Personalised reg saddo plebscum

[trigger]

Yes, I can see KYO 5D being worth an absolute fucking mint to a racist caricature. Or something.

 

GR8 if your names Keith Yong O'Donnell

[reallyloud]

Viz Top tips got it right when they suggested that Instead of buying an expensive private plate for your car, why not change your name to your existing plate?

 

I'd be Mr UDM 278M. Besides, I've always recognised people by their cars and plates rather than their faces - much easier to remember.

[Cavcraft]

Don't mind them so much except for the ones (as previously mentioned) who try and make SND 137R look like Sandra, that sort of thing.

 

To be honest most private plates are worthless, I have taken three or four off cars I had and they take forever to sell. The fact most plate companies are thieving shitehawks doesn't seem to help.

I'd have one that meant something to me, or one I could make to look offensive, I suppose but paying big money for them seems daft tbh.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I have an expensive one number three letter plate (issued originally in 1954 i think) on my reasonably worthless 20 year old BMW which, you'll be pleased to hear, is replendent with it's original wheels and no non standard stick on shite.

Compare that to the usual 'private plate on BM' scenario - a Norn Iron JAZ345385693578 plate on some over polished '98 740i with crystal lights, chrome door handles and other 'King of the Council Estate' add ons.

[Lord Sterling]

I have an expensive one number three letter plate (issued originally in 1954 i think)

 

These are the kind of plates I like, 2 to 5 digit ones (i.e. 'RKV 87')

 

I find these kinds of expensive plates interesting on older "worthless" vehicles. I wouldnt mind one myself. Seen a few 5 digit ones for about £2000.

[Rusty Pelican]

Scrapped a Riley Kestrel moons ago with 69 HAA on it , should have kept the plate really

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I have an expensive one number three letter plate (issued originally in 1954 i think)

 

These are the kind of plates I like, 2 to 5 digit ones (i.e. 'RKV 87')

 

I find these kinds of expensive plates interesting on older "worthless" vehicles. I wouldnt mind one myself. Seen a few 5 digit ones for about £2000.

 

Mine's 4 digit (one number, three letters) and was £1500 at a DVLA auction. In an age where so many expensive cars are driven by scum, there's something 'old money' and 'I don't give a fuck how much your car is worth) about a nice plate on an old car.

 

I have UWX8 as well, might stick it on my '93 318iS............just to take the piss. I paid fuck all for that - took it off an ancient Mini I bought for £200 in 1991, robbed the plate from and sold again for £600. Probably owes me shitloads in retention fees though.

[ashmicro]

The current Mrs. Ash has a DB7 with a not-noteworthy Belfast reg. Cool as fuck I think - flash car, shit plate. I have a mate who owns a Rolls Royce with an NKZ plate. WIN! He had a Maybach 62 before that and it had a dead ordinary plate too. I'll stick with HKZ 8797 on the Rover. On a side note, a bloke offered me £2k for it, about twice what it's worth. You could offer me a million, I still wouldn't sell it.

 

 

Edit: I still own 302 FZ. Had it on a big Yamaha, which I chopped in for a FireBlade, which I fell off. A mate saw me binning it, and said I got "quite a rag-dolling". Hondas are good, falling off isn't so cool. I left two teeth in the helmet. I still have the lid, blood and all, to remind me how dangerous motorbikes are, every time I feel like buying another one.

[ashmicro]

Just to add, I saw 1 IA on a mark 5 Fiesta, and 11 IA on a really old Merc C Class. I think it was a C180 Classic too. There's a 3 Series compact round here with a reg that looks like "BIG FART" Don't know what it is really. I was behind an MX5 in a petrol station and the moniker on the bottom of the plate was "The little Bastard". Surely they're not that bad?

[mattblack]

Only ones I like to see are the ones that some old boy bought years ago for peanuts that would be worth ££££££££££ now, and they've had them on every car they've had. Usualy seen on something like Metro or nissan Bluebird.

[andrew e]

Er yep in that club Saying that apart from the Rev, I must own the other pre 2000 BMW without crystal lights, dished alloys or WELCOME TO GHANA bumper sticker. Its even fitted with tyre brands you have heard of!

[Rusty Pelican]

. Its even fitted with tyre brands you have heard of!

 

Loads of these about , ever seen Di Yung ones , I kid you not

[jnoiles]

I'm with Des. Reg plates is just a govt serial number. Paying more and putting up with the hassle of transferring etc is just dumb.

