Living in Leicester, where every other car has one, including mine, 'private' registration plates rarely make me smile.
Coming out of Stratford-on-Avon today, though, one did. An Aston Martin Vantage ... V8 OOOF
Living in Leicester, where every other car has one, including mine, 'private' registration plates rarely make me smile.
Coming out of Stratford-on-Avon today, though, one did. An Aston Martin Vantage ... V8 OOOF
Of the new ones I've recently seen NAiI SAW which presumably is NA11 SAW with a number plate bolt and TAII END which possibly is TAiI END without the bolt? Shame it's not the BP as TAll END made me think of an inappropriate one (although John Humphrey's did once say it on the BBC Today program.
Couldn't resist this, Just bought it for one of my vans.
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Seen a while ago on a Range Rover with very dark windows was SPL1F. Nicely done,I thought.
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I'm not usually a fan of private reg plates*, but there is a locksmith van I see driving about Manchester with "LO57 KEY" which I think is bloody brilliant!
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My Mum has an "XJS" plate on her XJS so I have to make an allowance for that.
LA51 GET near me. A colleague who may/may not have taken drugs in his youth recently obtained AC10 FAN. His surname begins with FAN and he has it as ACID FAN
I've nothing against private plates (I've owned a few) but illegally spaced and presented ones really get my goat for some reason. It's particularly rife here in the West Midlands. At least half the 'private' plates I see are illegal (spacing, font or both). Some of them are SOOOO ludicrous I can't see how the Police's number plate recognition systems can spot them.
No road tax or insurance? Just bastardise your plate so it's indecipherable.
There's a chap in Norwich with 5 TOP.
It used to be spaced incorrectly as 5TOP but he's spaced it properly now.
I saw 'A HERO' having a tyre change today, a nice white Bentley I think. Couldn't be bothered to work out what it really was - maybe A 11 ERO?
There's a Nissan GTR around us with
HE59 ONE, it took me a couple of sightings to 'get it'
I always remember being in Leeds as kid and seeing a (now) old school 911 with 'CRAIG' as the reg
Nottingham was rife with them back in the day, they issued GRAIN to a moped (FS1E) near me!
HE59 ONE - nah, not getting it yet
I remember Ronnie O Sullivan overtaking me on the M4 Bristol a few years ago now.
"CUE 8OY"
I saw MUS 1C on a Roller on the M1 about 10 years or so ago. Think Paul McCartney owned it at the time. The driver did not look like him though.
MUS1C and 50UND were both around in Worcestershire a lot when I was growing up in early 2000s. Stella McCartney lived that way but no idea these belonged to Paul!
At my school gates we had a pair of crackers:
B1TCH on a black Mercedes coupe (I think a CL); and
W1TCH on a Mitsubishi pickup.
They're a bit of fun to some, but a tedious fool I once had to endure had a very cheap plate with the letters 'CJD' at the end as those were his wife's initials. He took me out to the car park once to point out that below the registration on the number plate was written 'mad cow'. He was very proud of it and showed everyone he could - to him the joke never wore off.
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I saw something really bizarre this week on the A14 near Cambridge.
I was following a Ssanyong 4x4 monstrosity and it had a very usual age related plate (SH04 RJK or something of that vein) but underneath the plates, both front and rear, was a tiny little 1" by 6" plate with another plate (which was something like SJH 1).
The mind boggles.
XII ICEY on a Mondeo this am and a Ferrari passed me the other day with 5 SEG
Even WRC cars have suspect plates these days. On Ogier’s Fiesta: X M59ORT (in non-standard font).
You’re right - just checked and they didn’t issue it, which really shouldn’t be a surprise. I’ll have to ask my mum whether she remembers it...
I just saw ‘GUE57S’ on the M5. Must be subconsciously looking for them.
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I know a chap with a very similar registration on his jet!
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Two MBs on the M62 today. A DO8SON (maybe the former E-Eastender/partner of Prof.Brian May?) and BO55 ELE
Please don't be offended, but I can assure you that nobody outside of the UK would think any of the above examples were cool, witty, funny or otherwise remarkable.
That anyone is prepared to pay as much as a fiver for an incomprehensible mix of letters and numbers on their cars is totally beyond me.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Some I've seen around locally are PU51 RUB on a VW Beetle, BAT 114N (made to look like Batman) on a black Lamborghini Diablo GT and R8 LEX on a Mercedes.