I'm thinking of putting a vanity plate on my 68 cutlass convertible.
Do you have any ideas? What are you running?
I've kicked around some ideas like:
recycled
68ragtop
455roket
notdads
gasguzlr
youdlose

 

I used the first owners name....IDAS 69..... Ida Mathews..

 

TOPLESS
DROPTOP
CUTLOOSE

What I'm running is obvious...

 

I had this in Illinois:

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(yes it was straight, I just can't find the regular pic of it right now)


but plates out here in CA are a bit pricey for me right now so I have to wait.

Are you sure you can run 8 characters? I haven't seen more than 7 on any plate.

 

Are you allowed 8 letters where you are? When I got mine, here in Ohio, the BMV said I could only have 7 letters. Some of the things I thought of were already taken, but they will tell you! They are expensive - mine are $89.00 a year on each car. I'm going to change to year of manufacture plates on the 72.
My plates are "My Cutls" on the 72, and "SK Olds" on the Intrigue. (my initials)

 

I just got off the CT web site.
In their wisdom, it is 6 characters, and they won't do anything on an antique plate.
6 characters will be tougher, but I know you are a creative bunch.

 

That's one of the nicer things we've been called, I'm sure!! LOL!

 

Ontario allows 8 if I'm not mistaken. Alberta is 7. Since you're only allowed 6 letters try 6UL DV8

 

NC allows 8, VA allows 7 except on the specialty plates which are usually limited to 6 because of the affinity group's logo.

The 1976 Ninety Eight wore I8JAPAN for many years until antique plates became a cheaper way out. The 74 Hurst currently wears 58THNDY, and the Bravada had RKTRDR on a NASA-Langley specialty plate until I got tired of spending money on it and parked it.

Wagon has a Tobacco Heritage specialty plate TBCORD - "tobacco road" since I grew up on a baccer farm and even though I never want to go back to it, I have not forgotten where I came from.

Ford truck has a non-personalized Civil War Sesquicentennial commemorative. It's the only one I've seen in this city, which is discouraging because Danville WAS the last formal capital of the Confederate government when they were on the run from Richmond in April 1865. The town has a goldmine of history between the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement, but chooses not to exploit either to its advantage.

But Vajenya has so many affinity and commemorative plates available, it's hard to keep track of them all. Even with the affinity arrangements, they are a cash cow for this state.

 

just a couple,

A 68 OLZ
6T8 OLZ
68 OLDS
C MI OLDS
C MY OLDS

Gene

 

I used to have one that said "NONE"

Well I thought it was funny.

 

You would! hahahahahehhehe

 

I recently watched the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas. In the movie the main character has a vanity license plate D-Fense.

I think that would be a cool license plate. Especially since I am a defense contractor.

 

68RULZ

 

I ressurected an oldie for my 72 Cutlass "S". I originally had it on my 70 Superbee and it became my nickname at work. It's now my screen name also.....BOOWAH. It signifies the sound of the Bee's exhaust that I used to mimic when revving it up......Boooo......Waah! . My daily driver is an 89 Caprice Classic and it's plate is simpler and more direct....62 GRAD!

 

imma put my name backwards Dennis - Sinned cuz i have lol

 

6T8 455

 

IT LBS

 

I used "IDAS 69". Ida Matthews original owner on bill of sale. I've even talked with her.

 

Heres mine......Kinda banged up but I like it....
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65 442 that I had in the late 70s, early 80s had XLNT. People would look at the plate and shake their heads until I told them to say it faster.

 

How About GOTCHA, Which tells it all when you beat someone off the lights.

 

A few to ponder....

MYGIRL
GASPIG
FLUBYU (Flew By You)
YBUY4N (Why Buy Foreign)
HIOFCR (Hi Officer)
P D Q
ORPHAN

 

powndog

 

It's got nothing to do with Oldsmobiles, but for a sports theme:

10SNE1
(tennis anyone?)

Yeah I know, weak...

 

Ohio has "Commodore" denoted plates for any of you land yacht guys in the Buckeye state.

OHIOLDS
BLUVSTA
SUV NOT
IGTARND
ICWOOD...grain
UCWOOD
CMYWOOD
GOTWOOD is taken darn it.

For my goat you just rearrange Pontiac, ANTICOP.
Guys do that with their trunk lettering on models that have it, they're just asking for it.

The James Bond 007 Aston-Martin could change plates at the flip of a switch, that would be the hot set-up. The cops or bad guys chasing him would naturally think it was a totally different silver Aston-Martin out in the middle of nowhere.
I grew up in the secret agent days so a combination would be cool. I'm bummed you can only have seven digits in Ohio.

OOLDS7 would work.
No room for my favorite though.
Mr...OLDSFNGR...He's the man, the man with the Golden Rocket.

 

We have HYE NRG on Muskrat's convert; W8 4 ME on my wife's convert; W8 FRME on her daily driver; BGZ GLR on the pick-up; GLS TGR on the Vette and JLP JKY on the '57: for a convert I thought about NO WOOF or RAG DOL...the other stuff is too obvious. I like to have to think about it for a while

 

old thread but I am bored

mine are boring
JPA-75 on the 75 (my initials)
JPA-76 on the 76 (my initials) had same plate since early 80s
1-JPA on the wagon had same plate since early 80s

I use actual plates from the early 90s with current stickers -

Florida has a very cool website to check availability https://www6.hsmv.state.fl.us/mvchec...check/main.jsp

this was on a friend's 76 Seville, now on the front of mine



plates very expensive here too about $100 per car per year

 

This is cool, OLD68

 

Florida allows a historical tag.
I got one for mine this place has other states as well and the people were real nice.
http://www.classicdreamcars.com/licenseplates.html

 

my 65 plates are NEVADUN which reflect the fact its really neverdone!

 

It depends on what state you live in. I know you can run original plates in MO; however, OK has not contingency for it (as far as I know). I think this is a very cool idea. I would do it if I could.

 

Some times it helps to have your name is spelled different.Thanks mom for making me have to explain the extra D in my first name.


Tedds 55

 

one of the best plates I ever saw was on my aunts old blue horizon.

BEYOND

Larry

 

Here's mine.

 

There's a guy around here who drives one of the highest priced Vettes. His plate says: ITL DO. I guess his other car must be a Rolls.

 

I had this on my vette...

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Well, I didn't go vanity but an interesting story anyway. While I was picking up my Early American plates at the DMV the lady that was helping me was messing around the drawer with plates for a few minutes. She came back and presented me with a set of plates with 5 digits that ended with 68. She said it was hard to find but she found one that ended with 68. I thanked her and told her she made my day.

 

In South Carolina you can use a Year of Manufacture plate. The guy I bought the car from was using his original Illinois plates from 1965. I asked the DMV in SC if I could continue using the Illinois plates. Said I couldn't but gave me a series of numbers to choose from that could be used on a 1965 exact copy plate. I'm having this one made:



Not too colorful, but just like the one used in 1965. I can use this tag for as long as I own Blue Belle.

The cops have been bothering folks using a Historic plate, stopping them and asking if they're going to a show or another event. I'm retiring my Historic plate for now. I'm driving Blue Bell too much!

--Don

 

Wow! That's pretty aggressive! Here you might run into problems if you were driving your car as a daily driver, but not from the cops. If you got into an accident on your way to work, your insurance might ask a few questions. Cops don't care as long as the plate is valid and the car has insurance.

Now if you owned a gun and were driving around with it and were stopped by the cops, they'd ask what gun range you are going to or coming from and where you live. It better be direct or you could get a fine.