Saw R1 SKS last week (Insurance sales guy?)
Years ago A55 EXY (As Sexy) was seen on the most tattered Escort vans you have ever seen, plate worth more than car if ever I have seen it.
My Step Father's was H20 RHB. Means nothing until you know that he did major work for the local water board (as was) so : H2O for Water and then his initials - £250 worth of fun for quite a few people. Kept by my Mum since his death.
Have decided personally that unless it really says something (i.e: without spacers, in-jokes and re-positioning) it makes you look like an idiot with more money than sense. Personal opinion of course! I mean, who would respect a Boss with a BO55 Number plate?. Well, as a boss, not me!
Some customers have reg's that name the company and that I have respect for. Probably prudent buys' that are an advert in themselves. Thumbs up.
We have a Milk Float (no kidding) used for moving stuff arround at our warehouse at our HQ that is registered for the road with MD **** on the plate. Would it really be worth anything to an actual MD or just massage his ego?
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Spotted tonight J513ACH .... means nothing unless you look at it as J 5 13ACH or Johann Sebastian Bach - on a current shape (2002 on) Polo.
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and I thought he was dead...
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ACH is a Branderburg Memory Tag.
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We have a Milk Float (no kidding) used for moving stuff arround at our warehouse at our HQ that is registered for the road with MD **** on the plate. Would it really be worth anything to an actual MD or just massage his ego?
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The plate could not be sold.
From DVLA:
Is there any type of vehicle that is not eligible to participate in the transfer scheme?
Non-testable vehicles e.g. tractors, electrically propelled vehicles etc, cannot participate in the scheme.
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Someone at our local hospital, either consultant or senior manager I would imagine as it's a very new looking Merc, has the reg S 50 ORY.
Doesn't mean a lot until you realise that SS0 0RY is the post code!
Cockle
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Some optimist in today's ST wants £1 million for FU 2 - I wouldn't have it as a gift!
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Not unusual, but did see 15 JK (not Jonathan King - didn't he have a pink Corniche convertible, JK 1) on Rolls Royce Phantom, coming out of Luton Airport (driving not flying) late on Tuesday night.
First time of meeting one of these in the metal - it looks impossing, in your rear view mirror.
Unfortunatly, this one was a factory mis-build, as it appeared to be without a front foglight OFF switch.
& no, it wasn't foggy!!
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FU 2 isn't that Jacquiline Gold - Mrs Anne summers??
VB
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The idea that '13' reads a 'B' etc is just ludicrous, i.e. '134RRY' as 'BARRY'.
I remember when the first Y plate was released '82 - '83, someone just happened to get CLA55Y on a new Toyota (Celica IIRC) and sold it on for £5k or so. Someone up the road from where I worked in North London had a Celica with CLA54Y, i.e. just missed out.
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I sometimes wonder why, instead of spending money on a plate that doesn't really read their name, idiots who wants us to know who they are (as if we care!) don't just get a banner printed saying "Hi - my name is Dimwit" and put it in their back window.
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15 JK will be the Jamiroquai chappy I imagine - he does have a Phantom in his collection afaik.
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Ever since this thread started I haven't been able to resist looking at number plates when I walk through a car park. My estimation is that most post-2001 number plates don't comply with the spacing requirement of 11 mm between characters and 33 mm between groups of characters, i.e between the first 4 and the other three.
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L\'escargot.
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It is easy to confuse old and new plates, i.e. Y502ABC and YS02ABC, they are but a year apart so could be on the same model of car.
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We went to London for the weekend & saw a left hand drive Bentley parked near Chinatown with the plate DAV1D?
MM
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It was a Viz top tip to save money on expensive personalised number plates - change your name by deed poll to match your car...
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A chap I know has had the reg 14GOT which reads as I forgot, for at least 25 years.
He got pulled over once by plod for a check and the officer ask him if it was his car and what was the registration, he answered and they had a sense of humour failure.
Glen
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I'll swear that I saw "HOP 234" many years ago.
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oddest one I have seen is S555 SSS, but is now getting common since you can also have SS55 SSS now.
