There is a 4x4 regularly parked outside a police station in Ainsdale (a 'suburb' of Southport) that has a mis-spaced private place. It's actually parked right next to the station, where the police cars normally park.
Why don't the police do something about it?
1. It probably belongs to one of them.
2. It's a part time police station so is only open about 2hrs a week anyway
DB
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Duh. Plate, not place.
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Lots of odd fonts and spacings around where I live. There has been an MPV running around for the last two years with wrong spacing and a '2' made into a 'Z'. Also been to my son's school this evening and parked next to a newish BMW convertable with a plate in a very strange font - sort of 'curly italic' with a shadowing effect - very difficult to read even at close range.
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I saw a good one on the motorway yesterday. No mis-spacing or altered letters. It was on a van that does the mobile tuning. The plate was A2 NUP very clever.
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The best straight plate I know is on a van belonging to a kennel - K9 FUN. No need for special spacing or doctoring to read this one.
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>>..... that has a mis-spaced private place. It's actually....
Hey, I know a couple of jokes about a mis-spaced private places :-)
OK, back to the original thread...
If I was to buy a "cherished plate", I'd get "C11 ADR" and put a screw in between the two 1s to make it look like a H. Now that would be illegal would it - as long as the screw was a "proper" fitting?
Not vain (or rich) enough yet though! :-)
Chad.
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Registration plates should be easy to read and anything that renders them difficult to read is questionable. How there is such a proliferation of plates with numbers that are difficult to read I just don't understand.
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I see the plate R8 MEO regularly. When it was first fitted yellow and white screw caps were placed on the 8 to make it look like a 0. I've noticed this morning that the caps are now black - the fact the car was featured in the local rag may have brought it to the attention of the police.
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AS02BED made me smile. It was spaced as:
A S0 2 BED
of course, and fitted to a show-off car.
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If I was to buy a "cherished plate", I'd get "C11 ADR"
Currently fitted to a Kawasaki ZX 600-F3.
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J3NNY is currently residing on a ML320
K9 FUN and A2NUP are both on Hyundai H100s.
R8MEO is on a Hyundai Coupe
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R8MEO is on a Hyundai Coupe
Please tell me he didn't pay more for the plate than for the car. Please.
Anyone know where 911 TOY is?
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as mentioned previously - showing I'm as sad as everyone else, in the number plate world....
My Meastro van (only 322,000 miles on it now!!)
VAN 580Y
Her Mx5 (our surname is Budgen)
B11 DGN
Now,long gone, our Jaguar Sovereign, Debbi's car, really,
DEB 50V
No incorrect spacings/styles used here.
VB
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I can't afford a personalised number plate - I don't need one neither, but I have considered mutilating my current number plate to read DCXLV111 VCR Would this be acceptable under current legislation ?
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I have considered mutilating my current number plate to read DCXLV111 VCR Would this be acceptable under current legislation ?
Might best to wait to wait until the next Roman invasion. I'm sure that sort of thing will be approved then
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Seen today: B4 CEX!
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The best I've seen, and only ones I would consider, were on a pair of vehicles parked side by side in a smart house in Chelsea.
2BE NOT 2B
Class:)
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On a Range Rover in Salisbury last week:
X5 NOT
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Come on - don't you realise what a service these people are providing ?
It menas we can identify them as pink fluffy bunnyrabbits without the time and effort of speaking to them .
The pathetic effort that goes into creating (illegal) plates , that aren't even amusing or clever identifies a whole group in our society who I would guess display other moronic facets to go with that.
Can we also include:
people who carry cycles on the back, obscuring the plate and lights ( apparently some do it because they have been told it will save them at speed cameras)
The infamous blue light boys
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Can we also include: people who carry cycles on the back, obscuring the plate and lights ( apparently some do it because they have been told it will save them at speed cameras) The infamous blue light boys
Yes, I reckon when the 'blue light boys' grow up a bit they buy private plates!
Unfortunately I have a private plate (or 'cherished number' - LOL!) on one of my cars. It was on the car (an MB) when I purchased it. I do feel it marks me out as a bit of a prat - I must get around to swapping it back sometime soon!
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No Dosh,
I spotted X5 TOY on a BMW X5 yesterday. It was parked in the customer car park of the company I work for. Unfortunately the driver and myself had to pass each other on foot in the car park. Just before he turned his superior head away from me, (another form of attention seeking ?) I swear I saw megalomaniac tattooed on his forehead.
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I've seen that plate on an X5 (TOY). Possibly West London/Middlesex/Surrey way? I remember the plate and car but not to sure on the location.
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>I've seen that plate on an X5 (TOY). Possibly West
>London/Middlesex/Surrey way?
Reading maybe? I've seen it on the A33.
A Bentley Continental GT was alongside me on the A33 at M4 J11 yesterday. Reg. No. 'GRF'.
Kevin...
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Rolls Royce on M32 near Bristol years ago: HAN 50N.
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Rolls Royce on M32 near Bristol years ago: HAN 50N.
His friend ROB 50N is in my area.
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X5 NUT in the Kingston /A3 area on guess what?
Yes a black version.
