<VV> license plate restoration

[Dennis Pleau]

My first thought is to shoot the background color and roll the foreground
color with a very short napped roller.  

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc Sheridan" <sheridanma1966 at gmail.com>
To: "Virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 4:52 PM
Subject: <VV> license plate restoration


> Anybody here ever restore license plates? In Ohio you can run plates that
> were issued for the year of your car. I just finished a pair and it was 
> way
> more work than I anticipated. A local hot rodder told me it was easy, just
> shoot the number color first, followed by the background color. Then 
> simply
> sand the numbers down to the number color and clear coat.
>
> Let me offer suggestions from my experience. As with other projects I have
> done, whenever you assume something is flat, it isn't.  I sanded all the 
> way
> to metal in spots and had to touch up with a brush. When you select plates
> at the swap meet, don't buy the bargain, rusty tags for five bucks, like I
> did. It is well worth the extra to get rust free straight tags. Sometimes
> you can get ready to put on the car tags for thirty dollars or so, it is
> worth it.
>
> Marc Sheridan
> '66 Monza 'vert with 1966 Ohio tags