Personalised number plates

[potsy]

Has anybody mentioned changing your name yet?

 

[stephec]

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.

Played by Anthony Andrews?

I was allowed to stop up late and watch that as a kid.

It was repeated not long ago on an obscure cable channel, but hasn't aged very well.

 

[raleighnut]

A pillock who lives a few doors away had A511LEY on a range rover that he'd fitted different wheels and tyres to that were like thin rubber strips. It then got resprayed white with black 'carbon weave wrap' in places but times must be getting hard cos the numberplate is now on a battered old Transit.

 

[lutonloony]

Twats

 

[screenman]

I

Twats

Why?

 

[lutonloony]

I


Why?

Just my opinion, although I'm sure there are many equally fine contra-arguements

 

[raleighnut]

Apparently the reg SAA8 99 is quite valuable.

 

[jefmcg]

Played by Anthony Andrews?

I was allowed to stop up late and watch that as a kid.

It was repeated not long ago on an obscure cable channel, but hasn't aged very well.

I'm a bit older than you. We mostly watched the A(ustralian)BC - only one ABC channel, and we only had one TV - so if they showed it, I probably watched it with my parents. It wasn't good at the time. As a family, we watched it ironically - hence "wet Brian". I suspect it is more a case that you have aged well.

 

[lutonloony]

Apparently the reg SAA8 99 is quite valuable.

Think that would be brill on my ( OK mrsL) Suzuki Alto!

 

[raleighnut]

Think that would be brill on my ( OK mrsL) Suzuki Alto!

 

[stephec]

I'm a bit older than you. We mostly watched the A(ustralian)BC - only one ABC channel, and we only had one TV - so if they showed it, I probably watched it with my parents. It wasn't good at the time. As a family, we watched it ironically - hence "wet Brian". I suspect it is more a case that you have aged well.

It was Brian Ash.

I was about 10 or 11 when it was out, but I used to like those WWII shows like Secret Army and Colditz as I had a great uncle in the Royal Engineers who went through North Africa, Greece, and Italy, so as kids we used to pester him for stories about the war without understanding why he was reluctant to talk about it.

 

[Tim Hall]

A few years ago I saw what was obviously a personalised plate, but couldn't work out what it was spelling. Then I overtook the car and saw the plate in my rearview mirror, clearly spelling out a woman's name. Trying a bit hard I thought.

 

[Dave 123]

There is a car running around Cambridge with the Reg

AR51 DAD

I could aspire to that.

 

[screenman]

F1 went from £440,000 to £6,000,000 in 5 years, very clever purchase.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

One of my neighbours is called Roberta, she has RA08 RTA with inventive spacing and false bolts in an aching, yearning attempt to try and get it to somewhere close to resembling her name. When I see her I say to my wife "Oh look, there's Rah-oheight-Rita". I really can't see the point when you have to try that hard. I mean, even when you manage it, what is it you're achieving? If you wanted random other road users to know your name you could just apply some graphics. Or have one of them 70s green sun strip visors with ROBERTA and WAYNE on it.

Come to think of it, are private plates in fact just the modern, very expensive version of a Shaz and Wayne sun visor?