Reply to: Private number plates

[wendigo100]

The best number plate I have seen was on a very classy looking Merc.

R 777 RRR.

Where was I driving it at the time?

[Sysman]

The best number plate I have seen was on a very classy looking Merc.

R 777 RRR.

[Diver]

Commissioned private number plates are so naff. Only chavs with a bit of dosh would ever consider having one. It firmly belongs to decades gone by - particularly 70s and 80s (remember the Ewing cars?)

Think what message it sends out: I'm rich with a big flash car, but just in case you (the little guy with a hatchback) haven't noticed my big flash expensive car that tells you how important and rich I am, see my number plate too and, to boot, guess who the owner is? A PNP is to a car what garish gold and diamond bling is to Puff Daddy or Duddy or Diddy or whatever he calls himself these days.

Vulgarity in the extreme. Witty numberplates are OK though, particularly if accidentally refer to the occupation or identity of the owner. e.g. If BP was a cat lover - M123 PUS is fine - BAGPUSS 1 isn't.

[Moscow Mule]

I gather Hamilton, on tonight's Top Gear, will not beat the Stigs lap time. Which is probably not surprising since the Stig (whoever it is) has driven around it enough times.

Just slower than Mansell, but in the wet. Beat the previous wet lap (Webber) by 3(ish) seconds

[Zorba]

The first time I ever saw one, it was on a white Mercedes (maybe even convertible - I was about 13) and it was 505 EXY, driven by some bleached jacket potato of a woman.

I do like the ones that spell something in the rear view mirror though. Can't see the point of them in general myself though - you can already positively identify a car through the RFID tags in the tyres, so what's the point of number plates?

(By the way: I think P45 SAT is still going for about £10k)

[TimberWolf]

I gather Hamilton, on tonight's Top Gear, will not beat the Stigs lap time. Which is probably not surprising since the Stig (whoever it is) has driven around it enough times.

[OwlHoot]

If I was a snooker player I'd be tempted by a number plate like "A147 POT"

The other day driving through Hammersmith I saw a plate "ST1 G1" on a car being driven by a lunatic dodging and weaving through the traffic (and as usual with tossers like that getting hardly any further than if he hadn't bothered). But I wondered if it was that guy on Top Gear they call the Stig.

[Denny]

I've noticed lately a massive increase in private plates on new cars. Not talking top of the range Mercs, BMWs etc, but basic run of the mill hatchbacks and saloons.

To me a private number plate only looks good on a classic or a prestige car.

Discuss or not

(was going to do a poll but I noddyed it up)

Commissioned private number plates are so naff. Only chavs with a bit of dosh would ever consider having one. It firmly belongs to decades gone by - particularly 70s and 80s (remember the Ewing cars?)

Think what message it sends out: I'm rich with a big flash car, but just in case you (the little guy with a hatchback) haven't noticed my big flash expensive car that tells you how important and rich I am, see my number plate too and, to boot, guess who the owner is? A PNP is to a car what garish gold and diamond bling is to Puff Daddy or Duddy or Diddy or whatever he calls himself these days.

Vulgarity in the extreme. Witty numberplates are OK though, particularly if accidentally refer to the occupation or identity of the owner. e.g. If BP was a cat lover - M123 PUS is fine - BAGPUSS 1 isn't.

[wantacontract]

I've got a private plate, anyone has any idea how to sell it???

or rather, the car was imported and the plate was assigned to it....

could i sell it on, is it an actual private plate?

[chaplic]

Wendigo: AWOOGA !

But back on subject, only benefit is that cars that are new-ish but relatively ageless it can hide the age, which might be important to you wanting to present the successful contractor image.

I'm thinking 100K mile 545i 4 years old for £16K, £50K new

All pointless, but all money into cars is hardly an investment!

[PRC1964]

I user to see that fairly regularly when I worked in Maidenhead (about 12 years ago), it was on a Saab, IIRC.

Similar to this one: http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/data/...26.porsche.jpg

[Pondlife]

Two brothers who run the local car auctions and knockoff discount furniture place have H15EXY and H15EXE.

Very sad indeed.

[Bluebird]

used to have a decorator near me had BRU 5H on a shagged out old escort estate...

[VectraMan]

I used to live near 4 KOF, and 4 COF would come and visit. And no I'm not making that up.

I knew somebody who had TOX1C, which he bought for about £6K and put it on a car worth about the same. I and others laughed at him, but 2 years later he sold it for £15K - perhaps not such a dumb thing to do after all.

[wobbegong]

I've got

TUR130

Unfortunately, it cost me so much it's on a Diesel Passat.

I user to see that fairly regularly when I worked in Maidenhead (about 12 years ago), it was on a Saab, IIRC.