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Jilly_in_VA

(9,852 posts)
Sun May 1, 2022, 05:34 PM May 2022

Vanity Plates

Personalized license plates, aka "vanity plates" are incredibly cheap in Virginia--just $25 when you renew your plate or sticker, which isn't that often or that much either. I have said ever since I moved here that since they're so cheap, anyone not having them is either lazy or suffers from a lack of imagination.

Mine says GYPC QN, which is a play on a comment someone made many years ago on one of my favorite pictures of me, that it "looked like an Appalachian gypsy queen." Husband's is EADGBE, the tuning sequence for a six-string guitar. I've seen some that are very creative and some that just make me wonder. I saw one at the shelter that said GOODOG and another one that said HEEL. And I haven't figured out whether it's our manager or the vet that comes in, both of South Asian extraction, who has the plate that reads BIRYANI. I had a car pass me once on the interstate with a plate that said WHOOSH and another one I gave a wide berth to because their plate said KNIVES. And there's a little blue Smart car that tools around town with one that says TARDIS 2.

Anyone got some to add?

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Vanity Plates (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA May 2022 OP
PITSBUG for the VW Beetle unweird May 2022 #1
6ULDV8 Skittles May 2022 #2
On 66w I got passed Alpeduez21 May 2022 #3
4NAFAIR samplegirl May 2022 #4
10SNE1 Scottie Mom May 2022 #5
In Iowa they are cheap.. JT45242 May 2022 #6
The best vanity plate I've ever seen was on PoindexterOglethorpe May 2022 #7
Older white unmarked ex-cop car... SCARED U keithbvadu2 May 2022 #8
I once saw a car in a rear-ender-bender.... lastlib May 2022 #9
This is my favorite: Ocelot II May 2022 #10
+1 Xoan May 2022 #11
I've always liked this one ironflange May 2022 #12
I spurged and got one Kali May 2022 #13

unweird

(2,476 posts)
1. PITSBUG for the VW Beetle
Sun May 1, 2022, 05:43 PM
May 2022

We had it in Seattle but couldn’t get it when we moved to Pittsburgh, already taken. So we’re sporting UNWEIRD till we get some numeric variant like PIT5BUG.

JT45242

(2,173 posts)
6. In Iowa they are cheap..
Sun May 1, 2022, 05:55 PM
May 2022

Wife has buckeyz on a university of Iowa plate. We are transplants.

I have Thedctr because TARDIS was taken

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
7. The best vanity plate I've ever seen was on
Sun May 1, 2022, 05:55 PM
May 2022

a red sports car convertible, driven by an attractive young blonde. It said, HI OFCR -- I may have the exact spelling used for the second work, but the intent was clear.

keithbvadu2

(36,362 posts)
8. Older white unmarked ex-cop car... SCARED U
Sun May 1, 2022, 06:28 PM
May 2022

Older white unmarked ex-cop car... SCARED U

Still had the spotlight.

lastlib

(22,981 posts)
9. I once saw a car in a rear-ender-bender....
Sun May 1, 2022, 07:02 PM
May 2022

that had a license plate reading (I kid you not!) XQZ-ME

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