A man with a beard drove past me a few years ago in a big Merc, reg no: J1HAD
There is a Bugatti Veyron with the registration: YE51CAN
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I undertsand that a certain individual in Hereford has the plate X22 RSM (or suchlike) 😀
Somewhere in Ketter[s]mine[/s]ing is "AM1R1CH" - some new Jag I think. Usually parked alongside a row of moderate terraced houses. Confusing.
An acquaintance has 15R and 16R Bought a looong time ago, cost a little. Has been offered megabucks. It was on a 80s Micra, LOL.
Why are people asking if certain combinations are possible? Surely if you can find it for sale [new/2ndhand- issued by the DVLA or whatever] you can have it. Personalised plates don't need to conform to the standard layout "LLNN LLL".
Pimlico Plumbers have some excellent plates:
http://about-us.pimlicoplumbers.com/corporate-identity/number-plates
Why are people asking if certain combinations are possible? Surely if you can find it for sale [new/2ndhand- issued by the DVLA or whatever] you can have it.
They have to stick to the format though, they can't for example have more than 3 letters in a row, or more than 3 numbers, or just have letters with no numbers, (UK plates) so some of the ones mentioned in this thread are clearly not possible.
Personalised plates don't need to conform to the standard layout "LLNN LLL".
For the current format you have shown there, Yes they do.
They have to stick to it exactly.
Working at a dealership around 2005, we had a customer trade in his car with "W4 0RE". He didn't want the plate, so we put it onto retention and then transferred it onto a kangoo van we had as a runaround. I don't know what's happened to it.
Y5 AVE was on a Bentley near here until very recently at a car dealers.
There is also Y15 AVE
Steve Parish has his plate on an old Hearse and has a habit of carrying an empty coffin in the back for "jiggery" on the way back from the pub...
Another car dealer has an X5 with TOR 10T which until a few weeks back was spaced TO R10T
A woman who lives around my area has M1 LFO which has been made to look like MILFO, always makes me chuckle as she is quite elderly and has probably never heard of milf (maybe she should have bought a 'G' reg..!).
I've seen VA91 NAL near where I live in Manchester. Perhaps he/she is a gynecologist?
No you've not, that's not around for about 30 years! Nobby's VA61 NAL works though.
For the current format you have shown there, Yes they do.They have to stick to it exactly.
He's right, in the US you can have whatever you want, and we have some older ones (like A3) which work, but you can't have any random combination of letters and numbers, you can never have "I" or "Q" in there either (although "Q" was used for kit cars and the like as a registration letter).
Which means AM1R1CH isn't possible. A111RCH is, with a dodgy screw placement.
Chap I know had one illegally spaced to better spell his name (but no screws or dodgy fonts, totally legible, basically had it LNN NLLL), got stopped by the police and fined on the spot, then got a stroppy letter from DVLA telling him if he didn't correct the spacing they'd revoke it.
Saw a blacked out Rolls with SATAN.....was a bit scared 😯
Also saw one that spelt REMIX which I thought was cool
Nah, I don't get it. There's loads of plates around that don't conform to those layouts. What about the Pimlico plates listed
eg
40 RAD
44 RAD
51NKS
6 GAS
701LET
71LER
8 WC
They don't have more than 3 in a row - OK. But is it that you are saying [i]they couldn't be issued now as the format's now been changed[/i]?
And that guy does have AM1R1CH. I stopped and looked at it.
TBH it's all bollox though, as I see people driving EVERYday with screwcovers, dodgy spacing, the wrong font [?!?!] and recently loads of partially greyed-out plates. Why don't they get stopped?
Nah, I don't get it. There's loads of plates around that don't conform to those layouts. What about the Pimlico plates listed
All the Pimlico ones you list are older style plates.
First number plate was A1, then they gradually added letters and numbers until they were LLL NNN, then they went to the suffix letter: LLL NNNL, then the prefix letter LNNN LLL, now they're LLNN LLL.
