# 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:** 32
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/621 "2024-08-17T03:42:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > another one that was rather more formulaic. A fairly new fairly nice car with plate **TOY4DBK**. Presumably the owner’s initials are DBK. As long as you don’t put **TOY4LSL** on your new vroom-vroom when it is delivered, we’re good. You’ve got it in you to be far more original and wry. ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/622 "2024-08-17T12:34:16Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > new vroom-vroom OK, so it’s not just my wife - that’s what she calls her Mustang convertible 🤣 ---
**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:** [August 17, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/623 "2024-08-17T13:10:34Z")
For those of a vroom vroom or zoom zoom bent, this classic ad will bring back memories: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O0ikW7pVa_I/hqdefault.jpg "Mazda Commercial Zoom Zoom Zoom") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ikW7pVa_I) Can’t help but smile while this is on. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/624 "2024-08-17T16:43:56Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/7FrUXQ6.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/7FrUXQ6.jpg) ---
**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:** [August 17, 2024, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/625 "2024-08-17T17:24:30Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > For those of a vroom vroom or zoom zoom bent, this classic ad will bring back memories: > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ikW7pVa\_I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ikW7pVa_I) > > Can’t help but smile while this is on. A good commercial. Speaking of Zoom Zoom, Mazda’s slogan, I have a brother who has owned two RX-7s. Both of them were the 2nd-gen RX-7. On his last one he put this personalized plate on it: **Z8M Z8M**. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/626 "2024-08-18T13:32:28Z")
Saw a plate yesterday with “PB NILA”. So, someone’s trying to add lead to a nickel-lanthanum alloy, right? (I am such a nerd.) ---
**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:** [August 18, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/627 "2024-08-18T13:36:32Z")
Talk about nerd, many years ago I worked with a chemist whose BMW 3 series had the plates, **NHH CAR** : amine car. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/628 "2024-08-18T16:33:22Z")
**CURLING** on a car in Trader Joe’s parking lot this morning. There is actually a curling club here in town… or maybe the car’s owner is a hair stylist? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/629 "2024-08-18T16:58:08Z")
FRE CNDY on a white van in the parking lot of a park in Luray, Va. it also had a bumper sticker that read “Welcome to the Shit Show.” ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/630 "2024-08-19T02:52:14Z")
On a white Dodge Challenger… TAZDEVL ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/631 "2024-08-20T19:32:53Z")
I’m looking at a Milwaukee Brewers plate that says ROLLIE [![](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Xe4AAOSwbNhmQSrk/s-l1600.webp) ](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Xe4AAOSwbNhmQSrk/s-l1600.webp) ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/632 "2024-08-20T21:09:27Z")
Today I saw a late model white & black Corvette with the plate **LIMITLS**. Not sure whether the owner is speaking of his (yes “his”) attitude towards speed limits, his bank account, or his ego. Perhaps all three. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/633 "2024-08-21T22:47:13Z")
Today I found another one. An older (2010s) Corvette. License plate frame says “My other car is a Corvette”. Plate says **IKANT 55** Evidently not. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/634 "2024-08-21T23:35:07Z")
Can’t imagine a Tesla on a farm. Assume “Farm Dog” [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/Eq5Yhhy.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/Eq5Yhhy) ---
**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:** [August 21, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/635 "2024-08-21T23:48:59Z")
Saw a headscratcher yesterday. A nondescript silver/gray Kia SUV w plate **ALA MOD**. Maybe the driver’s a pie & ice cream freak?? Pull up alongside and he’s got a magnetic sign on the side of the car advertising his business as an insurance broker / salesman. His last name is “al Meddinahad”. Cue the “a ha!!” moment; clever. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/636 "2024-08-22T02:33:38Z")
> [@Dogginit](#): > > Can’t imagine a Tesla on a farm. Farms around here are putting in solar installations all over the place. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2024, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/637 "2024-08-22T02:50:29Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Farms around here are putting in solar installations all over the place Don’t want to hijack, but I’m curious, where is ‘around here’? Here in Kansas, we’re in a battle for the right to put in solar installations. Doesn’t help that our legislature is bright red. ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/638 "2024-08-22T03:04:29Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Farms around here are putting in solar installations all over the place. They’ve done it around here, in the Sandy, OR area. Fields that used to be full of crops are now nothing but solar panels. If I didn’t have an aversion to having people traipsing across my land, I’d be tempted to do it myself. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2024, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/639 "2024-08-22T10:14:39Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Don’t want to hijack, but I’m curious, where is ‘around here’? Their profile (click their avatar) says “Finger Lakes New York”. So politically the polar opposite of benighted Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/640 "2024-08-22T14:53:25Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Don’t want to hijack, but I’m curious, where is ‘around here’? Click on my avatar. (Finger Lakes area, New York State.) – large commercial installations often get some opposition, though the state’s actively pushing them. Individual house or farm installations don’t usually even get comments. > [@Dogginit](#): > > If I didn’t have an aversion to having people traipsing across my land, I’d be tempted to do it myself. They’d only be traipsing about once a year, except while the installation’s going in. There would admittedly be quite a lot of traipsing during the installation, which can take a while. If you do go for it, especially for any kind of installation that isn’t just for your individual place, and to some extent even then: negotiate your contract carefully, with the aid of a lawyer who knows what they’re doing. And some types of installations are a lot more beneficial for the immediate environment than others – I recommend researching that, and again making sure that whatever you want is written into the contract before you sign anything. The overall idea’s a good idea, but some of the players are sketchy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=33)