“ICE KOLD”
One of the baddest men I ever knew, if not THE baddest, ran that license plate on an array of European luxury sleds in the early 2000s. He was a real-life manifestation of Marcellus Wallace, a larger-than-life being whose business was dependent upon the recovery of the same type of thugs he used to take off the streets of Cleveland as a less-than-squeaky-clean cop. His three-car garage was an ever-rotating gallery of high-powered rides that rarely exceeded the speed limit—because speeding wouldn’t have been ICE KOLD. Better to be smooth and slow-moving but with an omnipresent, rumbling threat of power, much like the man who was behind the wheel.
For Uncle Ron, as we called him, simply having something like a debadged, murdered-out, triple black Audi Q7 that rolled on 22s wasn’t enough of a statement. Every ride needed the perfect vanity license plate. Forget the badging that the OEM put on the vehicle—the personality of both the whips and the man were too big for that. No, he used the palette of seven letter provided by the State of Ohio to make sure that everybody in town knew that the BIG DAWG was behind the wheel of that NAZTY Q7.
Me? I had always wanted to get some sort of vanity plate for my cars growing up, but as they were legally titled to my pops, that wasn’t gonna happen. He used to tease me that “JAZZMAN” was available for my Infiniti G20 that I drove in college—I was mortified at the thought. What would my teachers, most of whom had been professional musicians for over forty years, think of a nineteen-year old brat driving around campus with “JAZZMAN” on his brand-new (sorta) luxury car?
It wasn’t until I bought my first new car under my own name, when I was about 23, that I thought that I might get one. I spend countless hours coming up with seven letter combinations for my 2001 Santa Fe V6 AWD. It may not have been a NAZTY Q7, but it was the nicest SUV I could afford at the time. It had chrome door handles, black leather interior, and a sunroof—in other words, every option Hyundai could throw on it. Finally, after a particularly successful gig in Monterey Bay, I came up with one that I felt I had earned the right to put on my car:
“BLUE SAX”
I remember it well. I felt pretty cool rolling up to my weekend gigs in it. It let my colleagues at my day gig know I wasn’t just another retail manager—I was a musician. My wife, who was a classical musician, absolutely hated it. Whereas blues and jazz musicians tend to be somewhat full of machismo, classical musicians are often more reserved. When I would pick her up from grad school, her musician friends would announce, “Hey! The Blue Sax is here!” I endured the friendly ribbing with a smile, but she did not.
When it came time for the Santa Fe to go away (or, in Hyundai-speak, when the 100,000 mile powertrain warranty is about to expire), I decided that wanted to go sporty for my next ride. Enter the 2004 Mazda RX-8 touring model with Aero kit, resplendent in Sunlight Silver. BLUE SAX just didn’t seem right anymore. I needed something to fit the sleek, cool identity of the rotary-powered machine.
Again, I spent hours on the Ohio BMV website, checking various seven-letter combinations. I originally thought I wanted something that played on a Silver Surfer theme, in tribute to the under-appreciated Marvel comic. Unfortunately, SLVR SRFR didn’t fit, and none of the variants I could think of seemed good enough. Scratch that.
How about something that played on the RX-8 name? Or maybe the Zoom-Zoom mantra? After a few aborted attempts, I came up with one that (I thought) was brilliant:
“RX N EFCT”
It worked on so many levels…well, it did once I had the chance to explain it to people. See, it was an RX-8, so it was like I was saying that my RX-8 was “in effect.” For you Non-Gen Xers, we used to say something was “in full effect” when we meant it was cool. That was meaning number one.
Meaning number two? Much deeper. Taken phonetically, RX N EFCT could also mean Wreckx-N-Effect. In 1992, the rap group Wreckx-N-Effect had a hit song entitled “Rump Shaker.” The chorus of that song?
All I wanna do is zooma, zoom zoom zoom
And a poom-poom just shake ya rump
(Rump shaker)
It was a freaking Zoom-Zoom Easter Egg! Pure genius, right?
