beanzontoast
Guru
- Location
- South of The Peaks
They fall into the category of 'status symbol' to my way of thinking, and as I've never ascribed to that way of thinking they leave me cold.
Personalised Number Plates
- Thread starter darth vadar
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
I have... ahem. Had it nearly 20 years.
Bromptonaut
Rohan Man
- Location
- Bugbrooke UK
Not everybody has them for prattishness or show.
We've got one on the family car. Three letters and the number 21. Been in the family since first issued in Birmingham in October 1951 when it was on a motorbike given to Mrs B's mother for her 21st birthday. The MoL's father was in the motor trade and I suspect somebody in the Birmingham Corporation licensing office had an early bottle or two of Xmas whisky!!!
Stayed on her cars until her dementia became evident & she gave up driving c2001. It's obviously worth money as part of her estate but nobody in the family would stand for it being sold. Stayed on retention for a while until we realised how easy it might be to overlook renewing the retention cert so it went on Mrs B's Berlingo (neither of her siblings could use it as one was too ill to drive and the other is not resident in the UK).
It's the re-arranged ones that get me. I pass a pick up most mornings on which the plates appear to spell RIFLE; the first letter is not even an R!!
We've got one on the family car. Three letters and the number 21. Been in the family since first issued in Birmingham in October 1951 when it was on a motorbike given to Mrs B's mother for her 21st birthday. The MoL's father was in the motor trade and I suspect somebody in the Birmingham Corporation licensing office had an early bottle or two of Xmas whisky!!!
Stayed on her cars until her dementia became evident & she gave up driving c2001. It's obviously worth money as part of her estate but nobody in the family would stand for it being sold. Stayed on retention for a while until we realised how easy it might be to overlook renewing the retention cert so it went on Mrs B's Berlingo (neither of her siblings could use it as one was too ill to drive and the other is not resident in the UK).
It's the re-arranged ones that get me. I pass a pick up most mornings on which the plates appear to spell RIFLE; the first letter is not even an R!!
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
I'm going to change my name to YH50TPD (just made that up... no idea who's it is)
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
I liked that. He - or a previous owner - was on the telly a while ago, in a programme about Prat Plates. He reckoned that N2GEL identified him as someone with a sense of humour and certainly that is how he came across. I don't have a problem, either, with the woman who regularly passes me in her modest Nissan labelled MR5 4MED.
But B1G PT gets the finger from me whenever I see him. Having it on an X5 doesn't help.
Over The Hill
Guru
- Location
- Ridden off into the sunset
TO 55 ERS
Over The Hill
Guru
- Location
- Ridden off into the sunset
Even worse are the not quite ones that rely on a black screw head to make the word. Sad sods!
Rhythm Thief
Legendary Member
- Location
- Ross on Wye
These are the ones that amuse me. They just shout "LOSER!", in my mind. If you can't get "N1 GEL", you've missed it. "N2 GEL" doesn't spell anything.
I saw the TV programme, too. I strongly suspect that "N2GEL" has a plate in which the '2' is specially narrowed, so that it looks like an 'I'. But he probably keeps a legal plate too, to switch to when he goes for his MOT...
+1 to that. I was passed this afternoon by a Mini which had something like M11MNE which was covered in screw heads but I couldn't figure out if it was meant to look like My Mini or something else.
We've got one on one of our cars, just H12 then my initials. Not exactly vanity as H reg was 1990, it doesn't do much to add monetary or visual value to the 12 year old Renault Scenic that it's on, but it's easier to remember than V112MTF or whatever was on the car previously.
The most 'chutzpah'-ish, I remember, was one that passed me with TOI 79** (a Northern Ireland style plate, last 2 digits irrelevant). The sad guy had run the I and 7 together to make a lower-case 'n', and put a screw in the 9 to make "y". "Tony"! How much time he wasted figuring that one out....!?
upsidedown
Waiting for the great leap forward
- Location
- The middle bit
The guy that owns Pertemps has a light blue Bentley convertible with the plate 1JOB, always gives me plenty of room so no complaints there. Also see a Range Rover with COM11C around Dorridge, always assumed it belongs to Jasper Carrot as he lives around there but there's always a miserable looking woman driving it.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
