body and interior Vasek Polak License Plate Frame

[Gordon]

Wow, Check out the buy it now price of this VP license plate frame on Ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-Hermosa-Beach-California-Vasek-Polak-BMW-Vintage-Dealer-License-Plate-Frame-/121237734936

I have taken my VP license plate off my tii and I'll only put it on for 02 shows. I have other CA dealership frames I use for daily use. I use to have an Ocean Motors frame in Santa Monica but it cracked while I was cleaning it. That was the original BMW dealership in Santa Monica before it became BMW of Santa Monica.

G-Man

[OriginalOwner]

 Nice !!

 

 I have my original Saddleback BMW frame ...... Saddleback later moved north to become Irvine BMW.

 

Cheers,

 

Carl

[DavidLMM]

Anyone out there have a Peter Pan BMW (metal) they could part with? I've been watching via eBay search for over a year with no luck. Tried to get by there during OFest, but flight delays put us in San Mateo at about 10pm!

Vasek Polak always seems to command the highest premiums, but several of the west coast dealers are consistently over $100.

[Mike Self]

My '73 was sold new at Mill Valley Imports just north of SF; one of the nice folks on the board sent me a beautiful chrome Mill Valley Imports license plate frame that's period to the car.  And I still have the Bavarian Motors (Queens NY) badge for my '69...

 

mike

[HBChris]

That VP frame will still be for sale in 2015, all his prices are very high and never seem to sell.

[BrentF]

NOS Vasek Polak Porsche dealership frames routinely sell for north of $500.

 

Edited January 7, 2014 by BrentF

[Chamonix72]

If anyone has a Phil Smart Imports (Seattle) license plate frame, let me know. My car was purchased new there. Phil Smart later became an exclusive Mercedes Benz dealer.

[markmac]

If it were a VP "Porsche" plate frame would have been long gone, given these days 911T's are selling for $50k plus regularly and nice "S" versions are 3x that.  Crazy.

 

www.alpinabmw2002.com

[HBChris]

And the Porsche/Audi frames are worth much less. The early Porsche guys want the Manhattan Beach frame more than the Redondo Beach frame but even one of these goes for big bucks. Early BMW frames also said MB and were red but in 70 or so he moved across the street to Hermosa Beach which are the ones you see today. He used these frames up through mid 90s on e34s.

[mike472]

I'm surprised at all you left coast guys not wanting to sport this plate frame. This was the counterculture car of choice in the 70's. Only $9.99 plus shipping

Edited January 8, 2014 by mike472

[BrentF]

Just picked up this original VP frame today:

 

[OriginalOwner]

TOTALLY AWESOME !!!

 

Cheers,

 

Carl

[HBChris]

Looks nice, I have several, bought my first 02 there in 1974.  That's the later version used into the early 90s, the font is taller on top.

[Gordon]

VP had a black plastic BMW Hermosa Beach license plate frame as well,  I had that frame on my daughters E30 that she had while going to school at UC Berkeley.  She took her car into a local independent Berkeley BMW shop that was referred by members of the R3V forum and while it was be serviced, they took off her VP frame and tossed it in trash and put their own shop license plate frame on her car without asking her permission. Several years later, I'm still waiting on them to deliver me another VP frame but I won't hold my breath that I'll ever see it.

 

G-Man

[BrentF]

Here's the history of this frame as told by the seller:

 

"Used license plate holder, taken from  my 2002 BMW in 1978, after it was totalled. Just found it buried in my storage....Chrome plated and all original, metal.  Says on back: Robert W. Brown & Co. Inc, Downey, CALIF."

 

I hope it isn't jinxed?