# 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:** 112
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2221 "2025-12-23T01:55:24Z")
I don’t know where you live or how plausible this is, but license plate David might be a practitioner of the dark arts of Electronic Warfare, not the much more common merely Eeeeww!-worthy. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2222 "2025-12-23T02:12:33Z")
One that has me scratching my head a bit—I can think of several possible meanings: On a Toyota Tundra, **WEB FEET**. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2223 "2025-12-23T03:46:47Z")
> [@Topologist](#): > > **WEB FEET** What state is the plate from? I’ve heard that people from the rainy Pacific Northwest (e.g., Seattle, Portland) joke about having “webbed feet” (like ducks) due to all of the rain. ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2224 "2025-12-23T04:01:45Z")
I should have mentioned: New York. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2225 "2025-12-23T16:11:27Z")
Perfect for my wife, who has webbing between some (but not all) toes. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2226 "2025-12-24T00:20:29Z")
That’s entirely possible 😆 I can’t remember if I mentioned this one before but sometimes I see a very distinct yellow and black car in the parking garage at work with **BMBLEBE** plates. I saw it again today… I don’t think it’s one of my co-workers. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2227 "2025-12-24T00:26:50Z")
You don’t think the car is one of your co-workers, or the driver? It could go either way, you know. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2228 "2025-12-24T00:34:08Z")
Snerk.. 🤣 I don’t think the car belongs to one of my co-workers. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2229 "2025-12-24T01:16:18Z")
Scored two headscratchers this evening: - **AUNT⎵DD** on a standard FL plate on a small SUV. The driver was a very buff 50-something gym-rat of a guy. With somebody probably his wife alongside. Hooray for being vigorously healthy, but your license plate doesn’t match you very well. - **TSMBN** on a 5-character surfer booster plate on a 911 Turbo S. Nice car, but the plate is a complete mystery to me. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2230 "2025-12-24T01:47:38Z")
I wonder if **REDACTD** is in the epstein files that just came out. They could be **DANI31A** who some call **LAGEMA**. I am guessing the one plate is Daniela, and driven by that frame of mind (I saw the plates in a short time span) I interpreted the later plate as: la gema, which means the gem, in Spanish. Of course it could be a completely different word or meaning, but that is what immediately came to mind. `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2231 "2025-12-24T14:07:14Z")
There’s a Tesla that parks at my gym with the plate **RIVIAN2B**. It always makes me smile. Not sure if the owner is hoping the Tesla grows up to be a Rivian, or if the owner just has the Tesla until he or she can afford or justify buying a Rivian, but either way it works for me. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2232 "2025-12-24T14:10:23Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > Saw **EWDAVID** on the way into work this morning. I don’t know what the context was there but I literally laughed out loud because my ex-husband’s name is David and I have that same reaction. Ew. Apologies to anyone named David here on the boards. 🤣 Pretty sure they’re referencing a line from, “Schitt’s Creek,” that has become a go-to meme. > **[The Iconic Schitt's Creek's Line of "Ew, David!" Is Said on the Show a Lot...](https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/how-many-times-is-ew-david-said-on-schitt-creek-47925402)** > > "Ew, David!" is only said in three episodes throughout Schitt's Creek, including "Allez-Vous," "The Motel Guest," and "RIP Moira Rose." ---
**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:** [December 24, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2233 "2025-12-24T18:14:34Z")
Ah, I haven’t seen the show so I wasn’t aware of that reference- thank you! Was behind someone this morning who I thought had **SPUR91** on their plate and I was trying to figure out the reference. As I stopped behind them at a light I realized it the S was a 5 and the R was a K. Maybe it still meant something, I dunno. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2234 "2025-12-25T20:31:29Z")
Today on the way home from my sister’s house I saw **H1PP1** driven by a lady who looked like she could have been or still is a hippie. ---
**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 4, 2026, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2235 "2026-01-04T11:46:17Z")
Been a slow few days around the thread. I guess we all had other things to do. Me included. But I did catch a couple. - **GOES2** on a 5-character Miami Heat NBA booster plate on a VW Tiguan. That _might_ just be a luckily memorable normal series plate, or it might be custom. I wonder if they put a hop-up module on their engine; Tiguans aren’t noted for being road rockets. - **2PAIR** on a 5-character [something] booster plate on a large SUV. They have 4 kids - 2 boys & 2 girls? They have two sets of twins? They won the car in a poker tournament with very skilled bluffing? This last one needs some explanation. **IMS⎵500** on a standard FL plate on a 2012-ish Corvette. With an Indianapolis Motor Speedway license plate frame. And big decals on the doors which were/are the 2011 IMS centennial logo: [![](https://www.aftermarketnews.com/wp-content/uploads/AMNArticles/01_01_2008/783582011IMSlog_00000034934.jpg) ](https://www.aftermarketnews.com/wp-content/uploads/AMNArticles/01_01_2008/783582011IMSlog_00000034934.jpg) I did some research and although there have been many factory-made Indy commemorative Corvettes over the years, there wasn’t one like this. So this guy’s custom paint & decals are a one-off. Whoever he is, he’s certainly an Indy racing buff. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2026, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2236 "2026-01-04T18:27:20Z")
I am an Indy racing buff… I was wondering if by chance you had seen a pace car but the pictures I’ve been able to find of the pace cars from that era don’t have that logo. But they were Corvettes around that time. I haven’t been going into the office (or leaving the house much at all) these last two weeks so my plate spotting has been slim. I did see one the other day that makes me wonder what it means. **9 LORDS** Is someone really into The Twelve Days of Christmas? A dance teacher? Something else? ---
**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 4, 2026, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2237 "2026-01-04T18:33:59Z")
Here’s a complete list of all special edition Corvettes, including the various Indy pace car / Indy commemorative cars. A pretty fun page to peruse. But no, the car I saw was none of those. I checked there (and a few lesser sites / cites) first. > **[Special Edition Corvettes (Every Car. Every Year) - Ultimate Guide](https://www.corvsport.com/corvette-models/special-edition-corvette-guide/)** > > From the C1 to the current generation Corvette as well as ones you never heard of before, we go through the special Corvettes across the marquees amazing history. I was on a cruise all last week and my car is in the shop the next few days. So not a lot of carspotting for me either. Maybe **9 LORDS** is a high jumper or pole vaulter. You know, a leaper. Or a BASE jumper. ---
**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 5, 2026, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2238 "2026-01-05T09:46:06Z")
**STARG81** on something I did not identify. To drive the point home there were five s-f logos across the back, Star Wars rebels, Star Trek _Enterprise_, Stargate, and two others I didn’t know. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2239 "2026-01-05T23:41:58Z")
On a new-looking, dark red Camaro LT1, with a very understated USMC license plate frame: **C4RNA6E** ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2240 "2026-01-07T23:22:56Z")
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