Well, as is the case with any good joke, if you have to explain it, it doesn’t work. Nobody got it. My first sign should have been when I had to spend five minutes explaining it to the girl at the BMV (which irks me—why can you name a person anything you want, but some ill-tempered government worker has to approve your license plate?). I spent a good part of the next four years explaining it to people. One night, however, the nebulous nature of the meaning of my vanity plate worked in my favor.
I had left work late one wintry Cincinnati evening, and a thick layer of snow had covered the ground quite quickly. The powder was much too much for my poor Dunlop all-season tires to handle, and my RX-8 was quickly reduced to nothing more than a snow-spitting device on the side of Kenwood Road. Car after car passed me by as I sat there, helpless. A man walked out from his house with a shovel—only to offer to dig me out if I paid him fifty bucks. My roadside assistance was two hours away from being able to help.
All of a sudden, a car slowed to a halt behind me and turned on its hazards. A kind-looking man stepped out of the vehicle and approached my door.
“Need a hand?” he offered.
“Would you mind just seeing if you can push me out?” I asked.
“Not at all!” He got behind my bumper and shoved with all his might. The little Renesis spun the back wheels, covering the poor man with slush and snow as he pushed. Finally, I grabbed some traction and shot out onto the plowed section of the road.
I jumped out of the car and ran back to thank him profusely.
“Anytime!” he said cheerfully. “Always glad to help a fellow pharmacist in need!”
Pharmacist? Huh? Oh. RX. Right.
“See you at the convention!” I shouted as he retreated to the safety of his car.
When the RX-8 was replaced by my 2009 Pontiac G8 GT, I immediately planned to order a plate that indicated the G8’s capabilities in comparison to the car it had been benchmarked against. Sure enough, “I8URM5” was available (yes, I know an M5 of that generation would have “8en” my G8 alive). However, I kinda felt that I had outgrown the vanity plate. The G8 was a grown-up sort of car. Maybe it was time to just be a grown-up and take whatever plate the Commonwealth of Kentucky assigned me. And when the G8 was replaced by the Boss…I mean, isn’t a Boss 302 enough of a statement on its own? What could you out on it that wasn’t already said by the “BOSS 302” in all caps on both sides?
But just when I thought my vanity plate days were over, along came my little Fiesta. Let’s be honest—it’s somewhat of a toy car. Why not have some fun with it?
And so I found myself typing various six-letter combos into the Kentucky BMV website (unfortunately, Kentucky only allows six letters) the other night when it hit me. There’s one plate I’m sure nobody else has—or would even want. I typed it in, and of course, it was available.
Turns out that, in Kentucky, the price of vanity is twenty-five bucks. When I went to the title agency this morning to order it, I was wondering how I would explain this one. However, I guess 37-year-old me doesn’t seem as subversive as 26-year-old me did. The agent typed it in and took my money with nary a word of dissent.
It’s just as well. I’d hate to have to explain “BARK M” to anybody.
You should take some of Jack’s advice and read a few articles @ “The Last Psychiatrist”.
2BG2FAL
On a Fiesta?!
I saw 2hot4u once on an old Hyundai Excel and thought either the driver was delusional or it was the best troll ever.
Apparently ripping off old photos from 2008 is the SRT way. Seems appropriate…
Oh that snow story. I drive on Kenwood Road every single day! All the way to its northern terminus at Cornell (my street). It’s mostly flat up here, but the southern 50% has some hills, likely the challenge for the RX-8.
I saw this the other day and it cracked me up:
GZUS
When I was younger I always wanted to get a really pretentious car and get NO4PLAY as the tag. I’d like to think I grew up but in reality I’ll just never be able to get a pretentious car.
Where I live, vanity plates are nearly $300. I don’t bother as I switch cars often and can’t think of a scheme that I’d like to keep forever.
