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I need some ideas for a 5 character vanity plate for my RI Vespa. Sorry, but Vespa is not available. Any good ideas?
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You could always try "wasp", technically still vespa (:
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GTVie ?
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The Mocker wrote:
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Good one!!! ROFL emoticon

How about:

WESPA - wasp and Vespa mash-up

VSEPA - readers will think they're drunk
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Can you get just "GTV"? How about "MYGTV"?
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VSPA1
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Judge, Brber, Viola, 13th, 13, Hope, It4me

Some of these only a Rhode Islander would understand. Not very good but maybe they will give you an idea. Tell us what you decide, I'm curious.
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Waspy
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Re: Vanity plates
Barber1570 wrote:
I need some ideas for a 5 character vanity plate for my RI Vespa. Sorry, but Vespa is not available. Any good ideas?
Vespa is Italian for "Wasp" The 2-stroke Vespa sounds like a wasp. The new 4-stroke Vespas sound more like Bumblebees.

Italian for bumblebee is "bombo" -- which is available.
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YaYaDave wrote:
Can you get just "GTV"? How about "MYGTV"?
That's what I did. I was kinda shocked nobody else had it. With the NY AMA plate I was limited to 4 characters anyway.

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VE5PA
VEZPA
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WillO wrote:
VE5PA
^^^^^ this !

I've always liked the interchangeability of letters and numbers. You could do something like V35P4.

When I wanted a Can Am Spyder, I was going to have 5P4D3R. The California fonts for the 4 looks close to a Y variation.
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WillO wrote:
VE5PA
VEZPA
or... V3SPA use a 3 instead of an E
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My plates is Missouri with 6 spots to fill is SKQQTR so in that vane, SKOOT, SKQQT, SCOOT or SCQQT I think the QQ look like little eyes. It does cost us about $50 a year extra for the right to be vain, then again money just seems to run in my vein(s) Clown emoticon Clown emoticon Nerd emoticon Nerd emoticon
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VECPA.......... was going with this but almost 100 bucks a year was not worth it it for me
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CKYTP - Cyrillic for SCUTR
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Keep 'em comin!
By the way, I am NOT a judge. . .but rather a TV political reporter. I cover the RI State House. The gavel is just a prop I use for a show called "Straight From the Gavel".

Some great ideas from some very clever scooter owners. I have not yet made up my mind.
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AHDVU

makes more sense if you are sitting behind someone reading that.
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How about RI GTV or GAVEL ?
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I get a lot of people pointing at mine (Avatar)
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You could try these:
VROOM
VANTY
ITALY
UWISH
NEWSY
RI-DE
SCOOP
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My officemates typically refer to my Vespa as mini hog, so I thought of PIGLT, also considered OSA which is wasp in Polish, settled on my nom de plum
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Use the local dialect: VESPER
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How about
HIMPG
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More ideas:

DOKET
RPRTR
300CC
300IE
CC300
IE300
JSTCE
HOUSE
TVNWS
VOTES
UPLNK
ØBIAS
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IN 3,2,1
0 SPIN ----(zero spin)
RPT IT-----(report it)
AJRND-----(adjourned)
GON LV----(Goin' live)
BRIEF
LV SHT -----(live shOt)
N RCSS -----(in recess)
M PAGE -----(I'm riding MY page)
MIC ME
2 SHOT ----(two shot)
STRGR -----(Stringer)
LV AT 6-----(live @ 6 pm)
NO BLL------(no bull)
PRESS

I'm done...
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If you want to look like a nob, there is a quack who has the plate;

ISED8

either a real bore, a narcissis or an anaesthetist


let you decide
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work it
try ........ BELND
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SEE Me
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Please stop shouting. Your post contains an unacceptably large number of capital letters.
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Thanks for the help however. . .
I decided to order this.
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Slight digression: the best plates I have ever seen were:

On a porsche - WAS H1S

On a beat up convertible morris minor - BLO 69

On a lamborghini - U SUCK

On a vw camper - B1G BUG
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Fatboy Chubby wrote:
Slight digression: the best plates I have ever seen were:

On a porsche - WAS H1S

On a beat up convertible morris minor - BLO 69

On a lamborghini - U SUCK

On a vw camper - B1G BUG
On a Porsche - 'POOR-SH'
On a high end car - "PVC DOC"
On a Ferrari -PD4BYX
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There's a local SUV that I suspect might have been part of a divorce settlement, or at least one hell of a bet. The plate reads: HEHEIWIN
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my plate from track car
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I'm surprised no one has suggested "STUNG"

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Fatboy Chubby wrote:
On a vw camper - B1G BUG
here a few photos of a bacon buttie meeting I organised with the Maxi Muppets,
thats my campervan with the dodgy number plate 8)

http://flic.kr/s/aHsjFUReQX
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Re: Thanks for the help however. . .
Barber1570 wrote:
I decided to order this.
Great plate! It took me a minute to figure it out. I'm glad it got through the RI censors! I have fond memories of going down to the basement area of the old DMV near the State House in PVD, with various friends, and seeking out not vanity, but initial plates (the old two letters, two/three number plates)

I live in San Diego and vanity plates just aren't as popular as they are back in RI (vanity and the infamous low numbered plates!). Though I do have a vanity plate on my scoot.

Little White.
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Vanity
Little White:

Greetings from the Ocean State! You live in one of my favorite parts of the country. I used to spend some time in La Jolla area. I am originally from Michigan and we were not as enamored with license plates as they are here in Little Rhody. Thus, I have decided to embrace the concept.

BTW, we have a new DMV now located in Cranston.

Dave
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