Replied wrong at first - I was thinking of standard-reg year of manufacture plates that are allowed in some states. In IL if a car has an AV or EA registration (flavors of antique with usage restrictions that are rarely enforced), you can display YOM plates if you keep your actual plates in the car.
Plate number doesn't have to match the actual registration, so people who display YOM plates are liable to get pulled over and have their real plate checked since the plate they're displaying won't generally match the vehicle's registration, but cops rarely act on that if they're aware of the regs.
That looks to be a vintage Mercedes as well, so if the owner has had the car that long, the argument for the license plate makes sense (though I don't care enough to fact-check all of it 😝)
You have to change your number plates in the US?
Here the very old (ie 1960s) black and white plates are highly prized. You can’t make them anymore, but if you have them, they’re still valid.
It’s part of the reason the trade in personalised plates is still a thing.
Had a professor at UT Dallas named Assmann who was one of the premier auditory neuroscientists in the world at the time but you always had to get people past giggling at his name to convince them that he was legit
Probably didn't help that he looked like some kind of frost troll tbh
Oh Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes -Benz
My friends all like boobs, I must make amends
I’ve always liked the butt, unlike all my friends
Oh Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz.
this was the precursor to batman, but it was rejected but the creator still held on to it so he decided to put it on his licence plate.
"Legends say when crime strikes, the last thing criminals see is a giant ass"
