Personalised Number Plates

[albal]

V41 N.

 

[albal]

coming down M1 in 2002 saw a Vauxhall little sports thing XK220 or such??? with plate ; UR02SLO. I grinned and carried on listening to the archers

 

[Dan B]

Yes, but it's stupid people paying other stupid people for things that don't do anything at all.

Yeah, but. So is jewellery, gold and precious metals ... there's plenty of stuff out there with exchange value but little practical use.

 

[zacklaws]

I suppose end of day anybody can display any plate they want with there name on, just display it in the windscreen or rear window, just like lorry drivers do, and far cheaper. Bit of yellow or white cardboard and a black felt tip.

 

[slowmotion]

I never even knew about the investment angle. Smart people, and they big it up every day they parade it to the world. All I need is £100,000.

 

[PaulSB]

Interesting how the police attitude to this has changed over the years. Perhaps 20 or more years ago a local lad (diehard Rovers fan) had 13RFC on an old banger and was regularly stopped and prosecuted by Blackburn police. He was often reported in the local evening paper. These days it seems unreadable number plates, or at least ones you need to think about, are quite acceptable.

My favourite is the huge guy in a BMW or Merc who can be seen driving on the M61. Tanned, open shirt, bling jewellery etc. The number plate is B1CEP which has to show a great sense of humour.

 

[PBancroft]

Its as good a way of wasting money as anything else. Doesn't bother me that much unless its been tampered with to make it look like something its not, such as putting screws through letters.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I like the ones that are really trying, but don't quite make it. I saw a car in the West Midlands once, absolutely covered in Wolverhampton Wanderers stickers and scarves. His numberplate had Wolves badges all over it and the registration was, er, W100 VES. That doesn't spell "Wolves". It spells "Wiooves", whatever that means.

 

[gary r]

i used to pass a haouse on the Chelsea embankment that had 2 fancy cars on the drive with the following plates " 2B" and "NOT 2 B" id prefer all number plates to be changed,showing the owners mobile phone number,so you can call them and tell them they are driving like a **** !!!

 

[asterix]

It'd be a laugh if they changed the system so number plates had to stay with the vehicle!

 

[Dan B]

It's a rectangular piece of cheap plastic or metal with a sequence of numbers and letters on it.

It's aesthetically ugly and it's fundamentally useless apart from as a badge to identify car ownership.

Gold, silver and jewels can be made into beautiful artistic objects that delight the eye, as well as having tons of uses in engineering, science and technology.

And the boarding pass from the plane ticket for my honeymoon is a small cheap piece of cardboard with some letters and numbers printed on it, has always been fundamentally useless except as a badge that let me on the plane, and is not even good for that now - but does that make it worthless?

It's not about the medium, it's about the message it carries or signifies. Granted, the message of a personalised number plate is all too often "I have lots of money and I think I'm important", but it seems a poor generalisation to extend this universally. The message conveyed by wearing gold, silver or jewels about ones person is, after all, often quite similar

 

[fimm]

My sister has one. It was bought for her by her husband, who thinks 4x4s are a Good Thing :-(
The best one I ever saw was on a van for a company called something like "High Impact Adhesives".

The plate? G1UED

 

[mr_cellophane]

One advantage of personalised plates is that they are theft proof.  If someone steals your car you can simply transfer the number to the new car.

There is this one, although I think she should have bought SL4 PER instead.  Still it makes it easy to identify when she is driving while on the phone.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Look at this smug git...

 

[JtB]

Doesn't bother me one way or the other so long as they conform to regulation letters and spacing. Always seems irresponsible when the legibility is compromised by intentional alterations (positioning of black screws etc.) to make the plates read differently.