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Old 28-06-2020, 06:58 PM   #121
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I think people will have to accept that this is the new standard of [non] acceptability and move on. There are much more important things in life than personalised number plates.

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Street Machine contacted VicRoads for comment, and the following statement was issued:

“We review number plate combinations from time to time and we occasionally recall number plates that may be deemed inappropriate or offensive. VicRoads checks tens of thousands of new number plate combinations each year to prevent offensive or inappropriate plates being issued. We also reserve the right to recall number plates that may later be deemed offensive, disrespectful to the law or are inappropriate for display, such as plates that reference violence.”​
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A man has vowed to take his fight to keep his classic car's number plate through the courts if he has to after VicRoads told him they had to go.

Peter Hansen's plight to save his WEPN plates has attracted plenty of media attention and led to a change.org petition which has already attracted more than 8800 signatures.

The personalised plates have been on his 1971 LC Torana since 2010 after his wife's family gave them to him as a gift.

Mr Hansen uses the car at Portland's South Coast Raceway drag racing events, to display at car shows and for the odd trip to the supermarket.

If he's taking it to display at a car show that is more than 100kms away, Mr Hansen - a sandblaster and spraypainter by trade - will put it on a trailer so the paintwork doesn't get chipped by loose gravel from the road.

He had planned to use his HZ Holden to tow the Torana, and his wife had applied to get WEPN2 licence plates to match as a present for his birthday next month.

But VicRoads rejected the application, and then days later also cancelled the plates he'd had on the Torana for 10 years.

Mr Hansen said he had gone through the appeals process, was awaiting a response from the ombudsman and will lodge it with the Victorian Civil Administration Tribunal.

"I'll got to court if I can. They can offer me money to go away tomorrow. It's not about the money," he said. "At the end of the day all I want is my number plates back on the principle of the matter."

Mr Hansen said there had been no complaints about his number plate.

A Department of Transport spokesperson said number plate combinations were reviewed from time to time and occasionally recalled those that may be deemed inappropriate or offensive.
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State transport authorities are starting to clamp down on personalised number plates that could be interpreted as being offensive or promoting speed.

A Facebook user this week claimed he was knocked back by Queensland Transport when he requested personalised number plates that suggested his car was "quick".

"I just had a phone call from PPQ regarding new number plates I ordered online the other day," the anonymous Facebook user wrote.

"The gentleman told me they have a directive from Queensland Transport that any plate that has fast or quick on it is banned."

A spokesperson for the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads told CarAdvice "While particular words such as ‘speed’, or similar words, are not explicitly prohibited under the policy, customers are strongly encouraged to choose plates that are not contrary to road safety outcomes or community standards."

Literary expert and Melbourne-based university lecturer Tim Coronel said some motorists might be attempting humour rather than trying to glorify speed.

"I can’t see that a number plate that can be read as ‘quick’ is encouraging speeding or other dangerous behaviour," said Mr Coronel. "It could be quite funny if (a number plate with a speed reference) goes on an old Morris Minor or something similarly not-at-all-quick." Meanwhile VicRoads has advised Victorian motorist Peter Hansen the number plates 'WEPN' (weapon) – that were fitted to his 1971 Holden LC Torana for a decade – will be cancelled.

“Most cars that are show cars are like wrestlers, or there’s a persona about the name," he told Radio 3AW's Neil Mitchell.

“It’s not Peter Hansen that gets invited to the SummerNats (car show), it’s WEPN.

A spokesperson for the Victorian Department of Transport told CarAdvice: "We review number plate combinations from time to time and we occasionally recall number plates that may be deemed inappropriate or offensive.”

“We also reserve the right to recall number plates that may later be deemed … disrespectful to the law or are inappropriate for display, such as plates that reference violence," the spokesperson said.
NSW gets tough on personalised plates

In recent years authorities in NSW cancelled the personalised plate "MEOC" that was fitted to a Ford Mustang, as it was seen as taunting police. The letters were the acronym for the NSW Police Middle Eastern Organised Crime (MEOC) squad.

Transport for NSW says offensive plates such as AW55HT, SHI33T, 8ITCH, and HU55Y had been requested by motorists in recent years but approval was denied and the plates were never made.

