Alabama gets "Sweet" new car tags

[SirCrimson]

http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=9142152&nav=0RdEI9Z9

 

[rhYno]

It seems over the last five or six years, we've changed more car tags than Tuberneck has changed coordinators down at The Polytechnic Institute. I do like this one much better than I do the last.

But my favorite will always be the "Heart of Dixie" tag from the 1990s. That was the most beautiful car tag (second to the UA tag of course) that I've ever seen.

 

[dayhiker]

Alabama has 52,423 square miles of land area and what, less than 100 miles of shoreline maybe. A beach scene isn't really representative of the state.

 

[formersoldier71]

I'm sure that's just a prototype, but doesn't the Heart of Dixie logo have to be on the plate? Or, in keeping with the trend of making it smaller in every passing edition of plates, is it now microscopic?

 

[bamanut_aj]

those are horrible

 

[RolltideFanz]

I don't really dig those tags much at all. I don't think it's very indicative of the state, either. JMO. They must have gotten them confused with the Panama City Beach tags.

 

[dayhiker]

It seems like someone wants traveling Alabamians to become advertising for Gulf Shores.

 

[BamaFanKyle]

It seems like someone wants traveling Alabamians to become advertising for Gulf Shores.

Ding ding! Here's a quote from an al.com story on the new plates:

The new design carries the Alabama tourism department's "Sweet Home Alabama" theme and will help tout the state's Gulf Coast beaches as part of an effort to boost tourism.

"A lot of people outside of Alabama don't even know that we have beaches. When we put more than three million tags showing sea oats and a beautiful sunset over water into circulation, that will change," Riley said.

We have beaches too!

 

[BAMA1979]

Did it really have to be orange and blue?

 

[rhYno]

Did it really have to be orange and blue?

Oh God... I didn't notice that. Now excuse me while I puke...

 

[deliveryman35]

Beats the stupid looking tags we've had around here for at least twenty years....

 

[RhodeIslandRed]

if we want to market more beach front, why not annex the florida panhandle into alabama. those people don't identify with the rest of the floridians 'down north,' their property taxes will go down, and their high school football players will feel more at home coming to the capstone.

 

[rhYno]

if we want to market more beach front, why not annex the florida panhandle into alabama. those people don't identify with the rest of the floridians 'down north,' their property taxes will go down, and their high school football players will feel more at home coming to the capstone.

That's actually NOT a bad idea... being unfamiliar to that wing of government territory, what would it take for it to happen, if it were possible?

 

[rightwinger]

And "Hogar dulce Alabama" to entice another 500,000 illegals. Thanks, Riley.

 

[SavannahDare]

Reminds me of the latest Mississippi tag with the Biloxi lighthouse on it. It's great for the coastal areas, which generate so much revenue for the rest of the state, but hardly representative of the state as a whole.

 

[exiledNms]

Reminds me of the latest Mississippi tag with the Biloxi lighthouse on it. It's great for the coastal areas, which generate so much revenue for the rest of the state, but hardly representative of the state as a whole.

Yeah, exiled, jr. is pretty chapped about that since he lives up in north MS. I think he'll pay the extra $$ & get a personalized tag next time just to not have the lighthouse one.

 

[SavannahDare]

Yeah, exiled, jr. is pretty chapped about that since he lives up in north MS. I think he'll pay the extra $$ & get a personalized tag next time just to not have the lighthouse one.

You mean to tell me he's not going to get the UA tag next time?! :eek2: I can hardly wait until December when I can get mine. The lighthouse tag is pretty and all, but I was fine with the old magnolia one. Now that we can get UA tags, that's what'll be on my car from here out.

 

[dayhiker]

if we want to market more beach front, why not annex the florida panhandle into alabama. those people don't identify with the rest of the floridians 'down north,' their property taxes will go down, and their high school football players will feel more at home coming to the capstone.

While visiting relatives in Pensacola several years ago I read an article in the P'cola paper about how they were really part of LA and not FL because of geography. It talked about how the palm trees you see were imported and not native to the area. They were planted because you're supposed to see palms in FL.