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Here’s a photo that was on Facebook I thought was really telling. I have a small Texas plate like the one above that I found in my Grandfathers garage that’s in fair shape. I’m in Texas and I’m pretty sure the plate I have was on the Coupe I inherited from him years before. The plate is the first thing that caught my eye. The rest is in the title of this post!

Could that be a wartime plate? I've never seen a Texas plate that small except on a motorcycle. Texas issued small metal tags, under 2" square, to be attached to regular plates during at least several of the war years.

Looks to be a 1922
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Here’s the Texas 1924 Motor Vehicle license plate that I found in my Grandfathers garage. I thought I could restore it years ago but it’s so brittle I decided not to. I tried to paint it just to more clearly see the lettering.

Pat, In this photo on the right is a Texas plate of the war years-1944. Also, 1921 and ‘22 plates.

Older plates I used to find in this area were of all the long type. Some later ones from the 1940s were more nearly square. I used to have several new pairs of 1948 Truck plates.

When Chickasha was still going there was an older vendor that had boxes of old car plates but I never found any of the Texas postcard size plates like mine. He had a few of the later Texas plates in the 30’s but not any older. He was from Oklahoma and a really nice guy. What impressed me was that he had boxes full of old plates and the only vendor there that had plates. Probably Hershey has license plate collectors but I never went that far to a meet.

As far as the young lady on the hood of the T that wouldn’t happen today on a restored T and probably not on today’s cars either!