I want your opinion

[Madeline]

I know scarcely any young chick who hasn't been hassled on the road, Si. Just buy some fluffy dice for the rear-view, is my vote.

 

[Si modo]

I know scarcely any young chick who hasn't been hassled on the road, Si. Just buy some fluffy dice for the rear-view, is my vote.

LOL! I already have one of those balls for the top of the antenna. Does that count?

 

[Douger]

Have a look at the one on the Beemer
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[AquaAthena]

So, historically, whenever I've seen vanity plates on a car, a part of me always thinks how idiotic and what sort of egomaniac would get those.

I have no idea what changed, but now I'm seriously considering getting a vanity plate. I think maybe I just don't care if folks think I'm an idiot.

Anyway, what do you think? Should I get vanity plates?

I have never had them because it makes the car too identifiable. There are many thousands of tourists that visit the Oregon coast every year and I have not seen one vanity plate in the last several.

 

[Si modo]

Well, there's something to add to the pro side of the pro/con list, Douger. I can mess with folks' heads.

 

[Si modo]

So, historically, whenever I've seen vanity plates on a car, a part of me always thinks how idiotic and what sort of egomaniac would get those.

I have no idea what changed, but now I'm seriously considering getting a vanity plate. I think maybe I just don't care if folks think I'm an idiot.

Anyway, what do you think? Should I get vanity plates?

I have never had them because it makes the car too identifiable. There are many thousands of tourists that visit the Oregon coast every year and I have not seen one vanity plate in the last several.

I'm in NoVA...tons of them, here. In fact, Virginia has the highest rate of them in the country.

URSOVAIN: Va. has most vanity plates - U.S. news - Weird news - msnbc.com

Va. drivers vainest of them all with their plates
About 1 in 10 personalized U.S. license plates appear in the state

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updated 11/11/2007 7:57:11 PM ET


RICHMOND, Va. — URSOVAIN, Virginia.

You, too, New Hampshire, Illinois, Nevada and Montana.

A state-by-state survey of the popularity of vanity license plates has found that car and truck owners in Virginia are the vainest of them all.

Out of the 9.3 million personalized plates on the roads of America, about one in 10 are in Virginia, according to rankings provided to The Associated Press by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.

That's 16 percent of the plates issued by Virginia. New Hampshire came in second with nearly 14 percent. Illinois had about 13.4 percent, but that amounted to nearly 1.3 million plates, the most of any state.

"If you've got 9.3 million people across the U.S. sporting vanity plates, you've got a cultural phenomenon," AAMVA spokesman Jason King said.

Texas had the fewest, with only about a half percent of drivers personalizing their plates.
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[goldcatt]

I don't like them, personally. I'm thinking about the times I've been hassled on the road, it is easily identifiable. But it's your car! If you're like me it might make it easier to identify in the parking lot.

 

[Si modo]

I don't like them, personally. I'm thinking about the times I've been hassled on the road, it is easily identifiable. But it's your car! If you're like me it might make it easier to identify in the parking lot.

Oh, identification of my car in a parking lot is not too hard. It stands out all on its own.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

I can't figure a way to compres the phrase "Nodame Cantabile is the best evah" into 7 letters. Otherwise I would go for it.

 

[AquaAthena]

So, historically, whenever I've seen vanity plates on a car, a part of me always thinks how idiotic and what sort of egomaniac would get those.

I have no idea what changed, but now I'm seriously considering getting a vanity plate. I think maybe I just don't care if folks think I'm an idiot.

Anyway, what do you think? Should I get vanity plates?

I have never had them because it makes the car too identifiable. There are many thousands of tourists that visit the Oregon coast every year and I have not seen one vanity plate in the last several.

I'm in NoVA...tons of them, here. In fact, Virginia has the highest rate of them in the country.

