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- nothing new under the BR ceiling.
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=45...0
(well at least I beat Dalgliesh to it !)
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Not a funny one but there is someone driving about the Glasgow area with the Reg 1 UV . In the last few months I have seen this on a Ferrari, then a McLaren and now saw it tonight on one of those new ugly Rolls (without the headlights) Convertibles.
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2007 Seat Altea XL 2.0 TDI (140) Stylance
2005 Skoda Fabia vrS
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Recently I saw (and took a phone camera photo of) a Mazda with the registration:
I111I1. Christchurch, New Zealand. Letters and numbers close together as in a proportional font. Like I said, anything goes here.
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Given that single letter or number registrations are virtually non-existent (maybe a few ancient number-only registrations from Guernsey?), the best one of all time must surely be
V8
(which i spotted on an Aston Martin V8 about 20 years ago).
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I have just checked that on dvla website bilboman, this aston martin is still on the road somewhere, it was registered on 25 05 1988.
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i saw HJ1 on an Audi A6 yesterday.
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Wouldn't normally comment, but
J 8OND
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I doubt this is actually a personal reg but saw SP07 TTY last night. A case for buying a personal reg if ever I saw one.
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I saw N2 on Marlow high street last week on a Range Rover
probably more single letter / single digit ones around than you think
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Cant find it on DVLA maybe the memory is playing tricks I will keep looking for it again
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How about this one:-
NUT5
Aston Martin DB9
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En route on Kingston Road to the A3 on Wednesday early evening I saw: a black new Phantom ORA11E' looking like ORACLE, and a yellow Megane soft top, roof down containing four young lovelies, one brunette, three blondes, three in matching yellow tops, plate: S5XIY. When it appeared, looking to join the main road, there was almost a pile up of taxis, vans and cars stopping to let them in!
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Ed
In the same vein; I recall a photo in one of the grubbier tabloids, many years ago, of a very leggy, mini-skirted, lady bending over the front of a Wolseley 15/50 bearing [baring?] the mis-spaced number 505 EXY
Wonder if it still exists.
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ME55 SER Aston Martin in Sainsburys Luton, today.
Lettering incorrect style & mis-placed.
Wonder what the owner does, to imply that he might not be a professional!
VB
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On a blinged-up Merc I recently saw H17 MAN and I could just about see a black guy with baseball cap on his mobile phone. I made sure to travel in the opposite direction...
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On a blinged-up Merc I recently saw H17 MAN I made sure to travel in the opposite direction...
He might have been in the music business....
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Screwloose: wonder what length her skirt is now!?
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In the Esher / Kingston area WWW.1 last seen on a black 500 MB.
Although not legal it must be one of the least altered plates as the plate size, colour, font and spacing are all correct.
An oriental family living in an expensive part of Esher have three MBs with their three letter family name ( which I will not reveal) followed by the digit 1, 2 and 3
Now that must be rather special to have your family name, the most exclusive numbers and no messing about with the spacing etc.
How do I know? Because I visited them when doing the 2001 census.
Maurice Gibb, on the other hand, had a old small BMW with MG XXXX ( can't remember the digits)
when I called on his home.
I still like the registration on a black van owned by Chanel. It is obviously NO 7 .
I have seen it several times in the Heathrow area.
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Seen in Bangor, N.Wales - a Citroen C5 2.2 diesel with: C5 YYY - the first witty vanity plate I've seen. I hope it was ironical and not a true reflection of the ownership experience. Although you wouldn't think someone would spend money to advertise the fact anyway.
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Woodbines - amazing I saw this one a couple of years ago on a silver C5 - its a wonder Citroen didn't buy that one from them !, as you say very witty way of getting a point across !
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Yes, quite a co-incidence Pug. I'm thinking it must be ironical because the VRM is attached (I checked on DVLA free enquiry bit) to a 2001 car, so mileage must be knocking on.
Maybe the 'C5 YYY' stands for 'C5 Yes,Yes,Yes' !
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I've picked up a broken down Aston Martin with the reg plate MAJ1C
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a broken down Aston Martin with the reg plate MAJ1C
Must have been comprehensively outhexed nevertheless...
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Many years ago I followed a Chanel van round the North Circular --- NO 5!
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who says the Germans don't have a sense of humour? Followed one up the road on Friday reg no FR TZ 124 - of course if you add in the two licence (?) discs on a German number plate from a distance it looked like FRITZ 124...
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parked up on the Embankment (London) 2B and NOT2B
Hunters & Frankau (cigar people) C1GAR on their Tranny
Chanel have just the number 5 on one of their delivery vans
And Pimlico Plumbers have a whole host of amusing ones.
