This is Narragansett Bay - - lots of people have sailboats - - or want one

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Very nice

I don't understand what you're asking or saying.

I'm fairly sure that is not a normal passenger plate. The license plate cover could be hiding important info.

It is a normal passenger plate. Anyone can choose it. https://dmv.ri.gov/registrations-plates-titles/license-plates/plate-designs-charity-plates

I have a dealer plate from 1938. So cool !

>Yeah, yeah, it's a sailboat plate, but still, pretty neat.

You implied that the plate being a sailboat plate makes it less cool. u/overthehillhat questioned that due to the popularity of sailboats in Rhode Island.

Ahh ok. The reason I said that is because people will reflexively say "Doesn't count, it's not the wave plate!" not because I think it's less cool.

The normal plates have numbers centered.

and they have a wave on them.

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Do you know if they can duplicate numbers on each plate design, or is that the only #0?

Design within the same class is independent from number. So your number would be 123•456 whether you have passenger wave, passenger lighthouse, etc.

I'm not sure if they would duplicate numbers across classes, like if there's a passenger 123•456 and also a commercial 123•456, but I wouldn't imagine so.

They wanna change it to one number completely. So no more town 123 passenger 123 etc.

This is most likely an OLD preferred plate. Which by the way. The dmv still not accepting vanity plates or preferred plates but still making new plates is stupid.

> I know we all get excited about single digit plates

As a transplant to RI (albeit 20 years ago), the infatuation with custom plates is one of the few Rhode Island things I just cannot grasp….

It's a part of Matt Allen's Rhode Island Holy Triad. You need your state job, your blue cross insurance and your low number license plate.

They do. I got a bill for a toll on the GW in NY and it was a commercial plate where mine was a combination. Called EZ pass and disputed it. My car could barely make it to Boston never mind NYC

why you stay?

LOL, why do I stay if I don’t pay extra money for a government mandated vehicle ID?

I stay for the effective governance and superior roads, obviously.

I guess I’m a three-time loser then - I don’t have any of things.

But I also don’t listen to that twat Matt Allen, so…

What’s wrong with the sailboat plate?

I have a sailboat plate. Gotta keep the lineage of the low number plates

Nothing wrong with them at all.

phenomenal

i once saw my last name on a ri license plate and contemplated taking them

but then i remembered im not a criminal anymore, but i chuckled at the thought

Thank you for the correction/confirmation!

*lifts leg and farts loudly

They do re-use numbers between classes. I was stopped in my work van and accused of a hit-and-run in NH because of a matching number on a passenger plate (mine is commercial).

Wait why aren’t they accepting them?

Vanity plates got stopped because the state screwed up and let a guy with a tesla get FKGAS. they literally gave him his reg and then pulled it and they went to court so the state at this time says they aren't taking requests but public opinions (idk what wording) but it's on the dmv site when you google vanity plates ri

Yikes, thanks for the correction. Seems like maybe someone should have thought of that earlier.

My grandpa had R 10 on his plate. Not sure what it meant

I saw that car in Smithfield. I laughed and tried to explain it to my kids. "See, even government agencies can have tantrums."

According to that car's owner: "When Carroll purchased the electric-powered car, he told his daughter that they could charge the car with energy from their home-installed solar panels, and she said it was like “fake gas,” the ACLU said."

Uh huh...fake gas...lol

It's not even about his plate that I'm griped about. I have been trying to get a preferred plate, keep applying and getting nowhere. Okay I'll get a vanity plate, can't do it because the state screwed up and wouldn't own the mistake. Now we as rhode islanders paying car taxes and xyz can't even get the services and such that we're paying for. Keep making new stuff everyday but don't wanna take someone's money for something else.

What's a preferred plate? Is that like getting your initials for the first two letters?

Used to be 0-9999, then like weird combinations like your initials and 2 numbers or 3 specific numbers AA-018 you MUST contact the govenors office and fill out the application. It's online, but I've applied like 3/4 times. I know someone who waited 8 years for a preferred plate. But it's a mute point because I'm understanding they won't let them out because the state won't submit vanity plates

This is Roger William's car.

That is correct.