Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Reg Plate for sale in UK

[Matt Boyd (ferrari308driver]

A college student at the school across the street from me snuck one past the
Virginia DMV. He drives a Corvair and has the license tag: "F NADER."

Outstanding. That's one of my most favorite ever!  :-)

-Matt
85 euro 308 (with tag "NO FIERO")

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:33 AM, LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi Doug,
> By now you've seen the answers to your question about selling vanity
> plates.
> A couple of comments: doesn't it seem bizarre that people will pay approx
> $600,000 for a license plate?   Also, you wrote <<great looking vintage
> E-Type Jaguars with a big tag screwed to top of their bonnet nose>>
> Gotta disagree with that - while beauty is in the eye of the beholder, this
> beholder thinks it spoils the great lines of a E type.  I like the rear
> plates but the front plates on any car spoil the looks IMHO.
>
> I do like the oval plates used in some European countries -  but only on
> the
> rear.   I'd like to see front plate requirements dropped - I wonder how
> many
> times the front plate is actually used to identify a car/driver?  Of
> course,
> cameras might like them. '-(
>
> Now, maybe I'll go down to the DMV and browse the open letters available -
> and see if they'll take a few thousand USD for a "good one".  I always like
> to find ways I can give my government even *more* of my money so they can
> continue to take care of me.  They've done such a great job so far.  Of
> course, in the US there's lots of individual ideas about what a good vanity
> plate would say.  Some might like "crak ho"  but I wouldn't.   It seems the
> DMV has a lot of control to prevent potentially "offensive"  words from us.
> (PC at work??) Hopefully the ACLU never discovers it!
> ;-)
>
> Take care -
> LarryT
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