[Owain-328i]

Er yep in that club Saying that apart from the Rev, I must own the other pre 2000 BMW without crystal lights, dished alloys or WELCOME TO GHANA bumper sticker. Its even fitted with tyre brands you have heard of!

 

I also own a pre 2000 BMW without any of those things aswell, totally original (including the registration)

[Pete-M]

I had a Range Rover a couple of years ago with a three letter, three number plate. I loved the fact that it was an early "Age related" job that had been plate-raped from the DVLA.

 

[Tayne]

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[Captain Slow]

A mate of mine has a private plate on his Montego.

 

 

The car dates from 1986 (D plate originally), he was born in 1987, and his initials are SMW. He didn't go hunting for it, more that it belonged to a friend of a friend who didn't mind the swap so long as my mate Steve paid the transfer fee. That's the sort of personal plate I like; something that could pass as standard but means something to the owner. And something that isn't stupid money.

[Albert Ross]

I wish I'd kept 59 SHY ...... And NMU 5, on a Super Minx, and NVB 21E was a good'un, on a Humber Imperial I "got" from Pinewood yonks back. 85CMT, NFD634, appeared on Land Rovers I bought and sold on in bits. I also remember a mate in Truro had 7340 AR on a scruffy A40 Farina. 548DRL on a Vanguard was a nice one, and I remember seeing RAF9 on a Super Minx in Mevagissey too. That's now on a Hyundai..... What would Douglas Bader make of that?

[cms206]

The Cavalier is going to stay G341 NTO as long as I have it though, which leaves the Mondeo which has new fangled plates I don't particularly like. Two of the Leyland Nationals have paddy plates on them (NIL 7242 and PIL 7013, both on them when I got them) but PIL in particularly strikes me as pointless as the original plate to my knowledge wasn't sold on. Needless to say I need to start looking into getting it back - it was originally AFM 2W.

 

I'd still go for a cherry plate myself, but I like local plates which don't actually mean anything - XS was my home town, and VS was just down the road so either of them, though some other 2 letter/4 number and 4 number/2 letter plates do appeal. Much maligned as paddy plates are, a nice early issue 2 or 3 letter would do nicely... AIL, FZ, EIB or something similar, or even an Irish 3/3 like DUI 370. Nothing which means anything anyway, plates are better when they're pointless.

[eddyramrod]

Just to throw in a few penn'orth... Years ago my dad, also Edward, picked up a Ford van, 1108 ED. It went to scrap, but I still have the front number plate, on my garage wall. Between us we had a few double-digit numbers: DWM 95C on his Zephyr, SWF 87H on my Humber Sceptre, VMB52E on a Honda moped, RTB 52Y on Lada estate (and my sister had RTB 56Y on a saloon in the same colour!), then a positive rash all together: D85 OVS was a Sierra, PLV 28T and HFV 66W being Volvo 244 and 245 respectively; E78 ULV was my BMW and X83 YTY my father-in-law's Micra. I also had a 100 and a 333, not to mention a few palindromic numbers (242, 969...).

 

The creme de la creme had to be YFR 716. It came on my 1990 Chrysler Convertible when I bought it in 2004. When I sold the car I offered it with or without plate; the buyer took it without, so I put it on retention and the car was given G427 FKC, which I understand it wore originally. I subsequently sold YFR to a friend, for what the car cost me in the first place, and he now has it on a 93 Land Cruiser. Meanwhile I have one of the YFR plates among my garage-wall decorations. My 1962 Cadillac had been plate-raped for AUS 898J and re-issued with OFF 427, which I rather liked, pity the engine was only a 390.

 

Here in Cyprus there isn't any number-plate trading, you get what you're given and it stays with the car. So far I've had two cars with 2 letter/3 number combinations (3 letters were used only from the early 90s) and my "new" 1972 Granada carries GF 8 which is pretty distinctive!

 

Don't know how much I've contributed to the debate there but if any of it's useful, well I'm glad.

[sporty-shite]

Guilty!

 

I bought FR54NCE (My Surname's France) for Mrs S in mid 2004. Then I had to buy a car to assign it to, which was the most costly part. It's now on the (06 plate) Alfa, and will stay with us ad infinitum It wasn't an expensive plate, because I wouldn't have bought it if it was. I just liked it, and thought "why not?" And I certainly don't feel better than anyone else because I own it.

 

I also own (on retention) KEO 5Y which I took off a Golf Cabriolet I had a couple of years ago. Have half-arsedly tried to sell it at a fraction of it's dealer value of approx £1400 . Which reminds me, I should try harder to move it on, I could buy some proper shite with the money. Mr Keogh, are you listening?

