Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild

See also posts 86 & 455 in this thread. :wink:

I saw GOON1ES today.

Just saw my first one in the wild yesterday, a Washington state J.P. Patches license plate. With an initial cost of $157.25 and an additional $30 a year, I don’t think I will be getting one soon.

Not just confuse the cops, but also any witness of a tragic event. Those plates are confusing to read.

Maybe they just like the Manamana song

Today I saw an F-Type Jaguar. Very nice car to look at, much fun to drive, but an unreliable POS to own.

Anyhow the plate said BAGL CTY. It was parked in front of a breakfast / deli place named, yep, “Bagel City”. Evidently the deli business can be profitable.

Today I saw a Mini Cooper S with the cute but notso original plate of MINII ME. Presumably the version with MINI was already taken.

Yesterday I saw a family wagon sort of thing with CORAL DR. Perhaps a marine biologist?

Best for last:
Here in FL there are many themed plate backgrounds available. One of which celebrates the US Navy Blue Angels who are home-based at NAS Pensacola. This plate style, in common with many of the specialty styles, uses about 40% of the plate width for the pretty picture & slogan, leaving room for just 5 characters for the vehicle’s actual ID in the remaining 60%.

I encountered a fairly stock F-150 pickup with the Blue Angels background and the ID A1ABV.

:man_shrugging:

“A one above”

I kept trying to work from A1A and/or Alcohol By Volume.

That’s why knowing the plate background is commemorating a military jet aerobatic team is an important part of the story.

RAGNCJN on a car driving across San Marcos Pass Road north of Santa Barbara yesterday.

Ragin’ Cajun

A good one. At first I thought it was just someone’s gibberish but after figuring out how to pronounce it- click.

M8K1TSO

I wonder if the owner is bald and like to wear knits.

Was it a rental car?

I saw what you did there. :smiley:

I saw POOTER 1 today on a rattletrap Toyota. Not sure what it means, but it was different. :slight_smile:

I’m in Santa Barbara for the Porsche 356 western states gathering and saw several personalized plates. Many had 356 in them.

Great pix: thanks.

Today I saw JDS EQNX.

Which makes more sense when I tell you it was attached to a Chevy Equinox, a midsized SUV. I bet JD was driving too. :slight_smile:

Yeah I was guessing a Chevy Equinox too before you said it.

In addition to being a toy that makes fart sounds, it’s also, I’m learning, the name of device for catching bugs.

And I just realized I made one of these when I was in grade school. We had to invent something, so I stuck two hoses in a coffee can lid. Connected one to a vacuum and used the other one to suck up legos or other similarly small toys, which would be collected in the can.