The true saga of one man’s journey into the hell of the DMV: NO PLATE
Mid 80’s, the Saab plates of the mother of a high school friend of mine: SNAAB
And my favorite, same town, a brand-new red 450 SL convertible: WAS HIS
I tried to get MSO4 but it was taken. The bastard.
I saw PR0N (star).
I was greatly distressed that I couldn’t get either EVILL33T or H4XX0R for my car, so somebody clearly has those.
One of my dad’s coworkers had the same problem with NONE.
Here in Boilermaker country, a fan of the local Big Ten teams has URDUE as his plate. Since it’s a special Purdue tag, as seen here, the university’s symbol combines with the issued letters to spell out PURDUE if you’re the right distance from the vehicle.
Aaah, that’s so cool, Sternvogel! I’m jealous. I was raised to be a Boilermaker, and I still am at heart.
Hail, hail to old Purdue,
Hail to our old gold and black…
As reported in Readers’ Digest quite a while ago,
The DMV gave a man named OLE LEE special permission to keep his number permanently and to display it upside down.
The number was 337 370.
Halp? I don’t get it. Really. :smack: :smack: :smack:
My favorite from a few years ago was G8ACLU
On the windshield of my wife’s RX-8 is a sticker that says zoom - zoom and her vanity tag is:
ZOOOM
She was stopped by the police and asked “Was I speeding officer?”
His reply was “No, despite what your tag says.”
Decipher This
The Nissan dealer down the street, on his 3?? Z-car has : XTZ
The Nam Vet Biker with a ‘fast’ Harley has : FUGIT
Then there’s the off-green Chevy with HAHAHA,
the Jeep with IBCNU
or there’s so many…
G8ACLU = Get a Clue. A stretch, I’ll admit.
Erm, thanks for the help, Uncommon Sense, but I was actually helping OtakuLoki with the plate that Misnomer posted; DCY4THS–>Decipher This.
My first car was a white VW Rabbit, and my mom used to bug me to get vanity plates that said “HARVEY.” It would have been cute, but I was a poor college kid and she wouldn’t pony up the bucks for the plates (they were a little pricey in Maryland back then)…plus none of my friends would have gotten it.
I do so get a kick out of that plate. 
When I’m ready to trade in my current personalized plates, if I can’t get “8675309” (which doesn’t seem to fit on any of Virginia’s available license plate styles 
) I might see if DCY4THS is available. Me and probably many other people, but hey, you never know…
Oops, a little clarification: 8675309 does fit on one style of plate (that I would be eligible/willing to get), but is not currently available. Stupid people smarter than me who think of such things faster… 
With my apologies to Doper Lizard: I did not wee your 6/13/04 posting on this subject. I had not discovered the search engine on which I found it yesterday. But your last hit was 7/16 and there have been only 2-3 duplicates on yours and this.
Quote:
"What are the oddest vanity license plates you’ve seen?
I saw one today on I-71 that was just one word: “CELERY.”
I have no idea."
But here’s two more I’ve seen:
LXIX
AL TUNA (He was from, yes, Altoona, PA.
I saw this one in State College: ANSR42
Not least because it looks more like “Gate ACLU”.
Which has a quite different meaning, especially if the owner is British.
Two Illinois plates spotted today around Lafayette:
PAX II U (Pax is Latin for “peace”, so I’m guessing the driver was a Catholic anti-war activist)
COLDFT 1 (driven by a woman – maybe her pedal extremities are chilly, maybe she backed out of a marriage by jilting the groom-to-be at the altar)