Vanity plates
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Vanity plates
Amusing article in the Wall Street Journal on the vanity plate police:
Policing Vanity License Plates Is No Job for an EJIT - WSJ
PD2911 better be careful with her license plate!
Policing Vanity License Plates Is No Job for an EJIT - WSJ
...Such victories are rare, particularly in California, whose vanity plate standards appear to be among the most rigid...
The word KITTEN has been whisked away by Golden State reviewers who found it too suggestive. California might make an exception if the applicant’s plate adorns a Jaguar. “Even if on a Jaguar, some license plates with the cat/kitten reference may still not be acceptable,” a state official said.
Other states are more feline friendly.
Kitten “shouldn’t be a problem here. Kitty is an animal,” said Shannon Fassett, chief of information and processing for Vermont’s DMV. “We’re a lot more lenient than California”...
The word KITTEN has been whisked away by Golden State reviewers who found it too suggestive. California might make an exception if the applicant’s plate adorns a Jaguar. “Even if on a Jaguar, some license plates with the cat/kitten reference may still not be acceptable,” a state official said.
Other states are more feline friendly.
Kitten “shouldn’t be a problem here. Kitty is an animal,” said Shannon Fassett, chief of information and processing for Vermont’s DMV. “We’re a lot more lenient than California”...
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Good read. I like SSVNWI—among the more inspired but denied submissions—is apparent only when you flip it upside down and backward.
Although I don't see the problem with it nor would I want it but very obscure and glad they deciphered it for me. Political correctness is out of control or is our sense of humour getting lost to appease one or two people?
Local car here just has IMBI which makes me smile and happy they put it out there.
Although I don't see the problem with it nor would I want it but very obscure and glad they deciphered it for me. Political correctness is out of control or is our sense of humour getting lost to appease one or two people?
Local car here just has IMBI which makes me smile and happy they put it out there.
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My plate is P1. That's been my plate for about a decade now. I put it on the Jag since I have an "M5" plate for the M5.
I would have liked to have a cool word like Cat, Roar, Pur, but at the end of the day these words are all taken up and I'm not one to use misspelling on my plate. Plus I like a very short plate since it is harder to read especially when it is white lettering on a light blue plate.
I would have liked to have a cool word like Cat, Roar, Pur, but at the end of the day these words are all taken up and I'm not one to use misspelling on my plate. Plus I like a very short plate since it is harder to read especially when it is white lettering on a light blue plate.
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With all the backlash towards the "good to be bad" villain ads, I'm surprised some pc lib didn't kick this back for some crazy reason.
With all the backlash towards the "good to be bad" villain ads, I'm surprised some pc lib didn't kick this back for some crazy reason.
I have a friend who used to be in the scrap metal business and he had as his plate: ISCRAP (to be read as "EYE SCRAP" and not "IS CRAP"; although I guess they're easily confused). People used to pass his vehicle and shake their fists at him, thinking he was a boxer.
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Just always "accidentally" have some dirt on the bottom of the E.
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That said I did just run a check and the following are available (and permissible)
F-TYPE
VILLAIN
F-15
Not for me but cool nonetheless.
KITTEN, as I suspected, is already taken.
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http://jalopnik.com/heres-a-car-that-tells-you-what-it-is-again-then-once-1649491345
Anytime you use the name of your car in your plate, you start to run the risk of looking like this douche in his red zl1 red zl1 red zl1.
Anytime you use the name of your car in your plate, you start to run the risk of looking like this douche in his red zl1 red zl1 red zl1.
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I didn't want to change my name, but I did decide on 28347FC for my vanity plate.
