Also, anyone who has read the book “The Vampire Lestat” should get the reference. 
When I was in high school and thought I was quite a clever little hippie type, my plates read “ZEPEL1N”. Later on, I had plates which said “BUDERIN”. No one ever got it - they thought it had something to do with butter. So I switched back to the regular ones.
I saw a woman driving a car with the license plate “CHILI K9”
I had to think–is that “hot dog” or “cold bitch”?
I was thinking about PIXEL8 for my car; closest thing to “hey, I work in computer graphics!”. But I’ll probably never bother. In Illinois you don’t have to pay extra for the plate if it ends in a number, so you see a lot of those: “ENUNSI8” (speech therapist), “HI IM K8”, “TE AMAS 2” , etc.
One I saw on a convertible: “H8 RAIN”.
“Eppur, si muove!” - Galileo Galilei
My sister used to have a vanity plate that read TRSTAN. It’s not her name, but the name of her favorite character in the James Herriott books. She became hooked on the name and started studying the legends of Tristan and Isolde. When she started writing her novels, she named her main character Tristan. Finally, it became the name of her car.
When she sold the car and bought a truck, she transferred the vanity plate to the truck for a while, but the obsession with Tristan must be fading because she recently decided after all these years it wasn’t worth paying double to register a vanity plate and gave it up for a regular one.
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
I wouldn’t spend the money on vanity plates (for me, money is more important than vanity). However, the best I’ve ever come across was:
YOURN
The owner was a urologist.
My husband has ‘DOLL’ and ‘DOLL 1’, I have ‘DOLL 2’. Totally lacking in creativity though, for our last name is Doll.
One I did see that I liked (because it took me a solid hour to figure out) was ‘10SNE1’
I can’t believe I’m only remembering this now (my third post in this topic).
My girlfriend has YY ZEE on her GEO Tracker. She is a Rush fan (as am I), and YYZ was taken already. I asked her why not YY ZED (since that’s how Canadians pronounce “YYZ”) and she figured that since she would have to explain it to everyone already, she didn’t want to bother explaining the ZEE/ZED difference.
Then there’s those name plates, LEEZA 5, etc, where she must have been the fifth Leeza to get plates. Leeza 35, on the other hand might confuse people into thinking what “35” ?
Montfort,
for Rush vanity plates, you might wanna check out this link:
Oh shit.
(The Syrinx.yyz.com site seems to be offline temporarily.)
OK, check it out whenever it gets back. It hasn’t been updated for ages, but there’s two cool pages of Rush Plates feautured.
One even reads: CLDFIRE
Coldfire
“You know how complex women are”
My wife’s name is “Dulce” which means sweet (don’t ask me how she got that…). Anyway, she’s from Hawaii and when me moved to Nebraska I decided to surprise her with a vanity plate.
I asked for “Kuuipo”, which mean “sweetheart” in Hawaiian.
DMV said it was taken!
“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument” - William McAdoo
I once saw FOAD MF on a fellow pizza guy’s car. Can’t believe he got that through Virginia DMV.
One fellow Virginian ordered GOVT SUX. He got it delivered, but then the state suddenly understood it and revoked it. Now I think they reject everything with SUX.
The plates on my truck read “DRTYDVL”.
I once saw a car that deserves the Geekiest Car Of All Time award: a lime-green tracker with J T KIRK on its plates. It also had a bumper sticker that said, “My other car can exceed Warp 9.”
My dentist’s vanities say TOOT DK. I thought that was pretty good, until my best friend - who’s wanted a Prosche his whole life, and got one last year - got ones that said FINALLY.
On a tangent, my dad used to keep a notepad on the dash of his car and write down all the vanities he saw, until about eight months into his research campaign he rear-ended somebody while recording his latest discovery. No word on whether the guy he hit had vanities…
Z
“Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggy” until you can find a rock.”
…ahem
Porsche
My bet is getting a Prosche isn’t as exciting.
Z
The other day I saw a beat-up Ford Taurus wagon with license plates “SEE YA”. I doubt the thing could have gotten much faster than 65 without falling apart.
I’ve always wanted plates which read “NOSFRA2” (nosferatu)
The wittiest I ever say was on a Porsche.
The plate was “Portia”.
It took me a while to figure out the owner wasn’t a pretentious pseudo-Shakespeare snob.
It was a simple, phonetic statement:
Portia = Porsche (not “poorsch”)
Hey, I’m easily amused.
Veb
How about this one–
NE1469
It took me months of driving past this car every day to figure it out.
I heard of some people who got around the licence plate prudes.
They applied for vanity plates for their cars at separate times.
His plate was TAB A
Her plate was SLOT B
I dated a bassist who had FSHPLYR on his truck. I’ve seen GDDM 405 (which will make sense to anyone who commutes in L.A.) I wonder how it got through the approval system, though.
There’s also a gorgeous late 50’s Porsche I see around with a plate that says I WAS 11.
But my all-time favorite has to be a Cadillac with the plate CON BRIO.
Catrandom