Great number plates - got any?

[Three Speed]

No photo but I saw CSK209 on 2012 C-Max today. So what? My Traction Avant was allocated CSK318 when it was imported in 1985 and I understood that series was strictly for age related use and non-transferable to modern motors. Is this not so?

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, Three Speed said:

No photo but I saw CSK209 on 2012 C-Max today. So what? My Traction Avant was allocated CSK318 when it was imported in 1985 and I understood that series was strictly for age related use and non-transferable to modern motors. Is this not so?

suffix-less age related plates issued to new registrations (ie not replacing an existing registration mark on an already registered vehicle) where transferable for a time, but today they are non transferable as you say

im not sure when they made new registration, suffix-less plates non transferable as well, but it is how quite a few age related plates ended up as private plates

 

I THINK even age related replacement suffixes plates where transferable for a short while but people where abusing that so they quickly got made non transferable, but as above new registrations remained transferable for a while longer before also being made non transferable

 

[anonymous user]

Today I saw a James Bond wannabe, OHMSSS (really OHM55S) on a modern Aston Martin, I would have called the colour a sludgy, brownish, gold, but DVLA says it's green (and SORN)

He must have been on an urgent secret mission to Tesco and Q branch forgot to tax it.

[Lord Sterling]

Courtesy of a Level 42 video:

Plate doesn't appear to be on anything at the moment.

[bunglebus]

My initials (well the 1st 3). That would be a great plate for me

[Andrew353w]

I don't know if this qualifies as a great number plate, but it's a coincidence of staggering weirdness.... 

My first Skoda, a 1992 Favorit 136LS, was bought new from my local Skoda dealer, Welham Green Cars, except it wasn't quite new. Although it had only 12 miles on the clock when I picked it up, the dealer explained that, as they'd sold so many new cars in the last few months, Skoda gave them a number of cars for them to sell for what they could get for them & my Skoda was one of these cars. £4995.00 for an effectively brand-new car suited me at the time. The only "catch" was that the car was pre-registered by Skoda themselves, at their King's Lynn distribution centre, so it bore a Norfolk registration number,  J 284 EVG. 

Now, here's the weird bit.... in the early 1990s I was moon-lighting for a driving agency, taking any work I was offered and one job was to collect a new Lada Niva estate from one dealer & deliver it to another one quite some distance away. The Lada Niva, again a pre-registered car, bore the number J284 BVG. This is one I'll never forget & I will remember this as one of the weirdest co-incidences I've ever come across!  

[bunglebus]

Saw G1MPY on a liveried Transit just now 

[Nev]

Bored i went on DVLA  plate selling site and they have MR56CYL for 499, not put it on 6 cylinders page in case he wants to buy as a surprise @Six-cylinder

[Six-cylinder]

5 minutes ago, Nev said:

Bored i went on DVLA  plate selling site and they have MR56CYL for 499, not put it on 6 cylinders page in case he wants to buy as a surprise @Six-cylinder

Excellent, trouble is the cars she runs daily are 1990, 1996 and 2001.

[Nev]

2 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Excellent, trouble is the cars she runs daily are 1990, 1996 and 2001

I'm sure someone on here will have something suitable*

[Six-cylinder]

40 minutes ago, Nev said:

I'm sure someone on here will have something suitable*

What, buy her a car as well!

[Nev]

One more won't hurt

[Mrs6C]

@Nev - a great find!  Who knew that there would be an ideal numberplate? Fortunately for @Six-cylinder,  I enjoy motoring incognito... it would be hard to be an International Woman of Mystery on the road if my forum name were to be on my car! 🙂

[quicksilver]

2 hours ago, Mrs6C said:

@Nev - a great find!  Who knew that there would be an ideal numberplate? Fortunately for @Six-cylinder,  I enjoy motoring incognito... it would be hard to be an International Woman of Mystery on the road if my forum name were to be on my car! 🙂

Even better would be MRS 6C. You could put that on anything post-1965 so almost anything in the collection, but which one would you choose? It's not on a vehicle and has probably never been issued.

[skoda_fan]

The DVLA plate selling site is a surefire time waster and far cheaper than commercial sites. I've actually bought a couple of their cheaper plates after a couple of sherbets and never actually transferred them onto anything. Good thing is you can retain them up to ten years for future use.

[mitsisigma01]

If I was to purchase a private plate on retention off an ebay seller, what would be the cost of transferring it to one of my vehicles and what should I be aware of with the seller, I have seen a dvla retention form in his name.... 

[quicksilver]

A lot of crap tankers have variations of POO, BOG, LOO etc. but this has to be the single best reg of all for such a vehicle.

[bunglebus]

I suppose the one on my mate's M5 counts, as it is a V10 and RWD

 

[hairnet]

On 12/9/2020 at 4:40 PM, Six-cylinder said:

Excellent, trouble is the cars she runs daily are 1990, 1996 and 2001.

when the time comes logan mcv diesel :D

 

[mitsisigma01]

On 12/9/2020 at 11:03 PM, mitsisigma01 said:

If I was to purchase a private plate on retention off an ebay seller, what would be the cost of transferring it to one of my vehicles and what should I be aware of with the seller, I have seen a dvla retention form in his name.... 

Anybody transferred a plate from a private seller... Any potential for problems.... 

[Mudster]

Cost would be a new pair of numberplate. Then £80 (or whatever fee it may have gone up to at the time) to remove it when you dispose of the car.

[willswitchengage]

Went to Harry Potter world yesterday, great plates on the shuttle buses.

[myglaren]

P.WIILK8 or very similar - seen about an hour ago and forgotten until an email notification for this thread appeared

It was crammed together like that with the quite prominent "." after the P.

[Jamie]

[High Jetter]

^^^ not the best car to go gardening in

[Three Speed]

It’s private plate on RAV4 day today. I’m not sure of the significance of the plate on this one in Dorking.

And here’s another RAV4 with a fancy plate in Isleworth.

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Three Speed said:

It’s private plate on RAV4 day today. I’m not sure of the significance of the plate on this one in Dorking.

Does the car in front of TW0 8ORE have an enormous cock on the roof?

[Peter C]

[Three Speed]

The enormous cock is a permanent resident on the roundabout. It has some symbolism to the good people of Dorking.

[stuboy]