Favorite License Plate

[KA4DPO]

This is one of my all time favorite vanity plates.



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[nx6d]

ALL of them...

Psycho Obsession... (http://wx7b.bloki.com/)

[KE7DFP]

Dynamite site Dave. I enjoyed all the plates and also appreciated studying the styling on the old radios. Good Work!!!

[ai4ep]

....paid for

....2bad4u

....amateur

....104 cb

.....rolltde

[n0jaa]

I like any license plate that says "ham radio" or "radio operator" or something similar.

One exception is Wyoming. Ham calls really get butchered on their license plates!
I did see an example from 1971 that had a normal ham license on it, but in 1995 I saw one in which the bucking bronco was right in the middle of the callsign!

Paul, N0JAA.

[K8ERV]

Somehow I don't understand the license plate. Will someone with a higher intelligence than mine (hard to believe) explain it to me--

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[kf6rdn]

Quote[/b] (K8ERV @ Sep. 15 2005,12:07)]Somehow I don't understand the license plate. Will someone with a higher intelligence than mine (hard to believe) explain it to me--

TOM K8ERV #Montrose Colo
A government scheme to take your money!

[WA5KRP]

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WA5KRP
Texas

[n9zxk]

When i had my 70 nova ss my plates was URD1.

Also how bout X CON. i saw that one this past summer

[KF0RT]

I see one regularly on my way to work. Forget what kind of car it is, but it's driven by a woman and the plate reads IAM-404. This fits with the randomly assigned sequences here, but it could be a vanity plate.

404 is the Internet web error for "page not found" and in slang, means "clueless."

73, Rob

[W5HTW]

I have heard of some other variations of this one, but one day on my way to work, passing a hospital, I saw what was clearly a doctor's car (large and pretty) driven by a petite (and pretty) blonde. License was: 2P-C-ME.

Huh? And then it dawned on me, as she turned into the doctor's parking lot. She was a urologist.


Colorado did that split thing back in the late 50s. My ham license plate was K0KPM. But there was a skier between the K0 and the KPM. (There was a slash in the zero, though, which was at least worth something.)

Mass also did it: Except the skier turned into a lightning bolt. My call there was W1 (lighting!) BXP

And at least on that one it did have the words "Amateur Radio"

When I moved to New Mexico, my call sign was W0RKX. (Colorado.) NM had no idea how to produce the slash for the Zero. And the world had not yet eliminated that slash, as it has today. I called MVD and explained to them. After getting them to understand, the MVD officer told me, "If you get stopped by the police, be sure and tell them that is not the letter 'O' but is a zero, so they look up your registration correctly." I had a better idea. I took a small brush and red paint and painted my own darned slash on it.

Couple or so years later, NM finally caught up with Colorado and learned how to make a slash, and I got a REAL zero on my license plate.

Then I changed call signs.

Back when I had the Colorado plate, W0RKX (with the slash) it did not state it was amateur radio. On more than a couple of occasions it was mistaken for the word "works' in slightly modified style. One fellow looked at it once and nodded. "Yeah, me, too. Damned welfare idiots." Sure, I knew what he meant. He was not the first.

When I had the call sign W3GAB, in Delaware, and this is no joke either, and it did not state amateur radio on it, I had some guy come up to me at a parking lot and say, "You like to talk, huh?" I didn't catch on. He nodded toward his wife and said, with a smile, "We gab, too." Later the plates there also had the words amateur radio on them.

Fun! I still think the urologist had the best vanity plate.

Ed

[k7dlx]

Seen on a Volvo in Laguna Beach, CA, a popular artist's community in south Orange County:

http://www.wayman.us/artzfartz.jpg

[AK7V]

Quote[/b] (k7dlx @ Sep. 15 2005,15:08)]Seen on a Volvo in Laguna Beach, CA, a popular artist's community in south Orange County:

http://www.wayman.us/artzfartz.jpg
Yikes - that reminds me of the jokes I was the butt of in elementary school (look me up and see my last name. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif )

When I lived in Michigan and requested a ham radio license plate, they didn't recognize my call as valid because it wasn't an 8 call. They did eventually accept it after I explained to them that there were different call districts, and that my call was indeed valid. So I have an "AC6XA" Michigan plate.

When I moved to Washington, the person giving out license plates didn't know how to get me a ham plate and recommended that I go to Olympia for it. That's a long drive so I haven't bothered. So I have a plain old WA license plate for now.

73,
Jason
AK7V

[N7GFK]

IAMB4U

[WA5KRP]

2BR02B always struck me as clever.



WA5KRP
Texas

[KI4LHU]

I saw one on a car in a drive through line yesterday that said "591-HOME" on it, with the hyphen and all, no kidding, it was a Florida plate. The area code is 904 if anyone wants to prank it. LOL

[w5klb]

A good family friend of ours is a Dentist. His license plate reads "2TH DR".

[KA4DPO]

Quote[/b] (k7dlx @ Sep. 15 2005,15:08)]Seen on a Volvo in Laguna Beach, CA, a popular artist's community in south Orange County:

http://www.wayman.us/artzfartz.jpg
I still remember when the Strawberry Festival was held once a year in the field across the street from the Festival of Arts. Now it's permanent. That's just touresty.......

[KL7FZ]

SOSUME

PNOKEO

[VE1IDX]

Seen on a classic Barricuda: CUL8TR

Seen on a gardener's truck: GRNTHUM

[n0jaa]

How about this one? #OU-812

My mom had a vanity plate on her car once. #It said MINE.

A few years later I saw a guy driving a car with a vanity plate that said NOT-MYN.

When I lived in the Denver area, there was a pest control company that had vanity plates for all of their trucks. #The plates had "PEST-##" on them (## was the number of the truck).

How about this one? #BIG-4X4

I had my callsign on a Colorado plate once. #Since they didn't say "ham radio" or something similar on them, people would always come up to me and ask about the "funny looking Q on my license plate."

Then there's always the classic 2FAST4U.

I knew a guy in Colorado that had "STOLEN" on his license plate. #He thought it was great until he got stopped for speeding once. #The police dispatcher had a very hard time trying to figure out if the plate was stolen. #He soon changed it to another plate.

Paul, N0JAA.

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Edited for spelling. #Arthritis is acting up today!

[KE5CAX]

http://www.dot.state.tx.us/vtr/spplates/specialplate.htm?nbr=136

Texas issued a special plate for EMS certified folks and the plate is a really nice looking plate for a change. the radio opreator plate in texas is just a plane plate.

Ed

[kc9krb]

How about this one I saw here in Illinois a few years ago.

BANPMS2

[K8EEI]

MUF DVR http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[w5klb]

"EIEIO"- farm truck, owner might have last name of McDonald.

"ICNTDRV"- Nothing like a little honesty.

"PAYED4"- Lucky person. Cheated the "Repo Man".

"DAV XXX"- One of MANY heros.