Great number plates - got any?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

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Though I'm not certain that there ever was a series one 4.2 E-Type

 

Yes, 1964 to 1968.

[Matt]

Or perhaps an Italian Job fan/nerd.

 

848 CRY was the E-Type which met it's demise at the hands of the mafia and their bulldozer..."Nice car....paid for?"

 

Happily I've just found that 848 CRY is still around.

 

Jaguar 1961 E Type 848 CRY by Bob Lovelock, on Flickr

[jumpingjehovahs]

Or perhaps an Italian Job fan/nerd.

 

848 CRY was the E-Type which met it's demise at the hands of the mafia and their bulldozer..."Nice car....paid for?"

Didn’t know that, definitely makes sense!

 

 

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[bunglebus]

DE51GN X on a Porsche and MBX 1 on a Vito

[bangernomics]

SUM 1 in Leeds last night on a new base Dacia duster. Steels with no trims.

[Amishtat]

Used to work with a dubber who was having problems with his newly purchased Polo. He asked for the loan of some tools so I had a look at his car whilst he was under the bonnet. "The plate's worth a bit because it says Hailey" he announced confidently shortly before not getting it to run..

[GrumpiusMaximus]

No picture but followed TN15 L00 yesterday.

 

On the back of a van belonging to Pimlico Plumbers...

[GrumpiusMaximus]

SUM 1 in Leeds last night on a new base Dacia duster. Steels with no trims.

 

Priorities all in order.

[Justin Case]

Last weekend, on the A40 near Monmouth, A very smart Volvo truck with drawbar trailer B10 LOG. The load was as you would guess, and its ultimate use was probably hinted at too. On the way back on the M5 we passed a wagon carrying breakfast cereals with the reg L 40 OAT. It was making good progress, all the better because it was a Scania 93M I haven't checked but perhaps someone else has posted it during the last 24 years.

[bunglebus]

[D Spares & Tyres]

Astra in Ludlow has W7NKY

 

Not sure if it means Winky or Wanky but either seems appropriate.

[myglaren]

Seen a few times but have always forgotten previously, a Mercedes with "CLO5EYE" which I always read as "Close Eyes"

[bunglebus]

I saw MO04BAA on a farm trailer, X5 GOB on a BMW X5, PA55 GSW on GSW school of motoring learner car, CR15MAZ, OOO 16 and PUN 10 on a very dusty, just been dragged out of a barn looking Commer Cob on a trailer!

 

There used to be a Scirocco in Brentwood with a plate something like OIOIO or IOIOI, never worked out quite how they did that.

[Lord Sterling]

I saw MO04BAA on a farm trailer, PA55GSW on GSW school of motoring learner car and OOO 16. There used to be a Scirocco in Brentwood with a plate something like OIOIO or IOIOI, never worked out quite how they did that!

Many years ago whilst in Digbeth, I spotted a Black Range Rover with '800' on its plate. I thought it couldn't just be a number (unless it was from Jersey/Guernsey) I did a bit of research when I got home and found it was '8 OO'. So I'd imagine the Scirocco you saw would have been OIO 10/IOI 10/10 IOI or something around that region.

 

Whilst doing the research, I did strangely find some cars with just 3 numbers in thier plates. Royal/military cars or something? Thry weren't special cars, I remember one car being a Vauxhall Astra.

[bunglebus]

Big Bang 2018 323 by RS, on Flickr

[Vince70]

I saw a few weeks back on the commute to work on the Bexhill to Eastbourne road the number plate BIG TV on a Jewish racing gold Porsche Cayenne.

I didn't manage to see though if a fat transvestite was actually driving the car.

[Amishtat]

I saw HOV1S on a down at heel Silver Spirit near Basildon last week. Feel free to insert your own "must knead the dough" jokes, it's too early for me. Also someone round Chelmsford has 125P on a resale white Mercedes which I'd love to put on a smoky FSO with rust holes round the headlamps

[busmansholiday]

Yesterday on the M5 near Exeter there was an AA van, reg 999AA. They really do think there'e the fourth emergency service don't they.

 

British Oxygen have 1BOC on a DAF

[martybabes]

 

British Oxygen have 1BOC on a DAF

 

GBO2 would be appropriate too!

[davocano]

NE55Y NO on a Mercedes something-or-other.

 

UFOs are real, the Loch Ness Monster is an hallucination.

 

[flat4alfa]

[anonymous user]

That 4 looks nothing like a K

[Ghosty]

2ACK ('zack') on an early 2000s basic Punto.

 

B165UMO spaced as BIG SUMO on a Transit Connect.

[Pillock]

AUD1 on an, erm, big Audi.

[BavarianRetro]

Along with "VW1", used to belong to Ian Skelly, a Central Scotland VW dealers in the 80s.

[willswitchengage]

SORRY used my phone whilst in the driving seat but have this Sloane Square gem

 

[bunglebus]

Caught up with PA55 GAZ

 

[morrisoxide]

SUM 1 in Leeds last night on a new base Dacia duster. Steels with no trims.

That plate used to live opposite me years ago. It was then on a Kia Magentis about 04 plate and before that a Hyundai Matrix I think. It did make me wonder what was going on. Also UM is a Leeds reg.

[vulgalour]

One of our neighbours has SM06 BOX on their Audi.  Only noticed it today when I was watering the garden, shall have to see if I can get a snapshot without looking too suspect in the process.

[quicksilver]

That plate used to live opposite me years ago. It was then on a Kia Magentis about 04 plate and before that a Hyundai Matrix I think. It did make me wonder what was going on. Also UM is a Leeds reg.

At a guess it's one of those plates that's still in the family of the chap who had it issued new and they've used it on every car they've ever had. No doubt worth a fortune but also has massive sentimental value.

 

CUB 1 was another good Leeds issue. Originally on a Samuel Ledgard coach and later owned by Cubby Broccoli, it featured on Truly Scrumptious's car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.