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KY Chris
June 29th, 2003, 17:02
Check out the awesome new KY license plate:

http://www.leoweekly.com/archives/012903/cs-licplate012903.shtml
Beezil
June 29th, 2003, 17:34
you GOTTA get those!
REDXJ4FUN
June 29th, 2003, 19:10
aw how pretty :puke:
Flowers
June 30th, 2003, 11:33
I'm moving to Kentucky!
Walt from Ky
June 30th, 2003, 11:57
I'm moving to Tucson Arizona in September and I have to get new plates in July! Maby I'll just stop driving my jeep until I get moved.
Tucker
June 30th, 2003, 11:58
Nice plates.

KY, AR, y'all take a lotta crap ... almost as much as CA or TX :)

Here's one that doesn't poke fun at sterotypes... a doctor friend told me that he went to check on an elderly patient recovering from surgery. Her only complaint was about the food... she particularly disliked the Kentucky jelly. Of course you know what he found on the edge of her tray... a half-empty tube of KY jelly.
Ralph
June 30th, 2003, 12:32
They just make me feel all warm and fuzzy all over. :rolleyes:

RR3
KY Chris
June 30th, 2003, 13:33
I think it's a ploy to get us to pay for the much better looking specialty plates. Of course these cost an extra 25 or 50 bucks.
Centrevillemx
June 30th, 2003, 13:37
Hi Kids how do you spell KY's new plates?
G---A---Y!!!
TC
June 30th, 2003, 19:26
It might have been better received if they had blacked out a couple of teeth.:gee: TC
Beezil
June 30th, 2003, 20:44
http://transsexual.org/1sunface.jpg
Beezil
June 30th, 2003, 20:47
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/montalk/images/baby.jpg
fire325
June 30th, 2003, 21:08
I have the Firefighter plate,i wasn't about to put that silly thing on my XJ.KY.also has a couple of Nature tags that look pretty nice.I have to agree,the friendly plate sux.They should have went ahead and put a rainbow on it to.It's that friendly:wave: :rolleyes: .....NAXJA member#579.
tacottle
July 1st, 2003, 06:34
Oh, you're kidding! I saw one of those the other day and I figured the car owner had just stuck a smiley face sticker on it. When they went away from blue-on-white alternating years with white-on-blue, they lost their minds.

Tim
UK '82
tacottle
July 1st, 2003, 06:36
Can an XJ owner get the series 6000 plates?

Tim
UK '82
KY Chris
July 1st, 2003, 07:50
Originally posted by tacottle
Can an XJ owner get the series 6000 plates?

Tim
UK '82
Yup, that's what I have on my XJ. My DD gets the smiley face, though.
fire325
July 1st, 2003, 13:52
I think you can,i've seen them on ZJ's & XJ's.Also,if you qualify for having so much land you can get farm tags.KY has about 10 different tags. NAXJA member#579.
Scott Mac.
July 1st, 2003, 14:35
Hey Beez, did you photochop those sun/baby pics?
Grant
July 1st, 2003, 14:39
Nah, Beezil is a closet Teletubbies fan, those pics come from his bedroom wall
PhatXJ
July 1st, 2003, 16:32
Idaho Wildlife plates! http://jeepin.com//ubb/graemlins/rock.gif

http://idahohistory.net/license/PlateElk.jpg

^ That's what I have. Here's a new one they just came out with.

http://www2.state.id.us/fishgame/incredid/May2002/fish_plate.jpg
macgyvr
July 1st, 2003, 16:50
Hey that KY plate would go well on Beez XJ, in fact would match the bend over sticker he's got.

I thought the new Indiana plates look bad, but those plates are certainly worse, when I get plates for all the vehicles next month, I'm going to truck plates on everything to stay away from the new Indiana tags.

We needs a good plate with the word redneck or hillbilly on it....and a picture of a hillbilly...these PC plates drive me nuts.

mac 'Indiana plates used to read 'wander' Indiana' gyvr
Beezil
July 1st, 2003, 20:12
I don't think the new indiana is half-bad....amber waves of grain is hangin in the garage with the other zillion plates......

but you wanna see a ghey plate, well, here it is!

http://questmuzic.safeshopper.com/images/bu1ddme6.jpg
Bent
July 1st, 2003, 20:12
I guess there is ONE up side to all this. As soon as word gets out west here, San Francisco will be wanting to leave California!
Kentucky, lock up your sons!
Beezil
July 1st, 2003, 20:29
Dave, my ALL TIME FAVORITE Idaho license plate is this one:

http://ebay3.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_eadf444e4405d9d79d3d4a53a06ce8a9/i-1.JPG

I have this one in my collection.....

love it....

one thing though.........I'm wondering if you are as sick of your state's claim-to-fame being potatoes, as I am of mine being "land of lincoln"......


when our new plates became available.....big surprise, it was the head of lincoln, I traded them in for this one:

http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/images/organ_donor.gif
4ward
July 1st, 2003, 21:33
Would you prefer they call Ill. "the skinny state"?

