BS: Personal plates

Subject: Personal plates
From: GUEST,Les B.
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 03:56 PM

In our state one can order personalized license plates for vehicles - within a limit of about seven letters/numbers. They offer amusing, and often cryptic reading when stopped in a line of traffic.

I saw one the other day that still has me wondering. It was on a snappy new pickup with two cowgirls in it. The plate read: "2NDHORS" - I interpreted it as "Second Horse," my buddy swore it was "Two North Dakota Whores" (ND is zip code abbreviation) - What whimsical plates have you seen ?

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 04:00 PM

On a white VW Rabbit--IML8

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 04:18 PM

I saw one that said "S5280". It took me a while to figure that one out.

Also heard of someone attempting to get one that said "RU2BZ46", but someone at the DMV caught on and wouldn't process the application.




Just in case you're as dense as I am, the first one says "SMILE" (5280 feet in a mile), the second reads "Are you too busy for sex?"

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 04:44 PM

I knew a guy who owned an old Bentley with the Reg. PEN 15. Got in dutch with the law when he rounded off the 5.
Tee Hee.....Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: SharonA
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 04:51 PM

Saw this one on a Florida license plate: SNONOMO

Snow No More

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 04:55 PM

Back in the 60's, I saw one that read PUGMAHON. It is wonderful what the ignorant do not see.

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Kim C
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 05:04 PM

I used to have one that said IYODEL. If I ever get around to it again, I'd like to have one that says FDLBUM.

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 05:12 PM

DUDI.....on an AUDI

and the strangest I ever saw was on a VW bus....it wasn't cryptic abbreviations...it just said "DIOXIN" (I saw it in Wash DC, near the Watergate apartments)

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Burke
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 05:19 PM

I have friends with plates for both vehicles:
FALALA and LALA

They try to park the one with LALA on the right.

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 05:26 PM

(for the impaired--mine was "I am late") I want one that says FDLR; my friend Dana has one that says FIDL. It's tough in Wyoming--we are limited to 4 characters and no numbers. Some of the letters are disallowed as well, but I can't remember which ones.

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 05:44 PM

I want one that says...

Folk U

.-)

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 07:00 PM

On some antique British roadster, shiny chrome, etc:

4U2C

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: C-flat
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 08:33 PM

Giok, I remember seeing that Bentley around London in the seventies! I'm sure the same guy had a big American Cadillac with the plate WOM13 (WOMB)on it.
These plates change hands for staggering amounts of money!
A guy I knew, who was the drummer for a "one hit" band "The Toy Dolls" (remember Nellie the Elephant?), used his big pay day to get into the "cherished plate" business and thought that, as my first name is Merrick, I should buy MER 1K from him.
I've never been that wrapped up in myself that I wanted my name on my car but when he told me it was £5000 I certainly wasn't interested!

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: curmudgeon
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 08:53 PM

We've had some good ones here in New Hampshire; the agrarian MacDonald -- EIEIO, the family van -- PB4UGO, and the delightful 3MTA3 -- read tha in your rearview mirror -- Tom

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: curmudgeon
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 09:11 PM

And on a more personal note, I used to have, when I owned a video store, FILMS+, Linn (Bat Goddess) graphic designer and typographer extraordinaire, U&LC, (NH does not allow lower case). Bruce, who is perhaps the world's only folk singer/stockbroker has DOWSUP; our David, before retiring from his woodworking profession boasted ITURN4U, and Carol, the newest member of the session is DADGAD

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 10:43 PM

well, our sometimes poster SongBob, who plays lots of instruments, while his wife knits, shares a car with her with the tag "KNITPIC"

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Chip2447
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 12:33 AM

I think the Missouri Department of Revenue have caught on to the 3MTA3 plate as the won't let me have it. Praps some other like minded fool has it already. I have seen FOURQ though. Saw a older Corvette once that had I124QQD. The there was the 30 something male who had IMJEDI, who was trying to get both of his headlights working, didnt take long until the "use the force " jokes started coming...Something about "the light and the dark sides of the force". But one of the best that I've ever seen was an attractive young lady in a white Porsche "VANITY"

Chip2447

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: alison
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 12:34 AM

I remeber being overtakien by a fast Porsche / Ferrari type thing and all you could see was the numberplate HAR HAR as he flew past.....



slainte
alison

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: GUEST,jonm
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 03:26 AM

It is possible to buy personal plates in the UK, too, but they must conform to standard patterns. Until recently, this meant letter - three digits - three letters. I was most impressed with the young lady in an Audi convertible registration X32 TOH. I didn't get it until I saw it in my mirror!!

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: The Walrus at work
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 08:49 AM

Giok & C-Flat,

"PEN 15" was certainly around in the '70s, it was given by Paul Raymond (of Raymond's Review Bar) to Fiona Richmond (anyone remember her?), but there were restrictions placed on it, at the time the (then) equivalent of the DVLA[1], would only allow the number if the the plate was on two lines.

