Another interesting registration plate.

Costs for non-standard plates are here….

Does anyone know what the going price is for a 3 figure ACT plate?

A relative of mine in Queensland has “DR NO”, and paid $1800 close to ten years ago on a uni wage to put it on a Suzuki Baleno Hatch. He got his just desserts when an ambo on the freeway ran up his arse because he was paying attention to the rego plate, and not the fact that he had stopped in heavy traffic.
I have no sympathy for my relative, and I hope that idiots who get those rego plates get what they deserve in higher insurance and more collisions.

There’s a 4WD BMW getting around my area with the number plate ‘THIEF’. I’ve always wondered what point he/she was trying to make. Irony? Lawyer? Financial Advisor?

Maybe the attitude one of respect for other road users.

TI3VOM reminds me of a classic picture of a car with plates “X32 IARO”

That BITE ME plate has been around for years, first saw it on a Falcon (EF/EL model) back when Drew Carey show was on TV (Mimi’s favourite saying was “bite me”). Maybe that’s where they got the idea for the plate from.

At the Summernats there was a fully sik BMW with ACT plates ONDOLE and a large Centrelink sticker on the rear window.

Can’t you see that plate is screaming out – “EVERYBODY LOOK, LOOK AT MY, um, commodore…..”

There was an XR6/8 Falcon getting about a coupla years ago with “TI3VOM”. Looked good in the rearview mirror 🙂

Holden, dont get it

I think the ‘Bite me’ number plate is great, especially if the car is going to end up being eaten by Truckasaurus at a monster car event.

Saw YOB 10T in the rearview mirror – had to look twice!

Hm. Ultra low, 20″ wheels (you can see the wheel lip cleary 20″) and a Clubsport rear bar with a standard exhaust tip. This equation does not work.

Gentech recently won top horsepower at Summernats for a blown ecotec donk. This would be one preferred method to man-up this Commodore.

imarty said :

Anyone seen the porsche with the numberplate “Player”?
Now the wanker tax definitely applies to that one.

Nope – but i’ve seen a Porsche getting around with ‘Cash’ number plates – and it’s not even a 911, it’s a cheap-ass Boxster!!!

She with the ‘bite me’ plates works (or at least did in early 2007) at Woden cemetary.

I can tell you it was not pleasant following her car around the cemetary as she took us to look at a plot for a deceased relative.

I wonder how many people ended up in that cemetary because of ‘drivers with attitude’

realestate agent with ISOLDM

won’t be dealing with them…

HISBMW
HERBMW

Anyone seen the porsche with the numberplate “Player”?
Now the wanker tax definitely applies to that one.

Same. I have my initials and year of birth on my plate. Those ugly NSW yellow and black plates aren’t a good look.

I find it funny how worked up people get about personalised plates. I can understand that some people might think it is a waste of money. Much the same way I’m sure I could find something about our learned critics that I consider is a waste of money. Kind of easier to just let people be I reckon and leave the worrying for things that are actually worth worrying about.

Yes, I have a personalised plate, although, if it makes any difference, not a word plate like the featured one above.

PMS 247

Have seen this lass in our neighbourhood.

Duke said :

It’s called a ‘wankers tax.’

There’s a reason that in other places, they’re called “Vanity Licence Plates”.
$2181 is a hell of a lot of vanity though!

V twin venom said :

I recently saw a crafty use of the 3 letter, 3 numeral personalised ACT plates on a late model Pulsar. Proudly displayed in white on black was PMS 247.

FAIL … PMS 247 is a magenta/pink colour, so they should have got the plate in that colour. 😉

(It’s okay, I do get it, but it is a bit sad it wasn’t my first thought.)

Primal said :

Except when it brings in greater revenue, namely $2181.95

I would love to hear the explanation for how those plates can cost $2000+ when gettting plastic versions of a standard Y-rego costs less than $100!

It’s called a ‘wankers tax.’

kevn said :

Isn’t driving with attitude one of the things that gets up the nose of our Chiefly One?

