Several good choices, but I like IMPSTR.  I agree.  When I repaint my car, I will probably revert to Beck badging.

My car (as you can see) is blue and my plate is DEJABL for (wait for it)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Déjà Blue

I still like FAUXJOB...

Thanks for the replies ... I can max out at 6 characters in MA...

UWISH

NORUST

 

FBRGLS

 

IMT8R

 

356FAX

 

ATLAST

 

CULFOO    (Cool Fool in urban speak)

 

A3FTY6

 

IM2KUL   (maybe too risky)

 

LEYEKIT  (Like it?)

 

DASTIG   (The Stig)

MNYPIT

I like IM 1958. My plate is 58 356

I like 

 

shhhh (for when I install my race bullet)

mytub

outlaw

leaker

356ish

1915cc

vintge

lkalk (look a like)

3FIFT6

Eventually, any long-term happy owner will come to see what a good idea that really is.

 

... but we've been here a time or two before.

6 characters?

 

BETTER

 

... for the inevitable question, "is it real?".

SLOW

2SLOW

NTAVTG (not a vintage)

2FST4U

I8A4RE (I ate a Ferrari)

Fauxy

Kustom

IMP

MEINIM

I have never been one to name my car.  My kids, my dog, my pet parrot, maybe even my Johnson but not my car.  I know ships are named and so are boats. I don't understand naming replica Speedsters but if it's your thing, go for it.

 

Besides names of cars there are cutsy license plates.  I myself had a tag that said "Speedie" for a few months but never liked it.

 

Since I have a Vintage Speedster, which is a pan based car using a 46 year old pan with a VIN NUMBER, I get the benefit that it qualifies the car for a Vintage car tag. I like that tag better than the "Speedie" tag I started out with. I readily tell anyone who inquires that it's a reproduction (not a kit car) that is made in a factory in Southern California.  The antique license plate is sorta like the umbrella hand brake which adds authenticicy.

 

I believe that a pan based car is the only one that could qualify for an antique tag.  I sure wouldn't decide on a purchase based on the ability to obtain an antique plate but it's a fun plus to me and I like it better than a cutsy plate. 

 

I'm heading out to name my lawn mower now.

 

Don't anyone turn on me for this post---I'm just funnin!

 

 

Ok so I've settled on a plate.... It's gonna be FU CRSBY.... hows that sound?  And when I get sick of it I can give it to Jack Crosby to put on his lawn mower.....

I'm too cheap to get a plate modified,  my car also has the antique plate which in Florida is Blue in color.  I also have a pan based vs and I will always keep the antique plate.  Some of the above are great though!

That's some funny stuff!

LMAO!  Good Luck with your IM, Chris. 

356EEE

356Y

356XY

R356VW

BUGSY
2FUN
4FUN

IMFUN2

LATE58
FAUX58

Not that the plate will matter to or communicate with anyone but you and, maybe, us. My Bridget sports a historic plate that says R 52 MG

People still ask the year and what she is.

Just as an order of business, if a guy lives in a SEAM state-- the law allows our cars to be titled and registered as a vehicle manufactured in the year they replicate. In the case of a speedster, that'd be a 1955- 1958. So properly titled (1958 Intermeccanica Porsche Replica), I qualify for antique plates.

 

58 TUB (Illinois AV tags)

LILTUB

was always my fave. When asked I'd say it was just like a bath tub. Made from 'glass. 

Just not NATALIE please.  There's only one.  Of course, you're limited to 6, so no worries :-)

Couldn't resist Jack.... I have to say though, with all of the feedback I am thinking I might get sick of a plate with a message.... I like the idea of getting a period correct plate more and more.  I do believe there may be a way for me to do it and if so I know my insurance guy can get it done, so thanks for all the feedback, but I'm kind of agreeing with all the partypoopers like Jack that think it could get old to have a vanity plate.. 

Chris---perfectly understandable and no worries. Listen--I understand that it's "different strokes" and some names really are perfect.  If you've ever seen "Penny--that's a perfect name because the car looks just like a shiney new penny.  Red Man is on target and I understand "Natalie"

 

I was just having some fun.  I appeciate your post.  The last one!

 

Kind regards.

I looked into vintage tags when I moved back to Massachusetts a few months back and found that if I register it as an antique, then it severely restricts when and where I can drive it - like only to and from shows andnder 2,500 miles per year.  Yuck.

 

Also (for Jack), "Pearl" has been taken by someone in Somerville, MA since the 1980's, so that wasn't an option for me, either.

 

So I just got regular, el-cheapo Mass. Plates and leave it at that.  At least I can drive it whenever and how often I want.

 

FU CRSBY -  LMFAO!!

 

and it'll fit on his lawn tractor, too!

 

When my Mom turned 70, she went wild and bought a "ticket me yellow" Pontiac Firebird and got her one and only vanity plate:  "WLD WMN"

Yeah. That's pretty standard.

