Most Memorable Vanity Plates?

In My Humble Opinion
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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.”
102

He hated that name.

103

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…

104

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.”

105

I’ll agree with that.

106

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”

107

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.

108

A colleague of my dad’s who was a urologist had:

IVSKIN

109

Mine is SWTWF. It’s a Star Trek thing.

110

A friend of mine had neighbours that each had their own car.

His plate: TAB A

Her plate: SLOT B

111

I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but it bears repeating. A local pharmacy uses a VW Beetle to do deliveries.

Its plate? DRUGBUG.

112

Just the other day I saw a Maserati with the plate: 1.8 GPA.

113

As mentioned upthread, I question whether a lot of these are valid license plate formats but I’ve never, ever seen non-alphanumeric characters.

114

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.

115

California special characters include a hand, heart, star, and plus sign.

116

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.

117

I saw this on a rather well-worn junky import type car:

“4U2NV”

118

I don’t get it. ‘Spock Would Totally Want Females’?

119

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.

120

My old boss had TOBETIED on his Honda Fit