Vanity tags on your auto?

Correct spelling was taken.

Though I don't have one I see a few at York every year.  If I remember I'll snap a few pics and post.

-Greg

I have vanity tags, but they are not train related and the word is in Finnish. 

We have vanity plates on both cars, however they are not model train related.

 

My wife's car is  WESTIE 8

 

While my car is JJW 4449

Thought I really don't care for "vanity tags" (or "plates") on autos, I have toyed with

one for my 2014 Challenger R/T. Should be obvious.

 

I do not know the rules in detail, so I may have to settle for "4664" instead of

"4-6-6-4", if I do it, which I probably won't.

No train plates, but the plate on my Chrysler 300C Heritage Edition is "HEMI NO 3." It's my third Hemi car.

 

HEMI NO 1 was a 1968 Dodge Charger with the 426 Hemi and a 4-speed. Sold it a long time ago.

HEMI NO 2 was a 2004 Dodge Ram Pickup which I traded on the 300C.

HEMI NO 4 was a 2009 Dodge Charger RT which I sold a couple of years ago.

 

I just traded an old Durango on a new Jeep Grand Cherokee, with the Hemi, of course.

It will be "HEMI NO 5" when the plates come in.

 

Obviously I'm a MOPAR guy...

Did they do this on purpose?  In Pennsylvania, they used to make license plates at the State Penn, and stuff like this was quite common.  

My vanity tag is O-SCALE.

The close I have come to vanity tags when I transferred to the states from  Germany was kept our German Tags on the front of our vehicles, State tags for both was US Army background until recently one was changed to Disabled Veteran Tag. Vanity Tags were not allowed in Germany.  

I believe that the statement above means the correct spelling was taken.

Rich, I like the way you think. Hemi, best engine ever made.

Thanks, Roger. You ought to know! 

My plate is: PRR T1....for my favorite steam engine.

It happens to be on a Millenium Yellow Corvette and it is a pretty one at that.

Norm

I have a vanity plate, but not train related.

many custom plates here:

 

http://www.toytrains.info/licenseplates.asp

Ben Fioriello needs to chime in here with his vanity tags and train coupler

Our SUV has "DABEAWS."  I just ordered "BOIN106 for my brand new pick-up truck.  Matt

From the day or so after we purchased OGR, my Ohio plate reads:

 

O GAGE RR 

 

Yeah, I know....  but I couldn't fit another letter in the available space, so the "U" in GAUGE had to take a hike!

 

 

OK, Rich and Roger - just remember MONC: Mopar Or No Car. 

 

Rich, you sold a 1968 Charger with the 426/4-spd? Oh, dear.

 

Now, back to RR'ing...

68 Charger sold, oh man regret of a lifetime

Well Rich Mopars are good but Fords are better.
"Spence". 2013 Shelby GT 500
"Susan" 2012 Taurus  SHO
"Kukana" 2011 Raptor
"Gas Free" 2014 Focus(electric)

Kukana is Hawaiian for Susan

Spence, just having fun with you

Leonard Wood and I use to argue about FORD,

Leonard would say, FORD First On Race Day

I would reply, FORD Found On Road Dead.

 

All I know is that they had to introduce the restrict-or plate in NASCAR to slow down the Hemis and finally get rid of them. They were very dominate on the ovals and drags.

 

As I said in the beginning Spence, I am just having fun with you, PLEASE do not take me serious on this.

Roger;  don't worry no offense taken here.
FORD; fix or repair daily

No vanity tags, except for the front when I lived in a one plate (rear) state.  Have always thought two was an idiotic waste of resources...but here they are required.

I have heard the FORD acronym as "Fix or repair daily".  However, I was forced to

get a recent Ford pickup as the last one with a transmission I would buy.  I had

two superb Dodge Chargers...one 383 1966 and other 318 1973 ordered on police chassis.  It went longer than any other car I have owned.  With a modern engine

and drive train, I would buy a new 1966/2015 Charger.  Due to dropping of other

choices, I am waiting to look at the 2015 Mustang, but it is supposed to have a turbo

on its fuel efficient engine, which will delete it from the list.

Your plate is pictured on the site that Ed H posted.....kinda cool!

Let me say I was mostly a FORD guy in my teens through my twenties.  Had a couple of Corvettes, but could never get them to run right.  Anyway, has anyone else ever heard of a monkey wrench called a Ford wrench?  Everyone used to tell me it was the only wrench I would ever need to work on my Fords.

Can you tell us what the word is?

Yep...sure is.

 

I mis-spoke above. It was a '67 Charger, not a '68. It was 1 of 180 made in '67 with the Hemi and a four speed. I sold it a long time ago...for $21,000, which was a decent price at the time I sold it.

 

It would be worth more than 10 times that now!

Rich, man,I feel your pain. I had a 1970 and a 1971 HEMI Cuda. They were in MINT condition. Loved those elephant motors.

 

MOPAR NO CAR....

No. Not that it isn't a nice idea, but I view license plates as a means to collect taxes and given that Maryland is constantly raising taxes and that these plates cost extra, there's no way I would in essence voluntarily pay more. 

 

I share the enthusiasm for Hemi-powered offerings, but after much playing around with cars over the years I have come to the conclusion that the best motor on the market right now is the Chevrolet LS1.  Hemi is very good, but there is nothing more durable, tuneable, and that gives the same economy per liter of output as an LS1.  Now if GM could just make the rest of their cars that good they'd be in business. 

The only vanity plate I ever had was on a '02 Lingenfelter 7-liter 'vette,  that I had a local Nascar shop put a supercharger and methanol injection on: 1,000 ft lbs of torque right off idle and 880 RWHP.  It had all the original luxury items and big mufflers so it was very civilized and I drove it to work every day for three years, but the car could knock off 10.3 second quarter mileson street tires, so I had a plate on it that said "LOWTENS."  

 

I got rid of the plate because people kept asking me why I played "low tennis."  

I got rid of the car because trim and control stalks and knobs and buttons were always breaking and seams in the upholstry always opening - body by Fisher-Price, not Fisher.  

I don't miss the hassle of having a vanity plate, or the car, but I do miss that engine.  I miss it alot.

My vanity plate is LEWES, where we spend a lot of beach time in Delaware.

 

In PA, there is a one-time charge of $36. for a vanity plate. It is easy to see what is available on-line, then you order.

Well, "silvoton vanka mies" is too long...so I give up.

My wife's midlife crisis car...an EOS...has the only vanity plate in our stable...

 

VDEBYA

 

We have 'names' for the others, but not on the plates.  That may change, however. 

 

 

 

It was on that link that Ed had too

 

 

I used to have one  426CID  on a Cuda    Rich would like that one

Ct. has a one time fee for vanity plates. When you renew it's the same price as a standard plate.

RAT for my big block '62 Corvette.  HEMI for my 426 Super Stock race boat tow truck.