# I can't get the license plates I want. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647 "2005-06-17T03:41:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/1 "2005-06-17T03:41:53Z")
I already have personalized tags, but for the past year or so I’ve been obsessed with the idea of getting license plates that say “867-5309” (yep, my name is Jenny :)). However, when I go to the cool DMV website that lets me play around with license plate styles and personalizations, I can’t seem to get anything even close to work. The best I can get is “867-S309,” but the “S” doesn’t look as much like a “5” as I’d hoped (and I feel like the “S” is jarring enough that it wouldn’t be worth getting the plates). I have tried 8675309, 867-5309, 86753O9, 867-53O9, and the above-mentioned 867-S309. At this point I’m starting to think that someone else simply beat me to it and I’m SOL, but does anyone have ideas for other things I can try? ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/2 "2005-06-17T13:02:49Z")
Upside down and backwards is 6032-L98 or B67-53O9 is worth a try ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/3 "2005-06-17T13:06:25Z")
A67-5309. Sounds like 867-5309. ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/4 "2005-06-17T14:04:59Z")
Is there anyone you would like me to write a letter to to help you get this tag? ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/5 "2005-06-17T14:30:52Z")
You’re in Virginia, aren’t ya? ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/6 "2005-06-17T14:44:52Z")
Thanks, everyone! This is what I love about this place: no matter how mundane or pointless my situation is, there are always at least a few people willing to help out (or try their best). 🙂 > [@DeVena](#): > > B67-53O9 is worth a try I think that would look just as “wrong” to me as using an “S” instead of a “5.” I have a pretty good personalized tag at the moment, so I don’t want to give it up if I’ll just wind up wishing the new one were different, ya know? And I think I’ll just skip the backwards thing – I don’t think anyone would get it. Hell, _I_ barely got it. 😉 > [@Honey](#): > > A67-5309. Sounds like 867-5309. Believe it or not, I thought of that on my way to work this morning! Great minds. 🙂 I think I could live with that … I’ll have to play with the DMV site a little later and see if it’s available. > [@TommyTutone](#): > > Is there anyone you would like me to write a letter to to help you get this tag? LOL! I forgot about your username, or I would have called on you for help in the OP. 😉 Unfortunately, I think someone else just beat me to it … I have a feeling that if it were available, I’d be allowed to get it. Can you track down the person who currently has it and talk them into giving it up? 😃 > [@GrizzRich](#): > > You’re in Virginia, aren’t ya? Yep. Why? ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/7 "2005-06-17T15:19:44Z")
Virginia’s DMV site says A67-5309 is available. Hurry. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/8 "2005-06-17T16:21:09Z")
I’d suspect you probably aren’t allowed to get just 7 numbers in a row. I tried a couple random ones, and it says they aren’t available. Probably difficult for a cop to “call in”. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/9 "2005-06-17T17:21:15Z")
How about 86753OH9? ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/10 "2005-06-17T17:58:02Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > Virginia’s DMV site says A67-5309 is available. Thanks for checking! That might be the closest I get, and I think I could live with it, but I’m not 100% sold yet… > [@Trunk](#): > > I’d suspect you probably aren’t allowed to get just 7 numbers in a row. Yeah, that’s why I tried it with an “O” in addition to a “0.” And why I thought about the “S” and “A” subs. Why couldn’t I have thought about this before whoever has these plates did?? 😉 > [@An Arky](#): > > How about 86753OH9? GENIUS!! 🙂 But I just tried it out, and the DMV won’t let me have 8 characters unless one of them is a dash. Bastards. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/11 "2005-06-17T18:17:25Z")
Maybe you can settle for JNY JNY. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/12 "2005-06-17T18:25:13Z")
What about getting B67-53O9 and then modifying the “B” with nail polish or enamel paint to subtly make it more like a 8? It would work untlil you get pulled over. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/13 "2005-06-17T18:36:47Z")
Roman numeral? 867V309? ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/14 "2005-06-17T19:07:49Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > Roman numeral? 867V309? GENUIS!! 🙂 (sorry, **An Arky** ;)) And it’s available! What do y’all think? Would 867-V309 be good? 🙂 I have screen shots of the mockups of both this and A67-5309 … here’s a [link](http://home.comcast.net/~technically_speaking/tags.htm). I’m leaning toward the roman numeral version. Of course, I realize that what I’m doing is telling everyone who cares to read this thread what my license plates will be. :smack: But it’s too late now, and I guess if anyone _really_ wants to find me I’m probably screwed anyway… Right? ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/15 "2005-06-17T19:11:22Z")
Did you try 8675 309? That’s how it’s sung. ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/16 "2005-06-17T21:59:51Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > Did you try 8675 309? That’s how it’s sung. Oooh, good one! 8675-309 “may be available.” (I also like 867-V309, for what it’s worth.) ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/17 "2005-06-18T04:24:04Z")
> [@Me](#): > > GENUIS!! Which, obviously, I am not… :smack: 😉 > [@Ashes](#): > > Did you try 8675 309? That’s how it’s sung. Good idea – 🙂 – but it’s not available. > [@foxymoron](#): > > I also like 867-V309, for what it’s worth. Yeah, that’s the one that keeps coming back into my thoughts. I’m going to sleep on it, and if I still really like it tomorrow I’ll order the plates then. 🆒 ( **rowrrbazzle** , I owe you a beer sometime!) ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/18 "2005-06-18T05:22:58Z")
[QUOTE=Grizzrich] You’re in Virginia, aren’t ya? [QUOTE] > [@Misnomer](#): > > Yep. Why? because, I KNOW the person that has 8675309! ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/19 "2005-06-18T08:36:11Z")
[QUOTE=GrizzRich] [QUOTE=Grizzrich] You’re in Virginia, aren’t ya? > [@](#): > > because, I KNOW the person that has 8675309! Tommy Tutone? ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647/20 "2005-06-18T08:44:06Z")
867-5809 and then put a little white strip of bumper sticker over the first 1/4 of the second 8? Sorry, I’ve got nothin’. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-get-the-license-plates-i-want/308647.md?page=2)