XXX Number plate PORN XXX

[RRT22R]

I too have some around number plates, fonts and shapes. I thought I was alone. I now have friends.

 

Check out the original oversize dealer plate on my 'Tro.

 

 

 

And the plates going on a Mini when/if I get round to finishing it off.

 

 

[Skizzer]

Welcome to group therapy.  Lovin your Metro HLE.  Deserves its own thread, methinks.

[Tartan58]

Right on brother! I've always had a thing for number plates even when I was a wee lad, be it fonts, dealer logos, area codes and even dare I say it personalised plates (but not gay ones)

 

It's amazing the difference a strip of plastic (or ideally metal) can make to a car - for good or bad.

[explosive-cabbage]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shame you didn't have a fistful of Cavettes's Autoshite business cards on hand - there are some potential Autoshite lovers right here in this picture!

 

The woman who has been shopping on the left is going in for a quick fondle, and the guy in the shorts and the guy in the sunglasses are quite obviously doing the manliest of things - trying descretely to hide some pork horn with the classic 'shove your hands in your pockets' trick.

[Pete-M]

One of the reasons I bought the 604 was the battered front plate. Same with the P4

[michael1703]

Right weirdos, two more

 

This plate has had it's numbers hanging off all the time ive owned it, I lost the 0 about ten years ago

 

 

This is a 66 bus I'm restoring, this plates a bit weird, a reflective silver lettering sort of laminated inside, I had one like this on a 69 car once

 

[vulgalour]

I think I need to see more pictures of that bus.

[vulgalour]

Do you remember ages ago I went to view a beige HLS Princess in Rotherham that was totally pooched?  Turns out I have some pictures of it and they're proper gems.

 

[vulgalour]

Here's me rescuing some number plates (pressed steel and raised digit) from a car being prepped for banger racing.

 

 

 

Credit due to Dugong Esq. for taking the photograph and for tipping me off about the car.

[Joey spud]

This is the same as the bus plate above as fitted to my 'plastic capri' are they still legal tender ??

 

 

And a week old pressed ally ebay special on the front.

 

[Vin]

I have a bit of a thing for 1980s VW/Audi plates, that had the text set a bit higher up on the backing plate and the dealer logo below, plus rounded corners, all then set into a black plastic surround.  This is the only example I can find on my Flickr stream and it's a bit of a rubbish photo:

Audi Coupe GT by Skizzer, on Flickr

 

I've got one of these amongst the many number plates on the garage wall. It has the black surround and backing but not the 'higher' letters. Was off my late mum's Polo that was written off in 1998.

 

EDIT; I've just measured it...10mm gap at the top, 15mm gap at the bottom :-o Never noticed it before...

 

 

Here are a some more of the many that are on the garage walls...

 

[Sloth in a bowl]

Tres bon!

 

 

I considered buying DAT50N for the 260Z, but start price was £1200 and I couldn't justify spending that much (or more) at the time just to look a little bit more twatish. Tempting though it was.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I reckon Mr 1703 has a commanding lead in terms of class plate ownership, between his Ford van and that red jag I'd say he has the job sewn up. Get this man a beer!!!!

[Rusty Pelican]

 

In the 60s there were two main makers , Hills and Bluemels , each had their own font , difference most noticeable if you look at the 9s , hills are on the white car , Hills digits have small tails on the left of the digit like the B and the E have on this , Bluemels were just vertical with no tails , god knows what the tails are really called though

[vulgalour]

Am I seeing it right, are those white raised digits with silver bevels?  If so, you just found my favourite UK plate ever.

[vulgalour]

They just keep coming, check out this gem from the tat thread!

 

Holy crap, a Beetle/Fulvia based kit car.

I never knew such things existed.

 

 

No reserver and it only made £870 last time through, and the ngines with it are probably worth more than that.

[chaseracer]

Hills digits have small tails on the left of the digit like the B and the E have on this , Bluemels were just vertical with no tails , god knows what the tails are really called though

 

That's a 'serif'.

[Alan_Green]

My daily driver for about a year (yes, like this). Called "Well Ard" after the number plate/general appearance/dog in Eastenders. Prize if you can name the country.  (Edit: Answer - Pre '96 Ghana).

[chaseracer]

Brazil.

 

Grey on black: "...for vehicles 30+ years old in an excellent state of conservation..."

 

[hairnet]

malaysia/south east asia

[MrBiscuits]

I had the curly font on my '83 mini mayfair. However I was also guilty of black and silver plates on my '85 City

 

Here's a question. Is the UK (and it's ex colonies) unique in having different coloured plates front & rear? I've never seen it elsewhere.

[Formula Autos]

 

Not so much for the plate, but how it sits on (in?) the front of the car.

[hairnet]

might be plate porn if i go car and coffee/supercar sunday in limerick next week

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Not so much for the plate, but how it sits on (in?) the front of the car.

 

Prize goes to the Lotus Elan with the individual plastic digits mounted straight onto grille mesh:

 

 

Okay, you can't read it but it's very neat. Making plates slightly harder to read is something of an Elan tradition:

 

[Alan_Green]

Lagos, Nigeria - "Centre of Excellence"

[hairnet]

white only on the front something to to with the law about no white light showing on the rear which came in after 73 when the black plates stopped - when they werent reflective....

 

apart from the dutch who have odd colours depending on the use of the vehicle - taxis trucks etc

 

and spanish and italian trucks where the trailer gets a separate plate - think we;re the only ones.......

[chaseracer]

Here's a question. Is the UK (and it's ex colonies) unique in having different coloured plates front & rear? I've never seen it elsewhere.

Didn't France have white front/yellow rear before the format change a few years back?

 

I had the curly font on my '83 mini mayfair. However I was also guilty of black and silver plates on my '85 City...

BURN THE HERETIC!!

 

[RRT22R]

Now then fellow number plate weirdos, I have a significant issue - Look below!

 

 

 

That's right! Charles Wright 2001 font plates on a pre 2001 car!

 

The shame keeps me awake at night. (I should be more worried about the gearbox which sounds like a high-speed cement mixer full of marbles...)

 

Raised plastic-digit plates are definitely not period, but would pressed aluminium plates have been used in 1990? If not, that leaves me with flat plastic plates, but can I get legal plates made in the pre 2001 wide font?

[Adrian_pt]

Pressed aluminium was only really being used for commercial vehicles.

 

Ebay's full of people providing pre-2001 plates.

 

I took advantage of some twunt reversing into the Saab's front bumper in a botched parking attempt to get some pressed aluminium ones made on Ebay - looks much better I think.

[Angrydicky]

This seller provides plates in the correct pre-2001 font. You can also add text of your choice at the bottom of the plate. I bought a pair for my dad's Rover 600 as it had the horrible modern type on it, they were quick and transformed the look of it. I had the supplying dealer, "Arriva High Wycombe" typed on the bottom of the plate so it looks pretty decent.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PAIR-of-UK-OLD-FONT-Pre-2001-Vintage-Car-Registration-Number-Plates-16A-/161006768776?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item257cc05288