Ferrari Mailing List: Re: PROVA license plate: GOT IT !

[Michel Savard (mysavard]

PROVA MO ? My guess is MO for Modena.

Michael Savard
1981 308 GTSi

> On Nov 3, 2018, at 3:45 PM, Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> Right on!   Congrats 
> 
> I had to go back and look at pictures I had.  They all read "PROVA MO"?
> 
> 
> 
>> On Nov 3, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Michel Savard <mysavard [at] videotron.ca> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Remember a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I had tried to get PROVA as my 
>> new license plate here in Quebec ?
>> I was turned down because of  ‘road safety issues’ or something like that. 
>> But they also said that you could argue your point if one was turned down. I 
>> did.
>> 
>> PROVA means, among other things, TEST (hence road safety issues, I guess). 
>> But in Googling it, I saw it also means PROOF. As in “…..this is the proof 
>> of my innocence”. That was the example Google gave. So, I wrote them 
>> (government SAAQ ) that "the word to me meant '…this is the proof of my 
>> success'. I dreamed of owning a Ferrari since I was 17 years old when the 
>> 308 came out. PROVA to me is the proof of my success”.
>> 
>> They bought it.
>> 
>> In their explanation to accept my request, they wrote that there was no 
>> ‘copyright infringement’. Nothing about road safety.
>> 
>> Now for those who don’t remember what I wrote, here is the story behind 
>> PROVA. When I was a teenager, I read a lot of car magazines. Obviously, I 
>> loved reading about journalists testing Ferraris. I saw many many pictures 
>> with a license plate that said PROVA hanging behind those Ferraris being 
>> tested. I always thought back then that this would be the ultimate personal 
>> license plate to own as a Ferrari owner.
>> 
>> It only took 43 years. Patience has its rewards.
>> 
>> Michael Savard :))))))))))))))
>> 1981 308 GTSi
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