- 1. vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: Jacob ben-David Zimmerman <zimerman@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 04 Dec 1994 15:52:12 EST
- I kept thinking of getting plates that say 'AMANDA' for Amanda my TR6, but I decided that people would think I was borrowing/had stolen some woman's car. Bad. So, I decided on the following (And I ha
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00112.html (7,642 bytes)
- 2. Re: vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: PWiegman@ix.netcom.com (Paul Wiegman)
- Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 19:03:38 -0800
- My 1957 TR3 has a rear plate TR3. What could be clearer ? The front (we only need a rear plate in Pennsylvania) is 57 TR. Still like the rest of us I get asked what year is my MG ? P.g. Wiegman
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00121.html (7,288 bytes)
- 3. Re: vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: Chip Old <fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 02:07:11 -0500 (EST)
- I understand the reference, and because of the origin it seems inappropriate to put "NUMBR6" plates on anything but a Lotus 7. -- Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 NEMGTR #2271 Cub Hill, Maryland 1962 Tr
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00125.html (8,103 bytes)
- 4. Vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: Ronald LHerault <lherault@acs.bu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 07:47:40 -0500 (EST)
- If I ever have extra cash (perhaps when the TR-^ is regisered as an antique) I want the plate KIDORY. I am a fan of traditional jazz and a trombone player. Kid Ory was on e of the great early trombon
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00126.html (7,391 bytes)
- 5. Re: Vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: MAPPEAL@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 15:21:03 -0500
- Chip Old <fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us> replied: I was thinking of putting MAPPEAL on my '73 MGB GT's plates but the little old man at the MVA information desk was flummoxed by my request for the vanity
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00153.html (8,283 bytes)
- 6. Re: Vanity Plates (score: 1)
- Author: GNH.Wbst207V@xerox.com
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 14:05:34 PST
- Most folks recognized my (genuine) MG-TC as an MG but many asked: "Is is a KIT?" Steve Brown must have been asked the same question too many times. His TD's vanity plate says: NOT A KIT. The tiny tra
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00158.html (7,429 bytes)
- 7. Re: Vanity Plates (score: 1)
- Author: Chip Old <fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 00:32:11 -0500 (EST)
- Back in the mid 70's when my TC was still my daily transportation, In a MacDonald's parking lot a young boy in the car next to me asked his father "What kind of car is that?" The father told him it
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00167.html (7,981 bytes)
- 8. Re: vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harrold)
- Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1994 10:32:38 -0500
- My 1957 TR3 has a rear plate TR3. What could be clearer ? The front (we only need a rear plate in Pennsylvania) is 57 TR. Still like the rest of us I get asked what year is my MG ? P.g. Wiegman == cl
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00189.html (7,867 bytes)
- 9. Re: vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: Steve Bender <sbender@illiad.dsd.ES.COM>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 09:49:48 -0700
- My TR4's plates are "TRIUMPH" and my in-laws still call it a FIAT! -Steve
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00194.html (7,232 bytes)
- 10. Re: vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: LUCE@KRDC.INT.ALCAN.CA
- Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1994 13:05:31 -0500 (EST)
- No matter how big the sign you put on the car, someone will always fail to read it. An officer of the law once pulled up behind me while I was stopped beside the road (yes, I was fixing something) an
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00199.html (7,563 bytes)
- 11. RE:Vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: rolf@star.inst.bnl.gov
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 94 08:17:11 EST
- I have been following the discussions about vanity plates and felt that I Had to add something to the fray. When my 70TVR is finished and back on the road the plate will read "WOTSATVR" . This is the
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00218.html (7,615 bytes)
- 12. RE: Vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: miq@wv.MENTORG.COM (Miq Millman)
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 93 8:49:49 PDT
- I had this on my old Wrangler: BAA BAH, it was black of course. (Baa bah black jeep) And a friend of mine in college had "KEMO B" on his Saab 96. (Kemo-Saab-be which either means "friend" or "stupid
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00005.html (7,772 bytes)
- 13. Re: Vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: "Andrew C. Green" <dlogics!hermes.dlogics.com!acg@uu.psi.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1993 12:23:38 CDT
- Seen on another Mercedes being driven by an attractive lady on the Kennedy Expressway many years ago: "WAS HIS". -- Andy
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00010.html (7,100 bytes)
- 14. vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Duvall <duvall@eagle.sangamon.edu>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 93 13:25:19 CDT
- Here in Illinois there is a small one time charge if you include numbers in the plate. Also since I'm in the state capitol, I went over to the secretary of state's office and the computer operator lo
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00012.html (7,575 bytes)
- 15. vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: weems%virgil@cs.umass.edu
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 93 14:07:02 EDT
- Two of my favorites, not on LBCs however, are ML8ML8 -- Seen on a California VW Rabbit (white, of course) 10SNE1 -- On a Mercedes parked in front of a tennis club Not a vanity plate, but a bumper sti
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00037.html (6,991 bytes)
- 16. vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: interf!atlas!jhoward@uunet.UU.NET (James Howard)
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 09:55:49 EDT
- Saw an interesting one on a Rolls this morning. The owner must be a British John Wayne fan. TRU BRIT
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00100.html (6,889 bytes)
- 17. RE: Vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: george@mech.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson)
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 93 11:08:11 EDT
- Talk about asking for a ticket.. another I've seen was "RACERX" other favorites SIXT6 ( on an apropriate vintage 'vette ) OGINVU ( spell it... ) FUPDUK ( caught the censors sleeping, i think.. ) by
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00111.html (7,256 bytes)
- 18. RE: Vanity plates (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Van Horn <DaveVH@microsoft.com>
- Date: 8 Jul 93 11:05:45 -0700
- Seen in California -- ARC DE. It was on a Triumph, of course!
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00117.html (6,814 bytes)
- 19. Vanity Plates (score: 1)
- Author: ajw@hlwpd.att.com
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 19:24 EDT
- Call for Vanity Plates. Anyone care to share their thoughts on personlized plates? We were thinking of "ribit" for our 1972 British Racing Green MGB LBC.... :-) Andy West
- /html/british-cars/1993-06/msg00589.html (6,818 bytes)
- 20. Re: Vanity Plates (score: 1)
- Author: "Andrew C. Green" <dlogics!hermes.dlogics.com!acg@uu.psi.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1993 14:26:55 CDT
- What are the parameters? Here in Illinois, for example, you get 7 characters maximum; must start with a letter and may end with 1 digit or more; digits, if used, must be trailing only. If you accept
- /html/british-cars/1993-06/msg00602.html (8,704 bytes)
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