Love 'em? Hate 'em?
I am in the process of buying personalized plates for my pop-up camper. Hopfully this link will work:
https://www.dmv.state.ny.us/inettrans2/wcCustomPlates.ASP?WCI=empchooseplate&WCE=frmGetPlateNumber&WCU
If not, it is going to say “HAPICMPR”
How cool is that??
How about you- got 'em? want 'em? love 'em? hate 'em?
Zette
PS- I’ve tried for years to get “Zette” plates, but someone has them. 
I don’t have vanity plates, but I do have SCUBA Diver Associan tags. They have the “diver down” flag on the plate.
What was the camper tag on the Frasier episode? something like RDWROR?
Ha! That one is actually available in NY! Too funny…
(by the way, I love your sig)
Zette
I once heard a statistic that North Dakota has the greatest concentration of personalized license plates per capita. I’d believe it, the things are freaking everywhere especially on those damn new Beetles! I think that about 9 out every 10 New Beetle owners has a personalized license plate. MYBEETL Great! I’m glad it’s your Beetle, I really wasn’t planning on challenging you on that fact.
Stupidest one I ever saw:
RAV 4
On the back of a Toyota RAV 4. It just makes me say why? why? why? What’s the point of it? It’s not like a classic car or anything! It’s not even an expensive car! Maybe my parents should be inspired by that and get one that says Camry for their car.
One that draws the most mockery from my friends and myself:
THKSMOM
On a 1999 or 2000 fully loaded Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by a 16 year old kid, wearing an upside-down visor, listening to Eminem. Damn ridiculous what some parents do for such miserable kids.
My favorite personalized license plates:
Ones on classic cars that simply state the year and model like 66STANG or what have you. It always makes a nice touch on a well restored car. I also think that my high school gym teacher’s was pretty cool; TIDDER, a nickname assigned to her by her students over the years.
Once I was about to cross the street in NYC and this BMV turns right and cuts me off, close to hitting me. The license plate read:
RIP GDG
My initials are GDG :eek: That was close…
My favorite that I’ve actually seen is “OUTATYM” on a DeLorean.
I’ve considered getting a personalized plate for myself, to go along with all the other fun stuff I’m doing to the car, but I don’t like to be noticed. Usually.
Besides, if I did it would be something particularly geeky:
“LORELEI” - my car’s name, possibly a bit confusing to passersby, and I’ve already got a bumpersticker that says it.
“80211B” - only for the true geeks to get. 802.11b is a wireless networking standard. I’m installing it into the car this week.
“GEEK” - yeah, well.
“OVRCLKD” - again, already have a bumpersticker that says “overclocked”
I used to have a '66 MGB with plates that said MY 66MGB and a '48 Willys CJ2A with CJ2 EH plates. (Hey, what can I say? It was the 80s and I liked the Canadian sound, eh?)
I eventually decided I don’t need vanity plates, and anyway it would make my vehicle too recognizable – just in case. Now I have the '46 Willys CJ2A. I wouldn’t have put vanity plates on it, but it came with them: JEP 1946.
My license plate frames say “FLY SAFELY – FAA LICENSED PILOT” on them. I wish I could find frames like I used to have: “MOJAVE AIRPORT – CIVILIAN FLIGHT TEST CENTER”. If anyone finds a pair of those for sale, let me know! (Oh-- they were cast, not engraved.)
My car says “WAHOO25” - I wanted just plain ol’ “WAHOO” but someone already had it.
What does it mean? Oh - “Wahoo” is the name of the Cleveland Indians’ logo. 25 is Jim Thome’s number. 
I saw the Illinois license plate SOD U ALL this last weekend. I was somewhat surprised that it got past the Sec’y of State, but maybe it’s the personal car of the owner of a lawn service.
No personalized plates, but I did drop the extra $20 or so to get the Florida State of the Arts tags.
Damn. New York won’t let me have a plate that reads QQQQ.
My frist plates out West were ILBCNYA. (I’ll be seein ya for those of you who are challenged at plate-eze) I got this because I figured with my leadfoot I’d be waving goodbye to everyone. My mom now owns the plates because of the popular song during WWII.
Fast forward to the South. The ILBCNYA plate proved to be too dificult for people to figure out. Without fail every day I would come out to my car and there would be someone standing behind it scratching their head wondering what it said. I wanted BYOFSR (Bye Officer) and out of six choices ended up with the one I put down as a joke. BCNYAL. (be seein y’all). Unfortunately folks down here still have trouble deciphering it. Oh well. That’ll teach me.
If I ever bought a hearse, I’d like to get CYA SOON or U NEXT.
I used to drive an enormous 1972 V8 Ford. That was enough of a cop magnet even without fancy plates. Now, I’ve got a little '96 Corolla, also with plain plates. That’s the way I like it - the perfect getaway car. 
BTW, this thread was along a similar line.
Best ones I’ve seen:
AFTER U
GHOTI (belonged to the chairman of the English Dept.)
RYLOS (my roomie’s boyfriend had this one; he once had
someone shout to him in traffic, “I wanted that plate!”)
Three of our vehicles have vanity plates:
VN WTS 4U (a virtual cookie to the first one who figures it out; hints given on request!)
ARTWEAR (for the van I use to haul my jewelry to festivals; my business name is "[Scarlett’s] Artwear)
NOT QT RT (Mr. S is a Supertramp fan, so he put this on his 1970 Beetle, which needs repair)
I’ve got personalized tags. They read KATZI–the name of my old band. The band is two years disbanded, and sheer laziness is the only reason I haven’t gotten rid of the plates. I’m just glad I didn’t get a tattoo of the logo, as I had planned. After all, all I need to remove the tags is a phillips screwdriver.
NE14A69
hee hee hee
Back in ‘61’ they were FREE in Ill. Pop had his initials and our address. When I got my first car I got MY initials and the address too. Cool!
In Calif. they charge for “vanity” plates every year. So I no gots. Would love to though.
I’ve had the same MAFIA STAFF CAR plate-frame since ‘61’. Does THAT count for anything?
I’m debating this very issue. So far I have:
STLNCAR (stolen car)
I PASS
CAR
GENERIC
Don’t have personalized plates, although my SO has suggested ** CYNFUL .
I like the Dixie Chicks: CYNWAGN **
Funny about the personalized plates. When I lived in Ohio, and registration was $25, it seemed silly to shell out DOUBLE that ($50) to get a vanity plate. Now that I live in AZ, where they tax cars as property and the registration is much more expensive as a result, (my car, at a year old, was $378) the additional $25 doesn’t seem like such a big deal.