# Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/181 "2024-01-16T02:50:50Z")
**Tom\_Scud** ’s brother has a Tesla with a “NIKOLA” plate, and his sister-in-law has one with “OHM MYY.” ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/182 "2024-01-16T05:01:13Z")
2,500 New Zealand bucks to get your initials on a plate? Holy smokes, _that’s_ vanity. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/183 "2024-01-16T14:48:04Z")
I can’t believe it got thru but I saw **IZ U DUM** testerday ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/184 "2024-01-16T15:14:15Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > 2,500 New Zealand bucks to get your initials on a plate? Holy smokes, _that’s_ vanity. Yowza indeed! Around US$50-$100 is more common IME/IMO. My current state charges $70-$80 depending on which plate background your personalization is applied to plus $15/year extra to renew. We have like 150 different plate backgrounds you can chose from, plus another 50 or so where you need to meet some specific criteria to be eligible to select that plate. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/185 "2024-01-16T17:58:37Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > We have like 150 different plate backgrounds you can chose from, plus another 50 or so where you need to meet some specific criteria to be eligible to select that plate Another holy smokes. I thought Arizona’s 70+ different plate designs was excessive. It’s so many even the cops can’t keep track of them all so a law was passed that the plate frames can’t obscure the _ARIZONA_ at the top of the plate. This makes your typical frame that has the big part at the top useless here. The one pictured below? Unlawful. [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41PEwAwFMVL._AC_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41PEwAwFMVL._AC_.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/186 "2024-01-16T18:08:42Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Another holy smokes. I thought Arizona’s 70+ different plate designs was excessive. Here you go in all their wretchedly excessive glory: **[FLORIDA LICENSE PLATE-BROCHURE (25 page pdf) (flhsmv.gov)](https://www.flhsmv.gov/pdf/specialtyplates/tagbrochure.pdf)**. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/187 "2024-01-16T18:51:47Z")
I am suitably gobsmacked. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/188 "2024-01-16T21:54:31Z")
> [@Ferris](#): > > A few years ago I bought UPTO11 and the lettering above simply said, “This goes”. > > Had the plates for about a month before they were stolen, and had to deregister them. My sister used to have plates that said I PIGOUT, because she always organized the potlucks at work, and they called them pig-outs. The front plate was stolen. Then, the back one was stolen. She gave up on personalized plates. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/189 "2024-01-17T01:49:21Z")
I once saw Missouri plate **85 MVP** on a highway near St. Louis. There were two baseball MVPs in the year 1985, one of them the Cardinals’ Willie McGee, and I figured the car was his. I was all excited to pass a former MVP on the road!! but when I did overtake the other vehicle it was being driven by someone not of McGee’s gender or racial background, so who knows. (The AL MVP that year was Don Mattingly; I don’t think he was the driver either.) ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/190 "2024-01-17T03:18:31Z")
Texas tried to do that, but got pushback. At least half of the “Texas” must be visible but obscuring the top half is OK. I kind of wonder if the UT or A&M alumni associations put in a call to their favorite political alum ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/191 "2024-01-17T03:27:30Z")
Colorado’s plate layout makes most frames illegal but no one cares so far. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/192 "2024-01-17T03:48:12Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > I once saw Missouri plate **85 MVP** on a highway near St. Louis. Every high school in MO has an MVP in every sport. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/193 "2024-01-17T04:13:08Z")
Oh, of course. But a man can dream! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/194 "2024-01-17T12:44:54Z")
Yep. I was more making a wry commentary on the mindset of the yokel who bought **85 MVP** based on the strength of his small-town high school career in e.g. football and drove around the county basking in his glory 20 or 40 years later. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/195 "2024-01-17T16:17:28Z")
Hanging in my garage are a couple of plates I’ve had in the past: ZYMUR G YHS 4N6 People always thought the latter meant “foreign sex” for some reason. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/196 "2024-01-17T16:24:21Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > People always thought the latter meant “foreign sex” for some reason. Rishathra? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/197 "2024-01-17T16:38:46Z")
Actually a reference to my job as a debate coach, but I like your idea better! 🕶 ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/198 "2024-01-17T16:41:21Z")
There used to be an SUV in the apartment parking lot with the license plate 808080. It was gray, so I assume this was a reference to the HTML value for the color gray. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/199 "2024-01-17T19:22:41Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I was more making a wry commentary on the mindset of the yokel who bought **85 MVP** based on the strength of his small-town high school career in e.g. football and drove around the county basking in his glory 20 or 40 years later. I know a guy from Polk High who did that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/200 "2024-01-18T02:16:51Z")
A Tesla model 3 seen last night in Soquel CA where it never snows: [![](https://i.imgur.com/RWeedhl.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/RWeedhl.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=11)