Vanity (personalized) plates..... Who else has em?

[KevinC]

These are both vanity plates. Kinda. I've been wanting to put a retro Arizona plate on at least one of my cars for some time. These were issued through '95. My pair were originally issued in '89. If you have an older plate that was previously yours or in your family, you can move it to a current car. If not your own, no dice. But I had an idea. What if I buy an Ebay plate, that if it's old enough, the sequence is now out of the system and registerable as a vanity plate? Tested my theory and found that most of the older plate sequences indeed showed "available" when checking the DMV (errr MVD in AZ) site. Then I stumbled on these - actually 3 of them, in sequence, never put on a car (were probably the fronts, not required to display here). 2 of the 3 were "available". So I ponied up the $25 each and got "new" vanity plates with these sequences. Wham, slap on the old ones instead, and I'm totally legal. LOVE these plates, they're well-made, fresh as the day they were stamped down at Florence prison, have nice reflectorized numbering, and last forever - unlike the current ones which are all gradually delaminating. Plus it's cool to have 2 plates in sequence.

[danewilson77]

I'm lost...but I like eet.

[Torxuvin]

The older plate is much better. It looks good.

[Avetiso]

They weren't customized, but the plates that came on my car from in New Mexico read "008 NSA."

Agent 008 of the NSA owned my car, apparently.

[Imola.ZHP]

These are both vanity plates. Kinda. I've been wanting to put a retro Arizona plate on at least one of my cars for some time. These were issued through '95. My pair were originally issued in '89. If you have an older plate that was previously yours or in your family, you can move it to a current car. If not your own, no dice. But I had an idea. What if I buy an Ebay plate, that if it's old enough, the sequence is now out of the system and registerable as a vanity plate? Tested my theory and found that most of the older plate sequences indeed showed "available" when checking the DMV (errr MVD in AZ) site. Then I stumbled on these - actually 3 of them, in sequence, never put on a car (were probably the fronts, not required to display here). 2 of the 3 were "available". So I ponied up the $25 each and got "new" vanity plates with these sequences. Wham, slap on the old ones instead, and I'm totally legal. LOVE these plates, they're well-made, fresh as the day they were stamped down at Florence prison, have nice reflectorized numbering, and last forever - unlike the current ones which are all gradually delaminating. Plus it's cool to have 2 plates in sequence.

Thats awesome! I bet they catch peoples attention too!

[UdubBadger]

Really cool


- Goin' H.A.M. Mobile

[johnrando]

Love the idea on the AZ plates but I'm a little lost too. So, lets say you buy a set of plates on ebay, and verify that they are no longer in the system. You contact the DMW and request those plate letter/numbers combo as your vanity plate, then they send you a new set of plates with those same letters, but you put the old ebay ones on. Is that how it works?

[UdubBadger]

Love the idea on the AZ plates but I'm a little lost too. So, lets say you buy a set of plates on ebay, and verify that they are no longer in the system. You contact the DMW and request those plate letter/numbers combo as your vanity plate, then they send you a new set of plates with those same letters, but you put the old ebay ones on. Is that how it works?

sounds like what I am understanding

[nike001]

Love the idea on the AZ plates but I'm a little lost too. So, lets say you buy a set of plates on ebay, and verify that they are no longer in the system. You contact the DMW and request those plate letter/numbers combo as your vanity plate, then they send you a new set of plates with those same letters, but you put the old ebay ones on. Is that how it works?

Yep. That's what I got from it.

He just used the combo on the old plates and got new plates w/ that combo. But instead of using the new state issued ones, he used the old ones he already had.

[Racinghart]

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