Friday, November 20, 2009

Found site with sweet rides that have vanity plates

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Vanity Plates
Vanity Plates Battleground, WA 7-19-03 Richard & Judy Calhoun of Jacksonville, Oregon Kenny of Beaverton, Oregon Tim L. of West Linn. Oregon Don Newman of Vancouver, Washington No vanity with Randy of Lake Oswego, Oregon 3850 of Milwaukie, Oregon At Gresham, Oregon 8-9-03 Keith & Leola Easley from Beach Run 8/30/03 Non-FFR at Gresham Bob Meyer of SW Portland at Beach Run 8/30/03 Bill Morris of Canby, OR at Mt. Angel, OR 9/13/03 Rick Garis of Aurora, OR at Mt. Angel 9/13/03 Some additional ones posted at NW Forum Home Page
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Vanity license plates give away bank robbery suspect

by KREM.com

Posted on November 13, 2009 at 1:44 PM

Updated Friday, Nov 13 at 1:44 PM

SPOKANE -- Spokane County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man Friday suspected of robbing a Spokane Valley bank on Thursday.

Deputies say Christopher J. Cook fled the robbery at the American West Bank at 15606 E. Sprague in a black Suzuki with personalized license plates reading, "PC."

Witnesses took note of the license plate and deputies say it was that tip that helped them locate the vehicle, registered to Cook's mother.

Cook was stopped near 29th Ave. and Ray Friday morning around 10:30 a.m. and arrested without incident.

He will be booked into the Spokane County jail on felony first-degree robbery charges.

So I found a page where they showed license plates from cars in famous films... I selected the two Vanity plates ones they had on there to share with you.

This one is from Back to the Future

The second one is from Knight Rider

It’s a License Plate—It’s Supposed To Be Boring
Montana's New License Plate Design

By Bob Wire, 11-10-09
Jeez, I don't know whether to bolt it to my bumper, or have it appraised by Sotheby's.
Jeez, I don't know whether to bolt it to my bumper, or have it appraised by Sotheby's.

I love art. You love art. John loves art. We all love art. But a vehicle’s license plate is no place for art. That’s what I’ve been bitching about for years in Montana, as the debate periodically bubbles up about the ever-fancier license plate design. “I want more clouds.” “I want more buffalo.” “Too much blue.” “I don’t like the slogan.” “It needs to be 3-D and have a vampire.”

Wise up, critics. Look, if you need to drive around with a Dolack displayed on your vehicle, put one on the rear window. Or paint some ducks in a tub on your hood. Or, better yet, express yourself with a clever vanity plate. How’s this one: UB6IB9. Or this: 4NIK8R. Don’t like those? Well, UPURZ2. That takes a whole lot more imagination than plopping down an extra fifty bones for a license plate that looks like something out of an Eddie Bauer catalog.

The decision to go retro next year with a whole new plain-Jane license plate design is a rare demonstration of common sense from our state government. The function of a license plate is to provide a way to identify a vehicle. Period. Law enforcement and various other agencies, no to mention hot pillow joints, need to be able to quickly read the tag on your vehicle when necessary. Identification is hampered when the design is overdone, and competes with the actual number on the plate.

It’s a man-sized step in the right direction, but I think the state is not going far enough. If you look at a picture of the new design, there’s still a lot of real estate on the left side that’s taken up by Montana’s raggedy western border. The spot is also used for military insignias. (Vets, we’re all proud and grateful for your service. But you want to advertise your military experience? Buy a flag.) The numbers and letters still need to be tall and skinny in order to fit in the narrow space that’s left. When you get sideswiped on 6th Avenue in Helena while talking to a Croatian prostitute on the sidewalk in front of the Capitol, you need to quickly ascertain the plate ID on the offending vehicle, so you can get back to seeing how much she will charge you to perform a Cleveland Steamer. When the letters are all tall, narrow, sans serif characters, they are not that distinctive. Poor design decision, poor use of typography.

