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03-09-20 | 02:12 PM

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sykerocker

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From: Ashland, VA

Bikes: The keepers: 1969 Magneet Sprint, 1971 Gitane Tour de France, 1973 Raleigh Twenty, 3 - 1986 Rossins.

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Originally Posted by thumpism

Doing your part, I see. I contribute also.

"Virginia has the highest U.S. vanity plate penetration rate (16.19%), followed by New Hampshire (13.99%), Illinois (13.41%), Nevada (12.73%), Montana (9.8%), Maine (9.7%), Connecticut (8.14%), New Jersey (6.8%), North Dakota (6.5%) and Vermont (6.1%). Texas had the lowest vanity plate penetration rate (0.5%)"

Oh hell, yeah. The only vehicle I've owned in 21 years living down here that has a standard issue license plate is my van. And that's only because the SYKE plate got moved to the car when I got it a few weeks ago, and I haven't figured out what I want to put on it yet. The car is SYKE, the motorcycles are SYKE1, SYKE2, and SYKE3, Maggie's car is NO ANGEL (my late wife had the same thing on her car - it fits both of them, although Patti had to work at it a bit).

One holdup is that I lost five pairs of car vanity plates in the fire, well loved ones that I periodically cycled thru. Probably going back to either RNDHEAD (Roundhead) or SHRT MKR (shirtmaker) on the van. Just haven't had the time with working on the garage. And reenactment season starts in two weeks.

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H.L. Mencken, (1926)

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