Vanity Plates - Choose 1

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.

[Mantis]

This is probably not original by any means, but I have been thinking
"P ENVY" for myself. Maybe squeeze it together for "PENVY"....

[donv]

Tell me you are fully aware of the double-entendre in this, please!
If so, you are one brave man.

Originally Posted by Mantis

This is probably not original by any means, but I have been thinking
"P ENVY" for myself. Maybe squeeze it together for "PENVY"....

[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?