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There is an add on TV at the moment, I'm not sure which one it is, but i seen a Vic plate with we3 338. or something like that.
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Victoria- How Much More?
Don't like those yank/jap plate sizes myself. Euro plates as Aussies call them are ISO size, btw. |
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I think at one stage the first two letters of a WA six-digit plate were an abbreviation of the area where the car was registered e.g. Geraldton could have been GN or something. Police probably found that useful.
Worst Australian plate slogan? NSW's pretentious "THE PREMIER STATE". Created so much laughter that it was changed to "THE FIRST STATE" but then it was pointed out it should be "THE FIRST COLONY" as all the states were formed at once with Federation in 1901 ... ![]() |
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Victoria - The Speeding State
Victoria - On The Camera Victoria - The Place To Speed
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Old W.A. plates had "WA - The State of Excitement" - I thought the person who came up with that was sarcastic, while it's a gorgeous state, "excitement" is not really the word that comes to mind when describing it. I have noticed their 7 digit plate is the same format as the California plates. 1ABC-123
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A bit off topic - My late Father-In-Law carried the same plates across his last 3 cars. My eldest son has decided that's what he'll do. He's on his first car and it just had random general issue plates on it. He's had them redone in B&W and he intends carrying them over all of his cars from now on. I reckon it's a great idea, I may do the same thing!!
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they could even go with aa999a .... the possabilities are endless really... i reckon we will still have a 6 digit/letter combo either way. for our state motto get ready for
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I had some stickers made up a while ago that I put on my rego plates. Instead of "Victoria - The Place to Be", they now read "Victoria - Police State".
Been pulled up by coppers once - they couldn't do a damned thing about it because the plate was still perfectly readable.
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2010 plates start with BA
the next numbers area code not the rta office..ie northan table, hume, flinders.
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printing plates not in a logical order (which would be the case if you had to skip certain combo's) would more then likely require change to current procedures. then again, tooling up for 7 letter plates would too :P |
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It was I1I11I or was it I1II1I or maybe 1II11I Needs to keep groupings of numbers and letters together rather than randomizing numbers and letters together IMO. |
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Hehe, that's the beauty of it - if they pursue it or make a big deal about it, they simply prove my point.
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It's great when they can't get you on anything. Almost like a dog who misses out on getting a bone. My plates just have a nice and simple 'VIC' - being custom.
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For a new slogan I would go for >>> Victoria Speed Cam State <<<<
I was last there in 2007. Driving from Melbourne to Canberra in my old BA Ghia via the Princess Highway and Snowy Mountains Highway. 10 to 20k's outside of Bairnsdale where the speed limit changed from 100 to 110 about 3 times I was pinged doing 113 by a cop in a patrol car going the other way. Little did I know it but I was also pinged at the almost exact same speed and spot by a hidden cam. Copped the $212 fine from the cop on the spot but didn't know about the $212 camera fine until 2 weeks later when I was back in Brissy. Was I spewing! Won't be going back to the joint in a hurry thats for sure. Here's another slogan sugestion >>>> Victoria the Place to Avoid <<<<
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I think everyone who did that has lost their licence now.
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![]() The front one eventually went bad too, but never got to the level of this one!
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Instead of >>Victoria Garden State<< ... Maybe they should have said ..
>>Victoria Better Homes & Garden State<< Dunno why I came up with that one . . just came into my mind when I saw that plate lol ... I still like my earlier suggestion better .. >>Victoria The Place to Avoid<< Lol Mike
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It's just a bit of white vinyl with the blue italic writing on it so it doesn't stand out, nice & subtle. The coppers who pulled me over (was a number of years ago now) were plain clothes. They commented that they 'thought' it was illegal', so I challenged them to prove it, mentioned that in pulling me over on the Eastern Freeway for that was just puerile, and that they were proving my point. They took my details of course, and that was the last I ever heard of it.
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Oh, BTW, it's not an offence to obstruct the "Vic - Place to be" bit. It is an offence to alter or obscure the large alpha-numeric characters by either putting them under a bullbar, putting a rego sticker over them or putting them under the ductail (like some motorcyclists do), and they must be readable from 45 degrees in every direction from the front & rear of a car.
I think that's so the speed cameras can get them easily. This was the case, at least, when I last checked three or four years ago.
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Growing up in WA, I always liked country WA plates, they told which shire you were from. A great idea, we used to play "guess the shire" when traveling thoughout the state. If you had family in different shires, you could "monopolise" the same number with different letters! If you had the number 1 plate in a shire, you had bragging rights!
GN - Geraldton GN. - Gnowangerup (had to watch for the dots!) BE - Beverley, my first XW 302 had these, Lord I miss it... AK - Armadale - Kalamunda MR - Margaret River G. - Greenough E. - Esperance MW - Mullewa MI - Mingenew etc, etc I'd love something like that in Victoria, it has so many shires and large rural towns (really close together, too!) It's amazing the rest of the country doesn't use these kind of plates. |
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...and, as it is raining in Victoria again, I'd love to see 'Victoria, Garden State' be reissued with green lettering on a white background. Seriously, it's trippy how green the place is compared to the WA wheatbelt...
I tried to get a reissue of the original 'Victoria Garden State' plate for the 1994 ED, and was told the closest they would do is it's original numbers on a plate that said only 'Victoria', green letting, white background. Pity. |
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"Victoria - This space for rent"
They've sold everything else
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Police can know you may be unfamiliar with an area and cut a bit of slack. |
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I know they wont issue Z series plates because they're for Commonwealth vehicles. The word on the street is something similar to the NSW ones, ie LL22LL.
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