Oh yeah... the plate is real
It's just a habit of blacking it out when posting it on the internet. On other local forums there have been incidences of modified cars posted, and the lisence plates have been tracked to an address (apparently it's quite easy). The cars are targeted and stolen especially due to the fact that when they're posted in forums, owners often put a list of whats been done to it and the parts on it. Stolen parts = $$$.
It's just a simple photoshop, can't be too safe, and it looks cool B)