salsa in it. 

    RRP said:
    you must live in a state that re-plates annually. Here in IL we went 17 years before new plates were issued. That was in 1987. Then we went 14 more years with the same plates which finally got replaced in 2001 - so we are now into our 15th year.
    They use plates here multible years. They issue stickers each year. I found this plate on the interstate. I picked it up when I stopped for a cooler that had been lost out the bed of some truck. Spaightlabs said:
    Excellent source of license plates is your neighbor's cars.
    I wish I didn't have to run a front plate or I'd make another from the front of The Hemi. 
    I like my butt rubbed and my pork pulled.
    Member since 2009
  • SoCalTim
    SoCalTim Posts: 2,158
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    Wonder if I can make one of those out my license plate?

    I've slow smoked and eaten so much pork, I'm legally recognized as being part swine - Chatsworth Ca.
  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    edited May 2016
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    I'm fine with it myself. Just seen people freak here about foil in the egg or rutland gaskets.:)
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  • Fred19Flintstone
    Fred19Flintstone Posts: 8,168
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    I've been collecting license plates for the past couple of months for sign making and a scoreboard.  I've seen that license plate dish on Pintrest and they're cool.  Nice job!
    Flint, Michigan
  • 500
    500 Posts: 3,177
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    I've been collecting license plates for the past couple of months for sign making and a scoreboard.  I've seen that license plate dish on Pintrest and they're cool.  Nice job!
    Cool. Love to see what you've done. Yes, I found the idea on Pintetest. 
    I like my butt rubbed and my pork pulled.
    Member since 2009
  • blasting
    blasting Posts: 6,262
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    SoCalTim said:
    Wonder if I can make one of those out my license plate?


    That looks like a legit plate - is that seriously your plate Tim?
    Phoenix 
  • SoCalTim
    SoCalTim Posts: 2,158
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    @blasting .. Hey brother, I had it made. It's a metal vanity plate.
    I've slow smoked and eaten so much pork, I'm legally recognized as being part swine - Chatsworth Ca.
  • THEBuckeye
    THEBuckeye Posts: 4,231
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    Was gonna say, driving around with that in SoCal would get your shot. 
    New Albany, Ohio 

  • dldawes1
    dldawes1 Posts: 2,208
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    I need to make me one too !!  RNNL8 BBQ !

    Donnie Dawes - RNNL8 BBQ - Carrollton, KY  

    TWIN XLBGEs, 1-Beautiful wife, 1 XS Yorkie

    I'm keeping serious from now on...no more joking around from me...Meatheads !! 


  • Spaightlabs
    Spaightlabs Posts: 2,349
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    SoCalTim said:
    Wonder if I can make one of those out my license plate?

    You might could make that one into a litter box.   =)
  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 16,989
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    Best/worst Plate I had seen was in California.
    Someone chose:
    "HIOCIFR"
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky