Vanity Plates, Names please.
In California you can now check availability, order, and pay for your vanity plate online. A few years ago you could search for all plates with a particular 3-6 letter character sequence. It was a lot easier to figure out what to get then, because it would give you ideas and show you which variants and misspellings were already taken. Now you can only check if the one you want is available or not. But at least if it is available, you can "own" it in a matter of minutes. You don't have to go down to the DMV with your three choices like a few years ago.
I've given up on car specific or job specific vanity plates because you have to get rid of them when you change jobs or cars. I've had a total of 8 different vanity plates so far and have four right now. I wanted something that would make people smile but not want to hate me. Specifically, I don't want my license plate to negatively influence a law enforcement officer that might have reason to pull me over. What are your chances of getting out of a marginal ticket with BLU BY U or 2FAST4U on your car?
So, after reaching the point of having about three grandchildren, I faced reality, traded in my other plates, and got GRAMPAA for the car, GRAMMPA for the Ducati motorcycle, then added GRAMPA8 when I bought the Ducati 888 Superbike. I figure that the license plate frame saying "I may grow older but I refuse to grow up" helps set the tone. I wouldn't put any of those plates on a Buick or an SUV, or even some big Harley cruiser. It losed its effect if it's not on something bright and fast.
So, have any of you who are going after a "faster theme" considered what it does to your chances of talking your way out of a ticket? Mine works pretty good.
I've given up on car specific or job specific vanity plates because you have to get rid of them when you change jobs or cars. I've had a total of 8 different vanity plates so far and have four right now. I wanted something that would make people smile but not want to hate me. Specifically, I don't want my license plate to negatively influence a law enforcement officer that might have reason to pull me over. What are your chances of getting out of a marginal ticket with BLU BY U or 2FAST4U on your car?
So, after reaching the point of having about three grandchildren, I faced reality, traded in my other plates, and got GRAMPAA for the car, GRAMMPA for the Ducati motorcycle, then added GRAMPA8 when I bought the Ducati 888 Superbike. I figure that the license plate frame saying "I may grow older but I refuse to grow up" helps set the tone. I wouldn't put any of those plates on a Buick or an SUV, or even some big Harley cruiser. It losed its effect if it's not on something bright and fast.
So, have any of you who are going after a "faster theme" considered what it does to your chances of talking your way out of a ticket? Mine works pretty good.


