Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild

“Love the sea”?

More sense than my Loved a sea.

Las Vegas: (D)The Amazing Sink (of) Every Asset? :zany_face:

or if the guy was a successful gambler (or thought he was):

Las Vegas: (D)The Amazing Source (of) Every Asset?

Saw V KAY in the parking garage this morning. I immediately thought of IndyCar driver Rinus Veekay but I doubt that’s what it meant.

Indeed, a NY doctor’s plate. (I’m at a conference, not checking in as often as usual.)

Saw RYDNSOLO on a new BMW today at the post office.

Ink on the divorce decree might not even be dry yet!

STORM123–surely not a direct reference to the 12-18 inches of now scheduled to hit my part of the world Sunday into Monday.

THANKYOU–surely not in response to the 12-18 inches of–oh, never mind

… Probably not.

Scored a couple in recent days; it’s been slow.

  • JMU⎵DUX on a FL standard plate on a Hyundai Tucson SUV. Hmm? Anyone? Bueller?

  • L⎵⎵33 on a PA standard plate on a Jaguar sedan. That plate style has a little dark blob in the shape of Pennsylvania in the center so it sorta reads like “L-33”. I’m also mystified by this one.

  • NY2BCA on a FL standard plate on a different Tucson SUV. One of the towns near here is Boca Raton, which is sort of an unofficial exclave of New York City. So I take the plate to mean “(I moved from) New York (city) to Boca Raton.”

JMU is James Madison University, located in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Their sports teams are the Dukes.

2MNY RKS on a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon built for crawling.

TACO FAN on a Tesla S. Not sure if it’s ironic or not.

TORN8DO Seems redundant. Maybe without the D was taken already.

POLYNYA Arctic fan?

The weather has been foul so I’ve barely left the house. I did venture to the grocery store this morning and saw 4UJOEL on a “Folds of Honor” specialty plate in the parking lot.

DSNYNERD

Ol’ Walt would be proud.

Regarding the NY professional plates, I saw the pharmacist one on Friday. It was a low number, and the webpage says that you can’t pick a custom number, the DMV assigns it, so the low number could mean that they don’t get many requests for them. I’ve been driving in NY for 30 years and it’s the first time I saw one.

I saw a meh one today.

  • KJME on a 5-character Miami Heat booster plate on a car. Presumably somebody with initials KJ.

Last night, RATLINE on an SUV. Rat line? Maybe they work the police tip line?

This morning I saw something like SOSQUSH. So squish? A weird spelling of Sasquatch? (Maybe it was actually SOSQUCH, like I said, I tend to forget these pretty much as soon as the vehicle is out of view).

Ratlines are the tapered rope ladder-like meshes that sailors use to climb the masts of tall ships to work aloft in the rigging. Maybe this person is real proud of their tall ship cruise? Or did / does work on one?

The latter almost has to be a variant spelling of Sasquatch.

MCBUS on a white cargo van. It drove past the local McDonald’s, is all I can tell you.