Hey gang; I'm looking for some creative assistance for my brain-dead old self.

After waiting twelve weeks for the title to the '05 MCS that I bought in February (my first MINI!!), it's finally arrived; now I have to go order plates.

I'd like to personalize them with something that pertains to my shift **** biz.
I've been wracking my brain, but I'm not coming up with anything that looks good enough that I want to plaster it on the front and rear of my car and look at it every day for the next year.
So I'm looking for ideas, and I'm willing to make it worth the while.

Here's the deal.
I'll whip up a custom shift **** for the person who can come up with a plate that will ring my chimes.
Naturally, it has to be within the guidelines of the state of Illinois, which are as follows:
1) a maximum of seven characters.
2) numbers cannot be mingled in with the letters; they're only allowed at the beginning and end.

In the event that nobody comes up with a satisfactory business-related plate, I'm willing to bend the rules and settle for "anything that I deem unique and cool enough".

Now, Illinois takes FOREVER to issue a vanity plate; and during the wait, they won't even let a person know whether he is going to be granted one of his three choices.
(I don't know if that's typical for other states, but that's been my experience here.)
Naturally, I can't ask the winner to wait three months for an answer from the state, and I'm more than happy to reward him/her with the shift **** and take my chances.

Whadda ya'll think? Is this a good idea? Any potential pitfalls that I'm not taking into consideration?

Mods, am I within forum guidelines with this?

I don't mean this to be a marketing tool; I already have too much work, as it is.
I know that there are a LOT of folks here who have more creative juices than I, and I'd like to tap into some of that. Hey, it might even be fun!

Remember; the decision of the judge (in this case, me!), is final.
Contest is void where prohibited.
Family members and stockholders in the corporation are exempt from participation.

Feel free to PM or e-mail me with submissions; or post here, if you'd like.

Good luck; to ALL of us!

 

Is your MINI blue? How about BLUWHLN

 

Nope; it's Jet Black.

 

paint it blue and let me win.

 

How about 'shiftin' or 'shiftn'

 

You are, of course, going to get a license plate frame that says, "Ask me about my ****", aren't you?

Actually, that's not a bad idea for t-shirts.

 

'FSTKNOB', 'QIKSHFT'...........hehe

 

Might as well get some of the obvious ones out there:

FREWHLN or WHLNNOB or GOWHLEN

 

"**** guy"
or
"*** crvr"
or
"*** makr"

Yeah , I know........ weeak!

Jim

 

KNOBBER

I looked it up on an English Slang site.... depending on how much you can laugh at yourself, you may not want that on your car.

 

One of my sons came up with that.
I liked it, for a while. I may be overthinking all the ideas a bit.

 

Oh, I can laugh at myself a LOT; that's not the problem.

 

Well then, consider that suggestion officially in the hat.

 

MACHNST

CRFTSMN

SHFTY

 

GRAB ME
GRAB IT
GRIP IT

 

SHNYBLZ
SHNYNOB
PLSHNOB (this could be dangerous)
CSTMBLZ
WHALEN1 (not very Creative but I dig it)

 

the ****

 

**** u 2
luv ****
**** luv
**** lvr

 

That one might get him some interesting propositions.

 

PALM IT
HANDFUL
?

 

I like "shifter"

 

HANDY1
VRYHNDY
SHIFTY
SHIFTY1
SHFTMAN (iffy)

 

MYSHFTR

 

Uh....was WHALEN not an option?

 

WHALNOB similar to someone else's earlier entry, but I like this one better.