<VV> Re: F NADER license plate

[burkhard at rochester.rr.com]

And that would be me ;-)

A couple cops who pulled me over one time thought it was a funny plate -
- they were really yucking it up in the rearview mirror.  I still got a 
ticket for an inspection sticker a couple years out of date, though...

And, actually it's been on my car a lot longer than 10 years... I got 
it in 1989 or 1990 when I first moved here from NJ.  There's even a pic 
in the Feb 1994 issue of Car & Driver when it made the "10 Best License 
Plates" ... somebody took a picture of it at a show somewhere and 
mailed it in.  I would have preferred a little less exposure, but 
apparently nobody complained thereafter.

All that said, if somebody bitches, you are hosed.  NY and probably all 
other states with vanity plates have provisions that you can't have 
anything offensive to anyone.  If your name was Fred Nader, you could 
probably argue it, but otherwise, I think you are without recourse.

Jim Burkhard
Rochester-ish, NY


----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Clark <markii56 at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:11 am
Subject: <VV> Re: F NADER license plate
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org

> When I was at Carlisle in 2003, there were at least 4
> cars there with "F NADER" plates, maybe more.  Have
> any of those owners had to surrender their plates
> since then?  I doubt it.  I first saw that plate, here
> in NY, about 10 years ago.  Turns out it belongs to
> someone that lives just a few miles from me.  In 10
> years, no New Yorker has found that plate so offensive
> as to demand its removal (of course, we are the state
> that elected Hillary Clinton...).