My wife found this plate metal detecting near our house... Figured I'd try

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Jan 13, 2021
6:44:50pm

VACOUGFAN All-American

My wife found this plate metal detecting near our house... Figured I'd try

my hand at restoring it. It's an old county license that predates Virginia county stickers.

Here's the after.

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My wife found this plate metal detecting near our house... Figured I'd try

VACOUGFAN

1/13/21 6:44pm

Wow, good work. What did you use to fill in the rusted out part?

WDaddy

1/13/21 6:46pm

YEAH, The fill in is really good ... how?

Xenon

1/13/21 6:49pm

Frog DNA

Parker Schnabel

1/13/21 7:00pm

Freaking scientists learned nothing from Isla Nublar

TNT

1/13/21 7:03pm

RE: Frog DNA

Puma14

1/14/21 9:34am

Metallic Bondo.

VACOUGFAN

1/13/21 7:04pm

Nicely done!! Turned out great.

rerunc

1/13/21 6:47pm

Looks cool. What are you going to do with it?

1/13/21 6:51pm

Prob mount it and hang it up somewhere here.

VACOUGFAN

1/13/21 7:06pm

I'm more of a "rusty gold" kind of guy (meaning personally I prefer the original

Hoid

1/13/21 6:56pm

Yeah but this thing would have evaporated if left in its found condition.

VACOUGFAN

1/13/21 7:05pm

That’s cool. Any idea what year it’s from?

1/13/21 7:07pm

It's 1961. The county used these plates up until 1972 when they switched to

VACOUGFAN

1/13/21 7:14pm

I still see some county/city plates on cars. (Haymarket)

Squeegee

1/14/21 12:31pm

Yeah I've noticed the same as well.

VACOUGFAN

1/14/21 12:56pm

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