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If you drive a car in the Valley – and odds are you do – then you’ve probably guffawed, gawked, or groaned at at least a few vanity plate whiles waiting oh-so-patiently at red lights or politely not-riding the tail of the car in front of you.
Or maybe you have your own vanity plate. Good for you!
Today, we bring you a random collection of awesome vanity plates from around the Valley seen in 2019.
But first, we’d like to give a shout out to the plate that inspired this project: JIAOZI. This is one of the most important words in Mandarin a non-Chinese speaker can learn. It means “dumpling.”
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Unfortunately we were unable to snap a photo of JIAOZI at the time. But thank you, JIAOZI, wherever, whoever you are, and bon appétit.
Now, the Plates
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True commitment.
Unicorns don’t believe in you, either.
Unicorns don’t believe in you, either.
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Second place is the first to lose.
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We couldn’t agree more!
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… and Clark Kent.
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Priorities.
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Parked right at the base of Camelback Mountain. We can’t help but remember this video.
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Garden of Eve.
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