Six-cylinder Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Now own up time because it was me this time! I needed a number plate for our tractor in a hurry so I could take it to the pub, first thing I found was a new cloth backed emery sheet and some white paint. It looked ok on the day, but for the odd times I used it one the road after that it stayed on and eventually curled up! CGSB, Laseraligningfoofooflanges, myglaren and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovejoy Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Don't get it at all - a plate is about a fiver delivered from eBay with no paperwork requiredIt is ??? can you provide a link, I object to paying HALFRAUDS 12.99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 I paint my own number plates because I prefer them to shit modern letters that look like 80s dot matrix printers used to produce. You can only get the right typeface from one supplier because the other dies got confiscated, at least that's what I heard. Whatever, they bum you for about £60 a pair, a most unshitely sum. I try to do them about the right size, if it gets up anyone's nose I'm most awfully sorry. No I'm not.IMG_20170108_171709338.jpg These really do look good. How do you make them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort1977 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 L's that wouldn't fit. That one is wonderfully abysmal. Here, a trailer gets its own plate so no additional plate issues. --PhilBut you also have to pay its own registration fee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltox Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 It is ??? can you provide a link, I object to paying HALFRAUDS 12.99 Set for £11 http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/CAR-NUMBER-PLATES-1-PAIR-REGISTRATION-PLATES-DVLA-MOT-LEGAL-FREE-FIXINGS-/322272564281?hash=item4b08f11439%3Ag%3AG90AAOSwfcVUFzPV&_trkparms=pageci%253A3948c790-f803-11e6-9b51-74dbd180bb2d%257Cparentrq%253A5f77576115a0a605a56d2090fffffcb8%257Ciid%253A12 Single for £7 although there's usually cheaper http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/CAR-REGISTRATION-PLATE-NUMBER-PLATE-1-REAR-DVLA-MOT-LEGAL-FREE-FIXINGS-/222286915681?hash=item33c1552861%3Ag%3ARtQAAOSwg3FUeNdz&_trkparms=pageci%253A5f511b28-f803-11e6-b501-74dbd1805e6b%257Cparentrq%253A5f78509315a0a2af06b38943fff1c54e%257Ciid%253A2 Lots of competition and prices change every other day, I've paid as little as £9 for a set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 I suppose that I should get some proper 1975 ish white and yellow plates with raised numbers for my Dolomite, but these seem to cost kerching on the intertubes. I have just noticed that the front plate is about to fall off my 2004 X Type, which is reassuringly Autoshite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cros Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 These really do look good. How do you make them?Its a very complicated scientifical process. I buy stick-on letters from the hardware shop and they last a couple of years then curl up and drop off. I then hand the plate and a whiskery brush to my Mrs who has more patience than me and carefully slathers paint on to the bit where the sticker used to be. Lastly I put a photo on here at the lowest resolution I can so that it looks better than it really is.My Loadstar plates was produced the same way. Conrad D. Conelrad, Sudsprint, RayMK and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 I suppose that I should get some proper 1975 ish white and yellow plates with raised numbers for my Dolomite, but these seem to cost kerching on the intertubes. I have just noticed that the front plate is about to fall off my 2004 X Type, which is reassuringly Autoshite. You can buy the plastic letters at autojumbles for not so much.Instead of drilling holes for them and thus make them all crooked and misspaced,you can glue them on with silicone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 If I did that it would be guaranteed to look like something done in the remedial class at the School for the Differently Gifted. drum, Lacquer Peel, myglaren and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Bolleaux. That picture is upright on my computer, and phone, but wants to lie down on here for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Now own up time because it was me this time! I needed a number plate for our tractor in a hurry so I could take it to the pub.....Hahahahahahahaha.... <breathe> hahahahahahahah! "What we are dealing with heeyah is a complete lack of respect for the law"</Branford in Smokie and the Bandit> Sent from my BV6000 using Tapatalk Junkman, cms206 and jumpingjehovahs 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Is Branford any relation to the great Buford T. Justice? [/anorak] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Sheriff Branford was the African American one who gets rear ended into the mulberry creak after bandit jumps the creak via the broken mulberry bridge.Beuford remarks that branford sounded taller on radio. eddyramrod, Junkman, Pillock and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 That gag was stolen from "The Taking of Pelham 123" (1974). Transit Cop Walter Matthau double-takes when he meets the super cool black NYPD Inspector, to whom he has spoken on the radio, and says "I thought you were a shorter guy". tooSavvy, eddyramrod and martc 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Des Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Well look what I scored in a charity shop yesterday, I'll never buy a plate again. Sudsprint, Squire_Dawson, Lacquer Peel and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squire_Dawson Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Good buy, even has punctuation marks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Is Branford any relation to the great Buford T. Justice? [/anorak] Sheriff Buford T. Justice was the character I was thinking of, but my poor memory and frankly lackadaisical and slipshod efforts in imdb led me to the name of completely the wrong character. Yes, Buford T. Justice, as portrayed by comedian, actor, composer and conductor (!), Jackie Gleason. Who I'm sure, in my non-too-far-off twilight years, I will come to confuse with Judy Geeson, of Danger UXB fame. Thank god someone still has all their faculties. eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendry Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 The only plates I like are correct for the period ones, so black with white letters on pre-73 I think, and white and yellow after that with the correct font and original supplying Dealers plates or repros, and I absolutely hate post 2001 font on pre 2001 regd cars. What I hate most of all is most plates these days instead of being the acrylic ones so a clear bit of Perspex at the front with a yellow or white backing with the letters printed on it attaches to the rear, are a black piece of plastic or a bit of tin with a sticky yellow or white front on it and a bit of clear sticky film with the reg letters on it stuck to the front of it, because they look tatty, rippled, worn, water damaged and black marked very easily and I dislike plates that don't look clean and fresh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Conrad D. Conelrad, Laseraligningfoofooflanges and Lacquer Peel 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgeRover Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 There's been a resurgence of plates made using stick on letters from the hardware shop round our way. Always on newish vehicles too, I've got a feeling something iffy is a foot with them - probably ANPR avoidance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Plod have all this OCR technology available to them (but a lot less headcount) and while the tech is obviously quite effective at telling the traffic cop in his ANPR interceptor that he has just passed an untaxed or uninsured vehicle, is it going to be any good at spotting a scrote on a plate that is 6 years too young for it, or a stolen LR 90 on a plate for a series 2? And what happens when the Serco camera turns in an image of said vehicle doing 40 in a 30. Fine the wrong person presumably. This might be what is afoot. I know the police of Newcastle upon Tyne enjoyed* this sort of lark with a very active ringing gang some 15 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KruJoe Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 Lacquer Peel and AMC Rebel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrad D. Conelrad Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 Inkjet printed onto A4 paper (using an excellent printer I bought for 99p) then laminated and glued together. They'll do until Hermes figure out what they've done with the proper ones. The Moog, eddyramrod, jumpingjehovahs and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 That's a bloody good effort. Modern font though, -1 point. Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrad D. Conelrad Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Hey! That's the 80s/90s wide font. Lacquer Peel and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Well, modern for an R16...It's a good font to be fair. Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 PIG PTP no? Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 R16 is a bloody good effort. It is the correct font for the year too. Depending where the real plates have come from, i wouldn't be surprised if it's more convincing than the real thing! There are a lot of shitty fonts on the market. Conrad D. Conelrad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 I see a lot of stuff (mostly barried up VAG) with the front number plate missing from its place, instead sat on the dashboard. Presumably to avoid speed cameras, wouldn't the police give them a producer to demand in 7 days the plate has been put back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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