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Personalized license plate owner: Recalled plate is ode to Harleys, not racial slur

Muskegon Chronicle

Macaulay said he was shocked to receive a letter from the Michigan Secretary of State’s office recently stating that his personalized license plate of seven years had been revoked. The Secretary of State’s office informed the retired factory worker that a complaint from a Muskegon Heights woman had surfaced, claiming the personalized tag was racially insensitive. The plate reads: ... (Muskegon county, MI)

Vanity's price: About those new license plates

chron - Houston & Texas News

“The fee has been $40 per year per car,” wrote Charles Bechtold. “Can I expect to be billed $195 at the next renewal? If so, I'll turn them back. I'm vain, but not that vain.” Rest assured: If you already have a plain, personalized license plate, you are “grandfathered” and can continue to pay that $40 annual fee. (Houston, TX)

$14.3M License Plate: Auction Sets World Record

ABCNews.go.com

No. 1 License Plate Sells for Millions at Abu Dhabi Auction. No, it's not made of solid gold -- just ordinary aluminum. But it does come with the swagger of being labeled no. "1." And that's evidently worth a record $14.3 million. (Tehran, Iran)

Okerlund: License to show vanity

Sioux Falls Argus Leader

After seeing in this newspaper the list of clever vanity license plates some South Dakotans have, I've decided to get one myself. Torn between IH8BRAN and SNOWSUX, I asked my wife what she thought. She suggested HORRIBLYFLAWED. (Sioux Falls, SD)

Law drives push for unique plates

HutchNews.com

Previously, state law allowed duplicates as long as there was only one per county of the personalized plate phrase. There are 53 vehicles in Kansas bearing the most popular personalized license-plate phrase, "HUSKERS". (Hutchinson, Kansas)

Tricked-out hearses to participate in 4-mile procession

Orange County Register

About 50 hearse owners took part in the 10th annual show at the fairgrounds Sunday. Check out their vanity plates such as FNLRIDE, DEDSLED and TOMBTYM. (Orange County Register)

Automobile License Plate Collectors Association

ALPCA Online

This is the official web site of ALPCA, the biggest and most respected club for license plate collectors and aficionados all over the world. ALPCA currently has 3,028 members from 50 states and 19 countries. (ALPCA Online)

CMU license plates raised $579,990 for the school in nine years

CentralMichiganLife

Michigan’s University Fundraising License Program gives a portion of license plate sales back to the universities represented on the plates, which feature the university logo alongside the plate number. (cm-life.com)

Vanity license plates soar in Virginia

Suffolk News-Herald

Of the 7,698,416 vehicles registered last year to the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, 13.7 percent requested personalized license plates, making the product’s penetration rate among consumers the highest in the country. (SuffolkNewsHerald.com)

Vanity takes a back seat

Columbus Dispatch

In 2008, the year marking the 100th anniversary of license plates in Ohio, 670,267 vehicles had personalized plates of some type. That's about 6 percent of the 10.8 million privately licensed passenger vehicles in Ohio. (Dispatch.com)

Hoe, hoe, hoe

Review Journal

Have you heard the one about the vegetarian in Colorado (or pick a state) who wanted to advertise her chosen lifestyle by purchasing a vanity license plate? (ReviewJournal.com)

More than 600 photographs of individual "Weird tags"

WeirdTags.com

Take a tour of the following photo galleries showing a variety of vanity tags in businesses, cars, love, miscellaneous, movies, music, personal, religious, sports and themes. (WeirdTags.com)

2TUF4U? Readers Spy More Clever Vanity Plates -- and Some Riddles -- on the Road.

WashingtonPost.com

Clever and curious personalized license plates spotted by readers continue to roll in to "John Kelly's Washington" world headquarters. Call it highway haiku. (WashingtonPost.com)

Colorado License Plates a Numbers Game

Examiner.com

In case you were wondering how they come up with regular alphanumeric plates, Colorado has a good example of how it's done. (Examiner.com)

New Blue Ridge License Plates to Support National Park

Charlotteville News Plex

The plates cost $25 for non-personalized plates and $35 for personalized plates. All the proceeds from a new Virginia license plate go towards the Shenandoah National Park. (Charlottesvillenewsplex.tv)

Iowa 4-H Plates by July 1

Chronicle Times

The 4-H foundation must receive 500 pre-paid applications by July 1 for the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) to issue the specialty plates. (ChronicleTimes.com)

Personalized Plates

WOWT

Brian wants to know what specialized plates you've seen lately. (WOWT.com)

COOLPL8Z

More than 2600 plates collected.

Billed as the biggest license plate gallery anywhere, you will definitely find some great ideas while looking through other examples. (coolpl8z.com)

Arizona License Plates: Vanity Plates Seen Around Town

Personalized Plates in Arizona

There are many options available in Arizona for specialized license plates. With more than thirty types of specialized license plates in Arizona, you can adorn your vehicle with a Former P.O.W. plate or Purple Heart plate, or a Street Rod plates or Horseless Carriage plate. (about.com)

What Does That Mean?

The Personal Stories Behind Vanity License Plates

Did you ever wonder where all these people get the ideas for their vanity license plates? Well I did. I am not talking about the ones with people's names on them. Even my two year old granddaughter, has a vanity plate with JESSICA on it. It's on her little bicycle. (vanity-plates.com)

Vanity License Plate

Leo Poon's Web Page

"I have always been interested by how creative some people can be when the canvas in which they are allowed to express themselves is limited. In this case, only letters and numbers are allowed, and depending on the state, a maximum of 6 to 8 characters. " (umd.edu)