Talk:Vanity plate

Is 666 a common fragment for fictional license plate numbers? --SuperDude 02:38, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

I noticed that the Alberta registry issues plates with 666 as part of the normal numbering sequence. - Dr Haggis - Talk 19:01, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Netherlands problem
The articule says that the Netherlands have a problem with vanity plates as the plate belongs to the one and only car and not the driver. This is so in some countries issueing them also. Poland has this rule. And with vanity plates costing 1000 PLN and completly non-transferable to a new car, they are veeeeery rare. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.205.158.74 (talk) 17:56, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Article move request
I request this article be moved to a different page - for clarity's sake. A word like "personalized" would be recognised by a far greater number of people - I expect Also, can we have some clarification on which phrases/terminologies are use where?--82.152.178.27 (talk) 23:14, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree. The term "vanity plate" is, I think, wholly unheard of in the UK --88.83.110.216 (talk) 19:14, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Linux Users?
Can anyone verify the stat that "90% of vanity plates are owned by Linux users?". That doesn't seem feasable to me —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.242.6.29 (talk) 18:30, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The reference URL was up last time I checked, looks like it is down now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.42.208.182 (talk) 18:35, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Pimpala?
What's the deal with Florida banning the word "Pimpala"?
 * I don't know what the person who wanted it had in mind (to give the benefit of the doubt, it might have been P. IMPALA with the P standing for something), but it was probably banned for looking like Pimp with a few letters tacked onto the end. --Icarus 04:02, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

PA 343-NYC
I saw the owner of that 343-NYC plate get out of her car and beat someone who took a picture of her plate. This was on a public street. And yes, I find it offensive. Who do I report an offensive plate to?


 * Yes, that is really offensive. I knew people who died and that really should be taken off the road and whoever got the plate should be tossed in the nearest FDNY firehouse where the guys have been told what the person had for their vanity plate. There is no excuse for this trivialization of those who died that day! WestchesterGuy 13:52, 16 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Until seeing these posts, I assumed that the plate was intended not in any way that would generally be considered offensive, but instead as a sort of tribute or memorial. A "never forget" type of thing. I wouldn't be surprised the plate's owner had a loved one among those 343. What offensive interpretation were you guys thinking of? Or do you just think that a vanity plate is too tacky to be a memorial? It's not what I'd choose, but to each their own. --Icarus 04:09, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

6765656
I'm having a hard time believing "A Californian registered the seemingly-random "6765656", and began to receive thumbs ups from passers-by. The reason? It read GEEK in hexadecimal.". "Passers-by" do not just recognise a random number as being a hexadecimal representation of ascii codes. (6716 6516 6516 6b16 being the codes for lowercase 'g' 'e' 'e' 'k'). (Note that a 'b' got lost in editing somewhere.) Ttarp 15:16, 15 August 2007 (UTC).

The 'B' must have been added by accident. The 'B' makes 8 characters. The max letters you can have on a CA license plate is 7.

Origin of vanity plates
When did vanity plates originate, specifically in the USA or UK? Which was the first US state to begin to use them? etc. IF known, that should be added to the article. --Rajah 15:21, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

VIP 1, Ireland
This section says that the plate was issuede in 1984 for the visit of Pope John Paul, however that visit occured in 1978. Liamfoley (talk) 13:23, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * The papal visit was in 1979, and the number plate on the Popemobile was a fake/joke for the day. I am sick and tired of the stereotype of the Irish as being over-religious Catholics bowing down to the pope.  The real "VIP 1" plate was issued in 1971 to Bill Finnegan, for his work on founding the Kilkenny Beer Festival.  It was on his Jaguar, which he brought to England in the 1970s. Old Irish plates could formerly be "naturalised" in the UK and resold there. They can't be resold in Ireland.  See also Vehicle registration plates of Ireland. jnestorius(talk) 00:31, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The papal visit was in 1979, and the number plate on the Popemobile was a fake/joke for the day. I am sick and tired of the stereotype of the Irish as being over-religious Catholics bowing down to the pope.  The real "VIP 1" plate was issued in 1971 to Bill Finnegan, for his work on founding the Kilkenny Beer Festival.  It was on his Jaguar, which he brought to England in the 1970s. Old Irish plates could formerly be "naturalised" in the UK and resold there. They can't be resold in Ireland.  See also Vehicle registration plates of Ireland. jnestorius(talk) 00:31, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

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In fiction section
I had to delete several examples from this section the other day as they were not vanity plates, but were actually easter eggs making reference to things outside the fictional universe. To be an example of a vanity plate in fiction, the meaning of the plate must be relevant within the fiction itself with no regard for the real world. --Khajidha (talk) 17:24, 15 November 2017 (UTC)