The Washington Post has interviewed Douglas Story, the owner of the truck. He denies that the license plate is a coded racist message and says that it is a tribute to NASCAR drivers:

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"There is absolutely no way I'd have anything to do with Hitler or Nazis," Story said Wednesday. "My sister-in-law and my niece are Jewish. I went to my niece's bat mitzvah when she turned 13 three years ago. Does that sound like something an anti-Semite would do?"


Story says the numbers 14 and 88 on his plate were not references to a white power slogan or "Heil Hitler," as the Council on American-Islamic Relations theorized, but an homage to his favorite NASCAR drivers: Tony Stewart, who drives car No. 14, and Dale Earnhardt Jr., who drives No. 88.


Story applied for the vanity plate in March 2009, shortly after Earnhardt changed his car number from 8 to 88 and Stewart changed his from 20 to 14.



He also sort of addressed my question about him parking in a handicapped spot:

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He said he has a permit that allows him to park in handicapped spaces because of injuries he suffered in a 1985 motorcycle accident.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/28/AR2010042805335.html