RE: Personalised plates: Tell Me I'm Wrong
Discussion
I like em - prefer car related plates to name/initials related
I have just 2 now - one on her car (her name Surname - first initial)
one on mine
(car related - unfortunately not the car it's on related but it's still a plate I like)
My Monza used to run a car related plate (For a 1985 Monza GSE I liked it)
However I won't put a plate on this as current one is fairly well known
It's a topic that comes up on here from time to time - people either get it or they don't - quite surprised that the OP choses to dip his tow in murky waters but hey I've got pop corn ready and the thread should hit a few pages before it turns bitter and twisted
PS I don't like them when they've been butchered to blatently change what is actually the plate - some shockers in the crap private plate thread
I have just 2 now - one on her car (her name Surname - first initial)
one on mine
(car related - unfortunately not the car it's on related but it's still a plate I like)
My Monza used to run a car related plate (For a 1985 Monza GSE I liked it)
However I won't put a plate on this as current one is fairly well known
It's a topic that comes up on here from time to time - people either get it or they don't - quite surprised that the OP choses to dip his tow in murky waters but hey I've got pop corn ready and the thread should hit a few pages before it turns bitter and twisted
PS I don't like them when they've been butchered to blatently change what is actually the plate - some shockers in the crap private plate thread
Edited by B'stard Child on Saturday 18th May 09:42
Edited by B'stard Child on Saturday 18th May 09:43
Jones, that looks crap. Sorry and all that, but it's obviously a BMW and MJ are your initials, that much is blindingly obvious.
There's nothing special about it and it just looks cheap - which I suspect with the BMW at the end, it wasn't.
Then, I am living in a glass house a flinging rocks a bit, because we have a Range Rover Sport S/c with Northern Irish plates on it. Looks crap, but the plate was the plate on my wife's first car, and has been on every car she has owned since. A real personalised plate if you like.
On the other side of the coin, I saw a chavved up white FFR this morning with 10 NM on it. Cool plate, why Kahnify a decent 4x4?
There's nothing special about it and it just looks cheap - which I suspect with the BMW at the end, it wasn't.
Then, I am living in a glass house a flinging rocks a bit, because we have a Range Rover Sport S/c with Northern Irish plates on it. Looks crap, but the plate was the plate on my wife's first car, and has been on every car she has owned since. A real personalised plate if you like.
On the other side of the coin, I saw a chavved up white FFR this morning with 10 NM on it. Cool plate, why Kahnify a decent 4x4?
LeighW said:
LeighW said:
Not a fan of D14ANE type plates, with itallic fonts etc, but I personally think a plate with fewer digits than the standard seven looks neater and less cluttered to me. Each to their own though - I can't see why it would or should bother you tbh?
To illustrate my point:Good:
Not good, not good at all:
Personalised / private plates work when done properly, but are hilarious when they're not.
Black RRS derv with BAZ / DAZ / GAZ 1234 for example, or my personal favourite, B16 KEN, B16 SAM, B16 NOB etc. usually is some fat bastad in a Pajero...
lauda said:
Personally, I wouldn't ever spend my money on a personalised plate as I think they are a bit 'look at me' and I don't see that they improve a car in any way. I like to see really expensive cars (F40s, F1s, CGTs, etc) wearing an original plate as it strikes me, rationally or otherwise, that the owner is more interested in owning and enjoying the car than worrying about what image they project.
Along with Chris' article this just about sums it up for me as well. There is the other aspect of camouflaging the age of your car.
Many of the prestige marks do not look radically different from one model to the next. So, to the non-anoraks of this world, they are simply a prestige car if the plate does not indicate the age. It's probably the same thinking that has people deleting the model identity from the boots of their cars.
If it looks clean, it's still a Merc/BMW/Audi etc to the outside world although, underneath it may be a far from youthful, base-spec model with a hair-drier engine output.
Many of the prestige marks do not look radically different from one model to the next. So, to the non-anoraks of this world, they are simply a prestige car if the plate does not indicate the age. It's probably the same thinking that has people deleting the model identity from the boots of their cars.
If it looks clean, it's still a Merc/BMW/Audi etc to the outside world although, underneath it may be a far from youthful, base-spec model with a hair-drier engine output.
LMAO @ 11 out of 18 cars at Silverstone had private plates but you was scared to file your story - coward! grow some balls, lol.
Anyway I do not mind private plates, but what pisses me off about them is the
s that mis space them or use all kinds of trickery to make the plate appear to spell something, whether it is by trying to make an L into an I or using bolts to create letters.
Or the idiots that debadge their vehicle, only to get a registration of say S500 AMG for a Merc S500.
One of my cars has a private plate, but it was bought with it, my new car though I didnt bother I was going to but in the end thought no point of it.
I fully take my hat of to any officer giving anyone a fine with stupidly spaced plates, usually many of these drivers are a-holes.
Anyway I do not mind private plates, but what pisses me off about them is the
s that mis space them or use all kinds of trickery to make the plate appear to spell something, whether it is by trying to make an L into an I or using bolts to create letters.Or the idiots that debadge their vehicle, only to get a registration of say S500 AMG for a Merc S500.
One of my cars has a private plate, but it was bought with it, my new car though I didnt bother I was going to but in the end thought no point of it.
I fully take my hat of to any officer giving anyone a fine with stupidly spaced plates, usually many of these drivers are a-holes.
I completely agree with the writer in that I strongly dislike private number plates. I think its more about what it says about that person. To me it says "look how much money I've got to spend on literally nothing. Look at me!". It tells me the person is too desperate to put an affluent impression across, therefore giving a poor impression. Its the equivalent of telling people your salary. The right sort of people just don't need to tell people.
Not a brilliant impression.
Not a brilliant impression.
Urban Sports said:
I have a personalised plate, I've had it for about 15 years it's not on my current car because I want everybody to know I've got a brand new BMW, I might put it on when the new reg comes out in September.
I'm assuming that if I commented on this a parrot would have been missed somewhere along the way....Edited by Urban Sports on Friday 17th May 11:57
Plenty of plates here http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
My first car had a stock plate of J67 NRY, it looked a little different since it was a digit shorter than the average plate. I had a few people ask if it was a private plate. Same thing with my current car, the reg no looks like it should read Retard (R31TRD). I was after V8 GIB as it's a V8 and I'm hoping whatever I replace it with will also be a V8 but I can't find it. As a result I'll stick with looking retarded.
Edited by giblet on Friday 17th May 12:27
Tyre Smoke said:
Jones, that looks crap. Sorry and all that, but it's obviously a BMW and MJ are your initials, that much is blindingly obvious.
There's nothing special about it and it just looks cheap - which I suspect with the BMW at the end, it wasn't.
I take it you don't want to buy it then? There's nothing special about it and it just looks cheap - which I suspect with the BMW at the end, it wasn't.
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