VanityPlateImages.com
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Vanity Plate Images Home Page
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Who am I?
My name is Jim Meadows, the guy behind this apparently obsessive collection of Hokie fanaticism. I graduated from Virginia Tech in 1982 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and have since worked at Newport News Shipbuilding in various capacities associated with Aircraft Carrier propulsion plant engineering. I have always been proud of the excellent education I received from Tech, and have greatly enjoyed Hokie sports over the years, especially the last few years of Hokie football! I've been a season ticket holder starting with the infamous 2-8-1 year in '92. My wife, Dee (an "adoptive Hokie") and I have three daughters--future Hokies we hope!
, on the first day that Virginia expanded the vanity plates to 7 digits, I've always been entertained by the sheer number of other Hokie plates on the road--vastly outnumbering those of any other school. Then one day while returning from a football game in Blacksburg, after being struck by the originality of numerous Hokie vanity plates on the road that day, I became inspired. I decided to start collecting photographs of Hokie plates to assemble into a collage that would show a representative slice of Hokie pride. I started collecting the pictures in October '96, with the original thought of getting 50 to 75 Hokie plate pictures over a period of a couple months for my project. But a wise man once said "Anything worth doing is going to take longer than you think." Boy, did that guy know what he was talking about.
More than two years, 222 pictures, and about 1000 hours of work later, the collage is finished! Interspersed between the license plate photos, are miscellaneous Va. Tech buttons, football ticket stubs, and headlines of significant Hokie victories, thus the title: "Licensed to Win". And since ceasing to add additional plates to the collage (so I could proceed with final assembly and printing), my total collection has reached about 300 pictures (as of Feb. 1999), and is still growing. If you have a Hokie vanity plate, let me know about it.
