# 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:** 169
**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:** [June 29, 2026, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3361 "2026-06-29T17:51:06Z")
I’ve been away for a couple weeks, but now back. Captured a few already: - **SB52⎵WIN** on a FL 7-character golf booster plate on a Maserati sedan. Super Bowl 52 (2017 season played Feb 2018) was won by the Philadelphia Eagles and I bet this person is either a major fan or was part of the team. - **OLLIEB** on a CyberTruck. - **ONE⎵SKY** on a FL 7-character children booster plate on a family wagon. - **M⎵DELIA** on a FL standard plate on a generic sedan. - **YANKS⎵28** on a FL standard plate on a red late model fancy Corvette driven by a 60-ish white guy. The NY Yankees have had a LOT of people wear #28. Manager Joe Girardi had that number from 2010-2017. Might be him. See **[YankeeNumbers.com - Database of Yankee Uniform Numbers Through the Years](https://www.yankeenumbers.com/playerslist.asp?x_Number=28&z_Number=%3D%2C%2C)** for other team members with that number. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3362 "2026-06-29T18:01:19Z")
NH plates **NHREALT** - presumably NH Realty firm. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2026, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3363 "2026-06-29T23:32:05Z")
**YOUB 1** in the parking garage this morning. No clue on that one… ---
**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:** [June 30, 2026, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3364 "2026-06-30T02:08:52Z")
**AVIRK13** on a Civic. I’ve got no clue, and there were no stickers or anything that might provide a hint. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2026, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3365 "2026-06-30T08:24:18Z")
There is a [YouTuber](https://www.youtube.com/@AVirk-) with that appellation. ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2026, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3366 "2026-06-30T16:49:16Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Many moons ago I saw a White Rabbit with IML8IML8. I saw a White Rabbit with the plsate **ML8-ML8** I haven’t seen it, but a friend said they’d seen a Black Rabbit with the plate **INLE**. (Ask someone who’s read _Watership Down_) This past weekend I slowed down so that my wife could take a cellphone picture of a car with the license plate **NERDS**. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3367 "2026-07-01T00:07:52Z")
A Cadillac CTS: **PHILEZZ** A transplant from eastern Pennsylvania? A Lexus hatchback: **WAGNDAD** Too far away to see if there were any other markings. And a matte gray Tesla sedan with California SPAY & NEUTER specialty plates: **757END** The only 757 I can think of is the Boeing product. Any guesses? ---
**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:** [July 1, 2026, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3368 "2026-07-01T00:14:15Z")
> [@MonkeysBrother](#): > > A Cadillac CTS: **PHILEZZ** A transplant from eastern Pennsylvania? Or a Phillies fan? ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3369 "2026-07-01T01:52:27Z")
Indeed. That’s what I was hinting. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2026, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3370 "2026-07-01T03:25:35Z")
**PFERDZN** – CA “whale tail” ocean conservation plate, on a Jeep. With Wonder Woman logos on the taillights and rear window. And a Santa Cruz sticker, a “California Grown” sticker, and what looked to be a social justice related sticker. It seems like something in there should provide a clue, but I still have no idea. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2026, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3371 "2026-07-02T03:40:30Z")
**SHMOKIN** on a Tesla Model S. A Jim Carrey fan, perhaps? **GO CHKS** on a Lexus. There was a frame that might have provided a clue, but I couldn’t get close enough to read it. “Go Chicks!” is my best 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:** [July 2, 2026, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3372 "2026-07-02T04:44:15Z")
Two seen today, while driving north through Wisconsin: On standard Wisconsin plates, on a Jeep of some flavor: **J33PSTR**. On Milwaukee Brewers plates: **1982WS**. We Brewers fans know that 1982 was the team’s one and only appearance (to date) in the World Series, which they lost in seven games to the Cardinals. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2026, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3373 "2026-07-02T11:26:53Z")
There was a product called the **[Jeepster Commando - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeepster_Commando)**. UNless the one you saw was ancient, it wasn’t one of those, but maybe your owner liked them or once owned one. Or thought of themselves as a “jeepster”. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2026, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3374 "2026-07-02T11:34:22Z")
I scored 2-1/2 yesterday: - **RELTORS** on a FL standard plate on a black Tahoe big SUV. A real estate salesperson no doubt. Yawn. - **VLT⎵DINO** on a FL standard plate on a Welch’s grape jelly purple late model Ferrari. I’m betting on “Violet Dino”. Although the Dino name hasn’t been used by Ferrari since the 1970s, it’s still a name that Ferrari folks would recognize as a sly reference. This car was a 2020-something model. The “1/2” was a generic sedan with somebody’s generic last name. Can’t even remember what it was. _Boooorrrrrriiiiiinnnnnng!_ ---
**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:** [July 2, 2026, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3375 "2026-07-02T23:00:19Z")
On a white Audi Q8: **CHECK1 2**. Audio engineer? ---
**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:** [July 2, 2026, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3376 "2026-07-02T23:14:58Z")
**IMAGINE** on a black SUV parked down the street from my office building. Imagine what, I don’t know. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2026, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3377 "2026-07-03T02:30:37Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > Imagine what, I don’t know. My mind goes immediately to the John Lennon song. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2026, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3378 "2026-07-03T03:10:57Z")
On a Wisconsin plate this afternoon: **BCNUL8R**. Be Seein’ You Later ---
**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:** [July 3, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3379 "2026-07-03T16:30:48Z")
A few I spotted last night: **300KODO** on a VW Passat. Or something like that, I might be mixing up 0’s and O’s. I guess “300,000 something”? **AU EST8** on a Range Rover. “Gold Estate”. I guess the estate they’re going to leave their heirs is mostly gold? **4STUNER** on a 4Runner. Meh. It looked like it maybe had a few small mods, but overall it just looked like an average 4Runner, not even close to what I would call a “stunner”. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/3380 "2026-07-03T19:51:32Z")
**300KODO** is probably 300K odometer reading; their Passat has lasted them very well. Or maybe the previous car did and this car wears the 300K plate as encouragement. 🙂 “Estate gold” is the term for jewelry left behind after a death. There’s a big business buying that stuff from heirs that mostly just want to monetize the stuff no hassle. So it’s bought for the spot bullion price regardless of what other value as jewelry it may have. Maybe your car driver owns a gold buying outfit. I bet **4STUNER** is “4S tuner”. In modern car-speak, a tuner is an engine hopped up mostly with electronic tweaks, rather than the sort of hotrod stuff like camshafts and exhaust headers that guys our age (or our fathers) did in their youth. There isn’t an “S” model of 4Runner for 2026, but there may well have been when your sighting was new. There is an SR5 model, which seems to be the stripper. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=168) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=170)