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dbrick wrote:
32 MPG

You would actually put this on your roadster's plate?

Why not put your power reading? 150HP or something like that...

Alvin wrote:

dbrick wrote:
32 MPG

You would actually put this on your roadster's plate?

Well, I find it hilarious that I can get 32 MPG in a 40 yr old car with 60 yr old carburetors, and the aerodynamics of a chicken coop cruising 70-75 mph, while new cars with computer controlled fuel injection can't get 30. My wife's 2005 Suzuki will get 30 if you cruise steady at 60 on the highway, her driving. Me driving, it's around 26-28.

Point taken though, might be better on the plate frame.

My plate is the same as my forum handle - Datsa 66

I always envision someone driving down the road and upon seeing my car saying "Hey! That's a 66!"

I have gotten into the habit of pointing to the license plate when people ask what year the car is (although I don't try to do that when I am driving it!)

Andrew Murphy

dbrick wrote:

Alvin wrote:

dbrick wrote: 32 MPG

You would actually put this on your roadster's plate?

Well, I find it hilarious that I can get 32 MPG in a 40 yr old car with 60 yr old carburetors, and the aerodynamics of a chicken coop cruising 70-75 mph, while new cars with computer controlled fuel injection can't get 30. My wife's 2005 Suzuki will get 30 if you cruise steady at 60 on the highway, her driving. Me driving, it's around 26-28.

I'd like to stencil "32 MPG SINCE 1966" if there was any way to do it without looking tacky.

Datsa 66 wrote:My plate is the same as my forum handle - Datsa 66

I always envision someone driving down the road and upon seeing my car saying "Hey! That's a 66!"

I have gotten into the habit of pointing to the license plate when people ask what year the car is (although I don't try to do that when I am driving it!)

Andrew Murphy

I'm thinking about a few little "Wyle E Coyote" style signs, you can just hold them up one at a time

No, it's a Datsun

Yes, they did, 1964-1970

No, it was before the MG

My Wife gets a little nervous, people gawking at the car tend to either tailgate or hang one lane over and next to the rear tire, staring, pointing, and usually veering closer. The flame thrower on the tailpipe is seeming like a good solution.

Datsa 66 wrote:My plate is the same as my forum handle - Datsa 66

I can relate to that license plate. Currently mine is 66DTSUN. I always like to get the year in if at all possible.

I used to have a plate called RDSTRFN (Roadster fun). Kinda funny, I had a few folks say "Rastafarian" or "Road Street Fun." But I rather liked this one... "Road Strafing."

I wanted RAGTOP but it was taken.

Settled for RGTOP.

Still gets the word across.

Settled for RGTOP.

Should have 'Turbo" on the license frame. Though maybe they can figure that out as you leave them in the dust! he, he


Linda

Being a great fan of Kenneth Grahame (The Wind in The WIllows), I initially tried for MR TOAD. Certainly it was taken as was MR TOAD1 - 8.
Not wanting to be MRTOAD9 and thus declaring my lack of originality to all, I thought hard. Both versions of ELIZA/ELISA were taken (hopefully they are on a roadster somewhere) and although a later numeric version of one of them was available, for the previous reason, I declined.
Now what?
Japanese car, Toad theme AHA !
TOAD SAN (Mr Toad in Japanese)
Hopefully I will get Elisa running soon - beautiful paint job and original rear end design currently sitting in the garage.
By the way, in searching the California DMV site I found out that TWUK and TWAILER are still available. I could just see a Datsun Pickup towing a rear clip trailer behind it displaying those plates.
Peter Harrison
Van Nuys, CA
Eliza (TOAD SAN) 1970 SPL

On a note of how people interpret license plates.

My Volvo is MRAITCH (the DMV dropped the space between the MR and the AITCH for some reason when the original car was totalled by a young lady on a cellphone who mistook me for an ARMCO barrier at 55 mph on a surface street, and I have never been able to get the space back).

In times past I had a room mate and we were H (harrison) and J (jackson) and being english I formalised it to MR AITCH (to you-indeed sir).
Now I sometimes get MR High Tech?? (clever indeed)

My favorite/cleverest, actually seen by me on the highways, was on a white volkswagen convertible rabbit:
ML8 ML8 (obvious when you say it, but masterful in its creation.)

Another suggested by a cousin (though you have to imagine the English pronunciation of the anal orifice to really get it) is
URNASOL
and if you are predisposed to fast and inconsiderate driiving and don't mind flaunting it then
IMNASOL will suffice.

I would like to hear about other fun and or appropriate plates.

( I hope this passes the censors )

The VW microbus full of stickers...GR8FUL
Hemi Cuda IXLR8
Black motorcycle with a black Simson Bandit helmet on the sissy bar..VADER
Ferrari on Ferris Buhler.....NRVOUSE

various others I've seen, forgot the exact car
U-LOST (I did)
DSIKLEX or DISIKLX Took me 10 minutes to get that one..dyslexic

dbrick wrote:DSIKLEX or DISIKLX Took me 10 minutes to get that one..dyslexic

Uh oh. I got that one right away. Does that mean I question if there really is a Dog??

Mine is simple and discriptive: 67 Lady