No this post is not about imaginary or otherwise stange anodes. This is about car licence plates which are personalized to express a message. In many countries, a specific combination of letters and digits can be chosen, usually for an extra fee. Being totally into tubes, my licence plates always have a tube type in them. I just got the plates for my new car, so I thought this might make a nice topic for the blog.
In Germany there are certain restrictions, how the licence plate can be personalized. The plate always starts with a 1-3 letter prefix which specifies the region. Then it is followed by 1 or 2 letters and up to 4 digits (depending on region).
Since it is among my favorite tubes, the 45 makes a perfect theme for a licence plate, of course in it's original incarantion as UX245.
In the US there is much more freedom how you can personalize your plate. My friend Jeremy sent a photo of his:
Quite appropriate, since it matches the name of his blog. He used to have this plate a long time, here is a photo of an older one:
Next the licence plate of Dietmar, a long time member of the Munich Triode Mafia. Dietmar is famous for his incredible loudspeaker creations, he builds nice tube amps too:
The plate from my friend Bernd, obviously a DHT aficionado:
This is the plate of my current car:
And my girl friend's:
And finally the plate of my previous car, which was my very first automobile, this was from the time, when I still lived in Munich:
Of course that one had to carry the name of my all time favorite indirectly heated tube! I donated the second EC8020 plate to the auction of the 2005 European Triode Festival. It was sniped by Christian, who likes such awkward stuff.
Do you have a licence plate with a vacuum tube theme too? Send a photo and I will publish it!
Best regards
Thomas
Thanks for including me! Greetings and salutations from the West!
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