On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:50:22PM +0100, Perryman, Brian wrote: > I think I once read or was once told by someone that, in the US, you could > have any vehicle licence plate as long as it was no more than eight > characters, and didn't even have to be unique - by far and away the most > popular being FOXYLADY..?
The length varies from state to state, from 6 (Texas being the best example) to 8 (California). There are also other restrictions: nothing obscene, nothing that looks like a sequential plate from one of a whole bunch of series, that kind of thing. Personalized plates (the politically correct term) vary in cost, from $20 or so up to over $100 per year on top of the registration fee. As it happens, the one thing I'd put on a personalized plate is something I can get a lot cheaper than that...every US state allows ham radio operators to get their callsign on their license plates, usually at a greatly reduced cost (in Texas, it's $1/year additional). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
