RE: Personalised plates: Tell Me I'm Wrong

[Chrisbown]

I know where people are coming from when they see badly spaced number plates got up to look like something they are not but don't mind 'good' ones. Mmnnn difficult to define 'good' I guess?

I personally have a couple & my latest I thought was quite funny, but only to me, was CD13 OWN my name is C D Bown so just makes me smile.

Perhaps number plates are like cars & you should only buy them for yourself & not to show off to others? Oh there's a potential can of worms.

[Urban Sports]

Chrisbown said:

I personally have a couple & my latest I thought was quite funny, but only to me, was CD13 OWN my name is C D Bown so just makes me smile.

There's no B.

[J4CKO]

ArmaghMan said:

mollytherocker said:

Not sure what point you are making, but if there is anything an F40 does not need, it's a chuffing private plate!

Funny that, because the only guy I know with an F40 has a personal plate on it, and at the Silverstone F40 parade more than half the F40s have one.

My auntie had a Metro "GTA" in the late eighties with "F40 MNF" on it, was at Oulton park some years later and there is the plate but no longer on a Metro but on an F40.

[Hungry Pigeon]

Pr1964 said:

Does disliking a CHAV make someone a snob? Maybe?

Undoubtedly. Courtesy of Google:

snob (Noun): A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people: "a wine snob"

[R66SBW]

You're right & you're wrong, but you knew that already.
You're RIGHT if the spacing is played with, it doesn't actually spell what it's meant to say, or a bolt fills in a gap, or it tell you what the car is, that's just daft.
But you're WRONG if the plate has proper personal meaning to who-ever puts it on their car.
See above R66 SBW, means diddly squat to you ........ BUT TO ME it has real meaning, let me explain; my grand father, 'Selwyn Byers Weston' started his company in 1948 & call it S.B. WESTON LTD.
He died in 1966, just before I was born 3/10/66, I was named 'Reid (aglo-saxon for RED) Selwyn Byers Weston'. I never met my grand father, just his name, & I've been running his company for the last 20+ years.

R66 SBW cost me £210 to buy & £80 each time I transfer it, that's great value, & proper meaning I hope you'll agree.

[will261058]

We had a made up plate PEN 1S which we put on the car of anyone on the shift who was particularly annoying when I was in the RAF up at Kinloss. Had some good fun with that

[RemarkLima]

R66SBW said:

You're right & you're wrong, but you knew that already.
You're RIGHT if the spacing is played with, it doesn't actually spell what it's meant to say, or a bolt fills in a gap, or it tell you what the car is, that's just daft.
But you're WRONG if the plate has proper personal meaning to who-ever puts it on their car.
See above R66 SBW, means diddly squat to you ........ BUT TO ME it has real meaning, let me explain; my grand father, 'Selwyn Byers Weston' started his company in 1948 & call it S.B. WESTON LTD.
He died in 1966, just before I was born 3/10/66, I was named 'Reid (aglo-saxon for RED) Selwyn Byers Weston'. I never met my grand father, just his name, & I've been running his company for the last 20+ years.

R66 SBW cost me £210 to buy & £80 each time I transfer it, that's great value, & proper meaning I hope you'll agree.

I doubt any detractors of the Private Plate can really have any argument against that, pretty special stuff there, with genuine meaning

[Mr Roper]

I bought.....
T19 LOT
T16 LOT

Because if you poke yourself in the eye and squint at 400 yards it looks like TALLOT...Which is where I work. Naff? Maybe. Do i care? Not overly.

[New POD]

Urban Sports said:

Chrisbown said:

I personally have a couple & my latest I thought was quite funny, but only to me, was CD13 OWN my name is C D Bown so just makes me smile.

There's no B.

Oh come now, I'm sure that in the old days a bit of careful spacing would have made a fairly acceptable B out of 13 .

[Munter]

Mr Roper said:

Because if you poke yourself in the eye

If you can afford the plates, shirley you can get a minion to poke you in the eye?

Delegation dear boy.

