Amphicar BUYER Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 There are a lot of really good vanity pl8tes on cars. I have one on mine and a web page devoted to Amphicar vanity pl8tes. What does yours say and what is the story behind it?Mine is "A WHAT""What kind of car is that?"It's an Amphicar""A What?"I had one on my 2nd '66 Caddy Ragtop - "HAD1B4"On my '69 Bonneville ragtop - "RU4692" (Are you for 69 too?) On my '95 Harley - "HD GIMP" (the plate frame is made from the 2 12" rods that held my spine together for 13 years. Talk about "personal"!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 I like this game, Ampliy. Years ago I ended up with an old 80 Chevy "wagon" as my part of the divorce settlement. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> It wasn't fast enough, so we put a Z28 350 in it and boy, would it surprise people. It got so bad the local cops would be calling Gloria and me by our first name as they walked up beside our car to give us one more ticket. As a matter of fact, I met the cop one day and just stopped before I passed him. I knew the procedure. Anyway our drivers started calling the old Chevy a "grocery getter"! As time went on we have gotten into Chevy 4 door sedans since you can no longer get the Coupes. Well, they weren't any faster, so out comes the catalog and the Freight trucks start bring these GM crate motors to the the Northern Neck. The first a 300hp job. At that time my wife, Gloria, starts calling this '84 Chevy a "bomber", no vanity plate yet. We just bought a '90 model Chevy last year, the last of the old body style, painted her a beautiful dark blue, chrome reverse wheels, wide whites, the works, except for the big white floppy hat. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> To go along with all of this, we got our first family car vanity plates, "Blue Bomber". Now the cars cool, the plates cool, but some "nut" in Northern Virginia decides to go on a killing spree, and as the cops are going mad looking for him, the word is out---"Look for a "90 model blue Chevy!!" Lipes!, Our car didn't leave the yard until they caught those guys. Pshew!, Be very careful what you ask for. Oh, we also had some trouble getting the tags from DMV, until we told DMV that I was in the service! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Of passing anything in sight. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hal Davis (MODEL A HAL) Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 We once had an '88 Mustang GT. I tried to get "2FAST", "2FAST4U", but wound up with "2TUF4U" as the others had already been taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 I don't have a vanity plate. But my favorite is one that says...1STRIDE It's on the car that the owner was brought home from the hospital in just after he was born, so it was his 1st Ride. Pretty cool!It's a late 60s Dodge that stayed in the same family the whole time since it was brand new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Boudway Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 Here's one seen in Maine last spring. It was seen on a minivan full of young kids.PB4WEGOCan anyone who had, or has, young children relate to this one? <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 This may be unique, but I have three trailers and they have plates reading HVS 1, HVS 2, and HVS 3. This is not for vanity reasons but for a far more practical reason. If one of my trailers gets stolen, and trailers do get stolen, I will always know the tag number on it because they are numbered according to size with HVS 1 being on the biggie.How many of you can tell without looking, what the tag number is on your TRAILER? Imagine trying to figure out what it is on three of them with each having a different renewal month. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />I know. I could keep a list in my wallet, but this is more fun. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />hvs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6219_Rules Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 shoot, Howard...the only trailer I have follows behind my spare tire!!! If the '47 can't run under its own steam it SITS! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 I saw a nice older Mercedes SL not long ago being driven by a good looking woman. The plate read "WASHIS" <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter J.Heizmann Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Interesting thread, John..."VN-00080".It is getting ratty from abuse by, from what I suspect are, 50/60-ish year old c _ _ ards, excuse me, war protesters. Someone smeared chewing gum on it one time, it had urination stains on it one morning at a motel in Roanoke, VA, kicked about 2 times (one time I witnessed from a distance). It has been on 4 vehicles since PA started issuing them in 1987. