Personalised number plates

[screenman]

Save money on personalised plates, just get your mate to tattoo a big knob on your forehead.

Or ride a bike.

I think Parrish paid £10,000 for the plate and it was on offer for 10 x more a few years later, maybe not a nob after all, but a shrewd investor.

 

[jefmcg]

I think your reg plate should be your national insurance number, it would have many advantages.

Your unique identifying number in the UK tax system? Certainly would be a boon for identity thieves.

 

[Hardrock93]

There used to be a local car with the beautifully short and sweet reg number B9. I've always wondered if the owner was an oncologist.

 

[jefmcg]

Thanks for pointing that out. I shall not be so puerile in future. One day I'll tell you about the time I was severely dehydrated whilst on a solo trip in Japan and I had to spell diarrhea correctly on a Casio English/Japanese translator gadget in order to get hospital treatment. I could not get it right and had to resort to gestures or die. I chose the latter.

Similar experience in France, without gadget. "Je mange quelquefois, et maintenant, je suis malade"**. Pharmacist followed up with a question I could not understand, and we continued with disgusting charades. Left with a series of medicines that I needed a dictionary to be clear whether they were oral or suppositories. They were oral

**sentence as remembered, so spelling and grammar errors add to authenticity.

 

[ufkacbln]

There was a suggestion that with some companies such as BMW there was little difference in the vehicle over several years

The popularity of prat plates was that it removed the year and enabled the owner to ie about the age of the car

 

[shouldbeinbed]

All Mr M's family have personalised plates except him (maybe too stingy)
If we're on a long journey we occassionaly pass the time making rude sayings from number plates last three letters.
Eg,
WKR - self gratification artist
CNT -
MFR - mother * *
etc, etc
I could go on but I won't
The list is endless.

We do similar, try to make little phrases and sentences with the letters and numbers, it usually ends up rude between me and the teenagers with Mrs SB tutting at us.

 

[NorthernDave]

Alternatively, just spend £15 on changing your name to match your existing car registration number by deed poll.

Job done.

 

[ACS]

In the early 80's I was past on a motorway in the deep south of England by a red Porsche 911 with the vanity plate TUR 130. As it disappeared into the distance the letters merged into TURBO which I though was quite cool.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Local farrier has the plate SH03 HOS

 

[NorthernDave]

There was a suggestion that with some companies such as BMW there was little difference in the vehicle over several years

The popularity of prat plates was that it removed the year and enabled the owner to ie about the age of the car

Much as, given the often very similar appearance between low and high spec models in the range, BMW offered (and may still do) a "de-chrome" option which supplied the vehicle without model identifying badges, just in case your budget would only stretch to a 316i while your neighbour has a 325i...

 

[raleighnut]

He had it up for about £100,000 in 2009 so I read.

No wonder he flogged it.

 

[ufkacbln]

There was one I loved around here ... Bomb disposal vehicle C4 UBX

Not quite there, but still funny

 

[jefmcg]

Personalised plates are not my scene, but such things as ABC 1 etc. I can understand. But the plates that seem to me to be in code, that you would need an Enigma machine to decipher, seem somewhat pointless.

Yup. Wasted on me, and you.

(simple substitutions, I get - like 5 for S etc - but most personal plates just look like any other to me. Some how the pattern of standard plates has never penetrated. Like colours. I thought - some number plates in the UK are yellow, some are white. I never noticed the pattern until it was pointed out to me)

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Mrs SB has her initials and 666. She had to reassure the DVLA officials that she understood the connotations of 666.

Having seen the paperwork & how much that cost her and how much my daughter changing her name by deed poll cost, I'm thinking it'd be easier and better VFM to change your name to the reg plate of the car.

 

[jefmcg]

There was one I loved around here ... Bomb disposal vehicle C4 UBX

Not quite there, but still funny

OMG, I'd quite forgotten "Danger UXB" with wet Brian**.

**family nickname for the lead character. I don't remember much about the series except that the lead was called Brian, and he was wet. I wonder how many Shakespeare plays I've forgotten to make room for stuff like that.