How dumb can you get?

[The_Equalizer]

If my parents had kept a couple of their old plates they would have been worth quite a lot of money...

...eventually, but it didn't seem worth the cost and hassle at the time

The old man in the 1960s went to look at a Riley RMB. The price was £40 - £20 was for the car and £20 for the number plate (which was a 3-letter followed by 1 combo). When the owner took him out for a test drive the brakes failed resulting in a trip through a hedge and a bent wing. The owner then offered the whole lot for £20 which my old man was happy to agree to as he was still keen on the car. The Riley was eventually turned in to some made special with a Jag XK engine and fibreglass body by my Uncle and scrapped a good twenty years later. My Dad still has the plate though.

[Sysman]

A friend's parents named their son so that his initials matched the car reg they had at the time (which was a 1960 Rover). When he came to drive he had his own personalised number plate.

If my parents had kept a couple of their old plates they would have been worth quite a lot of money...

...eventually, but it didn't seem worth the cost and hassle at the time

[The_Equalizer]

A friend's parents named their son so that his initials matched the car reg they had at the time (which was a 1960 Rover). When he came to drive he had his own personalised number plate.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Now that would have been a great trial to do jury duty on. What a plonker.

(Although I am a little niggled that such a toerag has a nice Beemer with a personalised registration plate. Crime doesn't pay? Really?)

Judging by the usual standard of driving I'd say he was brighter than the average driver of a bimmer with a pathetic "personal" plate.

[threaded]

Probably more like a S-Type Jag, as the D-Types were and are worth serious cash.

And nick the one with the small engine, handles better, way better. Top speed doesn't mean much in a chase believe it or not.

[The_Equalizer]

Prefrably a D type Jag as that's what the stuntmen prefer.

Probably more like a S-Type Jag, as the D-Types were and are worth serious cash.

[BrilloPad]

Obviously too young to have watched Z Cars, The Sweeney etc. In that era, any fule knu that you should nick a car for a bank job.

Prefrably a D type Jag as that's what the stuntmen prefer.

[RichardCranium]

Now that would have been a great trial to do jury duty on. What a plonker.

(Although I am a little niggled that such a toerag has a nice Beemer with a personalised registration plate. Crime doesn't pay? Really?)

[AtW]

10 years for stealing £100,000 - compare that with bank losses and nobody walked the plank for it

[Sysman]

James Snell, 27, of Cardiff, used his BMW with the number J4 MES to plan a raid on the Halifax, where he and accomplices stole £100,000.

Obviously too young to have watched Z Cars, The Sweeney etc. In that era, any fule knu that you should nick a car for a bank job.

[zeitghost]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8411976.stm

Own car with personalised number plate

That's almost in the same league as driving your quad bike up a railway line after a job & getting run over by a train.