Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild

TNKRB3L

I noticed the frame first, and thought “cute” but took annoyingly long for me to figure out what that image on the left was, and to parse the meaning of the plate number itself and realize it was worth grabbing a picture. Glad that was a long light.

I didn’t get a picture but I saw this

B3R3TT4

:roll_eyes:

I saw one I can’t now remember but it inspired me to think about getting one for Mrs Cad. I wouldn’t because she would not find any humor in it.
1ING L8

A long time ago I used to see VB&C4NT on a Corvette while commuting. That one didn’t age well.
(Visual Basic and C for [Windows] NT)

I laughed. And, as an often-late person, if I were rich enough to spend money on vanity plates, I’d love to have that one.

Any chance of an explanation for those of us who can’t fathom either the background picture nor the plate.


Maybe I’m stupid today, but I have no idea what that might mean now why eyerolls are the right response.

I think the image is a train, and the plate is 9 3/4, which was the platform number that the Hogwarts Express left from.

B3R3TT4 = Beretta (a make of firearms).

Yup, though I had to look really closely at that image to make out that it’s a train (mostly, a stylized image of the front of a steam locomotive). The “Hogwarts Express” license plate frame was what helped me. :slight_smile:

Also a famous TV detective…

Note the slightly different spelling, however. Were the plate a nod to that character, it would have been B4R3TT4.

The eyeroll is because I live in Texas.

And also a former Chevy model. Although putting that plate on a Chevy Beretta seems a little uncreative.

Definitely not that. My phone was overheated, or I would have taken a picture

I8NTAM5? What could this mean?

“I ain’t” … something"?

It’s a start, anyway.

I decode that as “I ain’t a(n) M5”. Which is a fancier model of BMW than the car actually is.

I think the car is a mid-2000s BMW 3-series. I had one for awhile. It might be an mid-2000s 5-series, but I doubt it; it looks both too narrow and also very familiar to me. It’s absolutely positively a mid 2000’s BMW something.

The license plate frame is from these guys

So presumably the car is mightily hopped up w aftermarket parts and the owner is quite proud of his (good bet it’s a “his”) performance nous, maybe outdoing the factory M5 of the day. The M5 being BMW’s performance tuned quasi-street-racing version of their standard 5-series midrange luxo-performance sedan.

Good info, thanks. I did think it meant I Ain’t an M5.

Last June I posted this plate:

Today I was walking past the same house where that car is still parked, and noticed that they have another car, with this plate:

Ok, if these are not attempts to confuse the cops, I don’t know what they are.