DVLA Auction - AST 50N

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Jon39 said:

Perhaps the owner of this one might like the number plate.
Where has the infamous understated Aston Martin association gone? Yuk.

The owner is Aston Martin and the car is for marketing due to the release Skyfall last week?

[Gerrym11]

Jon39 said:

The fairly common practice of trying to make a word with the wrong characters does seems rather silly. eg [·K4TR ·J] proudly driven by Catherine Jennings.

Certainly agree with that one!


Cheers

Gerry

[Bincenzo]

Interesting point though. At the Gaydon visit this weekend, I was probably one of perhaps 2 cars that didn't have a private plate. My wife's offered to get me one for my birthday, so it'll be a V8 with my initials - tricky though considering I have no middle name (unadventurous parents!) but I guess it frees up the third letter!

[Cockernee]

Bravo73 said:

Lots of people are vain and/or stupid. (NB Not all, just 'lots').

Hence you have a) people buying a new car every year (just because the registration letter changes) and b) the 'vanity plate' market.




(Disclaimer: the above obviously doesn't apply to anybody who should happen to post in this section of the forum).

[Jockman]

Bincenzo said:

Interesting point though. At the Gaydon visit this weekend, I was probably one of perhaps 2 cars that didn't have a private plate. My wife's offered to get me one for my birthday, so it'll be a V8 with my initials - tricky though considering I have no middle name (unadventurous parents!) but I guess it frees up the third letter!

I have no middle name either Mark - tight parents I'm afraid - so it's just Jockers Jockman.

If you did 'Oliver' you could be the V8 MOB

[Bincenzo]

Jockman said:

I have no middle name either Mark - tight parents I'm afraid - so it's just Jockers Jockman.

If you did 'Oliver' you could be the V8 MOB

Eh mate, could be a goer. The MOB also being a traditional nickname for the Navy, could work on many levels, if it's not seen by the neesayers as being to naff! Mind you, it's also an abbreviation of 'man over board' as well!

[MollyGTi]

Well this thread has just proved very costly for me!

I'm not a big fan of private plates but I did get Rob's for him as a surprise at first registration on the basis of it being about the car not the person - V888AMV - and it has become as much a part of the car as the wheels (& transferred from 1st car to 2nd).

My 1st ever new car is being registered on 1st March & I've been vaguely considering a plate to make mine individual too, so, naturally, this thread set me off on a search. I doubt it will get approval here but the car is a GTi & the nearest name available to MollyGTi is a bit out of order but has the basic ingredients: GT13MOL. Not perfect but hopefully the GTi element will be obvious to anyone half interested.

[Jockman]

Bincenzo said:

Eh mate, could be a goer. The MOB also being a traditional nickname for the Navy, could work on many levels, if it's not seen by the neesayers as being to naff! Mind you, it's also an abbreviation of 'man over board' as well!

Go for it Handsome.....just thank your lucky stars you weren't named Neil

[Bincenzo]

Jockman said:

Go for it Handsome.....just thank your lucky stars you weren't named Neil

[Jockman]

MollyGTi said:

Well this thread has just proved very costly for me!

I'm not a big fan of private plates but I did get Rob's for him as a surprise at first registration on the basis of it being about the car not the person - V888AMV - and it has become as much a part of the car as the wheels (& transferred from 1st car to 2nd).

My 1st ever new car is being registered on 1st March & I've been vaguely considering a plate to make mine individual too, so, naturally, this thread set me off on a search. I doubt it will get approval here but the car is a GTi & the nearest name available to MollyGTi is a bit out of order but has the basic ingredients: GT13MOL. Not perfect but hopefully the GTi element will be obvious to anyone half interested.

Molly, a propos your gushing over Bamford Rose, perhaps BR1 TNY

[George29]

MollyGTi said:

My 1st ever new car is being registered on 1st March & I've been vaguely considering a plate to make mine individual too, so, naturally, this thread set me off on a search. I doubt it will get approval here but the car is a GTi & the nearest name available to MollyGTi is a bit out of order but has the basic ingredients: GT13MOL. Not perfect but hopefully the GTi element will be obvious to anyone half interested.

Only problem I can see with that is that with standard spacing it could be read as GTB MOL. Or you could ruin it and go for chavvy spacing

There are some good dateless plates at the DVLA auction coming up. 97 N for £3k reserve

[Neil1300R]

Jockman said:

Go for it Handsome.....just thank your lucky stars you weren't named Neil

Oi I resemble that remark!

[Jon39]

:J: said:

The owner is Aston Martin and the car is for marketing due to the release Skyfall last week?

Well spotted J. Yes I did know that, but my contribution was an 'on the fiction shelf'.

[AWV12]

Since we have only one system over here (you can not choose/buy your own/individual plate), BUT since it is sequental numbering/lettering, you can see (roughly) in what month/year a car has been registered for the first time. And indeed, this also makes some people "speculate", for instance currently we reach the end of the 99-ZZZ-9 sequence, next will be 0-AAA-OO etc, so people who ordered new cars are now waiting for registration, until this happens, so their car looks not "old".

It also happens that people buy 2nd hand cars in other countries (eg Germany) and then they have an "old" car with a "new" license plate (firs registration date in NL determines license plate). Before, people also "lost" their license plate intentionally, to get a new one, but now the RDW (government authority giving out license plates) adds a small "version number" to the plate when a lost one has been replaced, so you have to loose it more than 9 times before you get a real new plate/number.

So it seems we have some crazy people here too...........but of course they are also not reading this thread

[Jon39]

International plates can be quite handy in the UK, to some people.

A car with Portuguese plates was in use locally for almost 10 years, driven by a school cleaner. Certainly no road tax after the first year, and perhaps no other formalities.

The police actually said they knew all about it, but nothing was done. It continued to be used on the foreign plates.