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#16098 24-Sep-2007 18:48

I wanted some personalised plates, but spat the dummy at the $699 fee at http://www.plates.co.nz.
So I searched TradeMe, and found I H0T SS on $1 reserve, and got them for $260.

Will look great on my Red Hot 420hp SS Commodore!

Interestingly enough, the plates were not listed in the personalised plates section of TradeMe, but rather, in the Holden > Parts > Exterior section - which I think may be why I got them for $260 :-)

I know that at least a few other members have name plates, so what do you have? (Or what *would* you get?).

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#87960 24-Sep-2007 18:51

GEEKZ1 and RED PT.

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#88005 24-Sep-2007 22:53

Another cheaper way to get them was (is?) to buy vouchers off TM or elsewhere. When I got mine, someone had brought a quantity of vouchers which the personalised plates people gave them a substantial discount for.

ELMNOP are mine :-)

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#88019 25-Sep-2007 08:26

MYSLC - Red 1973, 350SLC Mercedes V8 coup.

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#88027 25-Sep-2007 09:31

I too recently looked at getting PP, not for the personalised part but more for the euro style, since I have a euro car. I too spat the dummy as the price for a PP in euro style is $800...rip of merchants.

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#88066 25-Sep-2007 16:26

I havnt got any but id prob get my GZ username!!!!
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#88075 25-Sep-2007 17:50

psychrn: I havnt got any but id prob get my GZ username!!!!
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Thats 7 letters!

What would you do to shorten it to six?

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#88243 27-Sep-2007 08:42

I have 2, both gifts from others.

JABBAS is on the Prado
JABSV8 is going on the 74 HJ Monaro

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#88244 27-Sep-2007 08:44

I have "ZERO1" sitting on a shelf in my garage, should sell it.
Ihave "II B2 II" on the car at the moment and my business partner has "11 B2 11" on his.
I got them from plates.co.nz and they were awesome to deal with, you get a discount when you buy more than one pair at a time. Still, it's $500+ that could otherwise be spent on games :o)

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#88245 27-Sep-2007 08:56

Jabba, wow I had an old flat mate who had JABBA on his car. He normally took the long board to work though. =)

If I was to get a personalised plate it would be NUWEB, or ETRUCK / EMTRKS, hehe mainly because it would be a business expense. =)

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#88248 27-Sep-2007 09:07

Mauricio,

Do you still have the flames for the PT as well?

They looked well hilarious.

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#88251 27-Sep-2007 09:20

73GHIA on my 1973 VW Karmann Ghia.

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#88254 27-Sep-2007 09:26

got mine as a pressie, PC TEK and partner's is WEBDEV I am a computer tech and partner is web developer

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#88256 27-Sep-2007 09:31

cjs6793968: I too recently looked at getting PP, not for the personalised part but more for the euro style, since I have a euro car. I too spat the dummy as the price for a PP in euro style is $800...rip of merchants.

Anyone can have Euro style plates & they don't need to pay Personalised Plates Ltd. a cent. When it comes to those novelty style plates they would like you to believe that they have a monopoly but this is not true. There are many international sellers of novelty plates & you can quite legally purchase & use in New Zealand. The regulations here only state that the plate must be stamped aluminum & the that the lettering must be either black on white or red on white or blue on white & be a certain minimum size of the lettering etc. You are quite entitled to use a foreign plate as long as it is displaying the correct registration number of course.

I have a US plate on my car. A NZ one won't fit because I have a Jap import & the bumper is designed to take a Japanese plate. But the US plate is the same size as a Japanese one so I now have a US plate. It cost me very little & is so much better than those ones Personalised Plates sell. I've had it in my car 2 years & was only questioned about once by the police, but despite the fact he did not like it there was nothing he could do because it does not break any regulation.

Check out this: http://www.autoplates.com/catalog/custom.php?view=europlates

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#88257 27-Sep-2007 09:35

jabba400: Mauricio, Do you still have the flames for the PT as well? They looked well hilarious.

Jabba, I don't have those anymore - threw them away when moving to the new house...

For other folks here, I had those made in 2001 for a party we had at Unisys. Here is a picture of what Jabba is talking about (my first PT Cruiser):

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#88267 27-Sep-2007 10:02

I have CBRMC on my Honda CBR Blackbird which happens to have an 1100 cc motor work out the connection?

that would be an ecumenical matter

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