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There's no end to people's imagination. One plate I enjoyed with otherwise innocuous lettering but with 'adjusted' spacing was
W M02ART. Into classical music no doubt.
Oz (as was)
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I have a photo of BOY5 on the back of an AMG Mercedes.
One day they'll grow up to be M3N I suppose....
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Seen regularly in the staff car park at a local police station - B16 COP on a Volvo estate, I kid you not.
PP
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There was a lad at Birmingham Uni a few years back whose father obviously had cash to burn.
He was driving a brand new Mini Cooper with the number plate 5 ON illegally spaced.
I don't understand the culture of trying to personalise a mass produced car by fiddling with the number plate. Pretty desperate if you ask me.
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Personalised plates doesn't really evoke that much emotion from me. Providing they are easy to read should there be a hit and run, what's the problem.
Their car, their money but £75,000 for A4EX does seem a little pricey to me.
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Adam
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Recent sighting is on a van reading DJ 51ORE, which is rather clever, bet they can't wait till 2007 to buy another van...
Kev
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As per usual with these "rather clever" ones, the meaning has passed me by...
And I have a very High IQ, according to Anne and Test the Nation!!! :-)
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Exeter Ferrari / Maserati dealership have a transporter with the plate EAT 911T. Obvious reference to Porsche :-)
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As per usual with these "rather clever" ones, the meaning has passed me by...
Would love to enlighten you, but I'm in the same boat on that one.
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Saw a huge stretch limo on the M1 on Sunday with the reg B16GER.
Mind you, I have to say that many of these personal (!) plates have me saying "What on earth is that supposed to mean?"
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Saw in West Cornwall (St Mawes to be Precise) a Jeep with J55P ** (can't remember the last two letters).
May personalised plates in this area are based around the old local area marks ie RL, CV and AF with an appropriate first letter eg GRL or TAF. I actually like this as it promotes the locality of the area rather than trying to be clever.
I am personally after any low number or yearless THS plate at a knock down price, as these are the initials of my business name.
...or maybe I should just settle for BOD 9 E :)
Read my profile to find out....
:)
H
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i'd love to get KEV1N but i don't wanna think about what it would cost if it was actually available
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For anyone in London, Pimlico Plumbers vans often have some quite well thought out plates, judging by the number of vehicles they have it must be someone's full time job just buying plates!
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Saw a Mazda RX8 this morning with JASONS in fancy script lettering front and back, god knows what it should have read.
How do these people get away with it?
IMHO The number plate should be withdrawn without any second chances in cases like these.
PP
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only possible combination i can see would be J45ONS then using some dubious font/spacing
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check out the dvla auction lists, they are listing numbers that they must know are going to be tampered with to make the number look more like the word . not only that look at the prices of anything that could be altered and it's more expensive , i think they are encouraging mis spaced plates , as it makes money.
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blue_haddock said:
>i'd love to get KEV1N
The wife spotted KEU 1N for sale in the Telegraph or Times motoring section a few weeks ago. I think it was POA.
Kevin...
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it's close but not quite good enough!
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I spotted my initials and 1 (AHJ1) on the plate of an exotic sports car at Goodwood festival of speed. I spoke with the owner who tolm me he paid £65 for it (the plate) in 1962 - I asked him if he wanted to double his money :-) I bet you can guess his reply!
Same car was on the cover of Classics magazine a couple of months ago so I had to buy a copy.
I can't remember what the car was now but it was Italian and only a few were made.
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Seen in Swindon yesterday, P15 TOF on a very ordinary looking small hatchback. It was being driven by a mature lady who certainly looked it - which for some reason made it seem all the funnier.
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The one thing that puzzles me about such plates (particularly given the eye-watering prices asked for some of them) is -- why? OK, so you're called Sue and you're 99, but why should that interest me or anyone else on the road?
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Followed a similar older lady in a hatback on the A470 in South Wales a few moonths ago. V14 GRA.....honest.
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As per a previous post of mine, I liked WM02ART (music lover or drunk?).
Oz (as was)
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I own a 3 digit plate that would look even better with a bit of tampering, but I rightly or wrongly thought if you got caught twice with it tampered with you stood the chance of DVLA stealing it from you.
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The smallest least obvious change I have seen is on a big MB near me. It is WWW.1 where the dot is a little larger than the usual fixing screw. I guess he could still be asked to change it.
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I have no objection to those who wish to buy and use a cherished plate, something like "ALF1" or whatever. The ones who use studs or overt re-positioning of letters to form something remotely resembling SUE (5UE) etc need a visit from the style police, not a nicking from the bill (8ILL)
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Try being a motorcyclist with a small or altered plate. The rozzers soon have you! Car drivers get away with murder concerning mods to plates or the car.
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\"Nothing less than 8 cylinders will do\"
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Seen in Swindon yesterday, P15 TOF on a very ordinary looking small hatchback. It was being driven by a mature lady who certainly looked it - which for some reason made it seem all the funnier.
I think I saw this plate about 4 years ago and remember thinking it was quite clever. The plate used to be on a bright yellow cinquento and is now on a gold VW Golf. The plate also states 'wife's car my plate'. It's been the same owner in all the, I'm sure it used to be spaced P15T 0F, perhaps the law have had a word.
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