Anyone remember their parents reg numbers?

[LuS1fer]

AMH ***A - Zephyr 4
959 XNY - Hillman Imp
FTC 851F - Cortina Mk II GT

I remember mine
VEM 4M - Honda SS50
ATG 482B - Austin A40
DHB 206E - Cortina Mk II 1300
YKG 880K - Viva HC 1800
GTG 130W - Honda CB 250RS
PRR 580R - Gold Wing
XWD 777S - Alfetta 2000

I could go on but since there are over 30...

[TRIUMPHBULLET]

LWP 82 D, a white Mini countryman, my dad bought in 1970, his first car. A good little car.
JTN 759 L, a hateful pile of junk Marina that broke down or had bits break on it constantly,my dad worked at Longbridge at the time (1975).
He went to Fords after an Allegro 1750 had a back wheel fall off. That finished BL stuff for him.
Ironically I bought a 73 Marina when I was on my arse in the early 80's and it was one of the most reliable cars I've owned apart from the n/s front wheel falling off.
I own a tr7 now, those in the know will know what I mean .

[anonymous-user]

I am still young enough to be able to remember most of them...

Family cars:

P159 BTA Mk1 Mondeo

WX02 UGE Grand Vitara

WV54 ZNY Touran (seen for sale once and then happened to pass it in the way back from the beach one day, over 100 miles away from where they live)

BD06 KXN Freelander

CK59 UJE 118d

WN16 POV A200d

AD16 CWJ C350e

Second cars:

P??? ??? Mk1 MX5

S??? ??? Mk2 MX5 (the 2 I really wish I’d remembered, particularly the Mk2 as it had a sport package or something and looked awesome)

Y393 DRU Mk4 Golf Cabriolet (later owned by one of the parents at my secondary school, then seen a few times driving about, then very nearly bought it last year when it was up for sale... reliability (rust) woes put me off in the end)

W?52 ??? Jimny O2

GK54 UBG Megane Convertible

WP52 YZB R53 Cooper S (my favourite and one I’d buy in a heartbeat if it ever came up for sale)

Mum’s cars:

WX52 PVD Corsa

CX09 YNN Ka

Think I might be a little bit sad

ETA looks like I responded to this thread in 2018 too, thought there was something familiar about it

Edited by JDB96 on Saturday 16th January 14:29

[dxg]

H145 VSO

The only one I can remember of my dads. It was pretty cool (to me, as a kid). it was a dark grey and had a red stripe inlayed into the bumpers and side mouldings. And - gasp - a rear spoiler!!!

[Phil Dicky]

Phil Dicky said:

OWT198W......Jag XJS, long since gone
WRB863Y........Rolls Silver Shadow 11.... Not showing so guess on a private plate
All others were on a private plate

Lost my Dad October 2020.....sad reminder this thread.

[unpc]

My old man got a new car every 6 to 9 months (Ford management) so there's too many to remember. One that sticks out was REV555K which was an aubergine Mk1 Capri. Loved that car.

[Last Visit]

OLK 850W Cortina estate
Thats the only one i can rember because we called the car Olky.

[Deranged Rover]

XOW 800J - White Victor FD

NCR 475M - Yellow Victor FE

SCG 634P - Yellow Mk1 Cavalier

LAA 575T - Blue Mk1 Cavalier

SOM 326Y - Blue Mk2 Cavalier

E633 JOR - Red mk2 Cavalier

G507 APO - Blue Mk3 Cavalier

M654 WOW- Green Mk3 Cavalier

P262 JCR - Gold Vectra

T272 LCR - Burgundy Vectra

Red Vectra - can't remember this one which is ironic as it was the 3.2V6 GSi and wasn't bad at all

VE58 FMZ - Blue Insignia

Amusingly, I was only born during the ownership of SCG 634P so I reckon I earn extra nerd points for knowing the ones before that...

[moffspeed]

Never forgot this one..515 FTG



...I think the fish was an eel of some sort.

[cymro]

1924 Morris Cowley
193? Standard Nine
CFM 326 193? Standard 14 The car I came home from hospital
in after my birth. CFM to be the initials of my future wife!
GNT 517 1951 Standard Vanguard
BJC 959 1954 Hillman Minx Convertible
EJC 517 1957 Hillman Minx
GCC 213 1959 Sunbeam Rapier
KJC 444 1962 Sunbeam Rapier
ACC 838B 1964 Humber Sceptre
GJC 300G 1968 Humber Sceptre
JMB 478G 1969 MG Midget
NCC 28L 1972 Humber Sceptre
OJC 440S 1977 Datsun 180B
YEY 270W 1980 Nissan Bluebird
C595 PJC 1985 Nissan Cherry
Sadly passed away in 1989 at the age of 80 when about to buy a new Peugeot 205 Automatic.
RIP Dad you gave me my love of cars.

[CeramicMX5ND2]

Granddad's MK2 Jag 254WBH
Dad's Land Rover 375BRP
Family Mini 850 7949MC
Family Austin 1300 Saloon MBH333H
Family Austin 1300 Countryman ? (I wrote this one off when I was 17 and my dad lost his insurance discount!) Wasn't happy!

[neutral 3]

Yes Lots !

But VEG 97H, my Mums ( first ) 3 Litre Capri, sticks in my mind, the most. If only it had survived.