The plate doesn’t say it’s a bad attitude: maybe our Great and Lofty Chief assumes that this driver’s attitude is a good one!?!?!? Maybe the driver just wants us to know that s/he has a good attitude…

But seriously, I find it far more acceptable than what is getting around on those ‘wicked campers’. My seven year old daughter can read, so I have to cover her eyes whenever we pass one, which is not safe when she’s in the back seat!

Are there laws about what you can and can’t have written on a car?

Jonathon Reynolds said :

@poptop: Been overcharged by $5 for a pizza lately?

Sorry?

The point of my posting the article was about the apparent willingness of the ACT Govenment to provide a Rego Plate emblazoned with ‘Driver with attitute’ while the Chief Minister and Minister for Various Things issues media releaes and puts up signage, etc, suggesting we chill out on the roads.

The bit about cost of such a plate was to indicate I try to pay a little attention.

BTW – I get overcharged for pizza ALL THE TIME! Somebody should do something about that.

I recently saw a crafty use of the 3 letter, 3 numeral personalised ACT plates on a late model Pulsar. Proudly displayed in white on black was PMS 247.

Primal said :

I would love to hear the explanation for how those plates can cost $2000+ when gettting plastic versions of a standard Y-rego costs less than $100!

Because if you want them, you will pay.

Except when it brings in greater revenue, namely $2181.95

I would love to hear the explanation for how those plates can cost $2000+ when gettting plastic versions of a standard Y-rego costs less than $100!

Hmmm Holden Caulfield, sounds yummy- didn’t think coming back to work today was going to this much fun

Mr Evil said :

H1NG0 said :

Arrghh he has ruined his car by putting HSV kit on a regular Commodore – not cool

I think he or she has made a mistake by buying a Commodore in the first place. 🙂

I would hardly call buying a well made Australian product as a mistake. My VZ Calais is a dream to drive. Idiots like this who put trashy body kits on an otherwise decent car give it a shit reputation.

[three post nutbag]

There’s also a couple of the regular black on white slimline plates in NSW that read:

ANU 52C and ANU 54U

*tee hee*

[/three post nutbag]

Oops, that should read … 3M TA3

Told you you might have to look twice. 😛

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

Lame plate. If they had the rego plate ‘MASTAB8’ I’d be more interested.

Story goes the NSW RTA refused M TA3 a few years back. Some of you will work it out straight away, others might have to look twice, haha.

@poptop: Been overcharged by $5 for a pizza lately?

H1NG0 said :

Arrghh he has ruined his car by putting HSV kit on a regular Commodore – not cool

I think he or she has made a mistake by buying a Commodore in the first place. 🙂

Okay, according to this link on rego.act.gov.au:

The RTA will refuse applications for a plate where it considers that the content would cause offence to a reasonable person.

It doesn’t mention it on the information sheet, but they can be recalled at the RTA’s whim.

Don’t know how this got through, but then there is this from The Smoking Gun…

*common 😛

A commen misspelling of the town in NSW, near Young.

I saw a number plate at Summernats HARDON.

Lame plate. If they had the rego plate ‘MASTAB8’ I’d be more interested.

At least the extra drag from the body kit will slow him down a bit.

I am interested in the BiteMe part, as they always say that offensive plates won’t be accepted. While I understand that such a judgement will always be subjective, if biteme gets through, what else will?

I saw the seemingly innocent standard issue plate YNP-00F the other day. I would have thought it and the 25 other similar versions of that plate may have been held back.

I wonder who will get the plate YUP-00F and would that go to the city’s #1 ticket holder at Cube or somesuch, kind of similar to being the #1 ticket holder for the Raiders?

Arrghh he has ruined his car by putting HSV kit on a regular Commodore – not cool

So if you actually got out at the lights and bit this person, could they do you for assault or are you just accepting their invitiation?

Over $2,000 is that for real? If so who are the fnuck nuts who buy personalised plates?

Whoa! Photo number plates. Nice.

Fix your image!