6 digit poverty-spec 'personalised' plates

[vulgalour]

I've had a 6 digit plate, B78DVL, and would sometimes get people arguing with me that I'd fitted a personalised plate.  I hadn't, it was just what the car came with and was worth diddly.  What's more, it didn't mean a thing to me either, it was just the number on the car.

[Wagon]

A mate of mine has P15 MJN, the last 3 letters being his initials. This was given to him by his bird who did not realise that the P15 part spelt anything. He has kept the reg as his "cherished" number because he did not want to offend her.

 

Personally, I dislike the petty pretentiousness of personal plates. My missus has one and I hate them.

[derskine]

My old polo was "F93 GGA" which is kind of fitting because I was born in 1993 but it was the cars original plate.

It was annoying when it got dirty and people scribed a Y into the dirt on the end of it. "F93 GGAY"

[gary_davidson]

There used to be a mk3 golf around the corner from work that had K5, this was about 7-10years ago so the car may have been worth 2-3k, plate worth about 10 times that

[Squire_Dawson]

They've never done anything for me really, there are some genuinely impressive ones, but the people who use them as 'status' symbols on expensive cars just make me laugh. I really hate it when old cars get plate-raped though.

 

A good story my uncle told me was that ages ago on a family holiday, probably late 1960s, they were stopped at a service station and a proper job Rolls-Royce pulled in, running boards and everything. Obviously members of the gentry. The Rolls' number plate? 'ABC 123'.

[Ghosty]

All numbers from 21 up were issued in the prefix plates. My aunt had F86KBU for about 15 years, came with the car in '92 , presumably from new in '89, and it certainly meant nothing. Did have the quirky bonus of somehow having a U in it though.

[HillmanImp]

A mate got a 1.9 205GTi as a car when we were 17. He got a private plate saying C567 ADE or something as his name was Adrian but nobody spotted the Ade bit and just thought he had put 1.9 badges on his 1.6 GTi as you could not get 1.9 GTis on a C plate.

 

[HillmanImp]

Also, my old man put N4 RSR on his car once when he bought it new, RSR being his initials. He was not so happy when I pointed out it said 'arser' if it was said phonetically. He had the last laugh though as he gave the car to me and I ended up driving around with it for 3 years.

[155V6]

They held back 1-20 from when the prefix started in 1983. Over the years they added round numbers and double/triple digits (22, 222 etc). For a while 666 was withheld altogether because there was a run of bad luck stories involving 666 cars in the media. They seem to have got over that now though.

I've got this,it cost £100 & came from a Talbot Horizon.I always wanted a 666 plate,my initials are TG & the F stands for Fiat

[eddyramrod]

In about 1971 my dad took on a project: a Ford 300E van, ex-Warrington Council.  It wore 1108 ED, which amused us (me especially) as we are/were both Edward.  When it inevitably went to scrap in about 1974, I kept the front number plate, which I still have.  I found the green logbook to go with it after he died, and enquired at DVLA about claiming the number to go on my Buick.  Sadly, because the van was scrapped so long ago, it wasn't going to be possible.  I think I still have the book; I know I still have the plate!

[dome]

I wouldn't mind a dateless plate ie ABC 123 but would never actually fork out for one-plus I change cars too often to make it worthwhile. I love it when you see a private plate that has been transferred onto the next car the person buys when it means fuck all-MBZ on a BMW or M5 xxx on a 3 series diesel. Twats.

 

We should go with the American name for them-vanity plates. 

[Bobthebeard]

Suspect that using private or vanity plates to hide the age of a car doesn't actually work. Anyone that knows anything about cars will know pretty much to the year just how old your 1989 car is and will not be fooled. People that know little or nothing about cars couldn't care less anyway and wouldn't even notice. IMHO.

[tooSavvy]

Those believing A$ must embrace 'p.c.' oriented themes... look away now!!

 

A 'corner shop' trader in my locale ran his Big Black Au#i with LOH 4R plate for a while..

 

It morphed into LOH'A'[4modded to emulate A]R. Some while later it reformed to LOH4R [no spaces]...

 

Latterly it reappeared on his Bentley Coop [black] as LOH 4R.

 

Hmmm ..... no idea what is going on there?

 

I mean, a MiNi nutter would pay handsomely for H1 LOW.... the cars owned by this guy were never lowwadd

 

How many points (repeatedly being stopped) gets you into the back of a taxi?

 

 

TS

[Twiggy]

First name Alan........ last name Twigg, so wish I`d been abe to buy ATW 1G in 1968. I believe it was on a Morris 1800, scrapped some time in the 80`s. Clearly it would have appeared as A TW1G. It`s gone now, never to be seen again.

 

Poser.

[Pillock]

You can't get points for dodgy plates. They can have the plate taken off you (and a generic age plate assigned) if you're caught misrepresenting or misspacing. When I was stopped for German plates on the Golf I bought off Sporty, they asked if the plate was personalised for that reason.

 

I had B44 KPN on my Scirocco Storm. In 1984, 44 wasn't on the list to keep back but later on it was.