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I saw a vehicle the other day with the number plate V3 00DGE. Presumably it was V300 DGE illegally spaced. I assume that the vehicle was a Dodge ~ I seem to recall seeing a photo of one very recently on this site under "Week's Best Deals at xxth October" but I didn't take enough notice of it for the make/model to register with me. However ..... if the owner hoped that it would look like DODGE then he failed. Of course he might have wanted it to look like 00DGE, in which case he succeeded. Very appropriate on such an 'uge vehicle!
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Surely every reg number is as unusual as every other, since they're all unique?
I know, I know... coat.
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I remember reading about a chap that bought PEN 1 S and had it fitted to his ferrari, in a desperate attempt to stop his wife from driving it!!!
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LONDON (no spaces) - seen on a Merc in a multi-story yesterday. Probably legal as it had LT in the blue patch at the end of the plate!
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Seen this morning on a vintage van:
DOH 920
A good way to start a Monday morning!
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PEN 1S was never issued. It should have come from Bury in Lancashire and the DVLA did not let it out for obvious reasons. Same for PEN 15S.
I live in the area so know the tale well.
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I saw this on a Vauxhall: X35 1ARO
It seemes rather innocent until you look at it in your rear-view mirror!
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I saw this on a Vauxhall: X35 1ARO
Strange - that reg is not on DVLA and AA database!
Don't like to ruin a good story though :)
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I saw this on a Vauxhall: X35 1ARO Strange - that reg is not on DVLA and AA database!
Perhaps it's been withdrawn? A few months ago there was an article in 'The Jewish Chronicle' about a Spurs fan who had his Y1 DOS plate withdrawn after complaints to the DVLA.
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Yes it has been appropriately withdrawn
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Just to clear this one up, the plate was PEN 15. Steve Parrish (truck racing champion and motorcycle champion, now commentator on Moto GP) had it on his Mercedes. Some friends of mine saw him with it at a karting day at Hoddeston.
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I used to see PEN15 on an S2 Bentley or similar parked outside a house on Western Avenue about 20 years ago. Around the same time or slightly later, I was passed on the M4 by the infamous FU2, then on an E-type Jaguar.
Bang up to date, my wife has just bought a car with a slightly offputting SN02 reg no which I can't help reading as SNOT especially as it ends in UGH.
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Yep; this belonged at one point to the owner of the London Playboy Club. And he got done for shaving a bit of of the 5. FU 2 was on an e--type ( pink, I think ) owned by one Fina Richmond, and I beleive it was a gift from Paul Raymond of the review bar of the same name.
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Spotted t'other day in Shrewsbury, modded Saxo (aren't they all?) with the no: C11AVH, spelled out like CHAV H
Now who says these boy racers don't have a sense of irony?
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C3 urban warrior monstrosity (C3 with black plastic bumpers, wheel arches and roof rails...... why?) with BUN11Y (bunny)
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Ah well, at least it turns out to be a diesel!
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I see a black MG daily with the reg NO02BAD. No too bad!
I've almost certain I saw a BMW with TW02TWO, but it doesn't show up on any searches.
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I've seen FA03CUP (owner lives near me), R1GBY, B1NGO and many others, along with COM1C and MAG1C which are both well known...:-)
Another one, which cleverly spelled out Paseo and registered on one of the Toyota coupes, has recently had the numerals returned to the proper form, presumably because of the owner being instructed to do so?
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As previously mentioned in other numberplate related threads, no risqué ones please. DD.
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Driving in London last Saturday afternoon, I spotted a middle-eastern looking lady driving a BMW X5 regn PER51A.
Strangely, the RAC website says 'no matching registration number found', and the DVLA site says that the vehicle is unlicensed.
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HJ 1 on an Audi A8 today.....
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Ermm, seen today.......No thanks - your account is suspended until you can convince me that you'll behave yourself.
I don't doubt you saw this but oddly enough we just don't want to know.
No swearing here, even well knows words blasted with asterisks ar taboo.
Hugo - BR Moderator
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BSB - Account re instated after I received your e mail - Thank you.
Hugo - BR Moderator
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Could have had J1BAB (surname in reverse) a few years for £800.
RAC database shows that it`s registered on a Jag - pah!!
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Always got a puerile chuckle during the closing credits of Frasier from seeing Mary Fukuto credited as Associate Producer.
I suspect we're all about to get swear-filtered }:---)
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Sorry, meant to quote AS's
Some optimist in today's ST wants £1 million for FU 2 - I wouldn't have it as a gift!
without which my last post looks even less relevant.
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