Some of the more memorable plates I’ve seen:
-STOPH8N (Explorer covered in political candidate bumper stickers)
-ALPAID4 (clapped out Navigator)
-MARVIN (Lime green Chevy (Sonic?) w/ a Marvin the Martian sticker on the rear glass and a Marvin the Martin license plate holder.
-WINNING (C300. I suspect LEASING might have been more appropriate.)
-RTRD MJR (F150. My first thought was “Retarded Major”? It wasn’t until I noticed the military themed plate that I realized it was intended to convey “Retired Major.”
I have seen two here in Ohio so simple, that I’m surprised I actually saw them.
BACON
DOCTOR
Some of the better plates that I’ve had (or currently have):
My Ranger (and will be transferred to the xB when sold): SYKE
The Scion xB: MAUS CAR
The Kia Sedona (my reenactment vehicle): SHRTMKR (my reenactment business is Syke the Shirtmaker)
All my motorcycles have had Syke followed by a number: SYKE1, SYKE2, etc. With the totaling of my Triumph Trident SYKE1 has been permanently retired.
Past vehicles:
My Porsche 924S: PZKW 924
My then girlfriend’s (later, wife’s) E36 M3: NO ANGEL (From the Michael Monroe song, not Mae West, as her then unsuspecting husband guessed).
My old S-10, which was my vintage British motorcycle hauler had BRIT IRN. My wife constantly got comments that viewers thought she was a British Nurse.
Seriously?
I used to run
PZKW 944
PZKW 993
ten or so years ago.
And, as I’ve got a hankering to get back to another front engined Porsche, I’ve saved that plate, and have PZKW 928, 944, and 968 in the planning stages – depending on what I find.
Its as close as I’ll ever get to the Stug III a re-enactor friend of mine owns.
My Elva Courier had California plates 61 Elva. People still asked me what it was. Replaced with vintage Texas plates as I’m cheap.
Its the New Jack swing…
I got my first vanity plate a few months ago. Someone saw me parked at Starbucks and posted it on reddit.
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2pks2y/i_know_one_of_you_redditors_lives_in_my_neck_of/
LOL excellent.
Considering some of the stupid things I have done behind the wheel, I realized a long time ago that I was better off with a random assortment of letters and numbers – the more complicated the better.
My first car was a Chrysler LeBaron that was originally purchased used by my parents for my brother and then gifted to me in a complicated transaction involving their old minivan and a promise of a better car later on. It was purchased and registered during the brief period where NJ had 7 digit plates, until they got rid of them because cops said they were too hard to read. I was convinced it gave me a extra layer of protection.
“My first car was a Chrysler LeBaron”
A convertible perhaps? With the vanity plate JON VGHT
I was thinking he traded his MG for it.
I was touring the facility and picking up slack.
This man gets it!
I would die laughing if I saw that.
I actually damn near ran off the edge of the freeway one morning driving to work from the surprise of seeing an actual DeLorean a few cars up from me in the next lane over with a vanity plate. Can you guess? Should be obvious!!
88 MPH
Last De Lorean I saw (at a Chick-Fil-A on a Saturday) was tagged FLUXOFF.
When I was a teen, my mom had vanity plates before it was common. As a result, many of the kids who knew us knew the plate. I was driving her car one night with friends who called for me to stop by a house under construction. They jumped out, ran in and came out a couple of minutes later carrying a big, antique radio, calling for me to pop the trunk. I wasn’t interested in participating in the crime and told them to take it back. Meanwhile, I saw someone at a distance in the rear-view mirror, staring at us. When they got back in I took off fast, and when I got home I was met by the police. They told me to open the trunk, which was thankfully empty. The only thing that kept me out of further trouble was that whoever ratted us out didn’t know that my mom had gotten a new car. They had reported the right plate but the wrong make and model. Vanity plates didn’t seem nearly as cool anymore.
My wife drives and loves her Nissan Cube SL, I tried to convince to her get BORG as a vanity plate but it was just too geeky for her.
How about LOCUTUS?
