Anyone remember their parents reg numbers?

[Stuart70]

KTMsm said:

I can't believe how many of you can remember a long list of numbers

I can't remember the numbers of the cars I've got on the drive !

Given the list on your garage, I am not surprised.

Good effort!

[Kuwahara]

GPG 579V white MK2 Escort estate…strange I can’t remember the ones after that…

[clive_candy]

EOE 263C - a white HA Viva from (I think) Crowder and Brown, one of Birmingham's several Vauxhall dealers back in the day.

[twing]

F80 AHB, Renault 21 Savannah in racing gold. Did me proud for my first few years on the road

[addey]

My mum's number plate was dead easy to remember when I was young as it was the same as our phone number - 47627 - No letters on Guernsey number plates to confuse things!

[mikey_b]

I can only remember a few number plates, though I remember a lot more cars than this. Dad because he was moderately interested in cars, though not enough to have anything exotic, and mum had a few because they tended to be old and already worn out.

WVW 806W White Metro 1.0 (mum's)
MCV 531X Terracotta Ford Capri 2.0 (dad's)
B501 YTA Red MG Metro 1.3 (dad's, then mum's)
F231 MFJ Burgundy Ford Sierra 1.8 (dad's, first brand new car I remember him getting)
J76 LRL Red Rover Metro 1.1 (mum's, but then became mine). Decent first car actually, though I only had it a few months before starting a job with a company car, at which point it went to my sister's friend.

First car I remember was a Hillman Avenger estate, and in no particular order at least one Maxi, a Volvo 360, another Sierra, a couple of other Metros and a couple of Minis, a Hillman Imp, another Capri, and more latterly two if not three Mondeos. No idea on reg plates though.

[mikey_b]

addey said:

My mum's number plate was dead easy to remember when I was young as it was the same as our phone number - 47627 - No letters on Guernsey number plates to confuse things!

Was that deliberate? That is one hell of a coincidence if it wasn't assigned deliberately.

[texaxile]

Wow, great topic and I've been stirring the old grey matter to try and remember them without looking at any pics.

Not in any specific order:

GRT198N Datsun 120Y in Yellow. Took us all over Europe and Italy without missing a beat, Vinyl seats and good looking car from the front.

C581GWG Purchased new by my Dad in 85, rusted itself to death 10 years later.

GBJ266N Escort Mexico my Dad owned, which I purchased from him then sold a few months later after realising I couldn't afford insurance on my £26 a week YTS wage.

[wessbee]

2646 PO Blue Vauxhall Velox PA
CCD 497C two-tone green Vauxhall VX4/90 FC
KBP 981J gold Vauxhall VX4/90 FD
SWN 727M silver Vauxhall VX4/90 FE

Then is gets a bit blurry but an 81 Vauxhall Cavalier SRi, followed by a Vauxhall Omega CDX, then a Vauxhall Carlton CDX

Bit of a GM man was my Dad :-)

[SS427 Camaro]

Draxindustries1 said:

Hope you have some luck finding the RR.
Several other nice ones in your picture as well Inc a Mk2 Cortina Lotus

Thanks ! And yes shame the Lotus plate isn’t readable. That shot was taken @ Bedford gun club

[geeks]

G278VNK for dads Cavalier
G177FVP for mums Panda

Sadly neither are on the road anymore

[Sixpackpert]

D39 GYR on my Dads Isuzu Piazza Turbo.

[Pica-Pica]

Yes, I have been trying to buy it, but it does not show up.

[DiscoSINGH]

I remember all the reg numbers of all the cars owned by my dad:

Ford Fiesta 1.1 Pop - BCP 438Y
Ford Escort 1.3L - B994 WCP
Ford Orion 1.4L - H813 TCX
Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6L - J325 MVH
Audi A4 1.8T Sport - S753 SWG
Audi A4 1.9 TDI 130 S line - SL03 ZVW
Audi A4 1.8T Black Edition - LG15 TMO
Audi A3 1.5 TSI Black Edition - YG18 PZL

Currently has an Audi A4 2.0T Black Edition - personalised reg.

Edited by DiscoSINGH on Friday 25th November 16:59

[Bannock]

Wonder if any of these reg numbers will pop up twice....

[Kuwahara]

Sixpackpert said:

D39 GYR on my Dads Isuzu Piazza Turbo.

I liked them a lot….

[andrebar]

DSD85V on a yellow Citröen GS of my dad. Why I remember that but not most of my own cars is anyone’s guess

[Kuwahara]

Sixpackpert said:

D39 GYR on my Dads Isuzu Piazza Turbo.

I liked them a lot….

[whimsical ninja]

Haha this is ace

DLD397Y was a Volvo 340 we got when I was about 3. There was a black Mini before that, all I remember about it was that it was massive

Also this shows how old people are who still use forums rather than newer shinier forms of social media

[disad-vantage-d]

A few fond memories from my childhood of my parents cars…

1968 Triumph 1300 XHN 345G
1972 Mazda 1800 PHN 80L
1974 Mini 850 KGR 647N
1976 Volvo 244DL SPT 484R
1978 Austin Allegro Estate KGR 937S
1979 Mini 20th Anniversary SUP 808V
1981 Ford Fiesta Supersport JTY 89X
1982 Ford Fiesta Bravo 2 NRG 217X
1983 Ford Escort RS1600i - unfortunately can’t remember reg. as my father put a personal plate on it soon after buying it. I was 18 when he got it and somehow I was insured to drive it and he let me borrow it. I was like the cat that had got the cream!!
1989 Bertone X1/9 Gran Finale F285 NFT
1990 Mini Cooper Limited Edition H559 XEC