# Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 11, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965 "2023-11-11T02:25:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1 "2023-11-11T02:25:27Z")
The other day I was driving to work and ended up behind a car with a custom plate:
**BLEAGH**
And a cheerful commute to you today as well.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2 "2023-11-11T02:36:40Z")
Just this afternoon I saw a recent model year Corvette with plate **L8R BRO**.
Tonight I was behind a plain white panel van with **DUWOP-UP**. I suppose his van is full of musical instruments and band gear.
Rare to see two interesting plates in one day, but somehow Fate knew this thread would get started so I’m well-supplied.
One of my neighbors in this building has a Dodge Viper with **SN8K**.
One of my faves that I’ve only seen twice around town in 10 years is an Audi that has **INNIE**.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3 "2023-11-11T02:50:22Z")
This was from before COVID. There was a car show in the area(as evidenced by the cars I saw running around town). I was passed by a smallish economy car painted a deep custom bluish-purple with the license plate **MNTOYA**. It took a while to come up with the color name then it made sense.
It was an Indigo MNTOYA.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/4 "2023-11-11T02:53:50Z")
I hope he doesn’t run into the guy who killed his father.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/5 "2023-11-11T06:07:30Z")
A while back, I saw a car with the license plate **YESH LI** (Hebrew for “I have it” or “it’s mine”).
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/6 "2023-11-11T06:11:55Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> I hope he doesn’t run into the guy who killed his father.
The killer will be easy to spot, driving this car:
> **[The $640,000 Six Wheel Supercar | RIDICULOUS RIDES](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByclWORTJEE?=list)**
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> SUBSCRIBE to Barcroft Cars: https://goo.gl/vbKSU2ITALIANS are known for their supercars, from Lamborghini to Ferrari, Maserati to Bugatti – but one you proba...
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/7 "2023-11-11T14:26:23Z")
I’ve told this story before. When I was a kid my Mom was a court stenographer using those weird quasi-typewriter gizmos (**[Stenotype - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype#Example)**) decades before the advent of audio recording computers. That link leads directly to a sample of their output that’s utterly incomprehensible to mere mortals.
CA was one of the first states to start selling custom “vanity” license plates back in the late 1960s-ish. With of course some limits on what words they’d accept: no profanity, etc. Almost immediately one of her co-workers ordered one that read “FUCK YOU” in machine shorthand. Which looked something like “TPUBGU” to folks like you and me.
That person was an instant legend in reporter-land. Everybody else was 🤦♂️🤦♀️ why didn’t _I_ think of that!?
Unlike the famous case of **GOT MILF** , I don’t think the authorities ever wised up.
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/8 "2023-11-11T14:37:33Z")
Not my picture, but I did see this on the web a few weeks ago:
[ ](https://imgur.com/gTuQ3GR)
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### Author:  [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/9 "2023-11-11T14:46:08Z")
Living in an area in Berlin known for its gay culture I find it funny how many cars here have a plate that begins B-OY-XXX. BMWs like to show B-MW-XXX and so many Smart are B-IG-XXX, XXX being one to four digits. It is mild customing, quite frequent since they started allowing it for a modest fee.
I read that in [Aachen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen) plates with AC-DC-XXX are quite sought after.
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### Author:  [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/10 "2023-11-11T14:54:26Z")
My favorite vanity tag was “VANITY”.
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/11 "2023-11-11T15:00:30Z")
If it’s yours, is that cheating?
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/Ic3Ynzh.jpg)
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/12 "2023-11-11T15:01:36Z")
Neat photo, but i can’t read the plate.
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### Author:  [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/13 "2023-11-11T15:06:06Z")
Seen years ago on some snazzy, fast car:
LAAAATE
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### Author:  [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/14 "2023-11-11T15:07:56Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> Neat photo, but i can’t read the plate.
I think that plate says BRONKA?
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/15 "2023-11-11T15:09:55Z")
The link is clickable and zoomable…
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/16 "2023-11-11T15:10:43Z")
Get it?
You know- for kids.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/17 "2023-11-11T15:13:44Z")
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/Ts1l390.jpg)
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/wY7rzrn.jpg)
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/18 "2023-11-11T15:21:49Z")
Clickable, and just a mass of fuzz when i try to zoom.
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### Author:  [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/19 "2023-11-11T15:25:14Z")
I’ve poster it before, but a local beauty salon owner has BOX WXR as a plate, which apparently was just subtle enough to make it through DMV.
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/20 "2023-11-11T15:28:44Z")
Saw a car in Arizona with the plate 15 FOR 2. That plate is available in my state and I would like to have it but the extra $65 a year to renew a vanity plate has me rethinking getting it.
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