Show Me Your Vintage P Dealer Plate Frames.

[LongRanger]

From the '70 PDL . . .

917/005/1
Ted Trudon, Inc
Route 83, Tolland Turnpike
Talcottville (Hartford), CT

Dull white lettering on a dull blue back-round, flash-chromed, no maker identified. Handsome devil, this . . . despite moderate corrosion + tweaking + cracking/impact damage --- and apparently still attached/welded to the plate it was originally issued with, std CT pass iss + mo + yr of exp reg tag. Paint is remarkable. Anyway, stuff from the Northeast is pretty scarce, so . . . take what I can get

Frame is interesting as it inverts the usual city-on-top/Dealer-on-bottom format . . . apparently to allow clearance for the annual reg tag placement, in the lower right. Could this have been true for all 'pairs' of frames? --- giving one a choice for whatever tags/paraphernalia/etc may need to be accommodated?

[LongRanger]

. . . Anyone know of an old frame from a Massachusetts dealer? . . .

Here ya go . . .

From the '68 PDL . . .

917/101/1
Atamian Motors, Inc
1013 Main St
Worchester, MA

. . . moving/becoming . . .

Atamian Porsche Audi, Inc
550 Park Ave
Worchester, MA

. . . ~1970

Dull white lettering on a metallic blue back-round, flash-chromed, no maker . . . pitted + ruined --- but snazzy, still. Plate is std MA pass iss, '67 - '70. Registrations were issued as windshield stickers during this period, then plate stickers from '71 on

[LongRanger]

. . . Anybody seen any canadian dealer frames? . . .

Sure have, eh . . .

From the '68 + '69 + '72 PDLs . . .

999/588/1
Volkswagen Northern (1963) Ltd
10823 Kingsway Ave
Edmonton, Alberta

My home-town. Dull white lettering on a blue back-round, flash-chromed, no maker ID'd

Note the odd-ball bottom-only attachment points . . . requiring a little creativity to mount, looks like. SK plates are all apparently straight numerics, year-of-issue, and this was the 1st year their plate was 'reflectorized'

[LongRanger]

From the '72 PDL . . .

Volkswagen Pacific Sales & Service Ltd
1190 W. Georgia St
Vancouver, BC

. . . or . . .

4444 Longheed Highway
Burnaby, BC

Turned-up in a recent for-sale posting . . .

http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...unroof-165-000


No details (and I asked . . . ) --- other than what's in the photo

What's interesting is that it looks like Canadian frames have the dealership's name on top, and the city on the bottom --- the reverse of the US format

[LongRanger]

From the '70 PDL . . .

Norm Bishop Volkswagen
1017 Jefferson Street, PO Box 955
Boise, ID

. . . from the '71 and '72 PDL . . .

Franklin at Freeway
Boise, ID 83701


One of four franchisees I've found pushing Porsches in the Gem State

Dull white lettering on a dull blue back-round, flash-chromed, no makers marks/ID
Plate is std ID pass, '68 base plate, year-of-iss reg sticker, '2T' = Twin Falls county

[LongRanger]

From the '70 PDL . . .

Moore Motors, Inc
4640 No Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA

. . . and from the '71 and '72 PDLs . . .

Moore Porsche Audi, Inc
4620 No Broad Street
Philadelphia

Dull white lettering, dull blue back-round, flash-chromed, maker = unkn

Reg PA pass issue, modified by yearly reg stickers, this the last baseplate to feature an outline of the 'keystone' state

[LongRanger]

From the '69, '70, and '73 PDLs . . .

Clarkdale Motors Ltd
4575 Main Street
Vancouver, BC

Dull white lettering on a darker blue back-round, flash-chromed, no maker ID. Plate = std pass iss, year-of-exp reg tag

Can only find 9 Canadian dealers listed for '70

[LongRanger]

From the '69 and '70 PDLs . . .

911/401/1
Art Bunker Volkswagen, Inc
7800 Warnall Road
Kansas City, MO

. . . from the '71 and '72 PDLs

Art Bunker Porsche Audi, Inc
I-35 at 87th Street Exit
Overland Park (Kansas City), KS

Dull white lettering on brighter blue back-round, flash-chromed, no maker ID'd

Plate is reg pass iss MO, stamped w/ yr + mo of exp --- 1st letter = mo of exp

One o' Those Guys who raced + won w/ Porsche, back in the early days --- along with Charlie Wallace, Lake Underwood, and some guy named Bob Holbert . . . helping Porsche to earn their reputation as Giant Killers. More talented than an amateur, Bunker started out in the '50s w/ 550s --- raced/placed in the '58 Nürburgring (one of two Americans entered) . . . continuing on into the '70s in 914-6s

[LongRanger]

. . . his car-hauler was kinda famous, too . . .

. . . repo'd for an Essen show, some years back


'Rennstall' = racing team

[913]

Owed money, got the frame...