Post Your Vanity Plates

[ClayW]

I will be registering my 02 in DC next month and I'm curious what vanity plates people have. I usually think that vanity plates are cheesy and trite, but there are a few that are esoterically cool.

Post yours.

[tjones02]

These plates have been on my Parent's Tii since the mid 70's...

[jerry]

i don't have a photo of it, but i was given a '68 1602 Turf Green with the vanity plate TADPOL.

normally, i wouldn't pay extra for vanity plates, but the idea of squirming through twisties and traffic in a sporty little green car with a tadpole logo on it just resonated with me.

the only bummer about this plate is that the PO turned in the original california black plates to get this one

on a somewhat naughty note:

i did try to get

THEFNGR

earlier this year and the DMV site initially let it go through, but it was rejected via mail. That sequence of letters has now been blocked out on the CA DMV website. i received a charge back on my credit card and i kept the rejection letter as a keepsake.

[dubois]

here is mine, I have given it to my wife, then we sold the car, so by default it went to my 2002. I tried to get Bacchus, but there are too many wine makers in CA to get anything near. Oxiourus is kind of play on words to denote something that can be sometimes a head ache, but in a sweet kind of way, just like my 02.

[dscoff]

I kind of love the TADPOL one...

Some great ones I've seen on this site:

2OHOH2

2GRAND2

Since the day I brought my 02 home my wife has referred to it as "the chicklette" and wants me to get "CHIKLIT" (it looks like a giant chamonix Chicklette).

My username also refers to the plate I wanted (but could never justify the $100 for) for my E46 M3: DSCOFF (dynamic stability control: off). Kind of a looser inside joke, like a hallowe'en costume you have to explain to everyone.

[mcaden]

Clay,

Guten Tag (see pic)! I am looking forward to seeing your car on the roads in the DC area. Enjoy the DC DMV - its one of the pleasures of living in DC proper that I don't miss.

-Marc

[Swiftus]

On my Opel GT, I have the plates 'PANCAKE'. No particular reason other than I wanted to make people smile when they saw my car. . . and I really, really, really, like pancakes.

I live in DC as well, and you can order your vanity plate online. You have to have a DC drivers license to do so, but you wouldn't be getting DC tags unless you had a DC license. The process takes between 6 to 8 weeks, and then you have to go pick the plates up at the M street office downtown. It is right next to the inspection station down there if that helps.

If you go early in the morning to the M street office, there is never any lines or wait times. They have called my number before I have the chance to sit down, which is the way I think the DMV should work.

Well anyways, I say have fun with a vanity plate. TADPOL or whoever that Greek guy was are two exmples of this. Remember, no one can knock you about your choice of Tags if they are on an '02. I just don't think that it is humanly possible. . . well, another '02 owner with vanity tags may have a foot to stand on!

Ok, enough from me!

[Dutchie3719]

Not to thread-jack but Jay, how did inspection go? Its about damn time that Opel got out of the garage, and onto the streets of DC.

[InkaSteve]

Plate on my 76 "2E'S BMW" Wife's nickname when young 2E (Suzie). Plate on Touring when I bought it.

Touring with blue plate recovered from previously owned Volvo. 2TH WAXR (tooth waxer) I have a dental lab and make teeth which require "waxing and casting" a gold framework.

[Napes]

Although I've been tempted numerous times, to date, neither my ' 75 or my wife's ' 76 have vanity plates (unless you could somhow get something ' 02- connected out of her std. plate which is 104 RAT), but my son liked my suggestion for his car. Consequently, his 2002 Dinan S2 M3 plate says MVIOUS.

Bob Napier

[Greg R aka Big_Lebowski]

76BEMR

[beammmer]

[inkatouring]

This plate migrated from my sahara tii, which (along with the touring) is a homemade Alpina A4:

[ifayeoh]

Here are a few i have had on cars, currently on bmw is NOAHNOA, for my daughter, on my truck is EINOHUH, on van GDNEWZ in the mail for bmw, which is due now KNOCK2X, also have MORGIE for my other daughter and for my wife SOMONO, also in the works for coming years +FAHRT+,

and UTKN2ME. Plates are really cheap here in NM so i get one every year.

also have I8NTLYN. the WELCOME one was a freebie that the state gives out.

cheers

[Delia]

Gone.