[♥]

Do you have a custom plate and if so what does it say?

Or, have you seen a really cool one?

Where I live there are a lot of them. I think that fully 50% of the plates on the road are custom license plates.

[turtle777]

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Let the bashing begin

-t

[baw]

I used to have Mac G5 on my truck back in 2001, way before the G5's came out.

[♥]

Then you should get ready for G6, shouldn't you?

[MacNStein]

I used to have a pair of them:

MAG1KAL and KONXLVX

I let them both lapse due to professional concerns.

[davesimondotcom]

My current license plate is:

WEBDAV

In the past I've had: SWIM DOG (in honor of my black Lab, Chinook), HARD DRV (triple meaning - computers, golf and driving), BASE HIT (when my life revolved around baseball in high school)

Thought about getting OMG WTF, but I didn't.

[suvsr4terrorists]

I feel like I give enough money to the state to have normal plates. There's no way they're getting even more $ from me to have custom ones.

[bembol]

BEMBOL my (Filipino) nickname...my plates also have the Toronto Maple Leafs logo

[Paco500]

My brother has OSX USER

He's a dork.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Paco500

My brother has OSX USER

Pff, I have seen something similar on a girly car in Norfolk, VA.
OSX LOVR or something.

Didn't know what to think of that...

-t

[spatterson]

Mine is NIMBS2K

Lets see if you guys can get it!

[suvsr4terrorists]

I think Mr Potter would get it. ;P

[spatterson]

Originally Posted by suvsr4terrorists

I think Mr Potter would get it. ;P

I know, its pretty dorky, but at the time I couldn't resist.

[OwlBoy]

Originally Posted by spatterson

Mine is NIMBS2K

Lets see if you guys can get it!

hehe, thats great, prolly makes lots of Potter fans smile.

Mine is OWLBOY.
http://owlboy.com/misc_gallery/file/...boy_plates.jpg

-Owl

[davesimondotcom]

Originally Posted by spatterson

Mine is NIMBS2K

Lets see if you guys can get it!

When you get a new car, will it be FIREBLT ?

[spacefreak]

I flee from cops quite often, so my vanity plate of XYXYKY comes in handy.

[OwlBoy]

Originally Posted by spacefreak

I flee from cops quite often, so my vanity plate of XYXYKY comes in handy.

hahahhaha thats hilarious. Even trying to read it I goofed up.

-Owl

[rickey939]

[Montezuma58]

Mine is just my first name and last initial. I have a specialty plate that only has five spaces so its hard too much with.

I see too many plates where it looks like the owner it trying to cram War and Peace into 7 letters. When I see one of these I think to myself, "buy a ****ing vowel dipshit."

[jonn804]

Car 1 - Dralion
Car 2 - Saabie

[olePigeon]

[Hugi]

Out of curiosity, how much do custom license plates cost where you are? They cost about $600 here in Iceland (for the first two years, then there's a renewal fee that I'm too lazy to look up).

[Atomic Rooster]

That's it...be really stupid and give everyone your plate number.

Calling all stalkers and license plate serial killers!!

[dreilly1]

I don't have a customized plate, but this is the one I'd take in a heartbeat...

[amsalpemkcus]

Teh733t

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by Hugi

Out of curiosity, how much do custom license plates cost where you are? They cost about $600 here in Iceland (for the first two years, then there's a renewal fee that I'm too lazy to look up).

Mine's $83 a year here in California. That includes tags.

[stevesnj]

[KeriVit]

Mine is/ was... (moving can't keep, and I packed the plates already) GO-PATS.... In Georgia, I'm going for PATSFAN

[davesimondotcom]

Originally Posted by amsalpemkcus

Teh733t

I've actually seen that one in Montana... was on a Jeep I think.

[turtle777]

Darn, I got tookinated... by a few pixels... A well

-t

[Demonhood]

ok, so not really. i think it was already taken.

[OB1]

Custom plates = Hideous display of wealth.

[rickey939]

Originally Posted by OB1

Custom plates = Hideous display of wealth.

I did see a Lexus the other day with the following plate:

54687

I'm not a betting man; however, I'm willing to bet that is the sales price of the damn car.

[♥]

I almost got into an accident the other day trying to read a plate. I was very intrigued. I followed him trying to decipher the plate and when we happened to stop at an intersection I asked him what his plate meant. He was very puzzled. "What do you mean 'what does my plate mean?'" he asked. I said, "Your license plate. What do the letters and numbers mean?" I was trying to sound friendly, but he clearly thought I was strange. In fact, I began to think that perhaps he thought I was trying some strange pickup line with him. He said, "My license plate doesn't 'mean' anything. It was given to me by the DMV." Then he drove off in a huff.

So, I guess sometimes a license plate is just a license plate and not a road-Rorschach test.

[buggsuperstar]

Originally Posted by ♥

-=snip=-

So, I guess sometimes a license plate is just a license plate and not a road-Rorschach test.

So what was the plate?

