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Thats awesome! I have always wanted to do that for my truck but the best I got is a plate that has "FIRST" painted on it from a parade we did.

It certainly is a good way to help spread the word about your team. I'd be interested to know how many other people roaming around have FIRST-inspired custom plates.

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This is pretty cool :)

One of our Alumni got his cell phone number to be our team number. I wont to do it for mine too maybe :P

I've know 2056 has a lincence plate that says "team 2056", its a van that pulls their trailer. I think 1114 has a vehicle with a licence plate with their team # on it also. I would like to do the same eventually :)

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Im jealous of teams that have 2 digit numbers they could get xxf-irst

Ideas for a number with 907-xxxx :D ?

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FRC-0907?

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Sure :)

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I've had "ELITE 48", "ELITE48", and "NEOFRA".

RIP, Pontiac. This car was kinda ugly, anyway - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/24881

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The head coach on team 88 has her license plate as "TJ288"

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In Ontario you can get 8 digit plates with no spaces, so:

907FIRST

would be allowed.

Also, the 1114 plate that was mentioned.

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My father (our lead programming mentor) just ordered a "T3 DAD" plate, and one of the other parents on the team has "T3 BOTS". We're also ordering clear-back bumper stickers with the team logo.

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"ROBOMOM" tags since 2006. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/24159

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This post as well as a comment from my mom got me thinking on an idea I just sent it to FIRST. The body of the email is below..

To Whom it May Concern:
Within our team we are always trying to expand FIRST and help brand not only our own team but FIRST in general. To provide an example, for a Mardi Gras parade that we took part in, my team decorated / transformed my truck into a robotics themed float. While afterwords we removed the majority of the stickers, streamers, etc. However, I still have not removed the front license plate that has the word 'FIRST' painted on it in our team color by one of team member (as seen in attached picture). Through Chief Delphi I have heard of quite a number of people who have ordered custom license plates with their team number, name or both.

The other day my mom looked at my FIRST plate and had the rather clever question of, 'Why doesn't FIRST sell license plates?' As we figure it, a lot of robotics kids and mentor drive cars and would be proud to show off their FIRST spirit. I would suggest, however, to make ones slightly more fancy then the one I have. But still, wouldn't it be cool to have the FIRST name and logo on the front of your car? The possible exposure would be enormous.

Just a thought. Thank you for your time.

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This is something done on a state-by-state basis. While FIRST may be able to petition for license plates in New Hampshire, I don't think they could do it for the 49 others.
We tried in 2008; in the end we narrowly missed out because FIRST is headquartered in NH and we couldn't tie it directly back to Indiana. Since IndianaFIRST is now a registered 503(c), we'll give it another shot.
It's a labor intensive process, as outlined in the linked thread. But if it works, it's definitely worth it - as advertisements and as a fundraiser. Good luck!

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I don't have a picture of mine but I'm running around Kansas City with a BOTGIRL one. My mom got it for me for Christmas. =)

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Back when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, I had a "BILL" plate in Connecticut colors for my bike. No reason there couldn't be a FIRST-themed version. Probably too late for the 2013 KOP, though, ya think? ;) :D

Anyway, Logoloc are the guys to try for this, I bet. They're always on the lookout for places to slap the logo. It should come with a booklet of snappy patter to use with the traffic cop that pulls you over.:D

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Here's the current version:

(snip) - guess the [IMG] tag to a public link on Google docs doesn't work - looked fine on my PC!

Here's the link. I shared it publicly, so if it doesn't work this time, blame Google! https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5w...Gt0UlZnMUVKcUE

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No one on our team has custom plates, but we have a mentor who made bumpers (like robot bumpers) for his truck. I'll see if I can find a picture

Image is broken, says it is forbidden. Just thought you might want to know.

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I've seen several FRC inspired vanity plates, both on road-going vehicles, and on-board FRC robots.

I've seen:

TEAM1114 (Ontario plate seen on the above photographed van)
TEAM2056 (Ontario plate, seen on the vehicle pulling 2056's trailer)
HOT 67 (old blue Michigan Plate, seen on board 67's 2008 (I think, maybe it was 2009) robot @ Kettering Kickoff)

IIRC I've seen a 781 ON vanity plate at an event, and several other MI/OH plates at Kettering Kickoff that I'm now forgetting.

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The Hills from 1625 have painted bumpers on their 12 passenger van with 1625 written in the corners. I think one side is blue and the other is red. Its pretty cool. :)

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I don't know of anyone having a 781 plate, but it may have been before or after my time on the team. We did have use of this van from sponsor Bruce Power for several years, until it was sold prior to the 2011 season:



Last year Bruce Power lent us a minivan and Bruce Safe Communities lent us a covered trailer that went to Waterloo and GTR with us. Everything went underneath the coach bus to Buckeye and Champs last year. I'm not sure what they did this year.

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someone on our team has plates that say "BOTSRULE"

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Cool plates, inspired me to see if I could do something similar for my truck but apparently due to Virginia designations for non personalized plates it appears I can't do FRC XXXX. Any CD folks out there have a witty solution to show team pride that doesn't use 3 letters then 4 numbers?

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What kind of configuration (XX-XXX? XXX-XXX? etc) does it need to be in? I'm sure someone could come up with something.

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It can be in any configuration, 6 characters or 7 if one of them is a - or space.

If you want to try combinations for VA (and see availability) go to.

https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/dmvnet/...sp?PLT=&PLTNO=

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7 characters and a space are allowed on most plates. FRC<space>2068 is not available as a customized plate as it is reserved as a "regular plate", but 2068<space>FRC is available.

Regular plates are XXX YYYY (where X is a letter and Y is a number)

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We have TEAM910 as our Michigan plate :)

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Figured I'd add to the plate party. I wish more people would do this because I would love to catch people's plates on the road!

Judging by the date of the photo I'm going to say, since January 2004... I have a newer car now, in case anyone is wondering, ha. :rolleyes:

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It's not all that it's cracked up to be. That van has been vandalized at a FIRST event before...

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not gonna lie, i have special plates too

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Our team leader has TM XBOT. The team gave them to her as a gift. :)

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Summer project: set it up as a bait car with cameras.

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A gift from my wife... she understands the importance of total commitment. :D

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I can't quite see it...

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Sorry about that, having trouble uploading image but will eventually fix.

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That's just terrible. Sure it wasn't just random?

-Nick

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I don't want to get into the details here for obvious privacy reasons, but yes, we're pretty sure. Obviously can't be certain.

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Maybe this will do the job?

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Wow that's pretty sad. I sure am hoping it wasn't at a Canadian regional, but I have a feeling it was... Either way that's terrible to see from someone. Some people just don't understand the true meaning of Gracious Professionalism...

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Amen to that. It is sad to think that this happened at a FIRST event.

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That's pretty low. Done solely to be a personal blow... It's not like when 1730's trailer was ripped off in 2010; the losers who did that did it for non-personal finacial motives.

Agreed on the camera system idea... there are other anti-vandalism "ideas" I have heard about but they wouldn't be to gracious or professional and they are probably illegal (like the 120VAC key zapper).