| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Vanity Plates | | Date: | Thursday, January 31, 2008 22:47:27 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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Wow Jim,
What's with the blue "bubblegum machine" atop u'r car? Am I gonna have to keep
ol Champ under 80 going up that hill by your house??
signed,
"Speedy" (that used to be my nickname back when I was 16 yrs. old....doesn't
quite hold true today tho... :)
-------------- Original message --------------
From: "Jim Warren" <dobro87@comcast.net>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: reso-man@comcast.net [mailto:reso-man@comcast.net]
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:15 PM
> >>> To: resoguit-l@elistas.com
> >>> Subject: Re: [RESOGUIT-L] set up suggestions?
> >>>
> >>> Hey Lee,
> >>>
> >>> Wow a N.H. license plate that says "Dobro"? I wonder who, if anyone, has
> >>> that plate today? Fellow lister Jim Warren has Vermont license plate
> >>> "DOBRO" on his new fancy motorhome.
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> Richie, I'd hardly call that lemon of mine "new".
> I guess compared to your "Champ" it's somewhat
> newer. 12 years old now, and going downhill fast !
> I met the fellow that had the original Vt. "DOBRO" license
> plate about 1977 at a festival in N.Y. He later gave it up
> for some reason. I scarfed it up sometime in the mid- "80s.
> At that time, you could only have up to 5 charactors on your
> plate.
> I went to a nearby store on my lunch break one day,
> and I spotted a new Vt. plate with 7 digits on it. Needless
> to say, the wheels started turning. As soon as I got home
> that day, I picked up a registration form. "BLUGRAS" was
> one of the first 7 digit plates that was issued. Can't
> remember when I got it. Sometime around 1989 I think.
> here it is today
> http://www.oldtimedobro.com/images/IM003655.JPG
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> A friend of mine gave me his expired N.Y. plates when
> he had them replaced with the new style. They are
> "BLUGRAS", "BLUEGRAS" commercial plate, and
> "DOBRO" (the old N.Y. orange plate from long ago.
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> Jim Warren
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