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

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

F NADER eh?
Um, why that must be in memory of his uncle?
Frank Nader?
Wazzat you say?
Its not?
BUWHAHaahahahahahahahhh
(cough cough)
Onward
DOUG
[man - that's a good one heh heh]



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Boyd" <ferrari308driver [at] gmail.com>
To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Reg Plate for sale in UK


> 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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