There has been some discussion on here recently (I'll admit, much of it by me) on the subject of vanity plates. I've had vanity plates on my personal cars since the mid-1980's, maybe half a decade after I got my license. My folks have had vanity plates on their cars since the mid-1970's. At first they had "ELY 1" and "ELY 2" (our family name), but went their different ways later on when Pennsylvania added a 7th character's availability to the state's plates; they decided to go with messages that were closer to them personally. My dad went with "BASS UMP" (he is quite a good bass soloist and umpired youth and semi-pro baseball for 5 decades), while my mom chose "HAWKI 49" (She is a 1949 graduate of The University Of Iowa - the "Hawkeyes"). My older brother maintained the tradition while he still lived here in PA as well. At first, he had "HEY BLUE", since he too was a baseball umpire. However, on his acceptance at seminary, he changed that for "DEUT31-8", his favorite verse of scripture ("The LORD Himself will go ahead of you. He will be with you. He will never leave you, He will never desert you. So do not be afraid. Do not lose hope". I read that over and over when I get depressed.) On moving to N.C. and discovering that they charge $50/year for them, he decided to live with a standard-issue tag on his SUV. Here in PA, it's a one-time $25 charge.
Here's my current car showing off it's plate. If you're a NASCAR fan, you'll be able to figure it out right away (Think Darrell Waltrip):
My old baby, my '66 Corvair Monza with it's 220 h.p. (at the wheels) engine, the car that loved to beat up on 5.0 Mustangs, had a plate meant to tell the drivers of those cars just what it was that just blew their doors off... :
(Please note that the "I" is the number "1" - the word "CORVAIR" was already taken by the time I applied for the plate)
My wife's plate was a birthday gift to her from her sister Ruby back around 1990. Rose paid the $25 for the same plate when PA did it's last replate in 2000. While it's kind of hard to make out in this photo (this is the best one I have available at the moment), it says "JESU JOY" (From Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"), her favorite hymn. As a Christian musician, it really means a lot to her:
I collect license plates, and have since I was an early teenager. My vanity plates are a favorite subgroup of my collection. I'll be posting photos of my plates as I manage to dig them up. In the meantime, let's have some fun with this. Post up the best vanity plates you see in your daily travels. Photographs aren't necessary; we'll take your word for it. I'll start with one that I saw while driving to work this morning at about 70 mph on the PA Turnpike. I wasn't about to try to get my phone out to shoot the back of a car going past at a good 10 mph more than I was going! Anyhow, I sure hope the guy made his living selling gear for fishermen, because the plate on the back of his Honda CR-V was...
"MR BAIT"!
One in my collectin that I need to dig up to post on here is another PA plate from the late 1970's/early 1980's... "STOLEN". Imagine the grief that guy got from all the police reports that commented that a car's license plate was "stolen".
Here's my current car showing off it's plate. If you're a NASCAR fan, you'll be able to figure it out right away (Think Darrell Waltrip):
My old baby, my '66 Corvair Monza with it's 220 h.p. (at the wheels) engine, the car that loved to beat up on 5.0 Mustangs, had a plate meant to tell the drivers of those cars just what it was that just blew their doors off... :
(Please note that the "I" is the number "1" - the word "CORVAIR" was already taken by the time I applied for the plate)
My wife's plate was a birthday gift to her from her sister Ruby back around 1990. Rose paid the $25 for the same plate when PA did it's last replate in 2000. While it's kind of hard to make out in this photo (this is the best one I have available at the moment), it says "JESU JOY" (From Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"), her favorite hymn. As a Christian musician, it really means a lot to her:
I collect license plates, and have since I was an early teenager. My vanity plates are a favorite subgroup of my collection. I'll be posting photos of my plates as I manage to dig them up. In the meantime, let's have some fun with this. Post up the best vanity plates you see in your daily travels. Photographs aren't necessary; we'll take your word for it. I'll start with one that I saw while driving to work this morning at about 70 mph on the PA Turnpike. I wasn't about to try to get my phone out to shoot the back of a car going past at a good 10 mph more than I was going! Anyhow, I sure hope the guy made his living selling gear for fishermen, because the plate on the back of his Honda CR-V was...
"MR BAIT"!
One in my collectin that I need to dig up to post on here is another PA plate from the late 1970's/early 1980's... "STOLEN". Imagine the grief that guy got from all the police reports that commented that a car's license plate was "stolen".