Sean
ChEwBaCcA
July 2nd, 2003, 07:41
At least I relax knowing Ill never see Macgyvr on LSD doing 95 mph in that quad coil ;-)

Chew...no truck plates for me..bacca
PhatXJ
July 2nd, 2003, 08:31
Beez, yeah, that's just the standard Idaho plate. Those are the one's my dad likes. You can get those with a graphic on the side as well. Like a skier, or a snowmobile, or a river raft. They're not bad. If you were from Idaho, you may not like that plate quite as much because you see it everywhere, it's the most common. Good looking plate for sure though.

I don't mind the fact that Idaho is "famous for potatoes", what bothers me is when people think that's all they have in Idaho, or that's all they think of when they think of Idaho.

Crazy thing is, I don't even live in Idaho anymore, but I will always be a Native Idahoan. I still have, and always will have Idaho plates on my Jeep. I have Washington plates on my car tho.
PhatXJ
July 2nd, 2003, 08:32
Also Beez, is that plate in your pic the actual plate you have? That plate is from Bonneville County. That's about 40 miles from where I grew up.
Tucker
July 2nd, 2003, 08:52
I left CA for college in ID, U of I in Moscow ... I talked to a gal on the road who claimed to know every state's nickname. She was a Boise native, and thought that Idaho's nick must have something to do with potatoes. It took an out-of-towner (from CA no less) to tell her it was the Gem State.

There was (is it still there?) a sign just outside of Moscow proudly proclaiming itself as the pea and lentil capitol of the world :)
PhatXJ
July 2nd, 2003, 09:09
Thats funny Tucker, typical of a Boise Gal to claim things like that, women there are different :D

As far as the sign, I don't really know. I've not been in that area much at all. I'm not too far from there now here in Eastern Washington though.

I grew up in South Eastern Idaho (Pocatello) which is right near Idaho Falls. Pocatello is Bannock County, Idaho Falls is Bonneville County. Then I moved to Boise where I spent the last 6 years. Boise is Ada County.

Now I live in Washington. From an area standpoint, this place couldn't even begin to compare to anywhere in Idaho.
Dlip
July 2nd, 2003, 13:06
This is destined to go down in the history books alongside the infamous PA "You're got a friend in Pennsylvania" plates of '84-87.

Some print vendor is selling states on this horsesh*t.

Pa had nice, deep blue plates with reflective yellow letters from 1984-2000. We even made 'em out of Aluminum so as to not rust.

Then, all of the sudden, the state boys switched to the new printed face...white with yellow and blue "fades" at the top n bottom. And a nice big "WWW.STATE.PA.US" along the bottom.

Cheesy as can be. Well... maybe not as cheesy as Ky, but pretty darned cheesy nonetheless.

And... they made the wholesale changeover in a little over a year.... rather than letting natural attrition (aka, folks getting new plates with new cars, etc) replace most of them in a couple of years.

At least they didn't charge us anything extra......

Den
KY Chris
July 2nd, 2003, 16:13
Think I'm gonna opt this one. I really don't want the Teletubby sunshine following me around. They really should have a plate with horses smoking and drinking bourbon. That would be more representative of the state.

http://kvis-kytc.state.ky.us/KyRenewWeb/images/License_Plates/Plate_Detail/Horse.jpg
macgyvr
July 2nd, 2003, 18:31
Originally posted by ChEwBaCcA
At least I relax knowing Ill never see Macgyvr on LSD doing 95 mph in that quad coil ;-)

Chew...no truck plates for me..bacca


If you manage to actually see that, then the quad coil is either stolen...or its where it should be at 95mph...on the trailer...

mac 'there is more than corn in Indiana' gyvr
fire325
July 2nd, 2003, 18:33
Amen to that statement.That would rock.NAXJA member#579
ChEwBaCcA
July 3rd, 2003, 09:22
I think they should put a pic of Bootleg BBQ on it..... now that would do the state proud.....that was some good eatin

Chewy
Lincoln
July 6th, 2003, 09:00
Anyone from Idaho doesn't call them potatos, they call them SPUDS. :)

I like the old aluminum plates with black letters.

Later,
Lincoln
fire325
July 6th, 2003, 22:01
They are called TATERS here in Kentucky..NAXJA member#579