Today at Gatwick I saw the most suitable number plate on a car that I have seen for, well, ages!
it was a brand spankers gleaming (awesomely beautiful!) Aston Martin DBS..in regulation gunmetal grey (or as near as makes no difference!), and the reg no. was:

NO 07 DBS

However the driver (who looked a lot like Daniel Craig, btw) had arranged it to read:

N 007 DBS

I could have killed him...jealous or what??!??!!!?

I saw some cocky Prius with a plate "GR8RMPG"

I'd rather not have a flashy number plate so it doesn't get stolen to be stapled to some students' kitchen wall.

I'd have one which read "BIGWNKR" because (a) noone would nick it and (b) that's mostly what people think when they see custom plates anyway

I once sayw a custom plate that sad OM FG 34
(OMFG34)

I got passed on the bus to school a few days ago by an eclispe, with a 4" fart can, peeling grimey white paint, and fake chrome hubcaps...
The license plate read "NOT RICE"...-.O...
~Bryan~

I'm gona laugh at whoever gets KN08 ERR when 08 plates are released next year

In Naples, Florida there is a restraunt called the Watermark Grill, and the owner has 3 vipers(one yellow, one black, one red). Each one has a custom license plate:

Wtrmk
Wtrmk2
Wtrmk3

I dunno, getting my licence soon, I might spring for a custom plate.

Our American friends probably don't realise how difficult it is to get a personalised "cherished" plate in the UK. It's not at all as easy as it is in the US.

In Chicago, I had "EE BY GUM". I just had to declare that it wasn't a swearword in a foreign language

For us, it's too easy, we just go in, say "Gimme custom plates!" then go thru what you want on it, and you have it! ;p

I once saw a Porsche 911 with "ZG ODAN" round here. Translated to English,word "zgodan" means "handsome". Ego trip much?

[not so useless info] (I'm from Zagreb,Croatia, and Croatian plates all start with the two letter area code ("ZG" in case of Zagreb),followed by a three or four digits and two letters. In case of custom plates,they also start with the two letter area code("ZG" for Zagreb again)but everthing after is whatever you choose.) [/not so useless info]

Quote from SamH :

Our American friends probably don't realise how difficult it is to get a personalised "cherished" plate in the UK. It's not at all as easy as it is in the US.

In Chicago, I had "EE BY GUM". I just had to declare that it wasn't a swearword in a foreign language

It isn't easy here either really, we have the same declaration thing, and pay a ridiculous annual fee for anything custom. And it takes a LONG time until you get the plate.

There is a HUGE master list of the unaccepted/unacceptable plates on a government site somewhere... forget.

This is the most requested plate:

Back in the 1970's, a Mr Paul Raymond (pr0n King of the era) had the number plate "FU 2"...I wonder if that is still around?
Another I remember reading about was Jimmy Tarbuck (unfunny Scouse comedian); his plate was "COM 1 C"

we in belguim have
e.g: abc-123 , i'd like to have
LFS-007 or LOL-007

I want BS 1337. Can't get it though.

Fun with the CA custom plate generator:

Quote from LFSn00b :

I've seen a FXO-952, LFS-685, FOX-128, FZR-725 plates :P

not sure about the numbers though, dont remember them correctly :P

Lol i saw a plate that said BF-1B-MW today
that makes BF1BMW even funier the plate was on a mercedes
lol holland has cool lfs plates to

I've seen a modified Mini Cooper S in South Africa with the place I8A4RE (say it and you'll get it)

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

Lol i saw a plate that said BF-1B-MW today
that makes BF1BMW even funier the plate was on a mercedes
lol holland has cool lfs plates to

that was probably BF-18-MW... we don't have a 1B licence plate here...

I did saw a german plate saying NERD 94 or something.

The plate on my brothers subaru makes me laugh, its not a private one, only a personal one (says subaru with a border etc.) but you gotta admit, how cool is the plate for a normal one

M600 BAD

As for private plates, i love the plate on my dads escort cosworth. It says K5SSY, which would read KOSSY, and the plate on his sierra cosworth reads C055Y, which also reads COSSY.

Something tells me you like to boast about your wealth :Kick_Can_

Never mind me, I'm just jealous

Quote from hrtburnout :

Something tells me you like to boast about your wealth :Kick_Can_

Never mind me, I'm just jealous

What? I was only talking about the plates, seing as the TOPIC is on plates.

People sometimes.....

Funny, the other night while driving home I came off the motorway behind this freelander and liked the reg plate, at the junction I decided i'd take a little picture, exuse the crappy mobile quality.

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

The plate on my brothers subaru makes me laugh, its not a private one, only a personal one (says subaru with a border etc.) but you gotta admit, how cool is the plate for a normal one

M600 BAD

As for private plates, i love the plate on my dads escort cosworth. It says K5SSY, which would read KOSSY, and the plate on his sierra cosworth reads C055Y, which also reads COSSY.

The Sierra plate isn't a valid UK plate, unless it was COS 5Y which is on an Escort, not a Sierra - the other variant C0 SSY isn't listed as a valid plate either.

Back on topic - I've seen P5YCO on a 4x4 (Range Rover Vogue SE I think) which I know was worth quite a bit because it was available 4-ish years ago when I got my plate (just my initials).