Number plate with just numbers

[nessiemac]

What's this all about then?

Saw this today and just being nosey and it doesn't come up on any UK search for MOT or tax etc!

[anonymous-user]

It's LHD, and googling the name on the plate suggests it was bought/registered in Kuwait. It'll be one of our overlords come over to make sure the assets they bought from our cretinous political class for two and tuppence are performing as they should be, and that we're all good little worker ants as promised.

[FWIW]

Who’s the grumpy fker in the background?

[Draxindustries1]

It's a Guernsey plate. Most have up to six digits but some very early ones can have up to seven as this one is..

[sixor8]

But LHD. Some import duty / VAT avoidance reason I suppose. Register it in Guernsey then use it on the mainland 6 months a year, or maybe more!

[Scrump]

Draxindustries1 said:

It's a Guernsey plate. Most have up to six digits but some very early ones can have up to seven as this one is..

The dealer name on the plate surround seems to ‘Ali Alghanim & sons’. I suspect they may be more Middle East than middle of the English Channel.

[Vipers]

On the subject of number plates, I was just looking at DVLA to see if my 1.6 Cortina was still on the road, plate was JSS 55V, it now comes up as a 2018 Mercedes GLC 2143cc diesel.

Didnt know they re-issued old plates, any ideas anyone?

[P. ONeill]

Vipers said:

On the subject of number plates, I was just looking at DVLA to see if my 1.6 Cortina was still on the road, plate was JSS 55V, it now comes up as a 2018 Mercedes GLC 2143cc diesel.

Didnt know they re-issued old plates, any ideas anyone?

Maybe someone bought the car and transferred the plate?

[gazza285]

Scrump said:

Draxindustries1 said:

It's a Guernsey plate. Most have up to six digits but some very early ones can have up to seven as this one is..

The dealer name on the plate surround seems to ‘Ali Alghanim & sons’. I suspect they may be more Middle East than middle of the English Channel.

Don't worry about it, he will have just made that up, the known facts like it is a Rolls Royce with the name of a Rolls Royce dealer on the plate from a country that actually has seven digit number plates will not matter one jot to him.

[Vipers]

P. ONeill said:

Maybe someone bought the car and transferred the plate?

Maybe, just didnt know you could do that, a personalised plate yes, but an ordinary run of the plate, must be I suppose.

[Scrump]

Vipers said:

On the subject of number plates, I was just looking at DVLA to see if my 1.6 Cortina was still on the road, plate was JSS 55V, it now comes up as a 2018 Mercedes GLC 2143cc diesel.

Didnt know they re-issued old plates, any ideas anyone?

Someone would have taken it off the cortina and saved it as a cherished number. That is where all the dateless and other cherished plates came from before the DVLA began selling them.

[Vipers]

Scrump said:

Vipers said:

On the subject of number plates, I was just looking at DVLA to see if my 1.6 Cortina was still on the road, plate was JSS 55V, it now comes up as a 2018 Mercedes GLC 2143cc diesel.

Didnt know they re-issued old plates, any ideas anyone?

Someone would have taken it off the cortina and saved it as a cherished number. That is where all the dateless and other cherished plates came from before the DVLA began selling them.

Thank you for that, just wondering how JSS55V looks like with some fiddling about with the numbers/digits some folk do these days

[DickyC]

Vipers said:

Scrump said:

Vipers said:

On the subject of number plates, I was just looking at DVLA to see if my 1.6 Cortina was still on the road, plate was JSS 55V, it now comes up as a 2018 Mercedes GLC 2143cc diesel.

Didnt know they re-issued old plates, any ideas anyone?

Someone would have taken it off the cortina and saved it as a cherished number. That is where all the dateless and other cherished plates came from before the DVLA began selling them.

Thank you for that, just wondering how JSS55V looks like with some fiddling about with the numbers/digits some folk do these days

When I checked my old cars' numbers I found SJM 20S was taken from my Cavalier Coupe and was on a newish Mercedes.

SJM 20S or Sunny Jim as it was known. Sorry.

[Draxindustries1]

gazza285 said:

Scrump said:

Draxindustries1 said:

It's a Guernsey plate. Most have up to six digits but some very early ones can have up to seven as this one is..

The dealer name on the plate surround seems to ‘Ali Alghanim & sons’. I suspect they may be more Middle East than middle of the English Channel.

Don't worry about it, he will have just made that up, the known facts like it is a Rolls Royce with the name of a Rolls Royce dealer on the plate from a country that actually has seven digit number plates will not matter one jot to him.

Just made that up?? Someone pissed on your carrots today?
The 'plate' is a plate surround not the number plate itself, look closer..
It could possibly be a middle Eastern plate but Guernsey also did at one point use 7 digits. The fact the car is of a certain make has sod all to do with it..

[Muddle238]

Vipers said:

P. ONeill said:

Maybe someone bought the car and transferred the plate?

Maybe, just didnt know you could do that, a personalised plate yes, but an ordinary run of the plate, must be I suppose.

Yup, any plate can be put on retention* and kept, including the standard DVLA issue plates.

When I met my wife, she still had her first car at the time. It soldiered on for many honourable years but eventually when it went to the scrapheap, we put the registration on retention as it had sentimental value to her. It now sits on a modern Volvo, but because it looks like a normal DVLA reg and not your average shorter private plate, several people have asked how a car that looks (relatively) new can be from the 90s. The answer of course is that it isn’t, the plate is from the 90s but the car isn’t.

• provided of course the plate hasn’t been deemed non-transferable by the DVLA, but that’s only in specific and rare circumstances.

[gazza285]

Draxindustries1 said:

...Guernsey also did at one point use 7 digits...

Show me some evidence for that, then I might consider the possibility.

[NumBMW]

Draxindustries1 said:

gazza285 said:

Scrump said:

Draxindustries1 said:

It's a Guernsey plate. Most have up to six digits but some very early ones can have up to seven as this one is..

The dealer name on the plate surround seems to ‘Ali Alghanim & sons’. I suspect they may be more Middle East than middle of the English Channel.

Don't worry about it, he will have just made that up, the known facts like it is a Rolls Royce with the name of a Rolls Royce dealer on the plate from a country that actually has seven digit number plates will not matter one jot to him.

Just made that up?? Someone pissed on your carrots today?
The 'plate' is a plate surround not the number plate itself, look closer..
It could possibly be a middle Eastern plate but Guernsey also did at one point use 7 digits. The fact the car is of a certain make has sod all to do with it..

I don’t think they have ever released a 7 digit plate. A friend on the island all but confirmed that to me many years ago when I was asking about the plates
Have you got one or something?

[P. ONeill]

Scrump said:

Draxindustries1 said:

It's a Guernsey plate. Most have up to six digits but some very early ones can have up to seven as this one is..

The dealer name on the plate surround seems to ‘Ali Alghanim & sons’. I suspect they may be more Middle East than middle of the English Channel.

https://alialghanimsons.com.kw/eng/

[darreni]

Draxindustries1 said:

It's a Guernsey plate. Most have up to six digits but some very early ones can have up to seven as this one is..

It’s not a guernsey plate. I lived there for over 20 years & never saw a seven digit plate.

[P. ONeill]

darreni said:

Draxindustries1 said:

It's a Guernsey plate. Most have up to six digits but some very early ones can have up to seven as this one is..

It’s not a guernsey plate. I lived there for over 20 years & never saw a seven digit plate.

It’s from Kuwait.