Personalised number plates

[screenman]

Some plates are a good investment, some are just naff.

 

[Brandane]

Geographical plates are popular around here. I live in a place called L4 RGS apparently. There are also L8 RGS, L11 RGS, etc..
The Police in Oban occasionally have crackdowns on illegally spaced plates. There A10 BAN becomes A1 OBAN, and several hundred similar combinations give the name OBAN. At least in AYR and RHU, there is no need to mess with the spacing.
I have seen G145GOW, no idea where the owner of that plate might live!

 

[screenman]

They might but, in doing so, they do teach a lesson in the value of the valueless.

Is not the value of something that which another will pay?

 

[Donger]

I really don't get the whole personalised plates thing. But I do remember an old No.11 bus on the Outer Circle route in Birmingham back in my old school days that had number plate "JOE 90". I reckon that would fetch a pretty packet.

 

[guitarpete247]

On my way into work, a couple of years ago, I saw a white Range Rover regularly. It was driven by an aging peroxide blonde with the reg "MR55EXY" spaced to spell MRS SEXY. Not seen it for a couple of years.
Hope I haven't upset anyone, if they know who it belonged to, in the Nuneaton area.

 

[Brandane]

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?

The ones that I find most pointless are those that need to be messed with to spell out the owner's name. P4 ULB made to look like PAUL B.. Who really gives a toss what your name is? And when the law catches up with you, you're left with a number plate that quite frankly just looks naff.

 

[User32269]

Yup.​

 

[Booyaa]

One near me where I grew up was 1 CUP. Always liked that.

 

[Brandane]

There are some good plates around, but the naff ones belong to attention seeking W4 NKR 's..

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I often see this guy at my local supermarket.
Kind of sums things up really...

GC

 

[marknotgeorge]

The ones that I find most pointless are those that need to be messed with to spell out the owner's name. P4 ULB made to look like PAUL B.. Who really gives a toss what your name is? And when the law catches up with you, you're left with a number plate that quite frankly just looks naff.

Half the time these plates have something like 'PAUL BELLEND' in the place where the plate supplier's name and postcode are supposed to go. If you have to explain it...

 

[marknotgeorge]

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

One of my colleagues bought himself a private plate and stuck it on his Corsa. When he got himself a new BMW, he didn't put the private plate on until the Beemer no longer had the latest reg.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Geographical plates are popular around here. I live in a place called L4 RGS apparently. There are also L8 RGS, L11 RGS, etc..
The Police in Oban occasionally have crackdowns on illegally spaced plates. There A10 BAN becomes A1 OBAN, and several hundred similar combinations give the name OBAN. At least in AYR and RHU, there is no need to mess with the spacing.
I have seen G145GOW, no idea where the owner of that plate might live!

If you're ever up Fort William way, keep an eye out for NEV1S, FER51T, and AR15AYG (stretching things a bit).

GC

 

[marknotgeorge]

My old, grey Fusion had the the last three letters FNE. I christened it the Magnet. Laugh? I nearly started.

 

[Mrs M]

Aberdeen has a high percentage of personalised plates.
This may have changed since the oil crisis and lots of people losing their jobs, homes and cars