[eddyramrod]

That's right, I knew somone who was issued E66 MCK for his new beige Fiesta.  Couple of years later they decided to hold back all the doubles and triples... also I think tens and hundreds, if they weren't already.

 

My stepson bought V666 CUT for his girlfriend (Vicky, a hairdresser   ) which I think she still has.

[drum]

A mate of mine had W18 USA on his Hayabusa with the W1 above the 8USA on a square plate. He bought the bike new and ordered the number from the DVLA.

 

I've always fancied a private reg but I'm too much of a tight wad.

 

Didn't Jimmy Tarbuck or similar yew tree suspect have COM 1C?

[HMC]

Interesting to read the classifieds in old copies of Motor Sport. Number plates were a bit of a peripheral interest. A couple of small time plate dealers selling distinctive and today expensive numbers. Usually for not a lot, and usually attached in the ads to rusty bangers that presumably were originally registered wiith them, whilst most of the time if theres a pic of a car, from a car dealer, if it has a nice number its usually never mentioned in the ad. These days its a mass market thing fuelling people having wierd ideas about what they're worth. Every so many E bay ads 'plate wurf 750' etc... REALLY?

[DSdriver]

The only motoring related item that I have ever made a serious profit on was a number plate. When I was much younger and earning good money working night shifts in the 70s I bought JP8700 for £250 I think it was, sold it five years later for £2000. The only other thing I have bought which is likely to make more money is my lock-up garage which I bought for £200. I went to an auction recently to try and buy another one in the same block. Mrs DSdriver pulled my arm down when it reached £11K and it eventually sold for thirteen.

[Twiggy]

 

Didn't Jimmy Tarbuck or similar yew tree suspect have COM 1C?

 

Paul Daniels has/d MAG 1C

 

I have seen P1 ANO  on the road.

[vulgalour]

URRRNNGGNGG nope, can't resist.... was P1ANO on a Marina?

[Noel Tidybeard]

steve parrish used to have PEN 15

[Angrydicky]

D1RTY is still running around Southend.

 

As for six digit prefix/suffix plates I had BHJ 55K on my landcrab - which was the car's original registration from new.

[fordperv]

A bloke who works with a mate has S7 AYG but spaced S7AY G it's amusingly known as S7AY Gay

[Pete-M]

I've had a few low ones. UKA2V on a Mk2 Granada, BBU88T on an Opel Monza. YSV816 on a Range Rover. One of my SD1s was originally registered X300. I had an Audi A6 which I bought with S1ALB bit the previous owner wanted the plate back, and a mk2 Granada with B6WFC - an utterly worthless plate the previous owner paid £600+ for. The plate stayed on at the demolition derby.

 

I normally knock a few hundred quid off if I go to buy a car with a NI vanity plate. My W124 260E had one, MUI something or other. The type of plate that's £99 including fees.

 

My XJR was M66XJR. I liked that. Easy to remember. The Heep was R4PCC - which meant it ended up being christened "Rape Case" for some mental reason.

[FredTransit]

I just realised I have at least 5 six digit plates. Two I wont part with, one replaces a private plate so is not transferrable, one I am fond of and one (E reg 1967) I am not bothered about may be worth something cos 70E looks like toe or even tow. Foot fetishist? Recovery driver?

[Charlie Croker]

I have N1 VKB it came on a Vectra I bought. I got it "valued" at £1200......WTF? I reckon its worth a couple of hundred bucks as a cover plate. I let them put it up for sale on the companys web site (its still there)......if they get me anywhere near that (which they wont) I really would be pissing myself laughing when that cheque went in the bank.lol. Its still on my Veccy and on it, it will stay I fear.lol.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I bought an e28 518 from an auction years ago,my wife drove round in it for about 6 months before someone, my brother I think, pointed out that the number might be worth something. It was A928 SGT, listed with a number dealer for about £700, I think I ended up with about £450 when it sold after a few weeks, only a couple of years later 928's were only worth that , so it was a case of right place,right time.

[smellmycheese]

A bellend in work, who's second name is king, has k1 vng. The stupid v confirms what he is..... a bellend

[nigel bickle]

13 WVO on my SE6 - just to save the £25pa fee. P1 NAB on my Blackbird, cos I is a nonce.

P8 NAB on Musso  & NAB 8P on 635csi. NAB 9T on Renault 9 turbo, NAB 997 on Rover Vitesse & a few other higher digit low cost options. Several NBZs on 80's shite (280 Fuego, 345Saab, etc etc) , & a few car themed ones (SAA9T) cos I had spare cash at the time. 

 

B1 CKL on the Supra, B10KLE on Mondial, B15KLE on VX HPE, B16KLE on std HPE. N13 CKL on 16v Fiat Coup. ANZ 900 going on Anns S2000 (was on her old Saab) & A8NN0 on her Coup 20vt.  B1UKL on Strada, B2 UKL going on similar coloured Ronda(hopefully).

Good few more (some forgotten) on green slips- till I find an appropriate place.

 

We is totally sad.