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The richest Junk Dealer in town-He made his fortune buying industrial scrap, & selling it VERY high had Tn vanity plates on the back of his V-12 BMW that said "RCHPHKR", which I thought was kinda tacky & was surprised the state let 'em go thru.... He had several class-3 rifles, & always wanted me to come shooting w/him, but I never did. He was just a tad too "Oily" for even me..
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Illinois (like all states) bans inappropriate vanity plates, but some slip through, as the department employees are not necessarily up on all slang terms. In AZ, the vanity plate application form asks for an explanation of exactly what it means.
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I'm partial to the New Mexico turquoise and chile plates. And yes I have 'em on my cars. Interesting fact: NM plates are the only ones that say USA on them...... |
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Noticed that Florida only has back plates, that wouldn't work here in England as most traffic violation cameras take a photo of the front of the car, it's naughty to not have a front plate & the cops will soon stop you. Motorbikes don't have a front plate & a lot of them seem to do what they like. Some naughty people use black insulating tape to change their number plates = make a C look like an O or an F an E etc, then the legal person receives a speeding or red light ticket & has a hell of a job convincing the cops he/she didn't do it, some just pay the fine & take the 3 points on their licence to save the hassle...
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Here in Wisconsin there are not many traffic cameras, but you can get and get out of incorrect tickets.... Last year somewhere in Milwaukee a Landover with a different paint color( I know because the ticket had make, model, color, plate number and location parked listed) than my Suburban got a parking ticket and the meter maid recorded my plate number by mistake....I made some calls explaining I'd never been in that area and that my plate had only been on GM vehicles and the ticket was dismissed as the mistake it was.
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Several years ago Wisconsin tried to pass legislation only requiring front plates. The police were the main opponents. They (rightly) claimed that the plates are on cars primarily for law enforcement reasons, and if looking for a particular vehicle they can see and read thousands of license plates on vehicles coming towards them in traffic, but can only read the plate in front of them when following a car.
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Got stung a few months ago = parked car & saw a sign "one hour free" so went to the shops & came back 30 mins later to a a ticket, asked the parking warden why? He pointed to a very small sign saying you had to get a free ticket from the machine even for the free one hour. Been on local TV news about it being unfair. Also people have got parking tickets via CCTV camera for being stopped in traffic jams, it's getting daft here... |
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This is a TRUE story
The Governor of New Hampshire recently stepped in and forced the RMV to allow a woman to keep a plate she had for years . The woman , being a Mom , had a message for her kids right there in the car's license plate ; PB4WEGO And the RMV had sought to recall the plate because of it's reference to "excretory functions" . I'm glad the Gov of NH has a sense of humor ..... |
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There was a big ooh-ahh going on in our local newspapers & local TV stations that a man got a 60 pounds parking ticket: He was stopped for 16 seconds at a give way (yeald) sign at a T junction waiting for a gap in the traffic & a CCTV camera van clocked him & thought he was parked & issued the fine by post. They eventually canceled the fine after many months of appeals & wrangling...
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Georgia has plenty of plates but SC has even more. They even have one for licensed cosmetologist. In GA. you have to pay extra for all vanity plates now. At one time ham & veteran plates were free.
Now, if your antique car needs plates you can go one of two ways. One way is they have an antique plate with a picture of a model A on it with the prefix HA for hobby antique. OR, you can find an old plate from the year of your vehicle and just give them the number on the plate. Of course, you still have to pay the fee. Georgia only has plates on the rear.
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It's also common up in the NYC/NJ/PA area for motorcycles (mostly Harleys...) to run a vertical license plate, i.e. a regular plate flipped 90 degrees. NY/NJ don't seem to care, even though it's semi-officially verboten. PA, you can actually get a state-sanctioned vertical plate.
I can say with certainty that the automated toll machines can in fact read the plate no problem. I have pictures to prove it Supposedly they impound your bike if you do that in Florida. Go figure. |
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I liked the way that U.S.A. licence plate are looking. Seen for real a few in Romania.
I liked that you could have the town put on it. Here in Romania you have the indicative of the county where the care is registred - this means two letters, except for Bucharest which isn't a county and you have B... up untill '000's, Ilfov County (small county that sorrunds Bucharest) had also B, but now it's IF. Numbers are standard here. You have to have letters close, like you must have like B82DJL, you can't have B 82 D J L. Funny thing that even we where a communist country, I tink up untill '60's people could legally go to different workshops and ask for the manufacturing of licence plates (probably they presented some offcial documents that show they have the right to ask for that service - I will ask more). |
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