A Transport for NSW spokesperson said personalised number plates were monitored for combinations that use offensive language, promote unsafe driving or drinking, or are of a religious, violent, explicit or sexual nature.
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I await my letter

I'm calling BS it wasn't a complaint, otherwise they'd just look through all the combinations they've issued and take everyone's off them that they deem offensive.
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I hope Mr Hansen takes the action and wins. I'm familiar with the term and within the car culture it's a term of endearment for a particularly capable car.

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Old 28-06-2020, 07:14 PM   #124
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Your plates getting recalled FC? Who’s going to be offended by “MANHUG”?
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Old 28-06-2020, 07:23 PM   #125
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If this is the response to some sensitivities about recalling some vanity plates, I just can't wait to see how we all react if we follow the UK and European plans to ban all petrol, gas and diesel vehicles by 2035 as well as all non-electric home space heaters, HWS and stoves etc. Of course many of us may be dead from old age or other causes by then anyway.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40726868 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-..._fuel_vehicles
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It's a Victorian thing, the home of the offended, the land of the SJW.

How's the Covid thing going in Victoria, Comrade Dan still calling in the military to deal with the out of control situation he's created?
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Old 28-06-2020, 07:39 PM   #127
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so I saw this on another forum, is it legit? 1BJ 2GO
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Would be appropriate for an SX Territory.
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so I saw this on another forum, is it legit? 1BJ 2GO
Doesn't come up on VicRoads rego check
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There was a picture in Modern Motor or Wheels a long time ago featuring an old Fiat Truck registered in NSW with personalised plates FUGLY.
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He had planned to use his HZ Holden to tow the Torana, and his wife had applied to get WEPN2 licence plates to match as a present for his birthday next month.

But VicRoads rejected the application, and then days later also cancelled the plates he'd had on the Torana for 10 years.
So now we know why Vicroads decided to have a "look" at his plates. If his wife didn't apply for WEPN2, nothing would've happened.

Bloody women!
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At least this person knew buying a Holden crap car.

Full credit for honesty

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I'm calling BS it wasn't a complaint, otherwise they'd just look through all the combinations they've issued and take everyone's off them that they deem offensive.
You can always re apply for some new ones.....SHFTED, SHAFTD. comes to mind.
or maybe a drilling company already owns them.
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or maybe a drilling company already owns them.
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UPGRAYEDD is probably too many letters

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UPGR8D maybe
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In NSW personal plates are literally a licence to print money. You can have all sorts of colours, comic themes, footy teams, animals, plants, JDM, Euro look etc etc etc.

https://platerange.myplates.com.au/car

You will need to click on 'Show more' down the bottom...

Several times....

Edit: Forgot you can also get FPV / Mustang themed plates
Got an email last week asking my opinion on the possible new NSW number plate themes:















I like the one with the flags

NSW has probably the most variety of plates in the entire world
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All of those options look terrible Yellow Festiva.
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I'll take 'none of the above' for $300 thanks Yellow Festiva.

Seriously, who comes up with this crap?
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I like the brown 1940s style one but get rid of the text telling you its the 1940s style one
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The “country of origin” range makes no provision for Russia, India or China.

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All of those options look terrible Yellow Festiva.
It really doesn't matter. The make a ton of money on these both at ordering time and ongoing yearly fees.

All printed off some sort of computer, as I said earlier, they are a licence to make money.

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I'll take 'none of the above' for $300 thanks Yellow Festiva.

Seriously, who comes up with this crap?
Probably someone making much more than us combined with an arts degree, thick rimmed plastic glasses and a rainbow bow tie lol.

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So i saw a pic of a rt40 corona with 'Virus' plates.
Nsw i think.

Offensive to other virus' in current situation?
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So i saw a pic of a rt40 corona with 'Virus' plates.
Sth aust , i think.

Offensive to virus' in current situation?
I saw that car at the All Japan Day in Jan/Feb and he had those plates only days prior to the event. Most at the time found it amusing, but that was before it really hit Australia.
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What about making your own?
Make it look real enough and you may just get away with it.
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My old plates were legit but the rta said no. 1974 printed, non reflective and the paint was flaking off. Had to pay to get them re printed, same old school white charachters on black background. Reprints should be free if theyre a billion years old.
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