Yeah, I sure think its great. We spend a kazillion dollars and hours
getting a Bugeye or Humber Super Snipe just about perfect, and the great
unwashed multitudes pull up along side and ask, "What year MG is that?"
For them, "MG" has become a generic name for any car they don't recognize.
For years, I've been pondering whether to get a vanity plate and if I got
one, what I could put on it that I would not regret in a couple of months.
VT used to only allow 5 letters/numbers, which was pretty hopeless, but
now they allow 7.
I see little point in a plate that only has meaning for the owner, so if I
bother to personalize my plate, I want something that at least some other
motorists can figure out and be entertained by. I mean, I saw a lady at
the grocery store loading kids and shopping into a van with "EWESRUS" on
the plate. I said, "Let me guess. Either you raise sheep, or else you
lend money at high interest rates, right?" She said, "Neither; our name is
Wool and we have 4 girls." For this, she pays extra?
ANYway, somebody named (what else) Kermit already has "KERMIT," and a
friend has "SPRITE" and I suspect all the reasonable variants of Bugeye or
Frogeye are taken. I toyed with ways to fit an equivalent of "Anal
Retentive" into 7 letters, but couldn't. If CA allows 8 letters, and
anyone there is interested and qualifies, NLRE10IV comes pretty close.
Not you, Roland, anyone who drives a Cobra around with no paint on it
probably does not qualify.
The thing about MGs has sparked an idea for a decent plate. How about:
NOTANMG or MG-NOT
Forgive me, it's Friday.
Ray "Plate for man with no children: NECESTPA" Gibbons
On Fri, 2 Dec 1994, Roland Dudley wrote:
> > Jeff Dickert -Only one other hand knew an MG?
> > My entire office knows. Just ask them.
> > "Chris Ball has THREE little MGs"
> >
> > Yeah - a TR3, A healey and a Spitfire. Nice "Little MGs"
> >
> > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!! I'm so sick of it.
>
> Tell me about it.
>
> Roland
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