Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild

Funny, but I read it as purely hostile, not kinky. I really looked around carefully for signs of them being dog owners or something. Nope.

A bit later today I saw a Tesla Model S with the NHL Tampa Bay Lightning booster plate with RAIDR. Maybe they’re also NFL Raider fans?

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.

Two today:

A white Corvette with T⎵GIGIO. A name I suppose.

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. :grin:

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.

Today I learned …

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”

That’s great!


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.

The plate said DOLCESOL.

I heartily concur.

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.

If you scroll up about 5 posts, @kenobi_65 provided a pic of the puppet.

This being SoFL, Italian Americans from the northeast are thick on the ground. More so in winter, but plenty have migrated to here year round.

KING DAN was driving a rusty Dodge truck with a dangling exhaust pipe this morning. Maybe his royal carriage was in the shop. :rofl:

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.

Give me a well-deserved duh demerit.

“This is not the post you’re looking for.”

Someone very concerned about their golf game.

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Somehow, Wisconsin managed to allow two license plates that are differentiated only by a space.

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I saw a newish convertible Corvette with MACH⎵83.

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.

I wasn’t close enough to get the exact model, but on a new-looking small-to-midsize Subaru SUV: GOTIT4ME.

In places w 8 character plates it’d be cool to get MINALMIN. AKA “mine; all mine”

So greedy; so sad; so typical.

Sez the jerk w a conceptually similar but more subtle plate. D’oh!

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.

Maybe somebody else got it for them, and they’re disavowing the choice.

My 12-year-old inner self read it as beginning with the word ‘GO’.