On a Subbie Levorg, this would be perfect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_Levorg
She might go for LOCUTUS, because “cute”. Checked my state’s self-serve vanity site and it is available.
The best one I ever saw was on a co-worker’s Mustang. In Illinois, we have to have front plates, and Rocket Rod was an impatient man, so he got the plate TI 3VOM. Envision that plate in your rear view mirror.
And personally, I would love to have XPDNC, but it’s taken.
Yeah, VOMIT3
hehe
Actually, it would look like MOVE IT.
I guess the hehe was not enough to signify sarcasm/joke. I shall return to /s.
People just don’t “get you”, Corey
Story of my g-d life! The people who get me have been around me for a long time. I build inside references with people, and I’m pretty good at using them subtly. As well as other sarcastic humours.
But it doesn’t convey well to strangers on the Interwebs.
Well, maybe if there was a discernible joke in VOMIT3…
You’re fun!
Lol, perfect!
THAT is effing genius!
Mine:
MEZ6ER on the GT3; no vanity on the 993
Best I’ve ever seen:
TRUTHN24 on an Audi TT-RS plated in NC (hence 8 characters)
My all time favorite:
Fully blacked-out Black Dodge Charger SRT: DTH_VDR
Blacked out Grand Cherokee SRT8 – DTH_STR
I saw a GMC Terrain the other day with “GMC” vanity plates. It made me wonder how long they’ve had that plate, and how many other GMCs they have owned.
Whenever the subject of eliminating GMC comes up, I point out that GMC owners seem to have strong brand loyalty. I guess this is more proof.
“RX N EFCT”
I would have gotten it and enjoyed it, but I still think vanity plates are for hairdressers.
I’m not a hairdresser. :(
When I had the Wankel, I briefly considered RX8U UP, but I knew that would just lead to way too much trouble. Not to mention the thing couldn’t outrun a Camry anyway.
RX N EFCT is awesome! At the track I saw a Viper with XELER8. My brother runs MKVIR on his Mark 6 Golf R. I’ve got some ideas for my Z… I think SLOWZ is appropriate.
Like in “SPOOLY”? Actual plate of a hairdresser
In virginia vanity plates are dirt cheap. It’s almost a game to figure out what some of them mean when you’re driving around. Somewhere in the attic I have a box with many of the old vanity plates I’ve had. I’ve had so, so so many. I can’t remember them all. Probably 20 different ones, if not more.
Recently VA got the new “don’t tread on me” plates with 3 characters on either side of the classic snake. My plate was “MFS {snake picture} MFP.” 10 points if you get it!
From memory, a partial list of ones I’ve had-
DCTR WHO
KUSHANA
7 FORCE
SMEAGOL
NAMULIS
SPCE DOG
OHMU
GEHENNA
APOPLXY
KDM WUT (on a Kia)
63SCOR6
I can’t even remember them all anymore. And I’m always thinking of what the next one will be.
Yeah, every third vehicle in VA has one. I had a few a while back, calling out the uncommon engine in the vehicle.
Someone around here had ‘ARRAKIS’ for a while. I knew someone with ‘QUO VDIS’, and there was the infamous ‘EAT THE’ Kids First plate.
“Don’t tread on me” became the unofficial Tea Party plate in the last few years, so I think poorly of drivers who have them now.
“MFS {snake picture} MFP.”
Mad Max? I hope it was on a Ford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjeYByHQETk
It could only work on the “don’t tread” plates, obviously. :)
Isn’t it mandatory in VA to have your and your spouse’s initials on your plates?
Also, favorite ever: DINGO 8.
Yes, but you have to collect social security and put the plates on a large Mercury, Lincoln, or Buick sedan.
I used to own an all black ’98 Sebring Convertible on which I had the plate BATMOBL. It got all kinds of “great plate!” comments.
Unfortunately, it took on a whole new meaning when my wife drove it.
Just last night, I saw a Model S rocking the plate “LOL GAS”
Back in my Manitoba days, I had the vanity plate “CHKAI”, for all you Ukrainians out there.