I seem to recall that Bob Danvers-Walker (Radio Announcer) had the number plate "RAD 10"
Jimmy Tarbuck had "COM 1 C"

As has been mentioned, British number plates have a set layout. I do recall one "OHP 150 F" which, with the addition of black screws to hold the plate on became
"OH.P15.OF"

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: HuwG
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 09:25 AM

It is possible to have Welsh personalised plates. I saw the desirable "D10 LCH" (Diolch means "Thank you" in Welsh) on an otherwised undistinguished reddish-brown (or just very rusty) Ford Fiesta in the Haverfordwest area about seven or eight years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: mack/misophist
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 10:25 AM

Not many amusing plates in my life, but I can offer an utterly pointless one. Some one who worked in the same area I did had the plate AGMCAR. Never understood why.

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: SharonA
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 10:38 AM

Misophist: Did he drive a GM car?

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 10:44 AM

Best for this forum, seen here in Cville : MU67LY (which took me a while: mu six seven ly? OH! Music's Heavenly!)

Mine is a cryptic reference to my own past, intended to trap any other expats from Côte d'Ivoire): CD4 CI1. CD = Corps Diplomatique, all dips had CD plates. The embassies were numbered, 1=France, 4=USA, etc. So CD4=American Embassy. CI = Côte d'Ivoire, and the towns were numbered, 1=the capital, 2=Bingerville, etc. So CI1 = Abidjan. CD4 CI1 = American Embassy, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. It's never caught anybody yet...

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 05:12 AM

Two Cardiff (Wales) registrations seen from time to time:
505 EXY (SO SEXY)
and, on a car belonging to a local Travel Agent, FLY 21 T (Fly to it)

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: vindelis
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 10:26 AM

On a White Rolls Royce entering Galway K9 WHO. A very rich fan, or one of the 'Doctors'?

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 10:43 AM

John Pertwee actually owned the car (and registration) "WHO 1". The car (known as Bessie) was seen throughout the series where Pertwee was exiled to the planet Earth; partly for upsetting the other Time Lords, and partly as a cost cutting exercise by the BBC

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Leadfingers
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 11:17 AM

Chanel-the perfume people had a delivery van,plain high gloss black paint job with Chanel in gold and the reg no NO 5-seen in London quite a bit a few years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: mack/misophist
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 11:23 AM

SharonA: This may be hard to believe but I've always had motorbikes. I don't know one car from another unless it has an RR hood ornament.

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 12:56 PM

Seen down my road some years ago, a bright red, gleaming new, Rolls Royce, the plate read ARO 11S (A ROLLS). Wish I'd taken a picture of it now.

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Mr Happy
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 06:11 PM

saw one this evening on the way back from work. SHI7.

with the 7 having an added nut near the top to make it kook like something else. goodness knows why anyone would want a personal plate kike that.

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: GUEST,Judy
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 08:16 PM

The best one I've seen was on a little red sports car that was fueling up for gas. I looked at the plate and was clueless, so just asked the rather smug looking guy what it meant. He said it meant BORED. Only it was in French..something like enqui(?). Now, if anyone knows FRENCH, please reply and give the exact spelling. The second best is HITEST..as the driver is a fiesty lady that drives like she and car are both on really HIGH TEST gas. Both were seen in TENNESSEE, but I don't know what state the Sports car represented.

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Alice
Date: 01 Sep 02 - 02:21 AM

A friend had personal plates with a statement I liked, so when she left Montana I took it over for my plates - HAPPYIM.

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Alice
Date: 01 Sep 02 - 02:22 AM

A friend had personal plates with a statement I liked, so when she left Montana I took it over for my plates - HAPPYIM.

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: Venthony
Date: 02 Sep 02 - 01:44 AM

Back in the early 80s, my home state, Missouri, made a big deal out of hiring a bureaucrat to screen inappropriate -- read obscene -- plate requests.

He or she apparently missed the one I saw on a red Corvette in Kansas Cith a few months later. It read "HeyMoFO".

Tony

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Sep 02 - 02:07 AM

Ennui.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 02 Sep 02 - 11:43 AM

Hey, Tom/Curmudegeon! I've seen the DADGAD plates around Keene sometimes. Carol who?

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From:
Date: 03 Sep 02 - 07:27 AM

How about an English plate. It read SAF 353 X.Work it out!

Subject: RE: BS: Personal plates
From: sian, west wales
Date: 03 Sep 02 - 07:51 AM

There's one here in town owned by someone who works for the Water Authority - H20 DWR (dwr = water in Welsh). And there's a Welsh minister north of Toronto who has TR4 B02 on his white cadilac - Tra Bo Dau (While there are two) is a well-known Welsh love song.

sian