When I first moved out here I was highly amused to see (changed by forum) on an XJ6. Evidently the DMV didn't know much British slang.

More surprising was a Corvette that passed me on the 170 freeway. It had a heart "love" symbol which hopefully I can reproduce here and it read:

8HR♥︎BTN

Usually the DMV are pretty good about spotting that stuff, but this one evidently slipped through the net. Unlike the UK, there are some symbols which can be used on a license plate. The heart, a waving hand, a star, a few others. You can only use one, and it doesn't actually have a value, so if there's another license plate already out there with the same number/letter combination without the symbol you can't use it.

Edit - the censored word started with B, ended with X and had two L's in the middle

Nothing wrong with ballbox surely. We used to use them at the snooker club 

You could choose your own plate in Germany long before you could do so here. German plates are two or three letters for a city, county or region, two alphas in sequence (ie AA through to ZZ) then numbers. I remember once being overtaken on the Autobahn by a Saab, reg: SA AB 900

As a Yorkshireman I was also amused in Augsburg (Bavaria, area letter A) to be in a traffic jam behind A UP 259

I remember Steve Parrish having that number on one of those blue  tiny cars for the disabled, mind you he'd replaced the 125cc engine with a very tuned 750cc

I saw the number on the A1 a couple of years ago, it was fitted to a Porsche .

I'll have to dig though my phone to find it, but shortly after the VW investigation revealed that they'd been falsifying emissions data from their diesel-engined cars for years, I saw a Jetta (?) here in LA with the plate

1 CLN DSL

The owner had x'ed out the plate with red electrical tape, which I thought was genius. I'll look for the photo.

Found the picture. Barham Blvd above the 101 freeway - morning rush hour when there was such a thing pre-COVID

Back in the early 90s the company I worked for had quite a few customers who had daily drive type cars that had personal number plates.
The cleverest one I can recall off hand was MOT 10N on a racing green Bentley; the strangest was JCB 7 on a transit van!

Saw this shiny red Ferrari in Bere in Devon (home of Peco) a few years ago.

My family certainly did a double take (no prizes for guessing our surname!)...

Toothpaste?

sings with a high voice?

When the N prefix plate came out I remember publishing a picture on the back of the N Gauge Journal of a member's plate - N9 NGS

About 35 years ago a work colleague spotted an Austin A35 in South London with his initials and a single digit. The plate was originally issued in 1936. Determined to get the plate, he offered a generous amount to buy the car and its plate which gave the seller more than enough to buy a good quality 2/3 year old car with a lot more space than the A35. Win/win. He transferred it to his BMW...........no not an Isetta. :-)

Quote from: Michael Shillabeer on November 23, 2022, 06:16:30 PM
When the N prefix plate came out I remember publishing a picture on the back of the N Gauge Journal of a member's plate - N9 NGS

The late Hull MRS Member Stephen Pugmire had N9 MMS on his Volvo 480...

Quote from: woodbury22uk on November 23, 2022, 06:26:35 PM
He transferred it to his BMW...........no not an Isetta. :-)

My Dad's Isetta was 135 ARU
He also had a Heinkel/Trojan with the number 527 HOT