The plate costs 50 bucks in Manitoba, but I believe Alberta charges 250 for the privilege, which is why I haven’t yet.
There’s a LEAF in our office’s parking lot sporting a sticker that says, “Gas Free (except for driver)”
“He used to tease me that “JAZZMAN” was available for my Infiniti G20 that I drove in college”
Ha! You mean a Sentra!?
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/10/capsule-review-1994-infiniti-g20-and-the-nervous-professor/
6 months after I bought my Z4 M roadster, I got that bug. Had to go with DROIDS for potential comedy value, IL plate.
http://imageserver.moviepilot.com/these-aren-t-the-droids-you-re-looking-for-star-wars-gif-7-year-old-starts-a-rebellion-against-star-wars-sexism.gif?width=500&height=206
It’s getting replaced soon with an AZ vanity – all picked out, haven’t applied yet though.
Years ago my Mother bought a Miata for “fun”.
She decided to get a vanity tag to show it was “lots of fun”.
My sister borrowed it during a spring semester at college since, it was “fun”.
But she was perplexed by the number of people on campus who honked, waved or took pictures as she drove by.
Late one night she called horrified from an off-campus bar as the car had become the topic of conversation with some fraternity members. They explained that the tag didn’t say “lots of fun”, because it was too many letters, it said LOTS o FN
So they viewed it as a rolling advertisement for a different type of “fun”
In NM vanity plates are cheap, less than $20 on top of whatever the registration fee is for the vehicle.
For my 2010 Highlander I got DATADAN, a nickname I picked up years ago working for our district’s central office. I became known as the #s guy because I was not afraid to plow into the data and see if heads or tails could be made of it.
The data also told me that would thoroughly enjoy a 300 hp AWD faux-wagon. It also wears a bumper sticker that says “I LOVE MY HATERS.”
Best vanity plate I ever saw: “NVWSSV”
It was installed upside down.
Johan de Nysschen’s vanity plate reportedly reads “UMADBRA”
Melody’s says “PURSES1”
I thought it was “IDOLEE”
#FAILGR8LEE
That’s a win.
One I would so much love to get is FY COBRE, but my life would become pure hell once they figured it out. That will remain forbidden fruit.
Oh hell.. on my VW I used to have GOATS CX as a vanity plate! HOw could I have forgotten that one…! College kids loved it!
Hmmm, I wonder if BRKN BAD is taken. Probably. :(
Goatse… bwahahahahahahahahaha.
The Virginia DMV site lets you check vanity combos. BRKN BAD is taken.
For whatever reason I’ve always been interested more in low-number plates than vanity plates. How much the low numbers “matter” varies from place to place. In Delaware the lowest numbers will sell for five or even six figures. In DC they are political prizes that get handed out by the mayor. In Massachusetts you have to win a lottery. But on the West Coast they’re not as big a deal.
I have low two-digit numbers on both of my cars (the lowest available at the time I registered each one) just because I can.
I found circa-1982 DC plates “AA-1” in the shed when I bought my house. Always wondered what the deal with that was.
I saw one a few years ago that said: H8 MY X
and recently I saw a new blue Corvette: BLU RAY
I’d love to get a THUNDER plate, but A. I don’t have 76 dollars and B. both THUNDER and THUN-DER are taken. :(
I see a Challenger around the LAX area often with the plate: PRMISQS
Surprised the DMV let that one through.
Older Jag driven by a woman with IL plates:
WAS HIS
Also older Jag driven by a blonde lady with Ontario plates:
“Ontario – MEN – yours to discover”.
It would have been better if the car was a Cougar, but it certainly fit.
I was very surprised the censors let that one by. It is very hard to imagine them letting out the corresponding WOMEN version.
I used to deal with a boat builder named Ontario Yachts. His plate was “YACHTS” and that worked in the sentence.
Only vanity plate I’ve had is on my Challenger:
4 6 6 4
I’m a bit of a railfan along with being a car nut and a pilot. Most people are just surprised I got such a simple 4 digit number in California.
If I trade it on a Hellcat, I’d see if I can get F6F.
I see what you did there. Nice.
I’m usually good at these, but those two have me stumped.
This, I think…
http://engineeringartwork.com/images/union_pacific_4-6-6-4_challenger_locomotive_600px.jpg
“Hellcat” is the nickname given to the World War II era Grumman F6F warplane.
I am the exact opposite, my Boss is the only car I ever considered putting a custom plate on!
Any 60s to 80s era British origin vehicle:
WRM BEER
Brand New Cadillac ATS:
DEADWGHT
+alot
I still remember driving by a house in Hawaii and seeing in the driveway two identical LX470s with the vanity plates “his” and “hers.” Cheesy and douchey as ever, but I still got a laugh out of it.
I know of a Ferrari with FRUGAL. A couple nearby has PSUBARU and SUSBARU (her name is Susan) on his n hers Fuji products.
If I ever restore the Elan it’s going to get NOMIATA.
Why not MINOTA ?
I wish a magic man in the sky would point down to all vanity plates and change them instantly to DCHEBAG.
If I win the lottery I’m gonna buy a BMW specifically to put the plate DOOSH on it.
I too don’t get the thing for vanity plates. But there is one that I have an utterly irational love for and I wouldn’t mind setting $300 on fire for.
See, I own a 1986 Mazda RX-7 GXL, and Texas has a “Year of Manufacture License Plate” law. In Texas when a car is 25 years old it may use License plates from the same year as the model year of the car as a vanity plate. Even if the numbers are randomized. Now what happened in 1986? The Sesquicentennial (150 years) of Texas Independence!!! I know it’s silly and I would be better off burning the money in a toilet, but I think it would be cool for my Mazda to rock Sesquicentennial plates.
However, for Texas you must have a front and rear plate, and the plates must of course match. I have been looking at e-bay and license plate sites and whatnot. I can find plenty of single plates for cheap, but to find a matching pair is very hard.
Come on buddy. Everyone knows the Sesquatch isn’t real.
My Spitfire has:
2KGS920
Which appears random, but anyone who has studied the Bible knows to look up the reference.
2 Kings 9:20 “the driving is the driving of Jehu…for he drives like a maniac”(NIV)
No one with MKT WTF?
I wanted to get FHQWHGAD on my MKV GTI. It comes from a Homestar Runner cartoon where the person was just mashing keys. The reason I wanted it was because 99% of people would be behind me trying to figure out what the heck it meant if they weren’t aware of the web series. The people that were fans of HR would love it. It would get a very binary response and be my own inside joke.
The DMV declined it because they didn’t know what it meant, though. They selected my backup (WV makes you fill out a primary and backup personalized tag should they decline it), so I ended up with 6SPD GTI. My wife has a british tag on the front of her MINI that says 6SPD MINI. That actually meant something at that time because only the S models with a stick shift came with a 6speed. I think they are 6MT or 6AT across the board now, so it makes less sense.
I’ve thought about getting a personalized tag for my FR-S. HCHIROKU is a contender. SCALPEL is another one that I like because I think it describes the car well and my primary mountain bike is a Cannondale Scalpel 29er. My brother, a pathologist, has considered an FR-S as well. Scalpel would be perfect for him. He is in PA instead of WV, so we could have matching tags. It would be appropriate since people often think we are twins.
NM doesn’t have a way to let the public check availability of combinations either so you have to fill out three choices.
I had as one of mine my three letter initials and my wife’s three letter initials with the ZIA symbol in between. (The ZIA symbol is one of NM allowable parts of a plate.) It was my second choice.
My wife said – “That’s your car not mine.”
I told her “Yeah but looking at the vehicle from the rear my initials will be on the driver’s side and yours will be on the passenger side.”
She didn’t think that was as funny as I did.
Had a couple at church named Tom and Gloria–his car had “TOMGLO” on it, while hers rocked “GLOTOM.” The cool thing about this was that he swapped each car’s plates for the other on the front.
