Late registration madness

[gtd2000]

 

The registration number system here is different as it started before the partition of Ireland. The prefixes where done in alphabetical order for counties, and included the letter I for Ireland. Hence, County Antrim numbers were IA, county Armagh was IB and so on. NI's two cities at the time were OI for Belfast and UI for Londonderry. IW is County Londonderry. The Belfast OI came about as no-one could agree whether Belfast is in County Antrim, or County Down. People still argue about that!

 

That's interesting to know. Reminds me of the plate I spotted back in '87 when i was touring the NI hotspots in green..

 

Reg no. SOI 69 on an old Vauxhall.

[mk2_craig]

Runour has it the Met Police stockpiled Rover SD1s when production was winding down in favour of the replacement 800, and progressively released them into service until about 1989. But does anybody have a photo of a late plate former Plod example?

[keef]

does anybody have a photo of a late plate former Plod example?

 

That would be an F plate I take it?

 

Best I can do is a B plate I'm afraid.

 

[chaseracer]

02-plate P38 Rangie on the M6 today...

[Skizzer]

That's a late plate right there on the R-reg P6 3500. DVLA has it first registered March 1977, when the SD1 3500 was launched in June of 1976.

[keef]

That's a late plate right there on the R-reg P6 3500.

 

There you go then.

 

A more relevant post than I thought.

[AndyW201]

A taxi firm I worked at some years ago bought two new Montego saloons, M440 &441 EUS. I know they made the countryman estates for donkey's years but I've never seen saloons anywhere near that late. Later on they bought a damaged repairable and repaired and plated it. That one was even later- M496 EUS.

 

Apparently Williams of Paisley was the only dealer in the country you could get them from. They only came in miserable Clubman spec so manual windows, no central locking, no sunroof. They went bloody well though with the turbo'd Prima. Despite this many of the drivers still preferred a 4 year old Sierra. Which suited me fine, I had one of the Montys most nights!

[Richard]

A taxi firm I worked at some years ago bought two new Montego saloons, M440 &441 EUS.

 

Was that in Fife? A woman I worked beside had a Montego with a number in that range, I think it might have been 441, that had come from a taxi firm her boyfriend was involved in.

[keef]

that had come from a taxi firm her boyfriend was involved in.

 

I see from your avator that they caught him in the end!

[kinkersaab]

My old english teacher had a povo spec tego disiesal, also, M *** EUS, I remember at the time speaking to her about it, it was an ex MOD car i think, and she went to huge lengths to find one as new as poss to replace her old B plate one.

[kinkersaab]

A quick google foound this...

 

http://www.triple-m.co.uk/phpBB/viewtop ... 3064d65ef1

[Mash]

As seen in the eBay bargains thread:

 

[trigger]

H plate were quite common on Mk4 Escorts and Mk2 Orions, My old one was a H plate, Now J plate is rarer.

 

1991 Ford Escort 1.4 Van Mk4 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[trigger]

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-moto ... tem-full-5

 

As featured in the Bargains thread, this 1970 1600E is nursing a S plate?

[Richard]

I papped this 53 plate Beetle today.

 

P1040022C by RichardB5, on Flickr

 

I'd like to get a proper picture but there's not really a way to be "just passing" where it's parked.

[chaseracer]

C-plate mk2 Granada, yesterday.

[trigger]

C is still quite common on Mk2's my mate tried selling me his one last year.

 

1985 Ford Granada 2.8 Ghia X Mk 2 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[kinkersaab]

I papped this 53 plate Beetle today.

 

P1040022C by RichardB5, on Flickr

 

I'd like to get a proper picture but there's not really a way to be "just passing" where it's parked.

 

 

So, you discretely climbed the tree and papped it through the branches, as that was far less obvious than just walking past it and subtly "clicking" it...

[cobblers]

A good trick for photographing cars without the owner noticing: if the car is parked outside a swimming baths or ladies gymnasium is to pretend to take a photo through the window of the building, but manually adjust the focus on the camera and line the car up in the reflection. Nobody suspects a thing.

[kinkersaab]

^^^^^^^ Haha, love it...

[AnthonyG]

M plate Montegos definitely weren't the last registered - I have seen an white N reg Montego Clubman saloon, registered in West Wales (N44? BEJ?), that lived in Lampeter for years and an black R reg LX saloon in a Cardigan scrapyard - it was a crashed taxi. The R reg one could have been ex MOD, the N reg one probably just hanging around a dealers compound for a while.

 

The N reg one was still going in 2009, so it had a long life for a Monty.

[Lord Sterling]

A good trick for photographing cars without the owner noticing: if the car is parked outside a swimming baths or ladies gymnasium is to pretend to take a photo through the window of the building, but manually adjust the focus on the camera and line the car up in the reflection. Nobody suspects a thing.

 

I usually just pretend that I'm texting while pointing the camera-phone in the general direction of the car so I can get the pic.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I saw a p-reg R8 214 5-dr hatchback yesterday

[Lacquer Peel]

[chaseracer]

/\/\

 

Indian-made W124?

 

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/general- ... india.html

[fiatdaft]

Those things are shockingly shite^.

[Lacquer Peel]

It looked OK to me, no worse than the average German built W124, just a bit run-down through no fault of its own. The negative stuff on forums about them seems baseless.

[Lord Sterling]

Here is an even later W124:

 

[cms206]

[Lord Sterling]

I papped this 53 plate Beetle today.

 

P1040022C by RichardB5, on Flickr

 

I'd like to get a proper picture but there's not really a way to be "just passing" where it's parked.

 

Have another one, on me: