# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/101 "2023-04-16T22:36:47Z")
Two that have stuck in my mind, years after I saw them: - The very first personalized plate I remember seeing in-person, in Wisconsin in the late '70s, read “10SNE1” (“tennis, anyone?”) - In the ‘90s, I saw a Chevy Astro minivan with the plate “TRALFAZ” – a reference to an episode of _The Jetsons_, where Astro, the Jetsons’ dog, is revealed to have previously been owned by a wealthy man, who had named the dog “Tralfaz.” ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/102 "2023-04-17T00:05:24Z")
He _hated_ that name. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/103 "2023-04-17T00:18:25Z")
Seen on a Jaguar near work some time in the early 20teens: SHAGUAR Suppose that makes this what the blokes at Top Gear called a “JaaAAaagg” owner… ---
**Author:** ![Bayarea4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Bayarea4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayarea4)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/104 "2023-04-17T00:39:08Z")
Some years ago in San Francisco I saw a Rolls Royce with a lone male inside slowly cruising past the gay district. The license plate read, “IM1RU2.” ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/105 "2023-04-17T03:58:30Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > [EATTHE](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/20/article-2039662-0E01331D00000578-824_468x351.jpg) was better I’ll agree with that. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/106 "2023-04-20T16:09:00Z")
Can’t remember if it was in-person or a picture online, but I saw one on a car being towed behind a camper that said, “RVPUSHER” I have a brown Fiat 500. When I lived in California it had a custom plate reading “COFEEBN” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/107 "2023-04-20T16:20:04Z")
**I H8 66** on a Jeep parked in Arlington, VA, a mile from an I-66 onramp. **TICKLED** on a pink classic Beetle. **TR3KK13** on a late-model Honda with a Star Trek communicator badge for a hood ornament. **6RLYRYDE** on a fuchsia Civic with a Hello Kitty theme. **IGONEWAR** on a Land Rover. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/108 "2023-04-20T21:17:09Z")
A colleague of my dad’s who was a urologist had: IVSKIN ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/109 "2023-04-21T00:29:41Z")
Mine is SWTWF. It’s a Star Trek thing. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/110 "2023-04-21T04:09:14Z")
A friend of mine had neighbours that each had their own car. His plate: TAB A Her plate: SLOT B ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/111 "2023-04-21T04:37:24Z")
I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but it bears repeating. A local pharmacy uses a VW Beetle to do deliveries. Its plate? DRUGBUG. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/112 "2023-04-21T04:56:16Z")
Just the other day I saw a Maserati with the plate: 1.8 GPA. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/113 "2023-04-21T14:26:37Z")
As mentioned upthread, I question whether a lot of these are valid license plate formats but I’ve never, ever seen non-alphanumeric characters. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/114 "2023-04-21T14:30:35Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > I question whether a lot of these are valid license plate formats but I’ve never, ever seen non-alphanumeric characters. That one might have been issued as “18 GPA,” with the owner putting a sticker on the plate (yes, I know, that’s likely illegal) to add the decimal point; I’ve seen something like that done on a personalized plate, to add punctuation, more than once. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/115 "2023-04-21T14:32:54Z")
California special characters include a hand, heart, star, and plus sign. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/116 "2023-04-21T14:36:10Z")
Just one thing to note, about earlier questions about interspersing letters and numbers on a plate: it’s undoubtedly a state-by-state case, on what formats are allowable, and what are not. As I noted earlier, here in Illinois, plates have to be in a numbers-then-letters, or letters-then-numbers format. But, in Wisconsin, it’s allowable for letters and numbers to alternate. My parents, who live in Wisconsin, have a personalized plate in a [LETTER]-[NUMBER]-[LETTERS] format. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/117 "2023-04-21T14:49:44Z")
I saw this on a rather well-worn junky import type car: “ **4U2NV** ” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/118 "2023-04-21T14:53:34Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > Mine is SWTWF. It’s a Star Trek thing. I don’t get it. ‘Spock Would Totally Want Females’? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/119 "2023-04-21T14:59:57Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I’ve seen something like that done on a personalized plate, to add punctuation, more than once. Yep. The guy had put a small dot of matching paint between the spaced 1 and 8. Guess he figured either nobody would care or he could afford the fix-it ticket and fine. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/120 "2023-04-21T16:37:39Z")
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