Help Choosing My Vanity Plate

Funny!

 

in britain, where i lived for a long time, there are no tailored vanity plates. there are plates that through some inventive imagination can be construed to yield a message with the combination of the alpha numeric code, like ELV15 for example. and the plates are traded on line - its a big business.
on my 512tr i have O1L 9748, just because i was in the oil business.

anyway, the point of this little story is that it was in britain that i saw the coolest license plate ever......it was on a Range Rover parked on King's Road....and the plate just had the digit '1'

thats all that was on that plate. the queen has no plates on her cars, just a royal insignia. so this plate was the first legal plate in the uk, ever.

 

Do what makes you happy who cares what a bunch of people on car forums say. I like vanity plates because it breaks up the motony of billions of boring plates. I like to try to figure them out and some are very clever.

Mine are usually not.

Congrats and Rock the Frick On!

 

to the OP

how about
SHADOW

or

VELOCE

?

 

Holy Crap I must be the lowest of low then.
6VETTE4 (64 VETT wasn't available)
68 VETT
02 VETT
14 VETT
F430 is random however, and I'm probably going to put "Year Correct" Authentic Plates on my 2 old Vettes.

Here's some options if you wanna join us low class folk:
FRRRARI
F3RRAR1

 

Spot on!



Mark

 

Barely...

 

Hey, that must have been Lewis Hamilton's company car! Doesn't he have a tattoo that says "BLESSED" and signs his instagram posts with that?

I don't have a vanity plate on my 308, but I just ordered one for my new Audi RS3 that requires a high level of automobile geekdom to decipher - "12453".

Gordon

 

I had MNYSPNG and FREMERE on my 308 at different times. Have thought about WURZIG for my Cayenne but have just never done it.

My favorite though is the license plate frame a buddy bought me. It says "Yeah, yeah I know....license and registration".

 

The kindest thing you can do for yourself is to stop caring what other people think.

Do what you want to do. No one else is living your life or paying your bills. People are going to think whatever no matter what. Why give them power over your life? They're nobody.

 

Guess I am low class and uncool as well. Already thinking of the possible plates for my new 458. Have only seen a couple that took themselves too seriously. Most are usually funny. Plus it gives the people you leave in the dust something to do ;-)

 

The kindest thing you can do for yourself is to stop caring what other people think.
GOOD POINT

Do what you want to do.
GOOD POINT

No one else is living your life or paying your bills.
GOOD POINT

People are going to think whatever no matter what.
GOOD POINT

Why give them power over your life?
GOOD POINT

They're nobody.
CRASS

 

Not at all. Everybody is nobody. The fact that people think so highly of themselves is what causes 99% of the problems in the world.

 

When I went to register my 550, the plate they handed me was "1749 VD", that was not going on my car. They said I could get a vanity plate instead, so I got "V12 550". I wish I had had more time to think of something more clever and humorous, but that is what I came up with spur of the moment within the rules for Maine's vanity plates.

 

Interesting switch from "They're nobody" to "Everybody is nobody."

Certainly some of us do think too highly of ourselves...

 

No switch at all. They is a subset of Everybody. It's sorta English.

But keep trying.

 

If someone doesn't like vanity plates, they don't have to get one and they can go play in another thread since this one doesn't align with their personal tastes.

right?

 

God forbid some miss an opportunity to be elite.

 

BY elite, do you mean pompous? Or, stuck up? Or, arrogant? Or...?



Mark

 

In the end, vanity plates are similar to opinions on fashion, Sometimes a leather jacket or cutoff jean shorts can be considered classless, a lot depends on the context.

I do find it ironic that folks that have judged personalized 'plates' themselves as classless -- seem not to care that many in the general population find all 'exotic' car owners classless.

There is no shortage of comments and articles that denigrate Ferrari owners as the epitome of braggadocio, and call all of 'us' classless by owning a Ferrari.

Interesting for me to see this cognitive dissonance.

I also don't have traditional vanity plates (personalized sequence), so I think I am unbiased here.

 

As my 550 is now 20 years old, it was eligible for collector plates this year. We can personalize ours, so went with "MARANLO". Previously had a standard plate that "just happened" to include the numbers "550"

 

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I'll send a bigger shovel over. In the mean time keep diggin'.

 

If you don't like the Portofino..... ahhhhh... you get the idea... right?


Tommy Cosgrove

Blame air.

Seriously, Ferraris are looking like something from Japan for the very same reasons it is terribly difficult to tell the difference between F1 cars without the logos and paint.

Today is more wind tunnel and (far) less artist and paper.

 

A Ferrari is not exactly the car you get when you seek anonymity. Your photo is accurate.