# 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:** 76
**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 4, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1501 "2025-07-04T16:09:30Z")
Funny, but I read it as purely hostile, not kinky. I really looked around carefully for signs of them being dog owners or something. Nope. A bit later today I saw a Tesla Model S with the NHL Tampa Bay Lightning booster plate with **RAIDR**. Maybe they’re also NFL Raider fans? ---
**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 4, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1502 "2025-07-04T17:16:45Z")
I was sitting at a stoplight this morning behind a pretty red I’m assuming 1994 model Mercedes SL with **94 SL**. It also had a license plate frame for some antique car club… which made me want to turn to dust right there. ---
**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 6, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1503 "2025-07-06T17:46:06Z")
Two today: A white Corvette with **T⎵GIGIO**. A name I suppose. A white Cadillac Lyriq with **CHOKLIT**. It was parked and I did not see the driver, but based on how my previous GF used the term, I suspect she’s a fun black woman. Or _really_ likes cocoa products. Or both. 😁 Saw a couple of other probable family names on plates in the last couple days but none were memorable enough to stick for even the drive home. ---
**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 6, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1504 "2025-07-06T17:50:14Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > A white Corvette with **T⎵GIGIO**. A name I suppose. Might be a reference to “[Topo Gigio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topo_Gigio),” an Italian TV character who is a puppet mouse, which has been very popular in Italy for decades, and which was popular in the U.S. in the '60s, due to frequent appearances on _The Ed Sullivan Show_. I might guess that the owner of that Vette is an Italian-American. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o9cWmVZTWjg/sddefault.jpg) ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o9cWmVZTWjg/sddefault.jpg) ---
**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 6, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1505 "2025-07-06T18:17:43Z")
Today I learned … ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1506 "2025-07-06T18:22:42Z")
This isn’t a plate but I think it fits here. Yesterday I was following a large, brick red van. The back windows were dusty and someone had written in the dust. “Clifford, the big red van” ---
**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 6, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1507 "2025-07-06T20:30:07Z")
That’s great! Just remembered one I saw yesterday. A school bus yellow Chevy SSR convertible with the top down. That car is at least 20 years old but looks immaculate. It’s a gloriously sunny part of the day and I’m right behind him also with my top down. He has NY plates, the ones with black writing on a not-quite school bus yellow background. So the plate harmonized nicely with his car. The plate said **DOLCESOL**. I heartily concur. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2025, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1508 "2025-07-07T07:10:15Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > A white Corvette with **T⎵GIGIO**. A name I suppose. Could either a famous Italian restaurant in Chicago or an anthropomorphic mouse puppet popular on the Ed Sullivan show starting in 1966 (which is my virtually extinct memory thought of). What either of them have to do with white Corvettes I can’t imagine. In July I would think an affluent snowbird owner of a restaurant in Chicago would have his Corvette up north. Greater minds than mine will have to suss this out. ---
**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 7, 2025, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1509 "2025-07-07T09:45:07Z")
If you scroll up about 5 posts, @kenobi_65 provided a pic of the puppet. This being SoFL, Italian Americans from the northeast are thick on the ground. More so in winter, but plenty have migrated to here year round. ---
**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 7, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1510 "2025-07-07T23:33:13Z")
**KING DAN** was driving a rusty Dodge truck with a dangling exhaust pipe this morning. Maybe his royal carriage was in the shop. 🤣 ---
**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:** [July 8, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1511 "2025-07-08T05:58:24Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > If you scroll up about 5 posts Palm to face-smack! No idea how I missed that post of Kenobi’s. I promise didn’t crib from him. Everyone types faster than I do, maybe he posted while I was still pecking out the same hypothesis. Give me a well-deserved **duh** demerit. ---
**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 8, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1512 "2025-07-08T06:10:58Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > No idea how I missed that post of Kenobi’s. “This is not the post you’re looking for.” [![](https://media.tenor.com/TrzVgirX-LsAAAAM/star-wars.gif) ](https://media.tenor.com/TrzVgirX-LsAAAAM/star-wars.gif) ---
**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:** [July 8, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1513 "2025-07-08T12:46:18Z")
Someone very concerned about their golf game. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/73hWFwJ.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/73hWFwJ) ---
**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:** [July 8, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1514 "2025-07-08T14:14:06Z")
Somehow, Wisconsin managed to allow two license plates that are differentiated only by a space. [![](https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox6now.com/www.fox6now.com/content/uploads/2025/07/932/524/c6-vanity-plate-mixup-pkg_witi2a61_186_mp4_00.00.15.44.jpg?ve=1&tl=1) ](https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox6now.com/www.fox6now.com/content/uploads/2025/07/932/524/c6-vanity-plate-mixup-pkg_witi2a61_186_mp4_00.00.15.44.jpg?ve=1&tl=1) and [![](https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox6now.com/www.fox6now.com/content/uploads/2025/07/932/524/c6-vanity-plate-mixup-pkg_witi2a61_186_mp4_00.03.09.58.jpg?ve=1&tl=1) ](https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox6now.com/www.fox6now.com/content/uploads/2025/07/932/524/c6-vanity-plate-mixup-pkg_witi2a61_186_mp4_00.03.09.58.jpg?ve=1&tl=1) > **[License plate mix-up: Wisconsin woman charged nearly $2K for unpaid tolls](https://www.fox6now.com/news/license-plate-mix-up-wis-woman-charged-nearly-2k-unpaid-tolls)** > > Wynn Welch's license plate is a testament to her faith. She chose the plate "HEABLE" to spread the word that "He is able." ---
**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 8, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1515 "2025-07-08T17:07:06Z")
I saw a newish convertible Corvette with **MACH⎵83**. No Buddy; your car is fast, but not that fast. And you’re a certified Douchenozzle for your aftermarket unmuffled exhaust and your relentless revving in a crowd of pedestrians & outdoor diners. ---
**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 8, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1516 "2025-07-08T19:38:00Z")
I wasn’t close enough to get the exact model, but on a new-looking small-to-midsize Subaru SUV: **GOTIT4ME.** ---
**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 8, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1517 "2025-07-08T21:42:31Z")
In places w 8 character plates it’d be cool to get **MINALMIN**. AKA “mine; all mine” So greedy; so sad; so typical. Sez the jerk w a conceptually similar but more subtle plate. D’oh! ---
**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 9, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1518 "2025-07-09T12:41:09Z")
Re **GOTIT4ME** : I wasn’t sure how to take it. It didn’t look like a car _I_ would buy and covet, but you never know. Maybe it wasn’t referring to the vehicle. A NY Giants fan: On a specialty Giants plate, **G33M3N.** ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1519 "2025-07-09T12:43:47Z")
> [@Topologist](#): > > Re **GOTIT4ME** : I wasn’t sure how to take it. It didn’t look like a car _I_ would buy and covet Maybe somebody else got it for them, and they’re disavowing the choice. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1520 "2025-07-09T13:07:45Z")
> [@Topologist](#): > > Re **GOTIT4ME** My 12-year-old inner self read it as beginning with the word ‘GO’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=75) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=77)