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Yesterday I saw a basic spec eight year old Skoda Octavia with a private plate of DAD 70Y (subtly altered to read DAD TOY). Fair enough if it had been on a Lotus Exige or something. But a Skoda. And not even a VRS.
I am sure the plate will be worth more than the car.
Well it made me laugh a little.
The plate may have been describing the owner, not the vehicle?
E.g...
Maybe he got divorced and had to sell the Lambo, hahah.
Mine's pointless, the only reason I've got it, is that it came with the car - now an old battered galaxy
they are all pointless.
Not everyone wants a very fast car.
Maybe he got divorced and had to sell the Lambo, hahah.
I did wonder that 🙂
they are all pointless.
True that.
There is 247 dad on an ageing Kia sorrento or something up the road from me. I wonder if it was a gift for a special birthday. Unlike most unwanted gifts it’s hard to Pass on unnoticed
My FIL got one for his 70th a couple of years ago. I think he was a bit embarrassed TBH, but kind of felt obliged to fit it. If anyone thinks this would be a good idea when it's my 50th soon, there's no way it's going on my van. I don't care if that makes me seem like an ungrateful prick.
Oh I can top that. A girl at my old work really wanted a private plate but couldn't afford one so she just had her current one re-done with random spaces to make people think it was a private plate. The end of Bell Lane of the highest order...
Perhaps in the trade and just keeping it in use rather than on retention. I knew someone who used to do that and the plate must have been worth multiple times what the car was.
said this before, but I used to see A3 on a battered BMW 3 series estate where i used to live. real piece of junk. Since than he's gone up market to a newish V70 Volvo...
Saw one that was M155 MY X (spacing not as apparent, but definitely not standard).
Desperate plea to rekindle a relationship?
they are all pointless.
Mine’s not. CD20 MAB. Reminds me of my day job. Just need a newer vehicle to put it on. Bought it with some prize money from the British Pharmacology Society.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD20
Reminds me of my day job
do you forget what it is? 😉
Reminds me of my day job
That sounds like the definition of pointless
CD20 MAB
A personal plate that doesn't look like a personal plate? Yep, that's pretty pointless.
Also, could DADs TOY not have been the ultimate sleeper car? Unremarkable on the outside, supercar killer on the inside? Or is that just my lottery fantasy?
Saw JAN3T yesterday (on a discovery u think, but can't quite remember.) Figured that was probably pretty expensive.
Any plates that refer to the make of the car it’s on. Typically BMW’s, eg A123BMW, you’ve just spunked hundreds on a plate that does the same job the badges that came on your car from the factory do.
All pointless imo, but then many people think the parts I spend ££ for my bike/s are pointless.....
My only contribution to this is that I wish M155 FOX would learn that driving right up my bumper every morning is unlikely to make me break the speed limit..
I've just done a reg check and it doesn't bring anything up for that reg (and some variations). How curious. I must remember to brake suddenly next time she's investigating my exhaust pipes.
Well I discovered an anti cd20 mAb, took it through developed and it’s now approved as a medicine for multiple sclerosis. I’m pretty proud of that. So a geeky and not ostentatious reminder of my most significant scientific achievement.
I think COV1D isn’t available 😉
Fair enough if it had been on a Lotus Exige or something. But a Skoda. And not even a VRS.
#accidentalpartridge
If I won the lottery I'd get a decent plate like D1CKY, stick it on a crappy motorbike (thus splitting the D1 & letters over two lines) just to emphasise how pointless private plates are.
I did pass NA51 SPY when I left work today, shame such plates weren’t around in WWII (I’m surprised the dvla allowed it)
TiRed goes from STW folk hero to mere mortel in a single post by admitting to a private plate. But is partially redeemed by having one that means nothing to 99.99999 % of the population (you can correct me on this figure if you know better, TiRed) and must have been cheap as chips. 🙂
33 EJB and LVX 942J I'd happily have as private plates as long as they are on the cars they were first registered to.
A1 is currently on a 2007 1.6 mini. I shudder to think of the difference in value between car & reg.
They’re a bit naff these days - seems they appeal to a certain demographic. There’s a few on the island starting MU11 designating various names and trades. Trying to work out whether the owner of MU11 HAN is either Chinese, called Hannah or is blessed with good manual skills ? 🤣
Mine’s not. CD20 MAB. Reminds me of my day job. Just need a newer vehicle to put it on. Bought it with some prize money from the British Pharmacology Society.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD20/blockquote >
If a private reg needs weird spacing, or mispronunciation/ substitution of any letters to explain it, then it's pointless.
If it needs a Wikipedia entry to explain it then...
must have been cheap as chips.
It was free - I used a prize to pay for it. And Mrs TiRed’s shiny iPad Pro that cost a lot more and gets a lot less grief in the TiRed household 😂. About 99.999% would miss the reference. If you are into immunology CD57 MAB is also available. In truth, I just like it having spent more than ten years working on it. AUS71N was also for sale for a while. I’m not that stupid (or rich)!
Big shout out to all the bell ends getting 3D lettering (which even more infuriating is marketed as 4D) on their private plates.
Late stage capitalism at its finest.
If you have to pay for it, it’s not free.
I remember seeing DAD5 70Y in the late '70s on a lovely Mercedes convertible in the Lake District. Driven by a happy looking chap with a couple of kids in the back. Good on yer, mate!
Round our way is a taxi with L8 JOB and a carpet company van (advertising roll ends) with RO11 END
A1 is currently on a 2007 1.6 mini. I shudder to think of the difference in value between car & reg.
A quick look and that car has only 2000 miles on it!
Save me looking Edukator, are they Ferrari 250s or something?
I am disappointed SEX 70Y is not available.
Private plates are irredeemably naff, but this one I spotted last week made me smile…
One upside has to be that it's a tourist attraction. When I left the UK there were a few private plates around but in the intervening 30 odd years they've multiplied. Coming from a place with uniformly dull plates that are four formats depending on age it's fascinating seeing cars with plates that say something, usually registered as "cool", "dick", "don't understand", "silly rich", "another bmw fanboi poser"... .
Edit: SY51 FUS wouldn't even register as "don't understand", you'll have to explain.
A Mini and and Escort, BigJohn, the most famous British rally cars of all time, possibly.
I was up seeing the family over Christmas in Cheshire and there are some superb regs kicking about! One that sticks in my mind is.......wait for it......
MR 5HOT
....there were also plenty of chav supercars...a mirrored Lambo is something else that cannot be unseen!! 😀
There is 247 dad on an ageing Kia sorrento or something up the road from me. I wonder if it was a gift for a special birthday. Unlike most unwanted gifts it’s hard to Pass on unnoticed
Funny, there's one just like that down the road from me.
😉
I always thought that vanity plates were a bit naff but were harmless enough for that type of person.
I then wanted to hide the age of my R-Plate car so spent about £80 on an Northern Ireland plate. Vanity indeed but it is a tarty little car anyway so I feel no shame.
SY51FUS - Sisiphus?
Made to do a pointless task (rolling a stone up a hill)
Save money on expensive personalised car number plates by simply changing your name to match your existing plate. - Mr. KVL 741Y,
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