It came up in one of the discussion boards I frequent, the question of personalized plates.

Over the years, I’ve had a few. Most of them long gone, and mostly forgotten, but there is one that I did keep.

This plate was on the first new motorcycle I ever purchased. A 2000 Honda VFR (aka RC46). Yellow of course! Not long after the purchase of the bike, I registered the domain name RC46.COM. I long let it lapse. It was picked up by someone else about 8 years ago. Now it’s parked at sedo.com a domain auction/resale site.

What was fun, is that I did find it captured in the ‘Internet Wayback Machine‘. Here are a few snapshots.:

I don’t think I’ve had any personalized plates in WA. Maybe I have and I’ve simply forgotten. I do run LEM plates on my cars and motorcycles, but they are not really ‘personalized’. I do this for many reasons. One of which is that they are very easy to remember when filling out hotel registrations. 🙂 When on a road trip, not having to run outside to check a plate is just one little thing that makes life a bit easier.