Real Good Number Plates : Vol 4

[ecurie]

Pork said:

Those plates are great, particularly like the Bentley one. Do they have much value?

It's not that expensive : whatever combination you choose, the cost is € 1.000,-
They're issued on a first come, first served base.

[Cliftonite]

A4 AAA (Not a video)

Also eligible for? :

1. Knob thread
2. Bad Parking thread
3. Cars Spotted (London) thread
4. Crappy modifications thread

[OvalOwl]

silverthorn2151 said:

Have we had S6 before?

Where is that? That looks like St. Paul's Covent Garden in the background.

Spotted a nice pair today (fnarr, fnarr) and 2 TKS and 1 TKS in Belgravia.



Apologies for the terrible fobile moan picture.

[Impasse]

[M3DGE]

MrReg said:

pingu393 said:

M3DGE said:

GP335i said:

Shnozz said:

Anyone bidding on anything in the current DVLA auction? I have my eye on a plate so have been watching it live on and off over the last 24 hours and some strong money being paid IMO.

I got BF 41 (initials) in yesterdays auction. Put in an internet bid for the reserve of £2500 the night before. Got scared on the morning of the auction and bumped it up to £2600 just incase... Won it for £2600! Really pleased considering how strong money some of the other plates went for.

Got 6 FRD (sons called Freddie) in an unsold lot a few auctions ago for £1600 which I was more pleased with!

BF 41 for that money is an awesome purchase. Also a piece of history...BF is the only combination sold by DVLA that has been previously allocated to a car. It was issued in 1n 1904 by Dorset but withdrawn after BF 162 as motorists complained that it meant 'bloody fool'. It was replaced with FX, and in 1920 any remaining BF numbers were re-registered FX. DVLA uses higher number BF plates for veteran car re-registrations, and obviously now sells the lower numbers.

GP335, as the registered keeper of BF41, you can apply to DVLA to see what cars it has been applied to. If I were you, I'd pay the £5 and do it.

No point - it was a DVLA auction plate so won't have been on anything previously..

Hmm, well per my point above, it WILL have been on a car - most likely only one, in 1904; and as these plates were effectively withdrawn and re-issued, I very much doubt that DVLA have the original records. I believe plates had to be 'live' when the records were computerised in the 70s for the full history to be available. The Dorset County Record Office may possibly have something.

[Cliftonite]

M3DGE said:

Hmm, well per my point above, it WILL have been on a car - most likely only one, in 1904; and as these plates were effectively withdrawn and re-issued, I very much doubt that DVLA have the original records. I believe plates had to be 'live' when the records were computerised in the 70s for the full history to be available. The Dorset County Record Office may possibly have something.

It was my understanding that a plate, once issued, was never re-issued. But were any BF plates actually issued in/shortly after 1904? There seems to have been none around by 1951.

[M3DGE]

sue20 said:

sim72 said:

When I was a kid our neighbour used to have E3 on his Austin 1100. His brother's car (a Rover of some sort if I remember correctly) had E9 on it.

E3's now on an X5, E9's now on a Ford Focus. Wonder if they're still in the same family?

On two pretty ordinary motors, I would guess (and hope)so! Great to see such fantastic plates treated like family heirlooms.

[silverthorn2151]

OvalOwl said:

silverthorn2151 said:

Have we had S6 before?

Where is that? That looks like St. Paul's Covent Garden in the background.

That's exactly where it is.

[Cliftonite]

111 BMC

Would look more appropriate on a 1960s Austin, Morris, MG etc. though?

[M3DGE]

Cliftonite said:

M3DGE said:

Hmm, well per my point above, it WILL have been on a car - most likely only one, in 1904; and as these plates were effectively withdrawn and re-issued, I very much doubt that DVLA have the original records. I believe plates had to be 'live' when the records were computerised in the 70s for the full history to be available. The Dorset County Record Office may possibly have something.

It was my understanding that a plate, once issued, was never re-issued. But were any BF plates actually issued in/shortly after 1904? There seems to have been none around by 1951.

See my point above (source :- Where's it From? When was it issued? - Woodall & Heaton) :- BF 41 for that money is an awesome purchase. Also a piece of history...BF is the only combination sold by DVLA that has been previously allocated to a car. It was issued in 1n 1904 by Dorset but withdrawn after BF 162 as motorists complained that it meant 'bloody fool'. It was replaced with FX, and in 1920 any remaining BF numbers were re-registered FX. DVLA uses higher number BF plates for veteran car re-registrations, and obviously now sells the lower numbers.

Edited by M3DGE on Thursday 2nd October 15:31

[Hatson]

Jeremy Clarkson was facing the wrath of Argentinians on Thursday after driving though the country in a Porsche with the number plate H982 FKL - a clear reference to the 1982 Falklands war.

[famoussas]

Sent to me by a mate yesterday.



Also saw EVE 1 this evening on an Audi A1.

[pingu393]

M155 DYK. I didn't see the driver, so I wasn't able to tell you if it was a big girl with short cropped blonde hair .

[Roman Moroni]

pingu393 said:

M155 DYK. I didn't see the driver, so I wasn't able to tell you if it was a big girl with short cropped blonde hair .

She could have been Dutch

[Number 5]

[pingu393]

Roman Moroni said:

pingu393 said:

M155 DYK. I didn't see the driver, so I wasn't able to tell you if it was a big girl with short cropped blonde hair .

She could have been Dutch

Didn't a little Dutch boy put his finger in a ...

... I just realised what I was about to write

[AndrewD]

[Sir Bagalot]

Left hooker as well

[sue20]

AndrewD said:

50 OOS?

Wrong thread.

Didn't 5000 S just sell for over 18k.

[ecurie]