URSOVAIN: Va. has most vanity plates - U.S. news - Weird news - msnbc.com

Va. drivers vainest of them all with their plates
About 1 in 10 personalized U.S. license plates appear in the state

Advertisement | ad info
updated 11/11/2007 7:57:11 PM ET


RICHMOND, Va. — URSOVAIN, Virginia.

You, too, New Hampshire, Illinois, Nevada and Montana.

A state-by-state survey of the popularity of vanity license plates has found that car and truck owners in Virginia are the vainest of them all.

Out of the 9.3 million personalized plates on the roads of America, about one in 10 are in Virginia, according to rankings provided to The Associated Press by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.

That's 16 percent of the plates issued by Virginia. New Hampshire came in second with nearly 14 percent. Illinois had about 13.4 percent, but that amounted to nearly 1.3 million plates, the most of any state.

"If you've got 9.3 million people across the U.S. sporting vanity plates, you've got a cultural phenomenon," AAMVA spokesman Jason King said.

Texas had the fewest, with only about a half percent of drivers personalizing their plates.
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I've never labeled the driver of a car with vanity plates as vain or anything else. I think they are just having fun or making a statement.

 

[Si modo]

Damn...outta rep already.

 

[mudwhistle]

Unless they say "SiMoron", because then it's truth in advertising.... no.

Don't do it man! Don't do it!

Or it could say "STFUFITZ"

 

[Foxfyre]

New Mexico being a border state has a very high car theft rate--most stolen vehicles are quickly transported to Mexico where they are either torn down for parts or who knows what they do with them there. For sure, few stolen vehicles are recovered here. But in conjunction with the car thefts are stolen plates. The thieves switch plates from one car to the stolen one. Most folks don't even look at their plates and it could be days or weeks before they noticed the plates had been changed. Meanwhile the stolen car is more difficult to identify in transit because the plates don't match what the owner reports.

I don't think vanity plates would be choice to transfer to the stolen vehicle though. Much more likely somebody would notice a vanity plate had been switched.

(I once worked with a Urologist with vanity plates reading: 2PCME)

 

[syrenn]

So, historically, whenever I've seen vanity plates on a car, a part of me always thinks how idiotic and what sort of egomaniac would get those.

I have no idea what changed, but now I'm seriously considering getting a vanity plate. I think maybe I just don't care if folks think I'm an idiot.

Anyway, what do you think? Should I get vanity plates?

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about you having a vanity plate.
It really doesn't matter what you thought before.
What does maters is what you think...now.

What is the worst that will happen? You give it up and go back to generated numbers.

If it amuses you then do it!

I enjoy well thought out vanity plates. I enjoy looking at them and trying to figure them out. Its code talking and its great fun!

 

[ConHog]

I prefer to give the people behind me in traffic something to really watch

 

[Barb]

So, historically, whenever I've seen vanity plates on a car, a part of me always thinks how idiotic and what sort of egomaniac would get those.

I have no idea what changed, but now I'm seriously considering getting a vanity plate. I think maybe I just don't care if folks think I'm an idiot.

Anyway, what do you think? Should I get vanity plates?

If you can afford them, why not? It would make your plate easier to remember on forms to fill out (I never remember more than the first three characters), and if you came up with something clever it gives the people behind you something to smile about.

 

[Barb]

Go for it si. If it will make you smile when you look at your car, it's worth it.

I know scarcely any young chick who hasn't been hassled on the road, Si. Just buy some fluffy dice for the rear-view, is my vote.

LOL! I already have one of those balls for the top of the antenna. Does that count?

I hung a pair of handcuffs on my rear view once upon a time. It was a fun little conversation piece.
Hmmm, maybe I should revisit that idea...

 

[ConHog]

lace panties off the rear view mirror work well to

 

[Big Fitz]

Unless they say "SiMoron", because then it's truth in advertising.... no.

Don't do it man! Don't do it!

Or it could say "STFUFITZ"

ROFLMAO!

Thanks man.

 

[Barb]

lace panties off the rear view mirror work well to

never thought of that.