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Can’t see any hand prints on the back, I would add some. MG number plates were an original option when new - when MG was based in Abingdon and plates were ageless.
And by far the worst I have ever seen is SH17 TER. why? Because it was on a slurry tanker lorry that tried to kill me on a TT.
And for not geeky, my sister now has a surname that spells exactly with letter, number, letter letter, so all the family have their own plates with their surname and first initial. Bought relatively cheaply as they were standard when issued. At least it helps when recalling the plate at those infernal machines where pubs installed cctv.
Spelt that way it could also be a TV series, Nick, according to Google.
@WCA - I thought those black and white plates were illegal unless they were on a car old enough to be registered when they were the normal design? Or do you have a second MOT specific set. 🤔
dannybgoode
Full MemberOh 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.
I actually quite like that one! My old boss- an absolute bellend- paid some stupid amount of money for a plate with M6 in it for her BMW. I thought, that's weird, it's not an M and it's not a 6 series, I don't get it? So she explains "I used to drive on the M6 a lot". OK I guess?
But **** it, whatever gives you pleasure. I can take the piss, but I damn nearly got one for the motorbike, it'd have been S650 ORG IIRC. Because it was an SV650 and I was on SV650.org forum a LOT. Literally the only reason I didn't was that I thought I might bore it out to 700cc. So OK maybe that's a pretty good plate but it's a dickhead reason for not getting it
I'd like M970 XTR. Totally stupid. Even most MTBers probably wouldn't get it (though I guess this forum would). Plus, it only gets less relevant with time. But it'd make me smile every time I saw it.
Looks like it was on a Honda Accord Aerodeck (had to Google it, looks ace!) but it died in 2009.
What Jam Bo said, all pointless.
What Jam Bo said, all pointless.
You can use that argument to dismiss pretty much anything you don't choose to spend your money on or don't derive pleasure from. Posh coffee - pointless as it's just something to drink, expensive food - pointless as it's just a way of getting nutrients, watches - pointless as a casio does the job etc etc.
But the bloke in dubai who apparently spent 9 million dollars on a numberplate needs a reality check.
I had CC 748 RS which would have been perfect for a Ducatti owner at the time. It was on a Ducato van. Back in the 70s our neighbour Ron bought a coke bottle Cortina which was RON *, the *ed bit made it even better but as he still has it I'll keep stumm, just luck of the draw, Brum numbers had an "o" in the middle which made many Rons, Dons etc. happy.
I'll admit to once having a personal plate, but I did get it to wind up my then boss.
He hated me having a new Ford Ka as he said it wasn't in fitting with working at a bank. He would much prefer I had something 'Executive'. So that winter I bought an Audi 80 from eBay for £52.12 as a winter snotter! Showed him the keys and he was happy, until he saw the very scratched, dented and generally tatty D reg thing sitting in the car park. Used it all winter, including as a battering ram to clear snow that had blown up against the branch gate, then the Ka came back out in the spring. By this time I had bought a cheap plate for it, K70 NAD. Came in Monday morning and had to give the boss my new reg for the car park patrol. He was expecting the old plate but looked about concerned when I gave him the reg, thinking it was a '92/3 car I had bought to replace the Audi. He was even more confused when I told him the car was under a year old. He immediately went round to the car park to check what I'd parked there then came back and declared he gave up trying to get me to drive a better car. Good job too as I still had the Audi ready for the next winter. He told me to **** off when that reappeared in November 🤣
I sold the private plate a few years later for £2200, not bad considering it cost me £250 new and £80 for one transfer when I sold the Ka and bought a Fiesta.
I bought a car that had M4 LSR already on it.
Didn't bother me until someone pointed out that whenever they saw it they read 'Mr Loser'.
Classy.
Always bemused by anger at private plates - seems a bit of a pointless thing to get upset about.
We used to have an app that 'valued' number plates.
The local Range Rover wearing GB7 - plate valued at £200k apparently. 😱
anyone who has the plate BO55 XYZ has a special place in my heart....
I mean, what tells people you're the boss more than, erm, literally having to spell it out.
Last time I bought a new car I could choose from a selection of number plates... I worked in IT at the time, and the plate was KU51 WXP, so that was cool, or at least I thought it was.
Always bemused by anger at private plates – seems a bit of a pointless thing to get upset about.
Ambivalent, not angry tbh.
I do like this plate. Need a DB5 but a Silver Spirit is not too bad an alternative
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For peak Surrey, there's a VW Transporter I see regularly on the A25 between Dorking and Westcott direction with a custom plate which reads as 'MTB GOD'
I8 HAM
Not everyone wants a very fast car.
Why do people in reasonably priced cars have a private number plate.
Always bemused by anger at private plates – seems a bit of a pointless thing to get upset about.
As the OP I wasn't angered - I was more amused.
