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[Drew Dowdell]

For my Toronado.... what do you think?

[G. David Felt]

OK, what does the FTW stand for? Got the FWD so front wheel drive - FTW???

[ocnblu]

good one, Mr. dfelt!

Drew, how many characters can we have in PA on a plate? 6 or 7?

I had "OCNBLU" for my Maryland plate 10 years, until I moved to PA.

Edited May 14, 2012 by ocnblu

[Intrepidation]

OK, what does the FTW stand for? Got the FWD so front wheel drive - FTW???

Front Wheel Drive For The Win.

Clever girl...

[Drew Dowdell]

Like? Don't like?

[GMTruckGuy74]

It took me a while before I decided on TRUKGUY for my personalized plate, so I'm no real help here. Let me ask you though, as you happy with FWD FTW? Are you ready to explain it to non-car people who will ask you? When coming up with my plate, I made sure that if someone was viewing my plate they'd "get it" quickly without having to think about it too long, or mistaking it for something else (a co-worker jokingly said to me the other day, "What does tru k guy mean?" Another co-worker, having a blonde moment, replied, "No, it clearly says truck guy, see it's on a truck!"). LOL!! But still, make sure you're 100% happy with whatever you decide on. I wanted one of these "United We Stand" plates, but the character limit is 5 (down from 7 on the normal NJ plate) and I had a tough time coming up with anything 5-characters that I liked:

[ocnblu]

Drew, to be honest, I think ppl will liken it to someone's initials, and neither of those sets of letters matches "Drewbert Elwood Dowdell".

"TOROTORO" would be a cool take-off on the WWII movie, but I don't think 8 characters will fit. "TORORKT" (Toronado Rocket!) would fit I think.

[SAmadei]

DMV might reject it was FTW also stands for F*** The World.

[ocnblu]

Francis Theodore Wildebeest would be appalled!

[G. David Felt]

Washington State has 7 characters on standard plates which are pressed, but on custom plates you can have 8 characters. These plates are printed. Pretty cool as 8 characters allows a large amount of choices. Course we have an amazing amount of Windows and Linux derived plates in this state. Could it be the HiTech company nerds?

[GOTPL8S]

You can now wait list "taken" Washington vanity plates at PlatesPersonalized.com

Check it out,

tj

[G. David Felt]

You can now wait list "taken" Washington vanity plates at PlatesPersonalized.com

Check it out,

tj

Thanks, great site and welcome to the forum.

[caddycruiser]

Here was mine in Delaware.

Delaware has a fascination with antique smaller black porcelin plates, as they originally had many years ago. Aside from these, their other bigger fascination is who has the lowest digits. #6 was on an old guy's Olds Aurora a few years back and when it went to auction, it made it to CBS news and investment banker brothers bought it for $600k or $800k. Crazy.

Myself, from PA, never understood. Then I thought it cool too. Found an ad selling "DE #" tags once, and said no longer available. So when Delaware introduced a limited edition Centennial tag for 10 months only, I wanted it but it needed to be vanity too. Searched their site and "DE 100" and "DE 1" were already out there, so "DE 01" it was when the DMV clerk said yes.

I didn't want my name. I didn't want my car name, because well, that can change daily. Looks cool. People like it. I've been asked if I was the governor or a government official/family member. Nope.

Still have it, and registration valid. But I have no car to put it on. Could sell, but I'd like to keep. Want to put it on something.

Edited May 19, 2012 by caddycruiser

[SAmadei]

You can now wait list "taken" Washington vanity plates at PlatesPersonalized.com

Check it out,

tj

And apparently this is the only state they work with. I didn't click on EVERY state, but the 15-20 I did, none offer the service. Yet. We'll see.

[Turbojett]

7R0N4D0

Edited May 21, 2012 by Turbojett

[Drew Dowdell]

Tronado?

[ZL-1]

If bought a rusting Cimarron, could I get a plate with 'ASS' written in it?

[Robert Hall]

I've thought about getting 'CUBELFE'. But I don't always have a cube w/ every gig..

One of the best I've seen is 'GEEKSTA' on a Suburban in Denver.

Edited May 21, 2012 by Cubical-aka-Moltar

[Turbojett]

Tronado?

well Toronado is eight letters, one of them would have to go in order for it to fit. If you want to preserve the first two syllables, you could also probably go with 70R0ND0.

I didn't go with that one because it had some Kia-esque overtones.

[Turbojett]

the two best I've ever seen were a MK4 Supra: "NOSUP4U", and a new(er) GTR: "SAYONRA"

Edited May 22, 2012 by Turbojett

[Drew Dowdell]

One of my buddies over at SRT has a rare Galant VR4... it is a turbo-4 with AWD. His plate says "B4 EVO" but another one suggested to him was "LOL SNOW"