Saw AMGRTY in the grocery store parking lot… am gritty? They’re the Philadelphia Flyers mascot?
Then saw FLORGAL on the way home. At first I assumed flowers but then realized the truck had a sign on it for a flooring company.
Saw AMGRTY in the grocery store parking lot… am gritty? They’re the Philadelphia Flyers mascot?
Then saw FLORGAL on the way home. At first I assumed flowers but then realized the truck had a sign on it for a flooring company.
Been a slow few days for me. And this despite a long freeway drive and some time in a large parking area.
2MODAKA on a FL standard plate. Somebody has an unusual name.
KSLUR on a FL standard plate on an older Jaguar sedan. All I could come up with was an alternative strained spelling of “Kessler” or some similar name.
BOND⎵DR on a FL standard plate on a recent Mercedes coupe. Someone who repairs big company’s credit so their bonds are still good? AKA a “bond doctor”? Or maybe it’s “Bond dealer”?
RUN⎵EDGE on a FL running booster plate on a crossover. Somebody into running I guess.
One of my best friends, who grew up in Ireland (but now lives in Illinois), had a Mustang in a very similar color. Her license plate was BINN BUI, which seems incomprehensible, unless you understand Irish, where it means “Mellow Yellow.” ![]()
Yesterday I saw EVNTLVR on a Genesis crossover. Event lover?
Today on my walk to the store I saw:
LATIB
G on an Accord. A strange spelling of “lady bug”? “Latina love bug”?
GYTIUPP on a Mustang. Probably self explanatory.
HELKATX on an older Accord. This is a repeat of one I posted before, but I misremembered it as HELKATZ. Could still be “hell cats” since X is sometimes pronounced like Z.
As a Porsche guy, I like it.
BX888XB — interesting symmetry here, but what could this mean?
BBQ JEDI — okay, cool.
LOOF — backwards for FOOL, perhaps?
XWING94 — was there a Star Wars movie released in 1994, perhaps? (runs off to check…) No there wasn’t, so no clue here.
99LE999 — No clue here
WSLBERY — on a Michigan plate, but what’s a whistle berry?
9OH3OH2 — zip code 90302 is Inglewood CA; that’s my guess as to what this means
BOSZEE — bossy?
It’s the “WS library”? They’re from West Salsbury or some similar sounding town?
As more and more people get personalized plates, the obvious choices are increasingly taken. So we the reader need to get ever more creative (outlandish?) in trying to decode what they mean.
The person getting the plate starts with the idea, e.g. “West Salsbury” and just needs to concoct a string of letters & numbers that remind them of “West Salsbury”, already knowing what it means. We lack that big advantage.
I have X WING 1 (in Illinois
). I’d guess the owner of that one was born in ‘94.
Ima gonna go out on limb here and surmise that the owner of this plate is an outdoors person that likes the mountains. What they are doing in the middle of the flatlands is unknown.
That one took me a minute. My brain kept seeing “Dr. Vishmal” or something like that, but that didn’t make sense given your comment. Then it finally clicked.
Seen on a car in Green Bay this morning: 26 PT 2. A marathon is 26.2 miles.
Pretty clever.
Final 2 for today:
KARNAL8
NOW MOVE — on a Ford F150 pickup. I like this one!
YNA 2ND on a Tundra. First responder plate if that helps.
Scored a few in the last day-ish.
2007⎵⎵HY on a FL standard plate on a fairly new Bentley convertible. 2007 is a bit of a mystery. That’s 19 years ago. Decent bet the driver is older than that and the car is certainly newer. Year they graduated or started their evidently successful business? Or maybe it’s not a year. “HY” is probably initials or a nickname.
COPAY on a FL 5-character booster plate on one of the fancy Porsche 911 derivatives. I admit I can’t keep straight all the flavors of modern sons-of-911 they make. Easy to decode the plate’s word, hard to ascribe a meaning. The owner is a doctor and their patients’ copays alone paid for the car, not to mention the insurance reimbursements?
LBI⎵GIRL on a Virginia standard plate on a 4-door Jeep Wrangler with sand tires & a roof rack. Seen at a beach parking lot. Some googling tells me there’s a Long Beach Island tourist / resort area in New Jersey commonly called “LBI”. That’s close enough Virginians might weekend there. Or the woman is a transplant from LBI in NJ to now VA.
TARTUCE on a FL standard plate on an SUV. There was also a Brazilian flag sticker attached to the plate. No clue.
I saved the worst for last.
FWDSLIP on a Tesla Model Y. I guess this person didn’t spring for the all wheel drive option, just the base front wheel drive model, therefore their wheels slip.
The others I saw this morning were all repeats of ones I already posted here. I guess that’s the downside of having a predictable schedule.
Saw 2 TURTLE this morning. My hockey fan self immediately thought that “to turtle” is to refuse a fight but that’s probably not what they meant.
AWSOME3 on a Nissan Cube. Apparently at least 3 other people already thought they or their car were awesome. Whether the Cube or its driver actually are awesome is, well, a subjective matter.
CHAUDI or maybe it was
CHAUDT – there was a frame that was covering the bottoms of the letters, but I’m pretty sure spotted part of a serif on the bottom of the last letter, making it an I. Anyway, I have no idea what it means. Does that mean something in another language? Is it a name? It was on some generic crossover.
STORMRX on a Lexus crossover. “Storm Rx”, as in prescription? A stormy pharmacist?
CALANGD – I think… that one’s partially faded from my memory. It was on a new Corvette. At first I thought “Cal something”, but now that I look at it I’m thinking maybe an alternate spelling of “challenged”?
This happens often and is annoying! To me anyway.