# 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:** 105
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2081 "2025-11-24T22:59:03Z")
I’m afraid that literary or pop culture reference goes over my clueless head. Care to explain a bit? ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2082 "2025-11-24T23:11:12Z")
“Dracarys” was the command word Danaerys, the dragon-riding heroine of Game of Thrones, spoke when she ordered her dragons to flame someone. Like “Sit!” to your dog except here meaning “Char them to a crisp!” It was very effective. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2083 "2025-11-25T04:20:00Z")
On a full size Chevy pickup with digital (electronic) Colorado plates: **LETMH8** ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2084 "2025-11-25T04:24:53Z")
That is a new one to me. Thanks `//i\\` ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2085 "2025-11-25T05:47:39Z")
On a Ram pickup: **NO Q GVN** Not sure on this one. The No and Given are obvious. Cue? ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2086 "2025-11-25T06:01:27Z")
No Quarter Given? ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2087 "2025-11-25T10:03:35Z")
Yeah. It’s a RW buzzphrase meaning “I am a raging asshole. … And probably armed.” ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2088 "2025-11-25T10:04:39Z")
More on “weeb”: **[Japanophilia \>\> 21st Century - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanophilia#21st_century)**. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2089 "2025-11-26T00:24:44Z")
Went to get gas on my lunch break today and saw **YAMZ** in the parking lot. ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2090 "2025-11-26T00:31:26Z")
Was behind MS\_ATM\_22 this morning in such a non-descript car that I have no memory of what the car was. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2091 "2025-11-26T00:41:01Z")
Scored 3 this afternoon / evening. Each interesting in their own way. - **DAW⎵⎵JR** on a 1990s Porsche 911 in good shape. Made me wonder if they got the car from their parent DAW Sr. - **FIGEY** on a Japanese national plate. How often do you see Japanese license plates on the road in the USA? Best of all the car was a **[Nissan Figaro - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Figaro)**. Which is a rather miniature car made in the early 1990s as a retro 1950s design. Sorta the local Japanese equivalent of the contemporary PT Cruiser in the USA. We got to yak with the owner for a few minutes. A remarkable little car and his was pristine. The roller-shade-like convertible top is really odd-looking. See **[Nissan Figaro - Google Image Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=nissan+figaro&hl=en&source=hp&oq=nissan+figaro&sclient=img&udm=2)** if curious. - **NEGRAA** on a black 5-character Miami Heat basketball booster plate on a black pickup truck with blacked out windows. Apparently this fellow likes black. I’m a little surprised the censors allowed the plate; seems to have some potential for triggering misunderstandings and hard feelings. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2092 "2025-11-26T14:27:17Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > **FIGEY** on a Japanese national plate. How often do you see Japanese license plates on the road in the USA? What does Japanese national plate mean in this context. It looks like a Japanese license plate, or something else? I hope that the **DABANG** is not the sound the car bearing that plate makes. Also, I think Mugabe needs to work on being incognito **ZUGABE** is just too obvious. I’m sure there are other meanings, like something a person named Gabe (or Gabriel) but Mugabe is the first association that came to my mind when I saw it. `//i\\` ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2093 "2025-11-26T14:42:29Z")
> [@icon](#): > > What does Japanese national plate mean in this context. It looks like a Japanese license plate, or something else? I meant simply the type of plate that is issued by the Japanese government to ordinary Japanese vehicles operating in Japan. Sorry to confuse. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2094 "2025-11-26T18:07:59Z")
**H3MAN** , on an Ohio plate (I’m in NYS). The car was parked, so I didn’t see a driver. I’m curious now! Reminds me of a story from near the start of my career, when HeMan and his buddies were all the rage in my kindergarten classroom. A HeMan “action figure” was located on a block shelf, and two little guys both claimed it. But they worked it out. “I get it for ten years,” one of them told me. “And then _I_ get it for ten years,” the other interjected. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2095 "2025-11-26T18:43:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Best of all the car was a **[Nissan Figaro - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Figaro)**. Which is a rather miniature car made in the early 1990s as a retro 1950s design. Sorta the local Japanese equivalent of the contemporary PT Cruiser in the USA. We got to yak with the owner for a few minutes. A remarkable little car and his was pristine. The roller-shade-like convertible top is really odd-looking. See **[Nissan Figaro - Google Image Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=nissan+figaro&hl=en&source=hp&oq=nissan+figaro&sclient=img&udm=2)** if curious. A very rare sighting, indeed. As Wikipedia indicates, Nissan only made it for one year, in 1991, with about 20,000 copies produced. It was never officially sold outside of Japan, though obviously a few have been exported to other countries. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2096 "2025-11-26T18:51:30Z")
The owner told me Nissan’s original plan was to make 5K of them. But it caught the public imagination just right and the demand exploded. So they made 20K of them. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2097 "2025-11-26T19:43:03Z")
SEA CZAR. The vehicle was an SUV that looked like it might be suitable for driving onto a beach, and it had a roof rack that could probably have been used for carrying a surfboard… but I’m not sure that Lake Erie inspires that much passion. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2098 "2025-11-26T20:49:51Z")
Ah I see. It must be a custom plate then because in Japan they don’t issue vanity plates, at least not like the ones in the US were it can be all letters. You can choose some particular number combinations and you can add a letter, but a plate with complete letters is not possible. I guess that one is similar to one european plate I saw that was something like milkdud with the u having an umlaut. `//i\\` ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2099 "2025-11-26T21:06:04Z")
Ah so. _Domo arigato_. Apparently I was fooled. I had assumed it was genuine. It was yellow background with black writing, a couple Japanese characters across the top and down the left side, and the unique plate info was **FIGEY**. A little Googling suggests it probably came from an outfit like this: > **[Custom Japanese Plates](https://www.customjapaneseplates.com/)** > > Japanese license plates produced and embossed with your customized text. Japanese license plates are the perfect accessory for your Honda, Toyota, Subaru, Mitsubishi or Nissan - Custom Japanese License Plates. Their plates certainly look plausible to somebody unfamiliar with all the details of actual Japanese practice. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2100 "2025-11-27T02:00:20Z")
I agree that LTL BLEU is a small blue pick up truck though I was not sure that BLK GTS was a GTS but since I am not the IN4SIR of the naming rules, I guess it does not matter. I do not know if MAGG JR is Italian but if they are, they might use CIA0 002 as a joke. `//i\\` [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=104) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=106)