In the world of typography, it’s well known that serif fonts (the ones with little “feet” at the end of each stroke) register quicker with the reader than sans serif fonts (the ones with “cloven hooves” or a “stump” at the end of each stroke) do. Most body copy on the printed page is a serif, or Roman, typeface. Sans serif, or Egyptienne, is typically reserved for headlines, but it’s also popular for body copy in Europe. Have you ever been to Europe? That place is lousy with foreigners. We’re talking about a part of the world where they still drive on the wrong side of the road, on account of the metric system.

So, using these rules of typography and human comprehension (or, “reading"), the new state plates are on the right track, but fall short of the goal of quick readability because the lettering will be squished even more than today’s plates. The new design will be quickly readable only by a person who has just been run over, and is looking directly up at the plate. It looks like a damn bar code.

Another thing—if you’re going to make the plates boringly functional (which you should), follow through and do it right. Go back to stamping these things out rather than silkscreening or printing them. I mean, I can picture a convict at Deer Lodge toiling in a steamy machine shop, building a thick layer of prison muscles from reefing on a huge lever, stamping out plate after plate. Right now, he’s just pushing the “print” key on a computer. I don’t call that paying your debt to society.

Even if the new plates are ho-hum (which they need to be), you can still shout out to the world about your various quirks and pecadilloes by way of your license plate frame. You can surround your new boring license plate with a nice chrome frame that proudly proclaims, “Yes, It’s A Corvette, But My Penis Is Regular Size.” Or “I’d Rather Be Poaching.” Whatever.

Montana’s license plates don’t need “style,” they don’t need “local color,” and they don’t need “flair.” They just need to be easily read by The Man. Now, if we could just do something about all those bumper stickers…

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Video on Vanity plates

Monday, November 16, 2009

Drivers and the cars they drive

I wish I could find plates like this one with bumper stickers included. Both visual words together give the on-looker such a clear idea of the person who is driving. Clearly this person is an animal lover.

Vanity Contest

So I found this site that had this contest on it and thought it was pretty sweet. I love the vanity plate that reads: Van go... super cute!

Vanity Plates Contests

Parade magazine (included in the Sunday section of many newspapers) recently hosted a vanity plates contest. The result is given below. If you live in Southern California, you can also enter the KNX1070 License Plate Contest. The following is taken from October 6th issue of Parade magazine: America's car owners are a clever bunch. More than 7000 entered our competition for funny or unusual license plates. Here are the 10 winners, picked for humor, charm and originality. (A special flick of the high beams to North Carolina, which produced two winners.) Congratulations to all! If any have you stumped [see the bottom in fine print]. 4. Courtesy on the road is appreiciated. This entry from Dorothy Blackman of Longmeadow, Mass., struck us as...well...Qute

1. Puzzled by this one from Meretta J. Marks of Plainsboro, NJ? When you get it, the message will hit you just above the nose.	2.The perennial cruiser's question, from Lauren Ivy Tambrino, a student at Elon College in North Carolina.
3. Is this hearty mirth from Patricia M. Cruz of Coram, NY, demented raving or spunky attitude? You decide.	4. Courtesy on the road is appreiciated. This entry from Dorothy Blackman of Longmeadow, Mass., struck us as...well...Qute
5. This plate from Morgan W.F. Dickerson of Portland, Ore., can be read two ways. Morgan insists that the proper reading is not "I'm 12 extra-large".	6. Words of wisdom and a safety reminder are combined on one plate from Carrie Perrien of Rogers, Ark.
7. An upbeat message from Georgia Claxton of Greenville, NC, and the title of a hit song from 1944.	8. Paula A. Langston of Oklahoma City bring a daub of culture to the road - and her vehicle.
9. A question that parents are always asking their kids, from Frank Conrad of Springfield, VA.	10. In the rearview mirror, slowpokes may see this blunt message from Laurie Clamici of O'Fallon, MO.