Why do people in reasonably priced cars have a private number plate.
Because they choose to spend a few quid on that rather than whatever you see as worthy (perhaps they don't have a new ipad 🙂 )
Not quite the same but when growing up one of the local boy racers re arranged the word Escort on his suped up Ford to spell Scrote which I thought was funny and surprisingly honest of him. Yes it was Stoke.
I once suggested a private plate to a mate - V70 MTB
I reckon you can guess what he drives and what he likes doing from time to time
Why do people in reasonably priced cars have a private number plate.
Why not? Who should be allowed a vanity plate?
Mine is pretty non-descript but means something to me. It’s also on a VW California 4motion for added bonus points.
Personally I think the more pertinent question is why are there so many over sized SUVs trolling around? Stupid, pointless and anti-social.
anyone who has the plate BO55 XYZ has a special place in my heart….
I'm pretty sure I posted this in last months Private Reg Plate discussion ... but since the bloke played such a blinder its worth reiterating.
Weegie with ACK as the suffix.
Absolute. Legend.
Two range rovers near me, one is NA5TY the other VIPER. I can see why you’d buy them as they go up in value, but they are a bit mleh. Does that person think they are nasty or a viper.
It’s also on a VW California 4motion for added bonus points.
Personally I think the more pertinent question is why are there so many over sized SUVs trolling around? Stupid, pointless and anti-social.
Er, isn't a VW California the very definition of a massive Sports Utility Vehicle??
Does that person think they are nasty or a viper.
They probably own a bad tempered snake.
Saw an Aston Martin 4wd with the plate J007 ASM back in the summer.
There's a car that parks up at my work*; no shit, it is (and is spaced accordingly):
J15MY J
*I don't work at a pron film studio (as far as I know)
Personally I think the more pertinent question is why are there so many over sized SUVs trolling around? Stupid, pointless and anti-social.
I'm reasonably sure the Venn diagram of oversized SUVs and private plates has a pretty big overlap
Why do people in reasonably priced cars have a private number plate.
Easy to remember them at the parking meter. I still can’t recall ours. We had two 09/59 plates that were very similar so I was always mixing up parts of them. I know my next vehicles number already. And now, so do you 😂
VIPER on a Range Rover, what a ****! Depriving a Viper owner of the plate.
Edit: there's a reason people on here photoshop the plates when they post pics of their cars, TiRed, there are some wierd people with time on their hands to do weird things on this forum *waves and smiles*. When a virtual forum reaches into members' real lives or other parts of their virtual lives. Remember when Clarkson published his bank details because he (wrongly) thought they would be of no use to anyone? 😉
Hell, I didn't even give my neighbour of 45-years-ago's full plate and CC 748 RS is long gone. 🙂
weird things on this forum
And the grief I got from Mrs TiRed for the plate pales into insignificance compared to the grief I got for the planned vehicle. Yes I am on the Citroen Ami list. I’ve already done the photoshopping for a presentation I gave to the BPS.
Any one bought AM1 5LOW?
I will admit to having a private plate but in my defence it was purchased because I had an an American car with restricted space for a plate so needed 6 digits to (almost) maintain the correct font.
My first thought was to get one of my dads old plates from the 60's as he had a thing about Rover P4's but they are both still in use - one a Bentley and the other a Porsche.
I saw V14GRA once. Not really a bold claim unless you invented it.
Also for extra ****iness aren’t they referred to as ‘cherished plates’? 🤢
V14GRA
Not geeky enough and sildenafil is going to be hard to fit on a UK plate. There is a certain geeky satisfaction in trying to find good scientific number plates. Since antibodies are Y shaped and always drawn as a Y, I mulled a few other options to match.
Documentary on tv about Dubai last night. Chap paid $9m to have the plate "5".
A Guy at work was desperate to own a private plate so he bought G1 MDA. The thinking was that if you looked in your mirror when he was behind you it would loosely resemble his name (Adam G) and that was worth paying a few hundred quid for.
A colleague thought that GIMDA was bound to mean something in some language so he put it into Google translate. Turned out that GIMDA means uterus in Lithuanian.
He didn’t put it on his new car.
I guess my reference was missed.
"Not geeky enough and sildenafil is going to be hard to fit on a UK plate."
C14 LIS ?
Pointed out by a friend...
[i]@WCA – I thought those black and white plates were illegal unless they were on a car old enough to be registered when they were the normal design? Or do you have a second MOT specific set. 🤔[/i]
Clearly they car is wearing its Show Plates for display purposes only and the MOT ones are in the boot.
I guess my reference was missed.
Top Gear?
Edit: <span dir="ltr">SY51</span> FUS wouldn’t even register as “don’t understand”, you’ll have to explain.
I’m not that knowledgeable about classical mythology, but even I got that reference!