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May 19, 2010 | 03:37 PM

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*2fords*

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From: Nixa

There's a pretty nice lookin woman around here who drives a 90's era Ford pick up. She has "cowgrl" on her plates.

I had "TRYMENC" on my 76 Chevy 4x4, til I rolled it. My friend then got it for his truck, since i no long was in California and my truck was totalled.

May 19, 2010 | 07:12 PM

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From: springfield il

bringing my 52 customline home this weekend , finally , and have already went and checked on the availibility of the plate . it's like this ........ i have a real issue with dragging old cars and trucks home for parts or to keep . well the running joke is that it's going to lead too no. 2 so my new plate with any luck will read : DVRC NO2 .

May 19, 2010 | 09:04 PM

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From: Prairieville, La

The DMV is supposed to check plates for vulgarity but they let some go through. I saw these plates on two foreign cars here in Metairie,La.

DKSLNGR - on a thugs car

68NIOU1 - on a male teenagers car

May 19, 2010 | 11:06 PM

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From: The Star-Club, Hamburg

I think your plate looks pretty good, Amazon, and if you are paying the bills, then I say by all means get what you want for your truck. Both my daily driver '01 F150 and my '96EB Bronco have personalized plates. They cost $25 a year to renew here, on top of the yearly fee. The ones on the F150 has been on 4 different vehicles I've owned since I got them in 2002, and the ones on the Bronco have been on it since I bought it. I'm sort of attached to the Bronco's plate, so I plan to keep it as long as I can. The truck's vanity plate fit in pretty well with the car that I originally bought them for, but not so much with the 3 succeeding pickups they've been on, so I may at some point let them go back.

I've only gotten pulled over once since I've had a personalized plate on anything, and that situation amounted to more of a "speed trap" than anything, in my opinion. In my experience, anyway, personalized plates have been no more a cop-magnet than a bumper sticker or anything else you can stick on a car or truck.

May 19, 2010 | 11:44 PM

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From: Southern California

Whether your vanity plate says something about you, your lifestyle, your ride or your philosophy on life... I say go for it. Life is too short for regretting what you should'a could'a.

I have vanity plates on one vehicle. My '75 Pontiac Bonneville. They say "BAUNEE." Because it is a Bonneville and we got it from our best friend Bonnie's dad in Negaunee (MI.) So it means something to us. But to everyone else it just announces that the huge Nimitz class coupe we are driving is indeed a Bonneville...

May 20, 2010 | 12:37 AM

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plumber01

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Cool thread. Now that Texas has 8 letters I wsa thinking about doing LAY N PIPE, because I am a plumber of course. HA HA HA HA

May 20, 2010 | 07:48 PM

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From: St. Charles, Missouri.

Good Idea, Robert.
I'ma get custom plates, eventually.
My dad back in '86 (Before some of you were even born) had custom plates that said "Jerrs84" Meanin' Jerry's '84, The kid he bought it from was named Jerry, and the truck was a '84.
My dad left the plates on it, and people used to call him Jerry, he just laughed & didn't correct them...

May 22, 2010 | 08:20 AM

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What makes you think there's something wrong with vanity plates? My wife has vanity plates on her F250. She also has a set of train horns hidden under there for those idiot drivers who can't stay in their own lane because they're too busy texting.