I was sitting at a stoplight this morning behind a pretty red I’m assuming 1994 model Mercedes SL with 94 SL. It also had a license plate frame for some antique car club… which made me want to turn to dust right there.
A white Cadillac Lyriq with CHOKLIT. It was parked and I did not see the driver, but based on how my previous GF used the term, I suspect she’s a fun black woman. Or really likes cocoa products. Or both.
Saw a couple of other probable family names on plates in the last couple days but none were memorable enough to stick for even the drive home.
Might be a reference to “Topo Gigio,” an Italian TV character who is a puppet mouse, which has been very popular in Italy for decades, and which was popular in the U.S. in the '60s, due to frequent appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.
I might guess that the owner of that Vette is an Italian-American.
This isn’t a plate but I think it fits here. Yesterday I was following a large, brick red van. The back windows were dusty and someone had written in the dust. “Clifford, the big red van”
Just remembered one I saw yesterday. A school bus yellow Chevy SSR convertible with the top down. That car is at least 20 years old but looks immaculate. It’s a gloriously sunny part of the day and I’m right behind him also with my top down.
He has NY plates, the ones with black writing on a not-quite school bus yellow background. So the plate harmonized nicely with his car.
Could either a famous Italian restaurant in Chicago or an anthropomorphic mouse puppet popular on the Ed Sullivan show starting in 1966 (which is my virtually extinct memory thought of).
What either of them have to do with white Corvettes I can’t imagine. In July I would think an affluent snowbird owner of a restaurant in Chicago would have his Corvette up north. Greater minds than mine will have to suss this out.
Palm to face-smack! No idea how I missed that post of Kenobi’s. I promise didn’t crib from him. Everyone types faster than I do, maybe he posted while I was still pecking out the same hypothesis.
No Buddy; your car is fast, but not that fast. And you’re a certified Douchenozzle for your aftermarket unmuffled exhaust and your relentless revving in a crowd of pedestrians & outdoor diners.
Re GOTIT4ME: I wasn’t sure how to take it. It didn’t look like a car I would buy and covet, but you never know. Maybe it wasn’t referring to the vehicle.
A NY Giants fan: On a specialty Giants plate, G33M3N.