Vanity License Plates
Some are clever, some are cute or to the point, other vanity license plates are enviable; like those low-digit numbers that makes one think there was a bribe or sordid connection involved. And a few are like tramp-stamps, just what were they thinking?
I have a friend who insists an otherwise good license plate does not count if it has superfluous characters such as whales, lobsters, sports team icons, save the (fill in the blank), cute stick figures of kids/families/pets, and other special edition do-dads. It has to be a clean license plate. Tough rules.
Let’s take a look at vanity tags that are good, bad, descriptive, fun, and everything in between.
Vanity License Plates

Nice old 1953 plate on a 1954 Corvette with a Bubble Top at The Boston Cup

On a 1969 Maserati Ghibli SS at The Boston Cup

1953 Buick Super Estate ”Woody” Wagon at The Boston Cup

1959 Allard Palm Beach Mark II at The Boston Cup

1967 Volkswagen Deluxe Bus. The owner said he “had to get a bus” when his father gave him a license plate with the lowest possible bus number, No. 1. The special plate was a gift to his father from former Massachusetts Governor John Volpe

Pretty AND altruistic

A Lancia Zagato. The Spyder was designed by Pininfarina but actually built by Zagato

Lotus Esprit

1941 Pontiac Silver Streak

Organizer of The Boston Cup, a very nice Concours held on Boston Common

A coveted 3 digit MA plate. No whales, team logos, or emoticon to muck it up

Euro 308 GTS has apparently had a dye job

Alfa Doctor? People Doctor? Either way, love it on the Alfa Romeo 4C

Pininfarina built only 200 275 GTS Roadsters for the American market (another14 in right hand drive) between 1964-1966. Excellent plate on an exceptional car

Nice original old-school tag on a Ferrari 1962 250 GTL Lusso. The plate says ”MASS 61” because at the time Massachusetts issued tags only every other year

S F on a 1965 Ferrari 500 SuperFast

Alfa Romeo 4C. Obv

A rare Alfa Romeo 8C

Seems legit

In a van down by the river

Drink of choice? JavaScript? Fun name?

Oh Quagmire

Now I want DQ

Ya think?

The La Ferrari wins in all categories

Bet the RMV lady does not have many Pagani plate requests

If you say so

Maybe should say ‘THERAPY’

BMW E30 is a great car

Ferrari 288 GTO

Ferrari 360 Spyder

An odd US State Dept plate on a Mercedes-Benz, at Costco

Ferrari 348 left from father to son

A RennTech Mercedes-Benz SLR

Bet he pronounces it ‘Porsha’

O or 0 ? No matter, very cool plate on a 1939 Cadillac Convertible

Left Lane indeed. 2003 Mercedes-Benz CL 55 AMG

Wings up on a 2009 Mercedes-Benz SLR

1986 Mercedes-Benz 560 SL

1960 Mercedes-Benz 190

1979 Mercedes-Benz 6.9 450 SEL

On a 2012 Mercedes-Benz Gullwing SLS

1955 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL

A nice BMW E9 in a parking garage in Monterey

Not a plate but an oddity. Kudos for the zip-tie stitch job on the fender
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