Lowest License Plate #

[Island Daze]

It seems like everyone has to have a Abaco license plate on their stateside vehicle and i was wondering who has the oldest or lowest number plate>I have plate #783 with gold background and blue lettering.

[ModeratorTwo]

Great question, thanks Daze.

[DrRalph]

In 1997 we cruised through the Berry Islands, spent the first three days in Great Harbour. One day we rented a car (actually, an old US Postal Service truck), drove around for a while, and wound up getting lost. We found "the dump," and took this plate off of an old beat-up Oldsmobile that was sitting in the mangroves. Someone there told us that it was "very valuable" because it was a bicentennial tag.

[AbacoPeach]

Jerry has an Abaco bicentennial tag #1162 on his truck. Before I bought my Mustang, I had a regular Abaco tag #1473 on my Honda circa 1998 (Our return to Abaco after ten years and have been coming back every year since then). Front tags don't look so great on the new Mustangs so as you can see from my avatar, I have a prestige tag -- "ILUVGGC"! People are always wondering what the means. LOL You wouldn't believe some of the questions we get/got asked about those tags! Some guy even asked me if I bought my car in Abaco! LOL :confused:

[patw]

I have a bicentennial also only mine says Abaco and its number 3804

In 1997 we cruised through the Berry Islands, spent the first three days in Great Harbour. One day we rented a car (actually, an old US Postal Service truck), drove around for a while, and wound up getting lost. We found "the dump," and took this plate off of an old beat-up Oldsmobile that was sitting in the mangroves. Someone there told us that it was "very valuable" because it was a bicentennial tag.

[AbacoPeach]

Here it is:

[patw]

Here is mine, sorry Ralph the number is 3004 not 3804 like I previously posted.
I blew the engine in this old Jeep and needed something to hang that tag on so we put in a new engine! LOL!

[Island Daze]

Yeah the questions i get are very bizarre but also i have met a ton of people that have been to the Abacos and know the sme people as i do.I like the Bicentenial plate good find.If anyone is in GTC go by Sundowners they are selling license plates to raise money for the ECC school.Keep it up this thread could be interresting.

[patw]

I was at the mall in Orange Park, Fl. where I used to live and a lady came up to me when I was unlocking my Jeep and told me that I shouldn't keep that tag on my car because someone would steal it because the bicentennial tag is valuable. I don't know if that is true but I know its very valuable to me!

Yeah the questions i get are very bizarre but also i have met a ton of people that have been to the Abacos and know the sme people as i do.I like the Bicentenial plate good find.If anyone is in GTC go by Sundowners they are selling license plates to raise money for the ECC school.Keep it up this thread could be interresting.

[Island Daze]

I constantly get people that ask me if i lived there and the occasional question about the commute.585 miles as the crow flies from Ocracoke to GTC.If anyone needs a motorcycle plate email or pm me, just pay for shipping and it is yours.

[BA]

on the "1492-1992" plate - we've got #1166. Our regular blue w/ yellow trim plate is # 3424.
I can't believe I remembered where those things were! Now I need to find a place to put them!

[Abakimmy]

I have 709 and 740. Not bicentennial though. I have on numerous occasions been asked about the plates. Rod likes to tell them we drove the car through the tunnel. Most are too clueless to know any different. And we don't correct them! :D
Another interesting fact about the "real" Abaco plates. When we recently replaced our truck that lives in Abaco, we were told to keep the plate, so we did. When we went to register the new truck and transfer the plate to it, the lady told us, "Oh yes, you definitely did right to keep the plate, because the plate is attached to YOU in the records. If you went out and did something bad in that truck that plate would tell us who you are! You don't wanna be givin' that plate to nobody else, mon!" :eek: Guess we better be careful now!

[haziewaller]

I have a regular plate #637. Do I win??? BTW, IslandDaze, check out my KY plate on the wall at Sundowners.

[HALF-A-HAMIAN]

:D Here's my Quinticentenial (500 years) plate from my cousin's Camaro. I also have some low-number truck plates in storage somewhere.

[Jerry S]

Not a license plate but a pretty picture...

[HALF-A-HAMIAN]

I'd trade my plate to be there now!;)

[Charlotte Couple]

Getting off the topic of this thread, but since Jerry posted that photo, I'll chime in. I attended a slide show and talk by a former space shuttle commander a few years ago. He had slides of different areas of Earth from his voyage, and when he showed a view of the Bahamas his comment was, "This was the most beautiful color of water we saw anywhere." I agree 100% with him. When we see anything that is that color it always reminds us of our favorite place in the world, Abaco, with its rich turquoise waters, white sands and green islands. Is there a prettier combination than that?

[Bahama Bound]

1980's truck plate ...