Vanity Plates - Choose 1

[jhall]

I saw a hot blonde in an SK with the plate XXXVIDD...I probably wouldn't have got it if I hadn't seen the driver.

[Jeph]

What if you mixed Zeros and Os? Imagine the officer reporting that plate.

O0O0O
or
0O0O0
and even
0OO0

Actually, I like that last one... It kinda looks like the exhaust and bumperettes.

Randall, I bet the WWW is taken too. The problem with Ws is that on our TX plates, they're weirdly narrow. I thought the Vs were a nice alternative to the pornish Xs. 6 Vs can look like 3 Ws!

When I wanted a 3 Series, I wanted BMWWW on my plates.

Here's another question I must pose. Is having a vanity plate worth sacraficing your anonymity?

For example, if you blow by on the highway and some one sees you're plate, they can much more easily report you (because it's distinctive/easy to remember). OR, even worse, see your car in a parking lot a few weeks later and think "that's that jerk that was speeding [or cut me off, etc.]" and decide to key it.

you cant really mix o' and 0's, when you submit it they all go to 0's I think. or they look exactly the same or somehting. In my opinion, a vanity plate is worth it because it just shows how much more bad a$$ you are than the boxster with hjr 361 or somehting like that.

[donv]

I happen to have a vanity plate and based on my experiences probably would not do it over again. For me, it was part of the pre-delivery experience and a way to build anticipation for that first drive. Once on the car experiences have varied.

Often I get good comments and thumbs up on the plate (esp. at PCA events), but I've had some really trying moments as well. For instance, the early twenty-something girl passenger behind me one day in stop and go traffic that hung out the window & kept screeching my plate wording at the top of her lungs for a full frickin' 10 minutes! I think she must have kept going for a lot longer after our roads diverged, 'cause I kept hearing it in my sleep that night. Then there was the minivan that became the lamprey to my shark in the high speed lane at uncomfortable speeds...

you think you have it bad donv, you dont know the half of it. unless your plate is something like groovy, i dont think you know what it means to have hundreds of people scream your plate at you.

[RandallNeighbour]

My plate reads SCHNLL (German word for FAST, sans the E due to Texas' idiotic 6 digit rule on vanity plates)

I didn't know whether to laugh or be embarassed when a girl in a parking lot asked her friend why my license plate said "Chanel".

And Jeph, if you drive friendly, no one will remember your plate. Drive like a jerk and they'll remember the most obscure or difficult standard alpha-numeric number!

I've had a good mind to pay the DMV $10 to run a plate for me so I could send the owner of the car a letter saying I'd run them down and beat them senselessly if I ever saw them on the road again.

[Biz-z Z]

Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour

...And Jeph, if you drive friendly, no one will remember your plate. Drive like a jerk and they'll remember the most obscure or difficult standard alpha-numeric number...

Randall makes a great point and people will remember you especially if your travel the same route continually, as, say you do going and coming from work.

Having said that, I think the V V V V V plate looks pretty cool on the Box.

[Jeph]

Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour

And Jeph, if you drive friendly, no one will remember your plate. Drive like a jerk and they'll remember the most obscure or difficult standard alpha-numeric number!

I'm not so worried about the friendly part. It's more of a fast issue. People tend to either exaggerate or have NO SENSE OF SPEED (in reference to reporting you). This is kinda hard to explain, but have you ever seen a punk kid come down the street in their Ford Contour (or whatever)... the engine is SCREAMING, and it seems like they're going fast, but in actuallity they're still in first gear, so they're doing less than 25mph and accelerating at a... well, a Countour's pace! It sounds fast and wreckless, but if you were deaf, you wouldn't notice anything out of place.

Oh, and the other thing is mistakes. We've all misjudged exits and such... From another car, an error in judgement and an absolute jerk are identical. Being in a Porsche, people will want to lean towards the jerk spectrum on that one. Am I wrong?