The Grimsby Licence Plate Swap meet is coming up on Saturday, October 21. All details can be found in the meet flyer.
The swap meet is a great place to browse and collect licence plates from anywhere and any-when, although Ontario and Canada are best-represented.
Ontplates.com doesn’t operate a formal booth at the Grimsby meet. That’s because I’m too busy co-hosting the meet itself, selling collectible plates, and looking for collectible plates for my own collection. I do bring limited YOM stock from Ontplates.com if either of two situations arise:
- Someone is purchasing a YOM pair and has arranged in advance for pick-up in Grimsby to save the $20 shipping, or
- Someone has requested in advance that I bring pairs of a certain year so they can see them in person and choose which one they like the most.
In past years, the full Ontplates.com stock was available for casual browsing at these meets. But 99% of the people I see are collectors and not classic car owners looking for YOM pairs, so there was little or no need to have the YOM stock on-hand. So unless I get a request, the stock stays home, and I stick to the hobby side of things.
Read here about Grimsby 2022. The attendance record was shattered that year, with 123 participants. Consider attending if you’re even remotely interested in old licence plates. It’s a lot of fun!