HCCC888 — on a Porsche Cayenne and I have NFC what that could mean
BRW HAHA
NY state nondescript car
Entirely possible, that’s just where my brain went. I wish I would have taken a picture but the windchill was like -15 and I didn’t want to stay outside any longer than I had to.
I dragged myself into the office today and saw PETTY on the way in on a small blue SUV. Nothing else to indicate if the driver was a NASCAR fan, or a Heartbreakers fan or what.
Scored an interesting one today.
White Tesla Y with an “I bought this when Elon was in stealth mode” bumper sticker. That’s a good start.
NJ standard plate reads MLBVA. Huh?
The license plate frame saves the day:
I’d rather be playing
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
This is parked at the beach in a town that’s sorta Mecca for FL’s beach volleyball. And also where lots of northeasterners come when the weather up there is incompatible with beach volleyball.
I originally thought that represented “Major League Beach Volleyball Association” or something lcose to that. But there is no entity by that name that I could find once I got home to Google. I now think the plate is about these fine folks:
I’ve been in New Zealand for a week now, and I hadn’t seen any personalized plates. I was starting to think that they weren’t a thing here, until I saw this one as we were stopping for lunch in Invercargill.
I will offer this one without comment.
Scored 5 on one errand run of just ~6 miles roundtrip. Could hardly write down one before the next appeared. Now I’m facing a 2-week drought. 
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MUSTA-R9 on a FL standard plate on a convertible Mustang. The “musta” part is pretty obvious but the R9 has me scratching my head. There is a hop-up company specializing in Mustangs named “Roush”, but as best teh googles knows, that’s not one of their model numbers.
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CITER on a 5-character surfer booster plate on a BMW X5 SUV driven by a gray-haired couple. Someone who cites might be an academic author = professor, or a lawyer or ??? Driver didn’t look like a retired policeman. Or maybe that’s their name?
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ZOMB⎵B8 on a FL standard plate on a raggedy econobox festooned with wacky bumper stickers. I suppose I’d be scared to be fleeing zombies in something that looked that flimsy & unreliable too.
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ATLST16 on a FL standard plate on a Tesla Model Y. Which would have been utterly baffling except for the license plate frame that gave the game away:
Chicago Cubs
2016 World Champions
- It’s a warmish day here & I’m driving top down. I hear a nearby car with a noxious loud zoom-zoom-poppity-pop-pop-fart exhaust showing off his noisemaking like mad. I spot a likely suspect up ahead and catch up alongside him at the next light. Another top-down convertible of my make, but different model. 30-ish spoiled brat douchenozzle-looking guy driving. I say “Nice ride; great exhaust!”. We get to talking, he’s bragging about all the hop-ups he’s done to it. Fancy engine, headers, tuning kit, big tires, blah, blah, etc. Light goes green and he’s off in a cloud of noise.
His FL standard plate: POR MPG. Truth in advertising FTW!
I scored four today! The first two were on my way into work and nothing exciting. REITA and JMILLS which I am assuming are just someone’s name, although the second one did have a cute sparkly leopard-print license plate border.
On the way home I saw MYADUH on a Mazda Miata. Got a good laugh out of that one. And then GOBIRDZ that I just got a glimpse of. Couldn’t tell what “birdz” the driver was a fan of.
Maybe they’re a Dopester.
But I have no cite for that.
Short road trip today here in So Cal:
Tesla Cybertruck with 310X311. No clue. (The product is 96410, still no clue.)
Ford Edge with HOTEDGE. Not sure a big SUV is ever gonna really be “hot.” (Seems unlikely it was stolen.)
Dodge pickup with ASDFJK. Yeah, partial home row?. Web search got lots of strange hits. Dunno.
So just for giggles I Googled that number, and this is what Google’s AI assistant told me:
“96410” commonly refers to Masterflex L/S platinum-cured silicone tubing, used for precise fluid transfer in lab, pharmaceutical, and biotech applications, often available in 25-foot lengths. It may also refer to a, now-deleted, CPT code for chemotherapy administration or a general liability code for insulation work.
Yeah, I don’t think that license plate was meant as a reference to silicone tubing. Honestly I figured it was a ZIP code and Google would tell me what town it was, but I guess not.
I laughed. Well done!
AFAIK, no Dopers live near me. There are a couple 1 or 2 counties away, but nobody close enough that we’d be likely to pass on a city street.
Perhaps his’n’hers birthdays on adjacent days in March?
96410 is in the general range of a plausible price for a new CT. Perhaps that’s what they paid for it?
If you type a valid 5-digit zip code into Google Maps it’ll do that. I did and it didn’t find anyplace. So I went to the fount: **ZIP Code™ Lookup | USPS. Which says 96410 is not a valid zip code.
Further digging says 960xx is the region of inland far northern California. But there is no 961xx through 969xx.
This morning I saw:
- REAVER on a Toyota FJ Cruiser. The owner must be a Firefly fan.
- 4 FOOTR on an Audi crossover. I’m not sure what the owner has that’s four feel long. Or does it refer to literal feet, like something that walks on all fours, like maybe they have horses or something?
All wheel drive?
You need to cast a wider net. I found a postal code in Malaysia.
The connection to 310X311 is tenuous.
'Zactly. It’s a four wheel drive Audi. People have slangly referred to wheels as “feet” and tires as “shoes” since forever.
Purists will fuss about the distinction between AWD & 4WD. Both spelled out and acronymed. IMO in an era of computer-controlled cars we no longer need concern ourselves with such mechanical arcana applicable to 1950s era architectures.
T4 WESTY on a silver EuroVan Westphalia.
SAMZ3 on a Tesla 3.
FLY X on a blue Tesla X.
CAPT JAC — will he get you high tonight?
NIENTE
Added:
WAT RUSH
I had to go into the office again today for meetings that really couldn’t be emails. At least I scored a couple more plates. EWING 25 which is probably just someone’s name and FRESA98. I know “fresa” is Spanish for strawberry, not sure if any deeper meaning there.