# Most Memorable Vanity Plates? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 22, 2002, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157 "2002-07-22T02:02:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/61 "2002-07-24T03:06:21Z")
10SNE1 (a question) Y2K BUG (on a new Beetle a couple of years ago) XYZZY (a magic word) TRBO JAS (mine, play on car & nickname) ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/62 "2002-07-24T03:30:48Z")
Saw this one back in the eighties on a gold, then-new Cadillac convertible, driven by what looked like a thirty-ish blonde woman: BLD MNKY Bald monkey?? My friend and I saw it at the same time and horselaughed all the way back to work. No need for advertisements, lady! ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/63 "2002-07-24T17:05:01Z")
One of the English professors at my college had GHOTI. [explanation for those who haven’t seen this](http://magazine.englishclub.com/199909.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/64 "2002-07-24T17:45:58Z")
On a hummer " Xcessive" on a porsche " Livin XL" ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/65 "2002-07-24T17:59:59Z")
This silver BMW that parks outside of my complex has plates that read: **PNASH**. I thought that was pretty smooth. Cervaise: Huh? I still don’t get it. Is there supposed to be some kind of inside Marx Brothers cult thing there that I am missing? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/66 "2002-07-24T18:35:17Z")
Saw one on the way home yesterday that about made me gag. Red VW Beetle - the tag said **WUV BUG** [insert barfing smiley] ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/67 "2002-07-24T18:46:35Z")
A classmate in high school took great pride in having his red sports car carry POMPOUS ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/68 "2002-07-24T19:10:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > \*\*Just remembered another good one: > > The make of automobile is unimportant, but the plate was just too wonderfully obscure. It said **ZVBXRPL.** My brother and I stopped and stared at it, and then left an admiring note under the windshield wiper. > > [explanation](http://www.filmsite.org/daya2.html) \*\* The link is dead, pleeeze let me in on the secret. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/69 "2002-07-24T19:25:38Z")
I don’t get the VW bug that says feature, but I’m kinda brain dead today. Could somebody please give my brain a boost? A VW bug in my ramp has Y2K BUG A little red sportscar in my neighborhood says X-1. Egotistical if it’s named after Chuck Yeagers experimental plane, funny if taken from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. I was driving through Iowa and an old silverhair was driving a land yacht with the license plate PUD ONE. Now, I don’t know about you, but around here Pud is, well, a man’s love potion, IF ya know what I mean. FJORD was kinda funny on a Ford, which had a Norwegian flag bumper sticker as well. ---
**Author:** ![sengle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@sengle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sengle)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/70 "2002-07-24T20:11:22Z")
I saw one a few years ago: IPB4IGO ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/71 "2002-07-24T20:21:43Z")
There are several of the new VW bugs around here with vanity plates: EEKABUG and LOVE, off the top of my head. There’s also a _beautiful_ 1940 Hudson (I think that’s what it is…) with the plate MY 40. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/72 "2002-07-24T20:27:20Z")
I’ve seen (in FL) **GORE WON** In NC, I saw **SHIKSA** I’ve always wanted to get one that said **GR8 BIG 1** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/73 "2002-07-24T20:27:59Z")
Yep, it’s a 1940 Hudson Six Coupe. _Beautiful_ car. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/74 "2002-07-25T00:10:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NurseCarmen \* > \*\*I don’t get the VW bug that says feature, but I’m kinda brain dead today. Could somebody please give my brain a boost? > \*\* A common old chestnut in the computer industry is to jokingly refer to a bug in the product as a feature. “ZVBXRPL” is from the famous scene in _A Day at the Races_ - one of my father’s faves. (“You’re all mine today son - should we watch _A Day at the Races_ or _Tora! Tora! Tora!_?” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/75 "2002-07-25T05:36:17Z")
Saw a wonderfully tricked out Del Sol with the license GOT SOL ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/76 "2023-04-13T20:32:46Z")
Bumped. I wouldn’t pay even $5 million for this one: > **[World's most expensive license plate sells for $15 million](https://www.cnn.com/style/article/license-plate-15-million-intl-scli/index.html)** > > A license plate has sold for an eye-watering 55 million dirhams ($15 million) at a charity auction in Dubai, fetching what organizers Emirates Auction say is a world record price. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/77 "2023-04-13T21:44:34Z")
One here in town, on the car of a woman who does waxing in a salon: BOX WXR. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/78 "2023-04-13T21:54:36Z")
Saw a Dodge Viper with an MSU vanity plate (Green Block S) and the plate was “SSSSSS”, so it looked like “SSSSSSS”. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/79 "2023-04-13T22:12:12Z")
I can’t believe I didn’t post this 21 years ago, but **VLAD** on a nice Chevy Impala. ---
**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/80 "2023-04-14T00:34:20Z")
I used to own UPTO11 (with the small font caption above, “This goes”) until some lowlife stole it. I reported the theft to police and had to deregister the plate, otherwise run the risk of being repeatedly stopped for driving a supposedly stolen car. Still looking for another decent cultural reference, although an ex-boss and current mentor has MRWOLF on his Audi - hard to beat that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157.md?page=5)