Man # 39; joke vanity plate turns against big time
I'm always interested in how creative some people can be when the canvas in which they are allowed to speak is limited in this case, only the letters and numbers are allowed, depending on the state, a maximum of 6 to 8 characters.
For a good introduction to the abbreviations commonly used in vanity plates, see the license plate Basics Michael Olivier For a fun story about Oedipus told entirely with vanity plates, see OEDIPUS THE KING OF ROAD Think twice before you NO pLATE vanity plate or it could happen to you some fun fictitious plates in post funnies.
I will gather the following list of vanity plates from personal observations of those observations, and also messages in the usenet forum With some minor exceptions, all these plates are real to say that it is a car driven by a person in the world If you are interested in contributing your favorites to this list, please drop me a line, I would like to thank Robert l McMillin and Lars-Toralf Storstrand to contribute to important parts of the initial list.
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Laurel is working on a series of books for Abrams edition called ART OF THE STATE - one for each state and in each title they want one jazzy, funny, in a manner typical to the culture of that VANITY pLATE owners State must be able to take a good blade 35mm clean their plate if their message is selected, and if they can scan and send an image of their plate, all the better for more information, please contact Laurel.
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While we're on the subject, I hope you can shed light on something that bugged me for years There are three license plates of the leading vanity that have appeared in the Steve Martin film LA Story the first is 02BNLA which can obviously be intrepreted like Oh, to be in Los Angeles or love to be in Los Angeles where zero is called love in tennis, I wonder if you can find both others who were 2GAT123 2QCE465 and they could be totally meaningless, but I have a hunch that they are not because the camera zoomed in these two plates, then panned back All ideas If you do, it Please send me a message Thanks.
T HE plates update history Paul Carreras gave a plausible interpretation of 2QCE465 too bad for the heart 65 MPH Thanks, Paul.
THE plates Story Mystery solved According Drew Steitz PL8S the magazine I have some of the movie prop plates used in this film, and the mysterious numbered plates were only regular passenger plates California 0AAA000 series that have been made with a series of incredibly high letters, to avoid conflicts with real plates in use pretty boring, but true.
LA Story 3 plates upgrades Randal L Shwartz of the Perl fame estimated that 2G 2G AT 2000 RPM to 123 123 MPH In other words, it is simply coasting motor lo-regime at that speed plates LA Story Set update 4 Woody Whitlatch, a license plate Collector California, told me a little extra on Insite Cal plate with the letters qce, the letter Q or I can not be used in California as the first or the third letter 0AAA000 of the series because of their resemblance to the letters O and I.
LA plates history updated 5 Artur Bagi ski assumed that G represents an acceleration in the gravity 9 8 ms 2 Therefore, the bed plate - two times the acceleration 9 8 at a first 2 seconds and 3 third During the film gear probobly it was impossible to achieve at least the 2nd and 3rd gear to show you an example to 5 seconds -at 200 mph for a quarter mile, you get an average acceleration January 82 G.
If you still want to see more of vanity plates after checking the above list and all links on this page, you must either join Anonymous Vanity Plates VPA, or you need to add one or more of the following works your library.
John Mahoney, Vanity license PL8S Motorbooks Intl, 1988-3 98.
Dennis R Cowhey What this means the personal stories behind Vanity License Plates Key Answer Products Inc., 1994-9. 95
Sam G Riley, GR8 PL8S The Best of Vanity plates Americas New Chapter Press, 1991-6 95.
Daniel Nussbaum, PL8SPK California Vanity Plates tell Classics HarperCollins, 1993.
If you are wondering, I did not see the contents of one of these books, so buy at your own risk; However, if you come to all the above, I appreiciate if you send me a mini review For those who are interested in buying, I highly recommend the books of the online bookstore.
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