2001SPCE
on what kind of SUV?
that’s right…an Odyssey.
And
6THPLNET
on…
a Saturn.
I’m hoping they’re a 2-car family, with the other one being a Mercury and the plate 1STPLNET.
There’s also 1CAD2NV on a local Cadillac SUV (I don’t), SANTA on a van I see around occasionally driven by a pudgy old guy with a long white beard and a red jacket, even in summer (I am not making this up), and an out-of-state plate reading LOIMLN (“Are you Ellen?” I asked the driver, just to make sure, and she was over the moon that I’d cracked the code).
Fun stuff. Or should I say FNSTFF.
(I also don’t have a vanity plate, never have, never will. In my case it’s because once you put a vanity plate on a car you pretty much destroy its value as a getaway vehicle.)
They’re not vanity plates, as you can’t get those in Spain, but our current format is three letters followed by four numbers. I’ve seen GRL, I’ve seen CAD, I’ve seen COK, and I think someone in marketing really missed a wonderful opportunity, because the car with BMW#### plates I did see was a Volkswagen Polo - BMW should have reserved that whole run!
One of my friends girlfriend (now wife) had a regular randomly-generated plate with three numbers and three letters. The three letters? FEA (she wasn’t, but living in a highly Spanish-speaking area wasn’t fun with those plates.)
One placed I used to work had a sporty little two-seater BMW in the parking lot with the vanity plate “HOT COCO.” Bizarrely, it wasn’t driven by a saucy young black girl, but by a depressed-looking middle-aged white woman.
My wife’s friend’s brother likes to irritate people, and has a vanity plate with letters carefully selected to make no sensible phrase (although I forget now what they are). His purpose was solely to frustrate total strangers.