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oops well reading back Chanel is NO 5 then and not just 5
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A colleague had D 1OWRY and he was D. Lowry. As these plates go it was quite good but I do not like most. They are too far fetched and often require an illegal plate format.
I don't under stand how some people get away with dodgy plates. Many are unreadable. Some move a 1 and a 3 together to make a B. Other place a black bolt between a 1 and a 1 to make H. So I presume these people are immune from speeding offences? And what if they have an accident and drive off? How are we to identify them?
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How are we to identify them?
Why on earth do we want to Leif? How do we read for example Arabic number plates? Who gives a pink fluffy dice?
Let the authorities worry about this one. I think it's amusing.
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Leif does have a point - I've twice seen a BMW X5 with a number plate that reads STOLEN but on the DVLA website I can't come up with the correct number/letter sequence that gives a valid number plate.
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Are you implying, normd2, that because you can't find its number in the records a car labelled STOLEN must somehow pass under the police radar? :0)
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no - I was agreeing with Leif's point - if, say, this BMW was involved in a hit and run and I was a witness, I'd say to plod it was S 70 LEN that did it but if you look it up the DVLA says that number isn't right.
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Why wouldn't you just tell them what the number plate really said, and leave them to track down the vehicle? Why try to second guess people?
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who's second guessing? This number has been altered to make it look amusing. It is not at all clear what the number really is so makes a bit of a mockery of the whole exercise which is to identify vehicles and their owners.
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For purposes of identification a T is as good as a 7. If it's illegal no doubt plod will notice sooner or later - sooner I would think - and either do something about it or not. But why should we care? I have to say I really don't.
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I'd like to say i don't care either but I've a suspicion if I see it again I'm going to try and find out what its number really is...
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Is it not the case that personal registrations still remain the property of DVLA? In that case, why do we not have a system whereby if you are pulled by police / ANPR for illegal font/ spacing etc then, say after the third time, the number is taken off you and you need to incur all costs for re-registering your car?
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2007 Seat Altea XL 2.0 TDI (140) Stylance
2005 Skoda Fabia vrS
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Slightly altering VRMs, by one way or another, is akin for all intents & puroposes imo to 'slightly' altering a NI number or giving the police 'slightly' altered personal details if required to do so - It's deception by any other name.
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It's deception by any other name.
And?
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And?.... should be treated as such - it's concealing or obscuring vehicle identity.
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it's concealing or obscuring vehicle identity.
I would have thought that driving about in a vehicle whose number plate read STOLEN or something else egotistical was a way of attracting attention from the police as well as everyone else... Perhaps the DVLA will tell them the number doesn't exist when they ask, and they can then take action (or not). But such vehicles are more noticeable than others, not less. You can't say they're hiding.
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But as normd2 found, the way he read the VRM yielded no result on the DVLA site - what if it was important to know it? Any interested authority would be stymied, guessing the VRM wouldn't cut it in any court action requiring an unambiguous identification. Think of all the times people have been implicated or convicted wrongly due to ambiguous or wrong identification - works both ways!
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....personal registrations still remain the property of DVLA?
IIRC Yes
that case why do we not have a system whereby if you are pulled by police / ANPR for illegal font/ spacing etc then say after the third time the number is taken off you
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I believe that if it comes to the attention of the DVLA they send a warning letter.
I am not aware of them actually taking action to recover a registration.
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>>and you need to incur all costs for re-registering your car?
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Seems a reasonable idea to me.
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....personal registrations still remain the property of DVLA <<
If this is true, what do you actually purchase when you buy a personalised No? is it just the "right" to use it? if so, there should be terms and conditions pertaining to said "rights"? does this also mean that L:icence plate traders are franchised to the DVLA for sale of such plates, or or they selling something that doesn't actually belong to them? I'm getting confused now and its only Monday!.
Billy
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One of my favourites was on a Saab convertible, MON180X.
The owner had obviously saved up for a long time for that one.
PEN 15 was owned by motorcycle racer Steve Parrish.
Personally I think having one's name somehow depicted in the number plate is vulgar but do like plates which refer to the car.
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Passed by a 'sporty' Focus last night, black windows, drain pipe exhaust etc with the number B12 YOO spaced to B1 2 YOO - not sure if this was a comment on his/her speed or sexuality...
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Personally I think having one's name somehow depicted in the number plate is vulgar but do like plates which refer to the car.
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Then you would like BMW 3.3L that was in my area.
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E 1 TON
Black Range Rover on M42 today.
I didn't notice if Reg was driving it.
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20RBA. I bet he gets stopped by police aegean and aegean!!
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