Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild

As long as you don’t put TOY4LSL on your new vroom-vroom when it is delivered, we’re good. You’ve got it in you to be far more original and wry.

OK, so it’s not just my wife - that’s what she calls her Mustang convertible :rofl:

For those of a vroom vroom or zoom zoom bent, this classic ad will bring back memories:

Can’t help but smile while this is on.

A good commercial. Speaking of Zoom Zoom, Mazda’s slogan, I have a brother who has owned two RX-7s. Both of them were the 2nd-gen RX-7. On his last one he put this personalized plate on it: Z8M Z8M.

Saw a plate yesterday with “PB NILA”. So, someone’s trying to add lead to a nickel-lanthanum alloy, right?

(I am such a nerd.)

Talk about nerd, many years ago I worked with a chemist whose BMW 3 series had the plates, NHH CAR: amine car.

CURLING on a car in Trader Joe’s parking lot this morning. There is actually a curling club here in town… or maybe the car’s owner is a hair stylist?

FRE CNDY on a white van in the parking lot of a park in Luray, Va. it also had a bumper sticker that read “Welcome to the Shit Show.”

On a white Dodge Challenger…

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I’m looking at a Milwaukee Brewers plate that says ROLLIE

Today I saw a late model white & black Corvette with the plate LIMITLS. Not sure whether the owner is speaking of his (yes “his”) attitude towards speed limits, his bank account, or his ego. Perhaps all three.

Today I found another one. An older (2010s) Corvette. License plate frame says “My other car is a Corvette”. Plate says IKANT 55

Evidently not. :slight_smile:

Can’t imagine a Tesla on a farm. Assume “Farm Dog”

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Saw a headscratcher yesterday.

A nondescript silver/gray Kia SUV w plate ALA MOD. Maybe the driver’s a pie & ice cream freak??

Pull up alongside and he’s got a magnetic sign on the side of the car advertising his business as an insurance broker / salesman. His last name is “al Meddinahad”.

Cue the “a ha!!” moment; clever.

Farms around here are putting in solar installations all over the place.

Don’t want to hijack, but I’m curious, where is ‘around here’? Here in Kansas, we’re in a battle for the right to put in solar installations. Doesn’t help that our legislature is bright red.

They’ve done it around here, in the Sandy, OR area. Fields that used to be full of crops are now nothing but solar panels. If I didn’t have an aversion to having people traipsing across my land, I’d be tempted to do it myself.

Their profile (click their avatar) says “Finger Lakes New York”.

So politically the polar opposite of benighted Kansas.

Click on my avatar.

(Finger Lakes area, New York State.)

– large commercial installations often get some opposition, though the state’s actively pushing them. Individual house or farm installations don’t usually even get comments.

They’d only be traipsing about once a year, except while the installation’s going in. There would admittedly be quite a lot of traipsing during the installation, which can take a while.

If you do go for it, especially for any kind of installation that isn’t just for your individual place, and to some extent even then: negotiate your contract carefully, with the aid of a lawyer who knows what they’re doing. And some types of installations are a lot more beneficial for the immediate environment than others – I recommend researching that, and again making sure that whatever you want is written into the contract before you sign anything. The overall idea’s a good idea, but some of the players are sketchy.