I don't have a problem with this "fetish" .. in fact I suffer from
a similar fate...all my cars have German plates on them...the
real ones...I have a friend who has a cousin who lives outside
of Munich who works for the post-office and he gets the
old plates on cars of those people who move to another 
city...anyway he has to "certify" the destruction of the plates...
sending them to me is one way of "destroying" them I guess...

Foreign licence plates are like that old saying "You always want
what you cant have"...

Ric