 

I've got antique tags-- they cost $14 for 5 years, or something such pittance, and the plates look better (more old-school). I driven it since 2005, and to California and half-way back last fall without incident. I'm figuring a ticket for being improperly registered will be a fraction of the cost of registering it with plain 'ol tags for 8 years.

 

Your mileage may vary.

I now agree with Stan!!

 

When registering the VS I thought it would be hot s**t to have Vanity plates = $$premium, and personalized too = more $$

 

I now intend to go Antique plates instead. There are driving/distance restrictions but they're so much less expensive that it's worth the risk of flaunting the law!...PLUS, my personal property tax will be limited to a mere $50 per year.  

       
       


Stan, that is not the case any longer.  I had the Antiqie on the VS and I loved them.  The dickhead that did my Special construction title in Springfield said that it wa no longer an option:-(

That kind of defeats the purpose of the law, no? What you went through was NOTHING like my (relatively) good experience a few years ago.

 

Sorry, man.

Yeah. I asked more than a few times.  I'll try again at renewal. BTW it's 88 in FL today:-)

SEMA worked at the federal level to try to enact similar registration policy in all 50 states.  It's important to remember, however, that every state has tweaked the format slightly.  What was passed in state A may not be the same as state B.  I saw a state-by-state analysis somewhere online that showed the differences in statutory language throughout the states.  There are LOTS of differences in the details from state to state. 

 

This is further complicated by the fact that it takes lots of time for the changes to actually be implemented by the motor vehicle people who man the desks.  If two applicants seek advice from the same office on the same day, they can get 2 very different answers to their questions.  There are sites that help car hobbyists in each state wander through the minefield of replica registration.  I used the Cobra replica sites to help me with California registration.  Some sites even list the most knowledgeable person in the various DMV offices. 

 

I have a '55 vintage plate but with the restrictions and BS in this screwy state of  Massachusetts I decided to nail it to the garage wall and consider myself lucky to be on the road at all. The nice lady at the DMV found me a plate that starts with X55 and I keep the front plate in the trunk except for the annual safety inspection. The trunk is in the front, so I think I'm covered.  Right?

I put in a lot of hours in Massachusetts to get the SEMA bill passed here, thinking that it would make life easier for both the Hot Rod/Street Rod folks as well as the Replicar folks.

 

What we ended up with is a bastardized version of the bill that somehow managed to shaft both of the groups it was meant for.  It is MUCH harder for the Hot Rod folks to register their cars now, and it is so laughingly screwed up for the Replicar folks that I simply decided to re-register my Speedster as the '69 VW convertible that it used to be 12 years ago in this state.  Otherwise, I would have had to assemble 1969 VW or equivalent, stock sedan bumpers to a non-VW, speedster-replica, nerf-bar car, go back to the original single-Zenith carb system, ditch my headers, as well as include a number of "safety" features having nothing to do with Speedsters.  To say I was shocked is an understatement, and I'll spend some more time this year and next trying to help get this mess fixed - if that's at all possible.  Life was so much easier in south Carolina.  There, I've said it.

I never had any doubt of that, Gordon.

 

I've always told everybody in my family, "Somebody's got to be the first one to move". It hasn't been me, and so here I sit in the most politically dysfunctional state in the union. At least the weather's nice.

 

... oh, wait...

 

In other news, they're calling for 6+" of snow tonight.... (sigh)

Stan:

 

Remember the movie "The Big Chill"??

 

Remember the house?  It's called "Tidal Holm", originally built by a Beaufort planter named Edgar Fripp (Hence, the locals call it the "Fripp House") and it is currently up for sale.......For a cool $4.3 Million.  

 

You could move there, have a cool refrigeration/AC business, have a house with a dock on the Inter-coastal Waterway......Life would be good.

 

http://www.beaufortonline.com/...-street-beaufort-sc/

Sounds perfect, except that $4.3M is about $4.1M more than I'd want to spend for anything short of 1000 acres of timber.

 

I'm thinking mid-south. On a lake. Where the hard-road goes to gravel-- right at that point. Some place with power and maybe a gas connection (but probably not).

 

I'd build a cabin and a big 'ol toybox barn, and maybe a bunkhouse for the grandkids. An apt. up here for the summer months, and I'd be all set.

 

I'm only about $1M short. Can you help a brother, here? I'm freezing, man.

I have somewhat of a full plate right now.

Stan--

 

"Mid South on a lake"---you just described Hot Springs, AR.  We searched all over the country for the perfect place to relocate after living in CT and working in NYC for 20 years and found it here. I am a former Tarheel but this is way better.  We live on Lake Hamilton and have a sensational water view plus the ouachita mountains so the views are great.

 

Not enuff Speedsters here plus it's a long way to events. We like it a lot.

 

Do a Google search for Hot Springs, AR.