Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild

When Tax time comes around I don’t think I will ask CPA␣RET for advice as their information about Tax law is likely out of date by now. And I am definitively going to try to switch lanes if end up behind SLW␣PKE especially if I need to be somewhere on time. Also, I do not believe that I saw a BOLT3ON since it was in the parking lot with no one was sitting inside it and not being charged, though maybe Chevy Bolts are always on?

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On an Equinox with various Marine insignia and stickers, including the plate: MCCWO2

Pretty obvious.

I saw a SUV yesterday with a long narrow “United States Marine Corps” sticker across the rear window, one of the ~5" circular USMC seal stickers in the upper right, a raised embossed USMC seal on the trailer hitch receiver dummy, a license plate frame that read 'The Few The Proud The Marines" across the top and “Marine Corps” across the bottom. And they had the 5-character USMC booster license plate.

They forgot just one thing. It was a plain series plate, not something personal to their service. :man_facepalming:

Evidently the change is really forever in some people. :slight_smile:

SPRAYIN and a bumper sticker that talked about chemtrails without using the word chemtrails.

Saw two this morning

  • LUVTENIS on a WV plate on a generic car. If they were my neighbor it’d be good juvenile fun to “customize” that letter T and see how long it took them to notice.

  • SEA⎵SELS on a Porsche Cayenne. Could be “sea shells”. Could be “I’m a beachfront property real estate agent”. Could be ???

This morning I saw NO BRED on a Toyota 86. Not sure what “bred” is referring to in this context. Maybe the owner is simply out of bread.

I posted too soon. On the drive home I scored 3 more

  • WORK • 33 on a Connecticutt Plate

  • MARTI⎵5 on a standard FL plate

  • MFC⎵⎵RX on a standard FL plate

Or childless.

SING JAZ was on a fairly nondescript Accord. I didn’t get a good look at the driver.

For the continuing series of EV related plates… a black Tesla sedan with yellow on black California plates: EWWYGAS

Quoting myself from upthread and 15 months ago

I saw it again this morning. But now there was a large crease in the rear bumper where they’d backed into something or someone had gently bumped into them.

And there was a large bumper sticker over the damage that was printed to resemble a Band-Aid. Amazon.com : bandaid for car dent. Cute.

Aside: interesting that not a single one of those pictures of the seller’s bandaid on a car in any of the first couple pages of results looks real. They couldn’t be bothered to go outside, stick one of their bandaids on a real car, damaged or not, and take a pic of that. Or fake that with AI, even easier these days.

It’s worse than that. I found a couple of those where the images of the bandages on the car makes them appear to be 16-24" long and 4-6" wide. But the actual product description includes the fact the bandages are ~1-1/4" x 3-1/2". Sounds like a recipe for a ~100% return rate.

Some of them are actually large, about the size they appear to be on the badly Photoshopped image of them attached to a car.

Saw JOY1997 on the way into work this morning. I’ve had a bit of a dry spell for custom plates even though I have been dragging myself into the office.

Saw a sorta clever meta plate today. It was the Florida state commemorative plate which features the state flag in the middle. The plate said FL⎵⎵TAG.

Let’s hear it for truth in labeling. :zany_face:

On a white Hyundai sedan with California plates: BRUJAXO A hug and a kiss for someone’s favorite witch?