Literary License
May, 1993
California has almost 2 million vanity license plates registered with the state's motor-vehicles bureau. The explosion of words on wheels inspired Los Angeles commuter, writer and self-anointed platehead Daniel Nussbaum to fantasize about cars on the highways bearing readable tags forming sentences from famous stories. With California's mammoth three-volume directory of vanity tags as his thesaurus and using each plate only once, here's what Nussbaum imagines.
