# 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:** 151
**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:** [April 25, 2026, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3001 "2026-04-25T17:36:36Z")
Saw **AMGRTY** in the grocery store parking lot… am gritty? They’re the Philadelphia Flyers mascot? Then saw **FLORGAL** on the way home. At first I assumed flowers but then realized the truck had a sign on it for a flooring company. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2026, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3002 "2026-04-25T17:44:13Z")
Been a slow few days for me. And this despite a long freeway drive and some time in a large parking area. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > **H⎵⎵1636** on a FL standard plate. - **2MODAKA** on a FL standard plate. Somebody has an unusual name. - **KSLUR** on a FL standard plate on an older Jaguar sedan. All I could come up with was an alternative strained spelling of “Kessler” or some similar name. - **BOND⎵DR** on a FL standard plate on a recent Mercedes coupe. Someone who repairs big company’s credit so their bonds are still good? AKA a “bond doctor”? Or maybe it’s “Bond dealer”? - **RUN⎵EDGE** on a FL running booster plate on a crossover. Somebody into running I guess. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3003 "2026-04-25T18:44:40Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Pretty straightforward One of my best friends, who grew up in Ireland (but now lives in Illinois), had a Mustang in a very similar color. Her license plate was **BINN BUI** , which seems incomprehensible, unless you understand Irish, where it means “Mellow Yellow.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3004 "2026-04-25T20:32:31Z")
Yesterday I saw **EVNTLVR** on a Genesis crossover. Event lover? Today on my walk to the store I saw: **LATIB​❤G** on an Accord. A strange spelling of “lady bug”? “Latina love bug”? **GYTIUPP** on a Mustang. Probably self explanatory. **HELKATX** on an older Accord. This is a repeat of one I posted before, but I misremembered it as HELKATZ. Could still be “hell cats” since X is sometimes pronounced like Z. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3005 "2026-04-26T18:24:51Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Pretty straightforward As a Porsche guy, I like it. **BX888XB** — _interesting symmetry here, but what could this mean?_ **BBQ JEDI** — _okay, cool._ **LOOF** — _backwards for FOOL, perhaps?_ ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3006 "2026-04-27T07:52:06Z")
**XWING94** — was there a Star Wars movie released in 1994, perhaps? _(runs off to check…)_ No there wasn’t, so no clue here. **99LE999** — No clue here **WSLBERY** — on a Michigan plate, but what’s a whistle berry? **9OH3OH2** — zip code 90302 is Inglewood CA; that’s my guess as to what this means ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3007 "2026-04-27T14:43:44Z")
**BOSZEE** — bossy? ---
**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:** [April 27, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3008 "2026-04-27T15:25:39Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > **WSLBERY** — on a Michigan plate, but what’s a whistle berry? It’s the “WS library”? They’re from West Salsbury or some similar sounding town? As more and more people get personalized plates, the obvious choices are increasingly taken. So we the reader need to get ever more creative (outlandish?) in trying to decode what they mean. The person getting the plate starts with the idea, e.g. “West Salsbury” and just needs to concoct a string of letters & numbers that remind them of “West Salsbury”, _already knowing what it means_. We lack that big advantage. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2026, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3009 "2026-04-27T15:32:22Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > **XWING94** — was there a Star Wars movie released in 1994, perhaps? _(runs off to check…)_ No there wasn’t, so no clue here. I have **X WING 1** (in Illinois 🙂 ). I’d guess the owner of that one was born in ‘94. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3010 "2026-04-27T16:35:23Z")
Ima gonna go out on limb here and surmise that the owner of this plate is an outdoors person that likes the mountains. What they are doing in the middle of the flatlands is unknown. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/ibqQif5.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/oSEQEtM) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3011 "2026-04-27T18:15:28Z")
Plate checks out. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/TSlvrSq.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/TSlvrSq) ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3012 "2026-04-27T18:27:42Z")
That one took me a minute. My brain kept seeing “Dr. Vishmal” or something like that, but that didn’t make sense given your comment. Then it finally clicked. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3013 "2026-04-28T02:06:40Z")
Seen on a car in Green Bay this morning: **26 PT 2**. A marathon is 26.2 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3014 "2026-04-28T02:41:24Z")
Pretty clever. Final 2 for today: **KARNAL8** **NOW MOVE** — on a Ford F150 pickup. I like this one! ---
**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:** [April 28, 2026, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3015 "2026-04-28T07:16:04Z")
**YNA 2ND** on a Tundra. First responder plate if that helps. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3016 "2026-04-28T12:21:50Z")
Scored a few in the last day-ish. - **2007⎵⎵HY** on a FL standard plate on a fairly new Bentley convertible. 2007 is a bit of a mystery. That’s 19 years ago. Decent bet the driver is older than that and the car is certainly newer. Year they graduated or started their evidently successful business? Or maybe it’s not a year. “HY” is probably initials or a nickname. - **COPAY** on a FL 5-character booster plate on one of the fancy Porsche 911 derivatives. I admit I can’t keep straight all the flavors of modern sons-of-911 they make. Easy to decode the plate’s word, hard to ascribe a meaning. The owner is a doctor and their patients’ copays alone paid for the car, not to mention the insurance reimbursements? - **LBI⎵GIRL** on a Virginia standard plate on a 4-door Jeep Wrangler with sand tires & a roof rack. Seen at a beach parking lot. Some googling tells me there’s a Long Beach Island tourist / resort area in New Jersey commonly called “LBI”. That’s close enough Virginians might weekend there. Or the woman is a transplant from LBI in NJ to now VA. - **TARTUCE** on a FL standard plate on an SUV. There was also a Brazilian flag sticker attached to the plate. No clue. I saved the worst for last. - **OBNXS** on an FL 5-character “family values” = xian fundamentalist booster plate that was repainted black, on a jacked up black pickup truck with loud pipes and huge protruding loud tires. The full redneck douchebag treatment. Truth in advertising is a virtue I suppose. One hopes he’s an incel and isn’t reproducing, but one probably hopes in vain. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3017 "2026-04-28T16:03:46Z")
**FWDSLIP** on a Tesla Model Y. I guess this person didn’t spring for the all wheel drive option, just the base front wheel drive model, therefore their wheels slip. The others I saw this morning were all repeats of ones I already posted here. I guess that’s the downside of having a predictable schedule. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2026, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3018 "2026-04-29T00:00:43Z")
Saw **2 TURTLE** this morning. My hockey fan self immediately thought that “to turtle” is to refuse a fight but that’s probably not what they meant. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3019 "2026-04-29T02:39:09Z")
**AWSOME3** on a Nissan Cube. Apparently at least 3 other people already thought they or their car were awesome. Whether the Cube or its driver actually are awesome is, well, a subjective matter. **🖤CHAUDI** or maybe it was **🖤CHAUDT** – there was a frame that was covering the bottoms of the letters, but I’m pretty sure spotted part of a serif on the bottom of the last letter, making it an I. Anyway, I have no idea what it means. Does that mean something in another language? Is it a name? It was on some generic crossover. **STORMRX** on a Lexus crossover. “Storm Rx”, as in prescription? A stormy pharmacist? **CALANGD** – I think… that one’s partially faded from my memory. It was on a new Corvette. At first I thought “Cal something”, but now that I look at it I’m thinking maybe an alternate spelling of “challenged”? ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3020 "2026-04-29T14:01:10Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > there was a frame that was covering the bottoms of the letters This happens often and is annoying! To me anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=150) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=152)