EVC 289L, my ( first ) 3 Litre Capri, in Jan 82, is another.

BJN 438K, my Late Dads Silver V-12 E Type ( last of 3 that he owned )

[thenetwork]

Blue/Gray Holden... NRO 452

Any before that no and any after that no.

That car was passed down through the family.

My father had me working on that car when I was 13 [I think] and let me drive it around the neighbourhood at 15. That stood me in good stead for the future.

[Johnspex]

YXL 892 2 tone grey Consul
DYK 919C 2 tone grey Victor 101 estate his first brand new car
OME 359E White Triumph 200 estate
LGP 884k red Triumph 2.5pi sold to my brother and then to brother's Fil
XGK 537N Silver Granada Ghia


361 BGT uncle's Black, respayed maroon, Gazelle, sold to me

FLF 321C sister's grey Mini sold to me

ALN 757H another sister's Hunter

8268EV brother's 59 Mini. He'd give his eye teeth to get hold of that number

JPP 233G my silver 1600E
FKJ 611L my Monza blue Mexico
SYF 102N my tundra MGB GT
RKR 483R my red Dolomite Sprint
HLN 460N my silver Scirocco
PYH 7OY my silver Rover 2600



I can't recall any of the numbers from the last 30 years though.

[Eyersey1234]

Dad's cars I remember the reg of
B394 EHR a brown Nova
C441 MWE blue Montego (first car I remember properly)
F671 PCX blue Nova
J244 DUB silver Hyundai Pony X2 GSi
A278 MWT white Fiesta
H608 UWU red Fiesta

My grandparents cars
PWF 946 beige Ford Prefect
AWF 155B green Ford Anglia
FOK 909D green Cortina
ADF 166K blue Escort
CAD 613T white Fiesta
A320 FDF red Escort
E617 KFH red Escort
H564 VRH white BX (their first car I remember)
J946 HKH red Citroën ZX
M355 GAT red Fiesta

There was also a C reg red Escort that I have forgotten the reg of and HAD 501L which was one of my grandads fire service staff cars. My grandparents cars were all bought new with the exception of FOK 909D which was an ex demo car.

Stepdad
E410 FDL white Metro
N145 EAT white Fiesta
HW03 AWX blue Multipla
FY09 KNK red Daihatsu Sirion

Edited by Eyersey1234 on Sunday 17th January 09:06

Edited by Eyersey1234 on Sunday 17th January 09:15

Edited by Eyersey1234 on Monday 18th January 03:09

[chrisch77]

I thought I was uniquely sad in remembering number plates from my childhood, but it seems I am not alone!

Growing up we had a series 1 Land Rover 80” sitting in the barn, RJO 105, and a string of family cars as below:
XOA 990J Volvo 145 estate in turquoisey blue. This is the car I was brought home from the hospital in as a baby.
FCT 372V Fiesta mk1 1.1 in red - bought new but suffered rust spots within a couple of years, so replaced by
A146 KEW Fiesta mk1 1.3 in Ocean Blue - also new but hopelessly unreliable in the early years
KRE 106V Volvo 240 estate in dog sh!t brown. We got this at only 6 years old and it needed a full respray as well as rusty repairs in the spare wheel well, shocking compared to today’s cars!
E704 PFL Fiesta mk2 1.6d in Rosso Red. Bought as ex demo from the Ford dealer. Much better than the earlier Fiestas but this one became a magnet for people driving in to it and then it became very rusty in weird places - some said there had been a factory strike around 1988 and a load of body shells were left on the line for a while without painting and I think this may have been one of them!
E231 AJL Peugeot 305 diesel estate. This replaced the second Volvo and was bought at about 3 or 4 years old. We ran it right into the ground with both myself and older brother learning to drive in it, and it eventually rotted into a green slimey heap on my dad’s driveway by about 2009.

[David87]

Can remember a couple of my dad’s old BMWs.

K811 EPU - E36 325i Coupé
V271 EHH - E46 328Ci

After that he got a personalised plate, so spoiled the fun.

[soxboy]

Eyersey1234 said:

Dad's cars I remember the reg of
B394 EHR a brown Nova
C441 MWE blue Montego (first car I remember properly)
F671 PCX blue Nova
J244 DUB silver Hyundai Poxy X2 GSi
A278 MWT white Fiesta
H608 UWU red Fiesta

My grandparents cars
PWF 946 beige Ford Prefect
AWF 155B green Ford Anglia
FOK 909D green Cortina
ADF 166K blue Escort
CAD 613T white Fiesta
A320 FDF red Escort
E617 KFH red Escort
H564 VRH white BX (their first car I remember)
J946 HKH red Citroën ZX
M355 GAT red Fiesta

The main reason I like this thread is that I can look at posts like this and go ‘ooh North/West Yorkshire and Humberside cars’.

For many years all our cars (family and extended family) had the same area letters (UG, WT, WU, WW, WX, WY, AG, KH) now we’ve either gone on to private registrations or cars are registered at random places before being distributed around the country. I’m in Yorkshire yet my wife’s Mini is KT and my Range Rover is WA (Exeter).

[100SRV]

POE174R Green Austin Maxi 1750

[mfmman]

Eyersey1234 said:

Dad's cars I remember the reg of

J244 DUB silver Hyundai Poxy X2 GSi

Freudian Slip?