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Old Nov 2, 2004 | 10:57 AM
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Ideas for vanity plates.

Silly me, I paid a $100 to place my company name on my vanity plates. How creative.....NOT!

What I should have gotten:

MYBENZ....how uncreative...

CLATERBX.....put put put.....

BENZOILR.......

Ohh yeah, very creative!

I was thinking about what would be cool or funny if we had 8 characters to work with.

Let's have some fun with this. :p

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Old Nov 2, 2004 | 11:52 AM
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It helps to be in a small state, and one (if any there are) that allows eight characters on a vanity plate. California allows up to seven characters, and with something like 3,000,000 vanity plates outstanding, all the good ones and most of the bad ones are already taken. MYBENZ and MY BENZ are, needless to say, taken. MBOILER is still available, but people would read it as M-Boiler. See for yourself what's still available in California (you have to go through the first screen as if you were ordering a plate to get to the name-your-plate screen):

https://vrir.dmv.ca.gov/ipp/PerLicensePlateServlet
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Old Nov 2, 2004 | 12:32 PM
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How about MY.DZL or GOODMPG for the CDI and 2QUICK4U on the Porsche.
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Old Nov 2, 2004 | 12:34 PM
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Here you go. Not very creative but oh well.
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Old Nov 2, 2004 | 03:17 PM
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Want to see what your plate would look like?
http://www.acme.com/licensemaker
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Old Nov 2, 2004 | 03:39 PM
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Old Nov 2, 2004 | 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Spartan
Silly me, I paid a $100 to place my company name on my vanity plates. How creative.....NOT!

...
I was thinking about what would be cool or funny if we had 8 charecters wo work with.

Let's have some fun with this. :p
I was checking the following in my area:
BURN OIL
OIL BRNR
369 LB-FT (of torque)
500 N-M (of torque)
BURN NO2 (#2, but people might think of Nitrous Oxide)
OLSMOKY (except they're not anymore)
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Old Nov 3, 2004 | 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Samoan_Ridah
Here you go. Not very creative but oh well.
'E For Me' might not be the best plate to have. Does 'E' not have a connation for the drug Ecstasy? (Hope that is spelt right?)

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Old Nov 6, 2004 | 04:29 AM
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I believe the smaller and simpler the phrase, the better. something like My ?????, blah blah blah is in my opinion lame...everyone knows its urs, plus, you will look toooo happy like this happy guy :p with the car....makes the car lose some of its class...

numbers are nice especially 3 - 4 digit ones....the more white space in the plate the more unique the look, if you know what i mean...

My friend had an AUDI TT, in the beginning he screwed up with personalising those plates, however, in the end he chose:

0000

which looked incredible, that i believe was creative, unthought of, and maintained the car's class....

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Old Nov 9, 2004 | 06:29 AM
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I have two.....


DaBlues....i love the blues

2BZ2P....i work really hard
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Old Nov 9, 2004 | 11:17 AM
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California (and probably have other states) have DMV employees who spend all day reviewing vanity plate applications for anything that might give anyone offense. The application also requires you to state the "meaning" of your vanity plate, in case it isn't obvious. The DMV employees are fully stocked with foreign dictionaries and even a mirror, for applications like "3M TA3". Anything with a "P" relating to micturition probably wouldn't make the cut, although it's said that a urologist once got a plate that says "CME2P".
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Old Nov 10, 2004 | 03:13 PM
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Not really suitable for a Benz, but one of the best I remember. From a mid-70s AMC Pacer:

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