[MiniCooperS2002]

What's everyone going to put on their liscence plates? I'm thinking either BIG MINI, ANTI SUV, or NO SUV. Any one have any suggestions?

[Casey]

I can't say which ones i'm looking at as I haven't got them yet I would guess anti anything would be denied by your state.

Cheers

[Red Cooper]

I know I said this before, but how about:

MY CAR

[Casey]

Ones I'm not getting, but I think are interesting is - MINI ME, GR8MINI, MINI B8, BRITCAR, LIL CAR, NO FAD, LEFTPUL(j/k), NOTAVAL(j/k), PRESPEC(j/k)

Well those are some of mine

Cheers

[sdmidget]

I just went with initials (see avatar) - also have RSD MG on my Midget

[gromit]

I'm M1N1 ME


mini me was taken

[Casey]

gromit - have you got those plates already? In Minnesota we can't do things like that - if someone buy MINI ME voids anyone else from buying M1NI ME, MIN1 ME, or M1N1 ME - as it can get difficult for high way patrol to tell the difference between these at times. So all number/letters that appear the same void each other. If you haven't gotten the plates, I'd check first too see if you can do that.

Cheers Mate

[gromit]

Quote:

Originally posted by Casey
gromit - have you got those plates already? In Minnesota we can't do things like that - if someone buy MINI ME voids anyone else from buying M1NI ME, MIN1 ME, or M1N1 ME - as it can get difficult for high way patrol to tell the difference between these at times. So all number/letters that appear the same void each other. If you haven't gotten the plates, I'd check first too see if you can do that.

Cheers Mate

Ordered them on internet via the NYS DMV web page. Approved immediately. Should arrive in my snailmail box as soon as the inmates get done stamping them. If they don't show up I'll post to that effect, but NYS does not seem to care about substituting #s for letters. It's a big moneymaker for the state and that takes precedence over the convienence of the coppers.

For a funny but somewhat off-color list of plates that New York won't approve see:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/blueplate/nydmv1.html

[sdmidget]

My personalized plate is currently on an '86 Isuzu 4x4 Pickup - which I have to sell before May (hopefully)

I got the plate last fall - after I decided that I would by a MINI when they arrived here this year.

[J3T]

I'm transfering the plate off my old Mini - its an 1978 'T' plate as I can't think of a plate that someone hasn't got and I am soo bored of this 51 plate now!

Gotta get an MOT back on the Mini before I can transfer it though!

[MiniCooperS2002]

Yea I wanted to put the fake British plates we have on our old mini, but there is one town a few miles away from us that has real strict police, so we can't do that. We had it on both front and back plates, then they caught us. Then we had it on just the front, and they still caught us. I don't think that the front plate should matter, but in this state it does.

[J.N.]

How does it work over there?

I've got a pretty ordinary personal plate on my MINI for £250 from our national vehicle licencing authority who flog off old unused numbers.

Something really swish, like say MIN 1 would sell for something in excess of £20,000 I reckon.

I believe you guys can more or less have what you want for around $30.

[MiniCooperS2002]

Well, each state has it's own design( some with multiple designs) and you can either get a regular number, for example AFS 9352 for my state. Or you can pick a phrase, up to seven letters in Ohio, and it can't be offensive. So i could do BIG MINI and if it isn't taken, it's not a problem. Custom plates like that i think are around $70, which is only 30 or 40 more than a normal one. I don't understand why over there, custom plates are so much money!

[Wynn]

I'm hoping for WINI, but might settle for WYNNY if that's not available.

Currently, my plates say SLUGS, just because I have a peculiar fondness for the sexy little gastropods. Most people just don't understand, but one day, I nearly had an accident (every kind you can imagine) when I discovered that I was driving behind SNAILZ. I desperately fumbled for the camera I keep in my glovebox specifically for photographing odd, customized plates, and the other weird things you see on the road. There we were... SLUGS and SNAILZ; it was so Zen.

The best photo I've gotten was of a truck with plates that said ONE NUT. I think that's the clearest example of why you should never let your spouse order customized plates for you. You just never know whom you can really trust.

Peace.
-wynn

[BruceK]

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Originally posted by Wynn
...There we were... SLUGS and SNAILZ; it was so Zen...

Didn't happen at a Shell station, did it?

[Wynn]

A Shell station! Oh, man! That's brilliant!

[Cape Cod MINI]

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Originally posted by J.N.
How does it work over there?

J.N.,
I went on the Massachusetts web site to see what was already taken. Based on that I had a reg plate made up that says GOMINI. Cost $70- annual fee, plus $50- one time fee.
There are some restrictions like 6 characters maximum, no spaces (GO MINI would have been nicer), can't begin with a numeral, must be approved (in case it can be even slightly interpreted as offensive) I wonder if your last name was F*CK if you could get it based on free speech and civil rights, etc.

[MGB Boy]

Quote:

Originally posted by Cape Cod MINI


J.N.,
I went on the Massachusetts web site to see what was already taken. Based on that I had a reg plate made up that says GOMINI. Cost $70- annual fee, plus $50- one time fee.
There are some restrictions like 6 characters maximum, no spaces (GO MINI would have been nicer), can't begin with a numeral, must be approved (in case it can be even slightly interpreted as offensive) I wonder if your last name was F*CK if you could get it based on free speech and civil rights, etc.

The court case has already happened here in Vermont. Someone had their SHTHPNS plate taken away when someone at the DMV figured out what it meant. The DMV won the case, and has since set up much more stringent rules about what you can put on a plate, including the requirement that you explain on the application form what the proposed reg number means. One of the new rules forbids ethnic and religious references on plates, and now there's another court case relating to that provision. The case was brought by a woman of Irish ancestry who was denied when she tried to get IRISH as a plate. Obviously the DMV are right to want to forbid ethnic slurs, but this was meant as a point of ethnic pride. No word yet on the outcome of the case...

-Ricardo

[BruceK]

Quote:

Originally posted by MGB Boy
The court case has already happened here in Vermont. Someone had their SHTHPNS plate taken away when someone at the DMV figured out what it meant...

I read in a news report that one interpretation of that particular plate was: SHOUT HAPPINESS



Well, I did.

[MGB Boy]

Quote:

Originally posted by BruceK


I read in a news report that one interpretation of that particular plate was: SHOUT HAPPINESS



Well, I did.

Yup, that claim was made during the case. The press dutifully reported it while holding back a snicker, and the court had the same response as you:

-Ricardo