Vanity plates

[Howard and Pat Warren <warrenwood@domain.elided>]

An Alfa is a car with a soul, so I've always given mine names.  I started 
with the name "LongShot".  It was given to two different spiders, a '77 and 
an '85, because of the string of coincidences that led to their purchase. 
 I owned the '77 first, then the '85.  Both used the license plate LNGSHOT.

When I bought my Milano, my kids told me the body shape looked like a hawk 
swooping down upon prey.  Since it was white, it's name became "SnowHawk" 
with the license plate SNOHAWK.

When I added the GTV6 to the collection, my wife teased me about starting 
my own Scuderia Warren.  Okay... Shelby had his cobra snake, Ferrari has 
its prancing horse, so I decided the Scuderia Warren would have it's own 
symbol too: a silhouetted Peregrine falcon over the Italian flag.  The 
GTV6's name: "Falcone" with the license plate FALCONI (intentionally 
misspelt because most of my fellow Southerners wouldn't catch the last 
syllable.)

When we bought my wife's 164L, the pattern for the Scuderia was pretty well 
established.  As my wife is a very beautiful and elegant half-Korean, 
half-Caucasian woman, we named her car "Peregrine" after the most elegant 
of the hunting raptors.  License plate PEREGRN.

We have other ideas for license plates based on hawk names.  TALON if we 
ever buy a black Alfa Romeo.  RAPTOR for another GTV6 or Milano.  PRANCER 
if I ever buy a Ferrari <gg>.

Howard K. Warren, Little Rock, Arkansas
1988 Milano Platinum, "SnowHawk", 162k miles
1991 164L, "Peregrine", 60k miles
1984 GTV6, "Falconi", 132k miles
     and the dearly missed
1977 Spider, "LongShot", catastrophic engine failure
1985 Spider, "LongShot-II", stupidly sold away

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