MD Vanity Tag “TUBAPLR” on Conn Ave Today

[Three Valves]

Who??

[bloke]

Only a true artiste would sport such a plate.
Even if you were headed to the hospital (etc.), you should’ve veered off your path and followed them to their mountaintop.

[graybach]

Who??

I seem to remember a similar thread on the old Tubenet. The person who posted to ask who it was was behind him at a red light in DC and noticed the vanity plate. Someone said that it was Willie Clark of the US Air Force Band. I remember the person that commented to answer who it was being a fellow DC military tuba player and calling him “the hardest working tuba player in DC” on the thread. It’s been too long for me to remember if it was exactly the same as the plate you saw or not. I could not find the thread, and I think it is one of the many that got deleted by the new board admins.

[Three Valves]

Only a true artiste would sport such a plate.
Even if you were headed to the hospital (etc.), you should’ve veered off your path and followed them to their mountaintop.

I was buying plumbing supplies for the house and making a beer run, I assumed he was doing the same but I lost him!!

[bloke]

Some of those who dwell in more densely populated areas will shoot into your (or any) car - these days - for just about any reason or no reason in particular. I don’t want anyone to know anything in particular about me when I am out driving. I don’t believe I would even put a “Kiwanis“ emblem in my back window. My strategy is to drive about seven mph faster than everyone else (even if the average speed is 85), avoid packs of cars, avoid eye contact, and absolutely avoid cutting anyone off…
… and absolutely avoid buying bright colored cars. Hell…My car color is so bland, that I can’t even remember what color it is myself.

[bort2.0]

This all sounds so familiar... IIRC, my uncle (in Baltimore) parked next to a car with this plate like 5-10 years ago, and ran into the guy, saying "cool license plate, my nephew plays the tuba."

Willie Clark sounds familiar, but I just can't remember the details.

[Three Valves]

I put in on FB and it’s a blue 15+ year old Chevy Suburban if that helps.

[bloke]

I guess someone who sells tubas - or sells tuba-noise - is a tuba plier.

[kingrob76]

That is not Willie's plate....

[GC]

Going through the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon 15 years ago, I got behind a vehicle with a BB TUBA tag.

[russiantuba]

Some of those who dwell in more densely populated areas will shoot into your (or any) car - these days - for just about any reason or no reason in particular. I don’t want anyone to know anything in particular about me when I am out driving. I don’t believe I would even put a “Kiwanis“ emblem in my back window. My strategy is to drive about seven mph faster than everyone else (even if the average speed is 85), avoid packs of cars, avoid eye contact, and absolutely avoid cutting anyone off…
… and absolutely avoid buying bright colored cars. Hell…My car color is so bland, that I can’t even remember what color it is myself.

I don't speed due to several speed traps in the area (lots of drug running through my area) on the US Highway that runs from "that state up north" to FL. However, I will add on that though I thought this was a good idea to get a tuba related plate and think it is cool, that so would thieves. Oh, you have a expensive brass instrument potentially in your car. This is in an area where cars are robbed (including cop cars) of catalytic converters in broad daylight. Despite saying all of this, I live in a safe area, and even in the nicest areas in the rich suburbs of the major metropolis an hour away, the same kind of stuff happens.