Oz Life (II): Personalised Number Plates (OJG)
I am not sure if it is a recent development or not, but personalised number plates are quite a big thing over here.
Here are the ingredients to this phenomenon.
Take a licencing department that allows any length of text, remove a pinch of restricted words, combine with a small price tag, add a generous helping of Aussie humour, and throw it all into a bowl of a couple of million punters.
The upshot is that it is easy to get what you want, and the likelihood is that someone else does not already have it. Or if they do, there will no doubt be a very similar variation available. Number plates only have to be unique to the state, not the country.
We have seen loads, only a third of which I have caught on camera (I have to drive as well), and some of them really did make us laugh. Apart from the usual owner's name, or business name, there have been some great comments.
Of particular note are 3 that I will quickly share with you now. The first was a supped up V8 Ute with all the extras. The number plate was "MISLED". Perfect. The next (possibly my favourite) was on a clapped out Nissan, with rust patches all over, one door a different colour to the rest, and some serious dent on the left hand side... "SITH LORD"! If ever a number plate was on the wrong car, this was it. The last car was the promiscuous Chrysler 300 in jet black with black tinted windows. Sith Lord would have been so appropriate here, but I guess "THE BOSS" was just as good.
Here are the ingredients to this phenomenon.
Take a licencing department that allows any length of text, remove a pinch of restricted words, combine with a small price tag, add a generous helping of Aussie humour, and throw it all into a bowl of a couple of million punters.
The upshot is that it is easy to get what you want, and the likelihood is that someone else does not already have it. Or if they do, there will no doubt be a very similar variation available. Number plates only have to be unique to the state, not the country.We have seen loads, only a third of which I have caught on camera (I have to drive as well), and some of them really did make us laugh. Apart from the usual owner's name, or business name, there have been some great comments.
Of particular note are 3 that I will quickly share with you now. The first was a supped up V8 Ute with all the extras. The number plate was "MISLED". Perfect. The next (possibly my favourite) was on a clapped out Nissan, with rust patches all over, one door a different colour to the rest, and some serious dent on the left hand side... "SITH LORD"! If ever a number plate was on the wrong car, this was it. The last car was the promiscuous Chrysler 300 in jet black with black tinted windows. Sith Lord would have been so appropriate here, but I guess "THE BOSS" was just as good.
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