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_PackardV8 Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 The state of Tn requires at least 3 characters on a personalized plate. I tried to get one with NO characters whatsoever, i.e. a blank plate. Denied.My second choice was U812, denied. MNY-O-BRDY ( <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />) also denied. It just got to where they denied me no matter what even tho they could not figure out that last one ... at least not at that time. My vehicles are registerd in a very low income hick county. As of 10 years ago i was not only the FIRST but also the ONLY registered ANTIQUE motorcycle plate in the county. It is not personalized but is ANT xxx on a 56 Cushman Eagle. How appropriate for a cushmna to have ANT as the first 3 letters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Here in R.I., vanity plates are becoming extinct. They used to be $10.00 extra but a greedy governor wanted $60.00. So with the registration being a two year renewal that would have been $120.00 extra. That year I alone turned in 5 vanity plates. Now with antique plates costing $10.00 every 2 years, people opt that way instead.........Now the state is surly losing money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24T42 Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 After retiring from the Air Force, my Dad taught Calculus at Duke University. His vanity plate on his 1966 El Camino was 'MATH'. When he retired from Duke he got the plate 'AFTERMATH' for the travel home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Best vanity plate I ever saw was on an English professor's VW. "<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">TRITE</span></span>" said it all! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Years ago at Hershey there was a Motorhome that towed a Honda Civic around they had plates "IPULLM" and "IPUSHM". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 <span style="font-weight: bold">Edited for Wayne...</span> An otolaryngologist here (ear, nose and throat doctor) has "BGR PKR" on a big Mercedes. <span style="font-weight: bold">Booger Picker</span> Kid down the street has a VW Beetle cabrio with "SPDR FUD". <span style="font-weight: bold">Spider Food</span> Pontiac bud has a lot of fun with Tin Indian themed plates-"NDNUPRZG" <span style="font-weight: bold">"Indian Uprising"</span> on a TransAM, "WARWHOOP" on a tri-power Grand Prix and "HEAP BIG" on a Bonneville. His wife's Aurora has "NTRNLGTS" <span style="font-weight: bold">"Northern Lights" (Aurora Borealis)</span> since somebody already had "BOREALIS".The Hurst/Olds wears "58THNDY" <span style="font-weight: bold">"58th Indy (500) <span style="font-weight: bold">"</span> </span> as it was a 1974 Indy 500 festival car, and I had "I8JAPAN" <span style="font-weight: bold">"I ate Japan"</span> on the Godzilla-sized 76 Ninety-Eight for several years. Wagon has "TBCORD" (Tobacco Road) on a Tobacco Heritage plate.The Bravada has... what else? "RKTRDR"! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <span style="font-weight: bold">"Rocketraider"!</span> And as bad as I hate to admit it, these ricer kids have some good ones. "FLUBYU", "WDETR" <span style="font-weight: bold">("Flew by you' and "Weedeater")</span> and "ZIPBANG" are all here, and one has an egg-yolk yellow Mazda with "CORNPOP". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 A local 1951 Chevy Fastback has a top chop and all the running gear replaced with Ford products, Mustang II front end, 351 with C4 and a 9 inch rear. No more Chevy Hartbeat, plate # is NOEKG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hal Davis (MODEL A HAL) Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 I knew a guy once who told me that his urologist had "PPMD" on his Mercedes. I never saw it myself, just took his word for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Stoneberg Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 I saw a Ferrari once with a plate IXLR8.I saw a Hummer with CRUSHU.Or a Turbo Porsche with BYE-BYE. That one was hard to read as he flew by me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuhner Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 An older friend of mine (73) bought a little red Mazda Miata. He wanted a clever vanity plate. I suggested "KIDAGN". He tells me he gets lots of attention with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Green Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Here in PA they will not allow you to have a custom / vanity plate with a antique or classic plate. You take the next number in sequence. The paint job on these plates truely does appear to be painted by a convict. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest greg72monte Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Here in NJ, it is a one time fee for personalized"Historic" plates. All "Historic" plates in NJ start with "QQ"I have "QQ 72 MC" for my 72 Monte Carlo which I applied forin 1998, right after the car became eligible (25 years old).Since 1972 cars just became eligible, I figured I better applyASAP if I wanted a "72" on my plate. This combination was my firstchoice of 3 submitted. I was fortunate to get it.After waiting 8 weeks, and no response from the DMV in Trenton,I received my cancelled check back with plate number writtenon the check. I then knew that I was getting the plate numberI requested. The plates finally came in the mail 4 moreweeks later.If I recall, the one time fee was an additional $100.00.The paper registration is renewed every three yearsthereafter.Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Could some of you spell out exactly what the plate in question says. A lot of them go right by me. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest greg72monte Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 My wife is in the garment industry, works on 7th Ave in New York City. We once saw a plate "IDZINE", which weguessed could have been a fashion designer. (I design).Could have been a architect also......who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Wolf Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Best one I ever seen in Indiana was a gynecologist with Y DOC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6219_Rules Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Wayne, the best suggestion is to sound it out. IDZINE = I Design.Or PPDOC = peepee docOr IXLR8 = I Excellerate. ate = 8My one and only prestige plate was in Dallas. It was Anubus. Unfortunately someone already had ANUBYS so I spelled mine differently....I had a black on black 1990 Nissan Maxima GLX fully loaded with a recumbant black Jackel on the rear deck. I tried to design it so its head would bob but it did not work terribly well. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amphicar BUYER Posted October 22, 2003 Author Share Posted October 22, 2003 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I knew a guy once who told me that his urologist had "PPMD" on his Mercedes</div></div> My urologist does have "PP DR" on his BMW and to top that his name is Dr. Cox! (REALLY!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6219_Rules Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 LOL! My grandmother's pediatrist was Dr. Boyle. She called him The Butcher. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Albert Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Amphicar there is two cars in the Toronto area one has the plate WET DRY the other is DRY WET you know what they are on... Mine is PC DOC from when i use to do computer service, My buddy has FETTA which happens to be swedish for a female body part, seems evert thing my buddy wanted to put on the plate was not allowed, thought the woman was being a real C@#T so that what his plate became.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amphicar BUYER Posted October 22, 2003 Author Share Posted October 22, 2003 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Amphicar there is two cars in the Toronto area one has the plate WET DRY the other is DRY WET you know what they are on</div></div> Would there be a way I could contact them? Or may somehow get a picture of the pl8s on the Amphis? I would love to add them to my Amphicar pl8 page. I think my last count was 30+- Amphicars with vanity pl8s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Thanks Randy, I got the easy ones, but like a dumb farm boy, I would never have figured out IXLR8. Even my wife says I can't sound worth a durn, don't talk much better. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Wayne ~ The trouble here is that Randall jus done had too much educatin for us simple folk. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> Randall ~ When you tour 90 year old cars on the east coast and live in Wyoming 1800 miles away, trailers are a necessity. Trailer queens do not reside inside.And Texas was too far away to ride my Cushman. My postwar stuff is driven to and from tours as far as 1500 miles away. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />hvs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6219_Rules Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Well, Howard, I can see that would make a difference! If I were to try and take the Dutchman to Hershey, I would either have to arrange for it to be hauled or drive it over a week. I think I will just pass. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idle Swede Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> My buddy has FETTA which happens to be swedish for a female body part, seems evert thing my buddy wanted to put on the plate was not allowed, thought the woman was being a real C@#T so that what his plate became.... </div></div> Close but no cigars, sorry to disapoint you but there are no female bodyparts with that name in the Swedish language Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juddman Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Dad and I put together a 200hp grey Plymouth Horizon a few years ago - what a sleeper that was, and it handled pretty well, too!The Plate: TI-3VOMRead it in your rear view mirror... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 My daughter had a plate--------I O DAD----no more saidSky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stude8 Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 The best I recall is a Candy Apple Red Porche driven by a very attractive Blonde on I294 one day, she blasted past at 25mph over the limit, plate read "BEG4IT".Stude8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guffin Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 The Swedish word for that female part is "fitta" not "fetta".I got a nice plate without extra pay, see: http://www.aaca.org/photopost/showphoto....=500&page=1JanThe not so idle Swede Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tin_knocker Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 My neighbor up at the lake (Great Bass Lake) has a plate on his wifes car that says GRBASS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idle Swede Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 How about this one?See attachment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idle Swede Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 Or this?See attachment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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