The Reverend Bluejeans Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 Are you sure it's not telling you to buy four DAF 44s? - One for each Horseman? - That's the problem with coded messages - it is so easy to buy the wrong thing, then you could be in all sorts of trouble. Or it could be 33% owned by the beast - or as it is known on Earth, "Wagon Finance". No. It's telling you to go and find a Palmer designed Wolseley saloon that looks a bit like a Z Magnette but with the 1250 XPAG motor. Don't you know anything???? Magnificent Rustbucket 1
cort16 Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 The call it a vanity plate in the states and that's all you need to know about private number plates.
tooSavvy Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 I filled up at my local Morrisons and there were 3 big 'limo' mercs jugging up - all custom & sequenced like. TS
HH-R Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 I don't understand why people use incorrect number plate fonts (the blatantly incorrect ones, not using pre 2001 font on post 2001 car etc), it just screams "pull me over!!11".
Tamworthbay Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 Perhaps they live between Nuneaton and the M42 but can't afford sat navs. Stroller133 1
Justin Case Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 I once saw a Harley-Davidson reg X 666 HOG. Now there was someone who had got it right .
Taff Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 I understand why someone would think they're a waste of money or even a bit silly, but I don't get why some people feel so strongly about private 'plates. Piston Heads has a thread dedicated to hundreds of people venting at least a thousand posts of serious degrees of venomous anger and resentment over them. It is quite amazing. sums pistonheads up. To waste all that bandwidth whinging about something so trivial. If someone wants to spaff their hard earned on a plate, so what? They would probably arch an eyebrow at some of the stuff I/we waste money on. I don't understand why people use incorrect number plate fonts (the blatantly incorrect ones, not using pre 2001 font on post 2001 car etc), it just screams "pull me over!!11". Yeah, cos Traffic Div haven't got anything else better to do. APNR gets a lot of the worst offenders, leaving Plod free to catch "real" criminals
Tamworthbay Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 I once saw a Harley-Davidson reg X 666 HOG. Now there was someone who had got it right . that's utterly tragic, but then so are Hardly ablesons full stop. 99.9% are ridden at the weekends only by bankers and portfolio managers. Have you seen the HOG accessory catalogue? You can get HOG stirrups ffs, truly sad in every possible way. John F 1
Magnificent Rustbucket Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 sums pistonheads up. To waste all that bandwidth whinging about something so trivial. If someone wants to spaff their hard earned on a plate, so what? They would probably arch an eyebrow at some of the stuff I/we waste money on. Yeah, cos Traffic Div haven't got anything else better to do. APNR gets a lot of the worst offenders, leaving Plod free to catch "real" criminals Piston Heads is such a big site that it contains good and bad. It is quite diverse, really.
Justin Case Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 that's utterly tragic, but then so are Hardly ablesons full stop. 99.9% are ridden at the weekends only by bankers and portfolio managers. Have you seen the HOG accessory catalogue? You can get HOG stirrups ffs, truly sad in every possible way. Fair point, but this one was in the far corner of Brittany and the rider had managed to straddle the fine line between merchant banker and hells angel so was the 0.1% He had also probably spent more time refuelling the vast* tank than actually riding the thing. Probably entirely irrelevant, but the fattest person I know rides a Honda Gold Wing, which makes a HD look like a Manx Norton and actually makes him appear thin.
xtriple Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 Oh dear, I've got a 'private plate' Had loads over the years and usually made money from them. I had 9 KAH on a Jaguar, FLY 1T on a Capri (sold to a pilot natch!) and loads more. I have one now but I'm not really sure why... I think it was 'cos I had one before we split that went with the car and I was trying to get back what I had, It's only a DVLA cheapy, but it's mine and I'll keep it I like them to be honest and I tend to look at plates when driving - always have, even when I was a kid. I know I'm 'odd' and I like to advertise the fact! Magnificent Rustbucket and Jerzy Woking 2
HH-R Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 Just remembered I actually had a private plate but it came with the car and sold with it. It was a lass's name so meant nothing to me.
twosmoke300 Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 My wife has one too . It's just a nice 5 digit Cornish plate that's easy to remember and came off her first car , mk1 fiesta
New POD Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 Everybody says that until they've got one. I have to drive to Derby in a 1997 mk1 mx5 tomorrow. reg is J111Y## where ## is the first 2 letters of my surname, and Jilly is the name of my wife. On the plus side it makes an late car, look older and on the con side I look like a C11NTY with 2 black screws.
meshking Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 I was tempted to get a m100 plate for lotus, but couldn't be bothered - there always seems to be more pressing things to spend a couple of hundred quid on. My 2cv has a two digit numberplate that people keep asking if its a personalised plate, but it is want the dvla issues in 1975.
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