[bembol]

Originally Posted by spacefreak

I flee from cops quite often, so my vanity plate of XYXYKY comes in handy.

I've seen 1's and 0's on a this Civic

"10101101"

Another Civic plate, I don't know how this one was approved...?!?!

"BIATCH"

[suvsr4terrorists]

I saw a BMW 7 series being driven by some overly tan trophy wife who sucked her way to a rich husband, and her license plate said "SHOP247". I'm glad I didn't have a gun.

[jebjeb]

Private plates here in the UK are very (stupidly) expensive. There is pretty much only one style of plate and as there are not different plates for different states, it means that all the combinations are shared across the whole country.

The plates here actually represent (most of the time) the year that the vehicle was first registered. Back in 2001, the plate style changed. It used to start with one letter then two or three numbers then a further three letters. The first letter was represented the time period. There was a first letter change every six months. Since 2001, the plate starts with two letters (Generally represents the area of the country but not always), then two numbers and then three letters. The two numbers represent when the car was first registered. The first of the numbers is either a 0 or a 5 which represents the half of the year. The second number is the year number (i.e. 2002 would be a 2). Best to give an example. AB 51 ABC would be a plate registered between September 2001 and February 2002. AB 02 ABC would be registered between April '02 and August '02.

To buy a plate (it is a one off fee then just your normal yearly car tax/registration fee) it costs between about £100 and £100,000! The cheapest plate I could get in the new style would be about £400 which is crazy. You cannot make your vehicle look "younger" than it is by putting a new plate on it. That means on my '51 (January 2002) C32 I could not go and put AU 05 JEB on it as that may make it look three years younger.

There are also other variations of plate format but they are a little rarer and more expensive.

The worst thing about all this is that people try and make words out of crazy combinations as the format is so fixed. Below are some random examples from a website and these are cheapish ones! You regularly see plates advertised in the back of magazines for seventy or eighty thousand pounds!

JE55 CAZ £2,248.00
J33 HNN £199.00
E7 EMA £1,948.00
V28 JOE £948.00
B3 ENX £348.00
D15 ALN £548.00
SX53 ANG £748.00
SX55 ANG £748.00
AL05 ANN £1,248.00
FL51 ANN £1,548.00
E2 VAN £1,948.00
E2 SAM £3,948.00
G1 BBB £2,448.00
LL54 UCY £1,948.00
DR03 BBY £748.00
MR03 BBY £748.00
W33 MEL £2,948.00

If you want to be amazed at the amount of money someone would spend on a plate that hardly spells what they want, have a go at this site, http://www.dvla-som.co.uk/home/

So in answer to your question (finally he says ), no, I don't have a personalised plate. But I did have a mate in Australia (where one of the plate styles is three letters, two numbers a another letter) whose name was Jeff and he got JEF 69R!

[spatterson]

Originally Posted by davesimondotcom

When you get a new car, will it be FIREBLT ?

Perhaps... There was this one guy driving this hooptie with the license plate HPOTTER.

There was some grungy old man in the drivers seat. At first I was like "oh no he didn't"

[wdlove]

I don't have a vanity plate. Sorry can't remember seeing any unusual ones.

[dreilly1]

There was someone here in Rochester that had a lime-green VW beetle with the license plate "Y2K BUG". They must have sold the beetle, because I saw the license plate on a different car (I think a Jeep) last year....

[Demonhood]

two i've spotted:

[suvsr4terrorists]

I saw one that I thought was creative:

"PLAN AH" and to the right of the plate, he used stickers on his car that said "EAD"

[davesimondotcom]

Originally Posted by dreilly1

There was someone here in Rochester that had a lime-green VW beetle with the license plate "Y2K BUG". They must have sold the beetle, because I saw the license plate on a different car (I think a Jeep) last year....

I told a friend who was getting a model year 2000 Beetle to get Y2K BUG but they didn't...

This was a few years back.

[crabsandbeer]

SNAAB

[turtle777]

-t

[alligator]

We have someone near us in Minneapolis with a Y2k plate for a beetle. I personally have my ham radio call sign - cost me a whopping $17 a year to have that.

[KeriVit]

Originally Posted by OB1

Custom plates = Hideous display of wealth.

How much are vanity plates where you are? Is it really hideous wealth? Here they're about$50 more per year (if that). So the reg cost $350 instead of $300.

I never considered myself wealthy, but really wanted the plate to go with the car, and didn't think $4/mo. was so bad.

[OB1]

Originally Posted by KeriVit

How much are vanity plates where you are? Is it really hideous wealth? Here they're about$50 more per year (if that). So the reg cost $350 instead of $300.

I never considered myself wealthy, but really wanted the plate to go with the car, and didn't think $4/mo. was so bad.

Hideous display.

[Montezuma58]

Originally Posted by davesimondotcom

I told a friend who was getting a model year 2000 Beetle to get Y2K BUG but they didn't...

This was a few years back.

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There is a VW Beetle where I work that has the plate "IDBUG". Of course my work place deals with software.