The grumpy thread

[Slartibartfast]

There's a Chrysler PT Cruiser near me with the number plate PT03 RED. There's a photo in the numberplate thread.

[Louise2cv]

didn't Renault make a thing of selling cios with the CL10 plates?

 

I'm sure there were adverts about it at the time?

[Louise2cv]

There a SH06 GUN or (something) that goes round by us on a shogun.

[sporty-shite]

Mrs S has a cherished number that I bought her about ten years ago, FR54 NCE. Our surname is France. She likes it. I like it. Don't care what anyone else thinks.

 

As for making money from plates, I bought a Golf Cabrio with KEO 5Y on it, about five years ago. Retained the plate, and sold the car when I was bored for around the same as I paid. Reg delaers were valuing it at £1200+, so I advertised it. Not a sniff. I've advertised it myself, and would take a fraction of the valuation, but there's nobody wants it. Verdict: good if you like them, not good for profit. 

[conkerman]

My real name is GTA 356Y. My old sierra was a perfect match. WIN!

 

I'd quite like C11NTY though.

[Slartibartfast]

I've just found a surname based one for about £650 and if I had £650 I'd buy it right now so I take back everything I ever said about wanker plates. I am officially wanker.

[dugong]

Someone wanted to buy the knob van's number plates. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Further to Mr Peel's comments about dire model specific plates. It makes me genuinely LOL when I see a plate that obviously meant something , but they've kept it after selling the car.

For example ,there's a Range Rover I see regularly with an X5 --- plate on it and I've seen a few M3 and M5 plates on more grown up BMWs or Audis, perhaps they'll get another one when the kids are grown up.

[Austin-Rover]

There's a BMW X1 in Huddersfield with the reg number X1 TAL - I thought it was made out of recycled Morrises...

[beko1987]

My Gran and Grandad had an X reg astra with the plate ending in KCE. So Granny used to call it Kacey.

 

Luckily they don't do that now! One of my colleagues plate reads PKE at the end, I call him Pikey because of it occasionally

[AlabamaShrimp]

I am stuck a wanker sat here in some sort of mood feeling irrtated as I've been playing a stupid video game online and did shit.

 

IT'S A FUCKING GAME YOU SAD TWAT!

[flat4alfa]

[myglaren]

The only plate that impressed me was on a Porsche 924 owned by the daughter of a local builder.

 

"USL1S"

[Pillock]

didn't Renault make a thing of selling cios with the CL10 plates?

 

I'm sure there were adverts about it at the time?

I remember VW offering free PO10 plates on Lupos.

I mean Polos.

[chaseracer]

I remember VW offering free PO10 plates on Lupos.

I mean Polos.

 

I bet some scene-twat's got PH54TON.  On a Golf.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

M 8OME!!!! I am still annoyed about that 24 hrs later. What does it even mean? 'I'm home'? 'Mobile Home'? 'Malcolm Bome'? I'll tell you what it means - F**K ALL

 

"out of everything that exists in the entire world that I could have spent a few hundred quid on, I chose this"

[Lord Sterling]

I bet some scene-twat's got PH54TON.  On a Golf.

Nope, it's on a Land-Rover Freelander XEi.

[quicksilver]

M 8OME!!!! I am still annoyed about that 24 hrs later. What does it even mean? 'I'm home'? 'Mobile Home'? 'Malcolm Bome'? I'll tell you what it means - F**K ALL

 

"out of everything that exists in the entire world that I could have spent a few hundred quid on, I chose this"

It means that well-known phrase "M bome". Isn't that obvious?

 

These contrived ones are the type that annoy me, especially pathetic things like 'BWM' on a BMW. Select plates make sense on signwritten vehicles where there's an obvious connection between the plate and the business name, but without that context many of those on cars are meaningless. I'd rather have a nice pre-suffix reg that doesn't actually mean anything than one of those modern-era vanity plates. Someone round here had 21 UPP on an old Volvo 940 (although it seems that's been replaced by an Astra now) - meaningless but a local issue and the owner probably had it on a new car in the 60s so it somehow looks classy and 'old money'.

[Timewaster]

The only plate I have been genuinely impressed by was BU52 ELY which was on a bus that goes to Ely.

 

Not quite so good on the return trip.

[fordperv]

I laughed earlier when I was out, i even took a picture

 

I wonder what services Brad offers

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

There is one in my works car park - 'BA11 SAX'!!! Fair play, that's a reasonable one.

[Inspector Morose]

Jim stones, an operator in Leigh used to have BUS1T on his prototype leyland tiger cub with the registration then "to Leigh" on the back panel.

[Inspector Morose]

Here's the Leyland in question.

 

 

 

And here's the back in a later E200

 

 

[D Spares & Tyres]

The father in law has BJ58 HPV on his Corsa

 

A sex act and a virus together ☺

[RoadworkUK]

Gent once came in to book a service, arrogant, "informed" type.

 

Number plate W47SON

 

When setting him up on the system I asked for his surname, his reply was "look at my number plate".

 

So I asked:

 

"Oh, I see. Now, are you spelling that with the four and the seven?"

[Craig the Princess]

[scaryoldcortina]

I know I was talking about it as well, but there is a thread for GR8 numberplates somewhere....

 

 

Anyway, grump. I have come to realize that I have far too many cars and not enough time. I have therefore listed one of my cortinas on car and classic and I'm grumpy because I don't want to sell it. I hate selling stuff.

 

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C700696

 

Problem is, if I don't thin down the collection* it's likely that stuff will rot faster than I can fix it, and I don't want that either. Bah. Rust.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I came to the same realisation last year and sold a few projects.

 

Was sad for a bit, but then I bought some more....

[Slartibartfast]

My grump is I've got the bloody lurgy. Friday and Saturday small boy child had the voms. Yesterday baby had the voms. Now I've got some kind of lurgy too (though fortunately not anything vommy). Bah.

 

Do the grumps have to be car related?

[scaryoldcortina]

No, I think vomiting counts.


I just had a count up.

Current standing non roadworthy project cars -

1959 Rover P4
1968 Cortina Super
1972 Cortina GXL 2 door
1972 Capri XL
1979 Capri Ghia
1979 Bedford Chevanne
1989 Sierra Ghia

Not counting the Scorpio, or the spare scorpio, or the Rover 400, the Laguna is roadworthy so it doesn't count and the Hotrod somerset is always legal even though it's covered in rubbish and surrounded by engines in the garage at the moment. Oh yeah, and the recovery truck is terminally rotten too!

 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

 

 

edit - shit to buggery I forgot I also have a MGTF.

edit edit - and five motorbikes. edit edit edit - SIX motorbikes. I forgot about the motoguzzi that's buried in the back shed. FFS I don't think I've even seen that in 5 years. (OK, seven. There is a raleigh runabout belonging to me in a museum... that doesn't count because I'm not storing it)

 

You know what? I need to sell some shite.