Followers of Jimmy Buffett around the globe can cruise down the freeway listening to songs about losing away in Margaritaville and chowing down on a cheeseburger in paradise, however in Florida, followers have the choice of honoring the late musician with a license plate on the again of their automobile.
In January 2024, the Florida Legislature authorized two payments to honor Buffett, who died on Sept. 1, 2023.
“Margaritaville is simply what Florida is all about,” stated Republican state Sen. Gayle Harrell, who sponsored one of many payments. “Jimmy Buffett is the icon of Florida. Nobody represents the open solar, seashores, [and] music greater than Jimmy Buffett and Margaritaville.”
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Florida GOP state Sen. Gayle Harrell exhibits samples of a proposed specialty license plate to honor iconic singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett in Tallahassee, Florida, on Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photograph/Brendan Farrington, File)
One of many payments designated State Street A1A as Jimmy Buffett Memorial Freeway, whereas the opposite created a specialty license plate with the phrase “Margaritaville,” which is the title of the 1977 hit track written by Buffett that has grow to be a nickname for Key West.
As of Thursday, 2,199 Margaritaville license plates had been ordered. As a way to attain the three,000 pre-order requirement, 801 nonetheless wanted to be bought upfront.
Nonetheless, proceeds from license plate gross sales will go to a charity based by Buffett, Singing for Change, and can profit Florida nonprofits that assist victims of hurricanes and different disasters, Harrell stated.
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Jimmy Buffett performs through the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Pageant at Truthful Grounds Race Course in Louisiana in 2014. (Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Photographs)
The Florida Freeway Security and Motor Autos web site has quite a lot of new specialty license plates obtainable for pre-sale and shows the quantity ordered and quantity required to fabricate.
For instance, a specialty plate is on pre-order for the MLS soccer workforce Inter Miami CF, and of the three,000 required, 1,493 have been ordered so far.
Different specialty license plates embrace ones for the Florida State Beekeepers Affiliation, which has 929 ordered; Honor Flight, which has 263 ordered; Most cancers Analysis Issues, which has 111 ordered; and Down syndrome, which has 110 ordered.
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Whereas many Buffett followers have come by to get the license plate nearer to actuality, the query stays whether or not sufficient followers will put their fins up and end the job.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