All personalised plates must be a derivative of this. Hence AM1R1CH doesn't work, sorry. Very happy to eat my words if we've got a photo.
Reading [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_dependencies_and_overseas_territories ]here[/url] if you really want.
The Vicar in my home village has L2 CUM (Hell to come) on his car - quality!
That's not very vicarly IMHO
Local dealer had a yellow boxter with Y9RDY....
njee20 - 🙂 If I see it I'll snap it [s]off[/s].
I did see FER 51T in the village of Fersit. Though I suppose calling Fersit a village is a bit of an exaggeration.
And that guy does have AM1R1CH. I stopped and looked at it.
I'll bet you my house against a sand castle that he doesn't.
I'll probably get hauled over the coals by the mods for this one, but a couple of years ago there were two Asian gentlemen in Nelson who could be seen swanning around in a BMW 3 series convertible with the registration PAK 1S. Fair play to 'em I say...
"I've also seen 51MON (Simon) to name a few. "
A friend of mine picked that up on a classic (dog rough)bike
I understand he used the proceeds as a deposit on a house!
MrS B's hairdresser has W37 CUT
Some where in Bradford there's a hatchback with something along the lines of W33D on it.
There's one down the road from me, something like "W3 EED". It's been on a couple of murdered-up cars now, current one is a Bentley or some such and it was a on a big Range Rover before that.
Spotted "BJ11 MMF" in our car park at work today. Hope the driver never has to email his reg to anyone, it's got buckley's of passing through a spam filter.
Saw a blacked out Rolls with SATAN
That used to be on a Range Rover in Torquay many years ago.
I've seen HER81E On a VW Beetle.
A white rolls had 'M1 wish' on the m25 earlier
When footballer Danny Haynes played for Bristol City he had the following cringeworthy number plate on his obligatory range rover sport:
HE52 FLY
Arranged like this:
HE5 2 FLY
A white rolls had 'M1 wish' on the m25 earlier
Hate to keep doing doing this, but that doesn't work either 😉
Four letters in a row isn't possible.
(Hope some people on this thread never need to identify a vehicle reg in court 😀 )
ML (screw on bottom of L) W 15H?
Wonders off to check...
Edit, that plate does not exist, but MYW 15H is on a 2004 RR Phantom, but it's blue not white (doesn't mean it hasn't been wrapped though)
Cheers.
You're such a party-pooper, Neil.
On our e13 Tech Support van we have the plate E13 VAN.
The one that's getting me is AM I RICH, I have tried a few reg numbers like AM13 LCH, AM12 LCH etc & I'm drawing a blank, I can't think of anything DVLA would of issued that would read like that ❗
?Do foreign registration strings have to be displayed with their native number plate appearances?
?Do foreign registration strings have to be displayed with their native number plate appearances?
Yes. When I imported my German Van, I had to keep the original German pressed metal plates, with the correct font etc, until it was registered in the UK then change to our horrible plastic plates.
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seen an audi driving around perth with MAD41T
spaced out to MAD 4 1T.
made me laugh.
This has to be the best one I've ever seen. Spat my tea out when I was sent it !
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P16PAD on my ex landlords car .He`s a pig farmer
Retired minister round here had OLD 100, old Scottish hymn tune.
Plenty of cars (with road attachments) around with variations on R 5 PEY (River Spey)
And just seen in town - RSO4L. Not sure if that's intentional!
Also sure I've seen HE 4 RTS - to spell HEARTS - but that doesn't work. hm.
BO55 CRC on a Nissan GTR parked up at a large warehouse in Doagh, Northern Ireland.
I've seen a H8 CRC driving about the greater Belfast area.
There's a car down my road with N80 EMA (enema. Made me chuckle...
Spotted yesterday riding through a village a couple of miles away - WH05 SLK
Presumably a smug more affluent person than me...
I saw a roller (rollsroyce) a few years ago with A1 SAY
say in a mock posh accent........
Spotted on the M40 the other night. Not one I'd have chosen!
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