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Forum:	Hardware & Flown Items
Topic:	Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) license plates

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by FullThrottle: [B]What does a lunar rover license plate look like?! All these years and I never knew or realized it actually had a license plate! Was it also made by prisoners? :)[/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Go4Launch</TD><TD>Boeing released stickers and other items depicting "license plates" for the three Apollo lunar roving vehicles; yet photos don't seem to show any license plates on the vehicles themselves. So was the concept of an actual plate just fantasy on Boeing's part? </TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Cozmosis22</TD><TD>Am guessing that those "license plates" were just for fun <IMG SRC="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/smile.gif"> and never intended to go to the moon. </TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>SkyMan1958</TD><TD>Dave Scott took ~ 15 of them with him to the Moon. He carried them with him at all times that he was on the lunar surface.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>FullThrottle</TD><TD>What does a lunar rover license plate look like?! All these years and I never knew or realized it actually had a license plate! Was it also made by prisoners? <IMG SRC="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/smile.gif"></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Rusty B</TD><TD>A personalized plate?NASA (Not All Stamps Authorized) <IMG SRC="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/wink.gif"></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>ilbasso</TD><TD>This was a souvenir reproduction that Boeing distributed back in 1971.The small print at the bottom reads, "Replica of the Apollo 15 License Plate for the First Manned Lunar Roving Vehicle."<center> <IMG SRC="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp155/texwardo/LRV001.png"> </center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>lspooz</TD><TD>Okay, I've followed the RR Auction for one of Dave Scott's original 15 lunar rover license plates but with more than a week left the next bid is over $7200... Not bad for a flown/EVA artifact.While I'd love to win this, with the cost approaching a significant fraction of the cost of my own electric vehicle (LEAF) I'll probably have to pass. My question is: have any of these 15 been sold before? Any others out there [perhaps I should post as WTB]? Or should I contact Dave Scott directly?</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>SkyMan1958</TD><TD>Here's <A HREF="http://www.spaceflownartifacts.com/flown_license_plates.html" TARGET=_blank>a link</A> to when, and for how much, various of these have gone for...</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>lspooz</TD><TD>Thanks for the link - that actually makes me feel better since the plate will sell for a price SO FAR out of my reach [rather than just barely out-of-budget] that it won't be so tantalizing!</TD></TR></TABLE></td></tr></table>

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