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I have a three number three letter 'plate on my old Jag. It belonged to my Dad for many years and followed him from car to car. He also had 801JRB as well as 528JRB, but unfortunately he left it on a car he traded in. He origninally got the number on his first car, which was a pale blue Austin A35. He loved that car. I got the 'plate when he died in 2009. I will never sell it.

 

[eddyramrod]

I got the 'plate when he died in 2009. I will never sell it.

 

 

Good for you!

[M'coli]

20 or so years ago, I heard of a guy in Glasgow who was bequeathed the number G6 - but the story goes that he wasn't allowed to sell it. The person had it on one vehicle but wanted another (IIRC a motorbike) so bought the plate G6TOO from the DVLA when it became available. That's quite cool.

 

As is the VW Caravelle I saw parked outside the Glasgow Cathouse in the mid-90s, waiting to be let into a Fish gig - F1SHS - it had to be on something newer than Fish's car as at the time he drove an 86 Golf!

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Guilty!

 

I bought FR54NCE (My Surname's France) for Mrs S in mid 2004.

 

Has your surname got fives and fours in it?

[trigger]

I remember seeing your FR54NCE number plates in your french holiday shite snaps and being impressed.

 

This is mine.

 

2002 Volkswagen Bora 1.9 TDi 130 Sport by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[AnthonyG]

You see that's what I don't get about these newer ones that try and fit with the new system - Only people who know Mr and Mrs SS will have any clue that FR54 NCE has any relation to their surname, and '54' is not really comparable to an A to anyone with normal sight.

 

I'm not in the least bothered by it, but it seems to me you've just paid £whatever to make your 2006 Alfa look a couple of years older than it is.

 

Trig's on the other hand, I can see the point of, although again I would just think 'that's a 1999 Bora' if I saw it and gave more than half a second's thought to it.

 

My dad's first car was ??? DMG which are his initials but most people didn't think about that things like that back in 1964, when he traded it (1956 cambridge) for a brand new Minx. Was it even possible to easily transfer plates back then?

 

I noticed an awful lot of illegal plates in Ealing when I lived there, wrong spacings, bits blanked out, numbers the wrong way round, even unintelligible characters and symbols which bore no relations to any name, even Asian/Polish/Greek ones etc .

[seth]

When I get the Borgward on the road I'm going to change my name to Dexter.

 

 

Or I just realised I could sell it for ££ to some lad with an XR2/4

[Mash]

I've never been a big fan of transferring numbers from older cars simply because it wipes away years of history and makes a car completely anonymous. Most people will argue that the chassis number is a car's identity but I don't agree - it's not instantly visible like reg plate. I have a suspicion that the old Daimler my grandad owned years ago has now had it's plate sold so if it turns up again anywhere I'll not recognise it. I'm just thankful I found it before this had happened and was able to confirm that it was the same car With a plate raped car the chances of this are slim short of stopping every one you see and asking to look under the bonnet.

 

OK I'm a hypocrite because I did it myself recently with my 85 Accord. I did question it first but in the end I reasoned that the only two people to be bothered would be me and Spottedlaurel and that the car might not last more than another couple of years anyway due to it needing a fair bit of hard to justify money spending on it.

[Cavcraft]

The Cavalier is going to stay G341 NTO as long as I have it though, which leaves the Mondeo which has new fangled plates I don't particularly like. Two of the Leyland Nationals have paddy plates on them (NIL 7242 and PIL 7013, both on them when I got them) but PIL in particularly strikes me as pointless as the original plate to my knowledge wasn't sold on. Needless to say I need to start looking into getting it back - it was originally AFM 2W.

 

I'd still go for a cherry plate myself, but I like local plates which don't actually mean anything - XS was my home town, and VS was just down the road so either of them, though some other 2 letter/4 number and 4 number/2 letter plates do appeal. Much maligned as paddy plates are, a nice early issue 2 or 3 letter would do nicely... AIL, FZ, EIB or something similar, or even an Irish 3/3 like DUI 370. Nothing which means anything anyway, plates are better when they're pointless.

 

(A)FM would have been local to me so would hazard a guess the National is ex-Crosville.

 

I plate pillaged a Mk1 Consul Cortina I owned many moons back but it paid towards the almost daily repairs to the car.

7891 FM was sold to a coach company in London at the time.

Left 795 XTU (iirc) on a Morris 1000 I had though as the buyer thought it was worth a fortune and therefore gave me good money for a bad car.