Vanity PL8 Worth $5,000

VANITY PAYS IN EAGLE ONE CONTEST


Vanity has paid off handsomely for Larry VanHooser
of Lexington, KY.  Car-care products company Eagle
One presented him with a check for $5,000 after his
vanity license plate, which reads D-WIFED, was chosen
the most humorous in a nationwide contest conducted by
Eagle One in observance of the 65th anniversary of 
personalized plated in the U.S.

Writers for "The Tonight Show," selected VanHooser's plate
from among 10 finalists.  More than 2,500 entries were 
submitted from all 50 states.

A divorce prompted the battalion chief for the Lexington Fire
Dept. to put the plate on his '99 Corvette.  "It cost me $25 and
the divorce cost me $100,000," he said.

Each state winner received $100 and a supply of Eagle One 
appearance care products.

Among the finalists were:  CYIMBRK (see why I'm broke); MANOPOZ
(male mid-life crisis); MY401K; OYMINLA (oh, why am I in L.A.); and
NOSUP4U (no soup for you; a famous line in a segment of "Seinfeld.").

The first personalized plates appeared in Connecticut in 1937.

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(Jay Leno did not take part in judging)