Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild

My niece’s Ford Explorer was Dora.

From a local news channel, a car stopped by police drove off, license plate: WE HIGH

I remember one from a very old article, also for a Rabbit…

ML8ML8.

Only driven at night, correct?

I once saw a black Rabbit with the license plate INLE.

A Saturn with the plate 6THPLNET.

And a Honda Odyssey with the plate 2001SPCE.

At the same hospital parking lot. But not on the same day.

By the college where I teach is frequently parked a car with a plate that says “OMG MOVE”, a sentiment I frequently express when stuck in traffic.

On the Dope, I learned today:
Licence can be spelled 2 ways. And I was still mis-spelling it. Oof!

The Lil’wrekkers plates say Lil Red 1

At my work someone had a new VW Beetle with the license plate FEATURE.

Had a coworker that had a VW camper bus or whatever they are called.

His plate was ‘ESC POD’

It’s hardly seen in the wild; more a domesticated plate.

:grin:

Sidebar: In Brit/Canadian/Commonwealth usage, “licence” is the noun, “license” is the verb. Same as “advice” (noun) and “advise” (verb).

A long, long time ago, i used to see a Geo Storm with the plate CALMB4

I used to work with a guy who drove an Infinity with the plate ALEPH 0 (for non-math majors, the hebrew character aleph is used to designate different levels of infinity; aleph null is the first)

We get a lot of looks when we go on vacation with my SIL. Our plates are DOPEY; hers are GRMPY.

As with a couple of the above this one is seen in the wild only if my own driveway counts as the wild, but my wife has a pretty good one - “JOYINMY”. It’s on her Kia Soul.

I’ve posted about this pair before, let’s see if the preview pulls in the important parts:

Good enough. :slight_smile:

Seen in a parking lot (no picture, sadly): A bright yellow Fiat 500 with the license plate PIKACHU.

If you are willing to add punctuation yourself, it’s amazing what you can slide on through!

Oh, I remembered another one. In a touristy area of Maine, somewhere near Camden, I think–

GO HOME

on a Maine license plate, fortunately.

There was an artical in Nat Geo magazine (the actual paper version) years ago on the Meadowlands area in NJ. The article ended with the author mentioning the wistful chant he could hear from far off in the distance “Rangers suck! Rangers suck!” It made me laugh.

Wnen I lived in MO I had a personalized plate. Not witty, it was a compressed version of the name of the company I owned. Which still baffled folks who had no reason to know what it meant.

The relevance to your post is that MO had 6-character plates, but let you insert a space or an en-dash between any two letters wherever you wanted. I had an en-dash after the first character.

No need for Sharpies; it came that way from the factory. Nice.


Not a license plate, but back around the 1980s my favorite bumper sticker in Florida read

:heart: NY?
Take I-95 N

Now that it’s snowbird season, what’s the bag limit? And why is there a limit?