Muppet Plates
What tenuous excuse can you find to buy a crap number plate?
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At first glance it looks easy to decipher why Stuart Dormer chose the DVLA 03 Select Registration SD03 DAD – it represents his initials SD and that he’s a DAD …but no… Stuart chose this catchy number plate as a quirky way to advertise his driving school – Dormer’s Approved Driving.
Stuart from Stirling, who has just qualified as an approved driving instructor, is awaiting delivery of his new dual control Renault Clio. In the meantime, his sons encouraged him to consider a 03 personalised number, which went on sale in November 2002, to add a touch of individuality to his learner driver car. Currently, Stuart has seven students on his books, all of whom think the personalised registration is a great idea.
Stuart explained: "Learner drivers these days opt for distinctive schools when choosing who to learn to drive with – they want to drive good looking cars, so I thought a distinguishing personalised registration would be perfect to help me stand out from the crowd. The number I chose is novel and catchy so I hope people will recognise and remember it, helping to attract more students to my Driving School."
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Captain Muppet said: So these plates cost money and don't enhance the performance of the car in any way. At all.
Every personalised plate I see reads "1 H4V3 M0R3 MON3Y TH4N 5EN5E".
I agree, especially when you have to space them illegally to read anything anyway. I really laugh at all these ads for number plates where the sad gits selling them need to put the real word in brackets so that you know what it is spelling. If they need to put it in brackets then the plate does not spell that word and IMHO is totally worthless. I would probably spend up to £500 for KEV1N but no doubt somebody wants many £K for it.
In Hungary you can choose your number plate 3 letters 3 numbers, 4 letters 2 numbers or 5 letters 1 number. Price is fixed for the combination eg 3+3 is about £130, 4+2 is about £200 and 5+1 is about £280. When I get a wedge I fancy TVR450 or whatever it is.
Nice investment if you ask me, must admit some really are pants though, followed a Pug 405 into work with W4 EAT on it, s'pose it was meant to read WHEAT (????) but with the tow bar in the way looked more like WE EAT, didn't see if the driver was a lardy though Personally for businesses I think it's a good way to opt out of buying a new fleet of vehicles every year or so, every noticed how many coaches have private plates so you can't judge how old there are
SD03DAD - what an arse - if I got a car with this on it by bad luck I would pay to get rid of it !
>> Edited by RUF 3 on Wednesday 26th February 17:29
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