My own PL8 reflects my singing in damn near any choir they can find at church, and the model of my car — a double entendre:
ACHORD
WV DMV tryin’ to play like they kno u?
Also, how do you drive with boxing gloves on?
I assume the DMV wouldn’t be cool with FiSTed, even if it’s explained that FiST is a semi-common nickname for the Fiesta ST?
I was kinda surprised that “FIST” was, in fact, available.
I’ve never sprung for a vanity plate, but mine is a little bit customized. Normally, at the bottom of the standard license plate, the county name appears. Some legislator decided that what was really important was that we be able to buy a sticker that says “IN GOD WE TRUST” to replace the county name. I got the sticker, spent a few minutes with a razor blade, and my license plate now says “IN DOG WE TRUST”.
You must live in Georgia. Typically when I see one of the GOD plates I give those yokels a wide berth because they think Jesus is watching out for them so it doesn’t matter how badly they drive. Although I did not know the GOD sticker was something you had to buy specifically. My plates just say FULTON and have stupid peaches on them. I hate peaches.
I’ll get around to the LOLVO plate for my 1991 240. Last time I checked it was still available. I’ll even do the DOG mod. Might get PUPSEN for the new BMW…
You are correct sir. While I have no issue with someone putting a religious sticker on their car, I’d rather the state stay out of the religion business.
You hate peaches? But they come in a can, and were put there by a man in a factory way downtown!
Nova Scotia only has rear plates. My car got rear ended and it mangled up the plate, so I got a personalized one only so my car had a new plate on it.
My RX8 has worn the obvious NOPSTNS for a while.
My favourite, that I’m ashamed I didn’t think of, a person on the RX8 forum has MMM OIL on theirs. I’m thinking about stealing it for my Turbo RX7 convertible when I plate it.
I also like RX N EFCT on all of the levels you came up with.
Someday I will have a Camry with..
IGAVEUP
APPLNCE
Best I have seen, presumably belonging to a Urologist
NOPCME
I’ve only had two vanity plates:
#1 Sun Green Saab 9-5SE V6t wagon “WASAABI”
#2 My Fiat Abarth “PAZZO”
I’m thinking about getting “OBRUT” for the M235i. Maine requires front plates…
In Maine it is $25/yr extra to get them, AND (the worst part) you actually have to go to the BMV to do it rather than the nice ladies at city hall. BMV = shudder.
Generally I agree with Thomas – best to have a not so easy to remember plate.
A couple I might get for next car-
SOMA FM – speaks for itself
FKIFINO – so when someone asks what my plate means, I can tell them the answer and leave them just as confused
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/04/devilish-dmv-revokes-virginia-mans-f-osama-license-plate/
I knew this guy personally. He worked in a different department for the same company. I couldn’t believe all the crap he went through over his plates.
My short experience with the vanity plate was for my heavily modified ’94 300ZX twin turbo. I chose ZXTREM. I wish I had a dollar for every time I had to clarify that it wasn’t zuckstrum, it was Z Extreme, dammit, with a play on ZX. It’s clever! Why don’t you understand?!
I once Stage 2-modified a MB C32 AMG to the neighborhood of 425 HP/420 Ft-Lbs torque. It’s vanity plate read M3EATER.
What was so much fun about that was that I was in fact a serious BMW enthusiast who had owner/operated many a Bimmer. So, it was even more fun when I built an E30 swap car with a 24-valve E36 engine and E46 M3 6-speed. The M3EATER plate fit even better on that car! ;)
When I lived in Florida when personalized plates were first introduced, a neighbor filled out a request form (before personal computers were around) and put his initials as the first choice. For his second choice, he put “none”. Sure enough, eight weeks later his plate shows up: NONE.
I saw a Corvette with a NO WIFE plate once.
My favorite is a Volvo 240D running around Chapel Hill NC with the plate: LICENSE. Probably a UNC professor.