Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild

Seen today, on a black Volkswagen sedan, BLACK JD

I thought at first that it was BLACK J0, which didn’t make sense, unless J0 is a Volkswagen model?

Closer up I saw the D, and when I saw the driver, it was a Black woman, old enough to have her JD Degree.

MET​:heart:MET on a Subaru Outback. It had a “Retired US Marine Corps” frame, not sure if that’s related somehow.

49ERBOI on a Hyundai Elantra. Just in case it wasn’t self explanatory, there was a 49ers insignia on the trunk lid.

KAREBUR on a Kia crossover. “Care Bear”, I presume. Maybe the driver’s name is Karen or something similar, and her nickname is Kare Bear.

DUNEDAN on a license plate, with a “not all who wander” frame, if there’s any question about what is meant. I guess Aragorn’s new horse is a blue Tesla.

Although this plate definitely about the football team given the logo on the trunk, I just realized a “49er Boy” could also be something like the great-great-grandson of someone who came here during the Gold Rush.

10S LIFE

Must love the game

8 CYLDRS on a white Mustang 5.0 GT

MIMI_B and QUEEN_AT on unremarkable cars

One my wife and I saw today, and neither of us can make anything of it. On an otherwise nondescript SUV, T8W8T.

Or else they live their life in a tense state.

Tate, wait?

I don’t know what they would mean by that, though.

MY GOD oddly enough on a standard issue plate instead of In God We Trust or Live the Golden Rule.

You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may ask yourself “My God, what have I done?”

…And now that I see those two lines juxtaposed that sounds kind of morbid. That’s really not a question you want to be asking yourself when you’re behind the wheel of an automobile.

Two today. One obvious; one obscure - at least to me and to Google.

  • KRYPTOS on a FL standard plate on a dolled-up Mercedes convertible sports car. Decent bet Bitcoin or similar paid off for him. Ka-ching!

  • TLINH⎵9X on a FL state parks booster plate on a well-worn Honda CR-V small SUV/wagon. 9X is probably “9 times”. NH might be New Hampshire, and they TLI-ed 9 times there. But what is TLI? Trans-lunar injection? Only a couple dozen-ish astronauts have done a TLI, and none more than once. Or maybe NH isn’t new Hampshire and TLINH is meant to be read a whole different way?!? Color me baffled.

Maybe “to live in NH”? Not sure what the 9x would be though.

MYESHUA on a plate that had a frame that said, EMANUEL, and COME, LORD JESUS!

On a NY Yankees plate, REMUS.

Googled it and I see a company called Remus Bourbon released a limited edition Babe Ruth Reserve Bourbon last year.

Or maybe it’s a Roman Mythology buff, or a Harry Potter Remus Lupin fan.

BOBCMDR on a Jeep SUV, I assume a Commander. And it’s owner’s name is probably Bob.

HPPYHNT on a Prius. Happy Hunting [Ground] is my guess, and I will guess the owner is probably Native American.

MERCI03 on a Fiat 500. A French word on an Italian car? (Of course, you can’t buy a French car in the US).

:heart:TIMI 3 on a BMW M4. The owner loves Timmy? And so do at least three other people, apparently.

JODH 5 on a Toyota Sienna minivan in the parking lot at work. Not sure what that one means.

PACKRAT on a well-maintained late model Ford Ranger. I’ll take his word for it.

I would not think of adding ground to that, happy hunting is a common enough phrase without the ground part. A lot of people like to hunt.

Well kind of true, Renault has large stake in Nissan and Nissan cars are sold in the US so…but I digress, MERCIO could be also a last name (there is apparently at least one football/soccer player with that surname), although not a necessarily common one. Without a space or a dash, I would automatically think it was Mercio rather than Merci + some letters/numbers.

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NOT EBYK on a wagon with a bicycle on a back rack. On the Stanford University campus. I’m pretty sure it was not an e-bike.

RU REDI with a license plate border that said something about the Rapture and a bunch of churchy bumper stickers.