[Kell]

will261058 said:

We had a made up plate PEN 1S which we put on the car of anyone on the shift who was particularly annoying when I was in the RAF up at Kinloss. Had some good fun with that

That plate or something like it does exist. It belongs to a truck racer, whose name escapes me.

It's either

PEN 1S

PEN 15

But I don't remember which.

I once saw two Rolls Royces parked side by side on a drive with

NOT 1 and BUT 2

as their plates.

[suffolk009]

swerni said:

The plate belonged to Steve Parish, not sure if it still does.
He had some others as well

He threw me round Brands Indy in the back of (I think) his big Merc, it had that plate on it. It was a Caterham day, he was there instructing. Going round the track there was an insistent banging in the boot as he threw it into each corner. "Oh, don't worry about that, it's just a couple of cases of Champagne that I forgot to take out."

[Kitchski]

threespires said:

Kitchski said:

Never got the personalised plate thing. I think they look cheap and cheesey (my car has one, but I didn't buy it, it came with the car).
I also gave my missus a PP which came on another car I bought. Didn't buy the plate as such, but did pay £80 or whatever to move it over. Only reason I gave it to her was because I thought it might be worth something for her....I prefer the car without it.

All my opinion though

"Never got the personalised plate thing."
Yes you do !
"I thought it might be worth something for her"

As to the plate on your car, if you don't like it, put it on P/H Classifieds & give the money to charity ?
Another advantage is the transfer fee that the purchaser pays could pay for a pot hole repair - maybe near you... but doubt it..

Edited by threespires on Wednesday 22 May 00:43

Thinking the plate might be worth something if she sold it doesn't mean I get the idea of people buying reg numbers that have their names in or something. This one relates to the car, which annoys me less, but I wouldn't have bought one if I car I owned didn't already have it on.
I can't sell that plate, because the car is out of MoT (and it's not my plate )
I don't want to sell the one on my other car as it's 23 years old and all the history is documented with it.
I could do with the money....charity starts at home! But I won't hold my breath that money which goes to the DVLA pays for my local council to fill a pothole in

[Shaw Tarse]

[CV35Ian]

I'm on the fence on this one, I hate the abstract plates that dont say anything unless explained in detail (you know the ones, where you have to ignore the numbers or assume a 4 is an H or an A - so in effect they are pointless), but I do like a decent car/or name related plate.

Not so long ago I bought a four digit plus MG plate for my MG, only attracted positive interest - and so far looks like a damn good investment too.

The Irish plate off of my old 5 series went to someone and paid for some new tyres, and I prefer the original D plate.

I also had a plate that almost read SAXO so that also went to pay for some work on a car.

So who'll sell me 1ANS for a few hundred quid?

[mollytherocker]

Shaw Tarse said:

Manky?

[B'stard Child]

CV35Ian said:

So who'll sell me 1ANS for a few hundred quid?

I was sure that plate was on a moggy minor and is a non transferable plate

Came up on ebay a while back I'm sure with a stupid starting price

[CRA1G]

B'stard Child said:

I was sure that plate was on a moggy minor and is a non transferable plate

Came up on ebay a while back I'm sure with a stupid starting price

The one that's non transferable on the Moggy is " 1 AN "

[B'stard Child]

CRA1G said:

B'stard Child said:

I was sure that plate was on a moggy minor and is a non transferable plate

Came up on ebay a while back I'm sure with a stupid starting price

The one that's non transferable on the Moggy is " 1 AN "

Thanks - I knew it was close

[rtbpfd]

Kell said:

will261058 said:

We had a made up plate PEN 1S which we put on the car of anyone on the shift who was particularly annoying when I was in the RAF up at Kinloss. Had some good fun with that

That plate or something like it does exist. It belongs to a truck racer, whose name escapes me.

It's either

PEN 1S

PEN 15

But I don't remember which.

I once saw two Rolls Royces parked side by side on a drive with

NOT 1 and BUT 2

as their plates.

If you'd like PEN 15, it's available now at the sum of £120,146.50 including all fees
https://www.regtransfers.co.uk/main/secureordering...