Historical, hate or other plate?

i want to get a Japanese crapbox of some sort, put a big red dot on the door, and get a custom plate that says "ZERO"..

then sit back and wait for the idiots that think i like that craptastical band called Smashing Pumpkins..

In reply to fasted58:

I guess women who drive mazdas like dp?

Bet she's popular on campus.

Meh... I've seen her on the internets. Kind of gross.

Maybe it is a bit over-powered, and it means "AXLE SPEWER".

bgkast wrote: In reply to fasted58: I guess women who drive mazdas like dp?

Well, it could mean Daytona Prototype

wouldn't that be cool

GameboyRMH wrote:

Tom_Spangler wrote: I guess... it's also kind of clever. So, is this in poor taste, then? http://www.solomatters.com/event-coverage-dixie-regions-axis-v-allies

Maybe the flags in use at the event...but otherwise no.

Why is it in poor taste when labeling a car on the road, but not when labeling an autox event and ~1/2 of the cars in attendance? Who gets to decide where the line in the sand gets drawn?

How come no-one is getting their panties in a knot over the rising sun flag on Japanese vehicles?

I'm sure some of us on the forum have / have had this on a car at one time.

In reply to Driven5:

When everyone at the event is OK with the title.

fasted58 wrote: Bet she's popular on campus.

Right up there with her friend whose plate reads: AIRTIGHT

Honestly this is no different than the thousands of confederate flags you see floating around. Is it poor taste, sure. Offensive, not To me.

Not going to say what is or is not in poor taste, just interesting that the victor gets to determine it. One could try to argue that simply owning anything from an axis country is in poor taste because of the war. Now that Germany, Japan, and Italy are our allies, should we see this as embracing our friends culture? Those who do not learn from history...

much ado about nothing

What about the Lexus with plate "anaslex" or the Virginia plate "vgna lvr".

Those totally offend me.

I think an all-out ban on vanity plates nationwide is in order. There is no way human beings can put as many as seven letters on a license plate without those seven letters being offensive to someone.

As the great Sultan of Yomama once wrote: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and Freedom from seeing or hearing anything that might Offend us."

In reply to 1988RedT2:

DATS WASIS!!!!!!

racerdave600 wrote:

DaveEstey wrote: I think people spend entirely too much time being offended by things in general.

This...I've participated in the Axis vs. Allies autocross before, some things aren't meant to be taken seriously. Even my old German friends participated and thought it was cool. We spend WAAYYY too much time worrying about how to be offended rather than getting on with life.

Done this myself. There was much good natured questioning of whether my Spitfire powered by a Mazda rotary was 'Allies' or 'Axis'. It wound up running with the 'Allies' based on the body shell.

Having said that, I think I'd find the tag pretty offensive and I'm not Jewish. It's mostly because of the people who try to make out that the Holocaust never happened. Gen. Eisenhower warned the world that those people would try to do just that.

In reply to Curmudgeon:

Axis Power is a common shop name for tuners of German, Japanese, Italian vehicles these days. Its no more offensive IMHO than a plate reading "NATOPWR" "UNPWR" or "USSRPWR" if you built a crazy Lada....

People take offense at too much anymore, with the way this is going, we'll never be allowed to even speak in the near future.

Appleseed wrote: AXIS POWER would be equally appropriate on Japanese and Italian cars(half the time) as well. Everyone assumes it just means Germany. Shame on you.

My godsons are Japanese-Italian. Their dad (Japanese-American) has said, well, they're a combination of Axis powers!

Maybe a little distasteful, but it could obviously be WAY more offensive.

I mean, Texas wants Confederate license plates:

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/23/394308609/is-a-confederate-flag-license-plate-free-speech

In reply to gamby:

Why the hell does it have 1896 on it? It was proposed to be to commemorate the Civil War's 150th anniversary.

Is it possible the op plate was meant to mean autocross is power?

yamaha wrote: In reply to gamby: Why the hell does it have 1896 on it? It was proposed to be to commemorate the Civil War's 150th anniversary.

Because that is not a Confederate battle flag.

It's the insignia of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which was founded in 1896.

yamaha wrote: In reply to gamby: Why the hell does it have 1896 on it? It was proposed to be to commemorate the Civil War's 150th anniversary.

I'm a yankee (RI). That E36 M3 is a mystery to me.

In reply to SVreX:

Roger that good sir, thanks. Didn't know that

Trans_Maro wrote: How come no-one is getting their panties in a knot over the rising sun flag on Japanese vehicles? I'm sure some of us on the forum have / have had this on a car at one time.

The Rising Sun is still in service, btw.