Anyone remember their parents reg numbers?

[Honk]

TDM 50M.
white Mini Clubman.

[wessbee]

Sad game, but I remember

2646 PO - Vauxhall Velox PA - Dark Blue
CCD 497C - Vauxhall VX4/90 FC - two tone green
KBP 981J - Vauxhall VX4/90 FD - bronze with black vinyl roof
SWN 727M - Vauxhall VX4/90 FE - metallic silver starmist with black vinyl roof

and then I seem to forget the number plates although I remember the cars

1981 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.8 GLS - bright red
1986 Vauxhall Carlton 2.2 CDX - pearlescent black metallic (remember wanting to put this engine in my Manta B at the time
1996 Vauxhall Omega 2.0 - Burgundy with brown draylon interior

You can see where I get my liking for GM Cars from.

[sa_20v]

D356 PUR - Montego Estate
G359 UUD - Montego Estate
M37 MOV - Montego Estate

My parents weren't into cars...

[Willy Nilly]

ANT880T red Skoda 120LS
A945SMA red Skoda 120LE
D921RNT Blue Skoda 130L
F86EUJ Greenish Skoda Favourit 136LX one of the original demo fleet

NAW337P Dads Ford 3600 tractor
OAW490M Dads first Zetor Tractor a 6711
CAW430L Second Zetor 5711 this time

There are a load of reg and serial number from various tractors I have driven over the years in dark corners of my brain.

[wildcat45]

CS Garth said:

This one is for the nerds - haters need not apply. Inspired by the concurrent thread (my dad had one of those) does anyone else have ingrained in their memory the reg numbers of their parents car? I remember most and have happy memories of the excitement associated with each "new" car that came into our family although in hindsight all were fairly mundane:

LFT 430X - mothers metro, blue and a rust bucket but seemed like it was out of Tomorrow's World (anyone under 35 need not apply)
E82 CCN - Fiesta Popular (not even Popular Plus), white and seemed amazing after the Metro
E900 DCU - old man's Orion 1.6d L, Burgandy and slow as hell. First new car for us.
J658 JPV - rover 216 BRG - 16v engine seamed very spritely, 2nd gear went after 40k
G852 RVK - Subaru estate GL - had shifatable low ratio, was amazing on a road car

I could go on. Would like to hear if others have similar memories which inspired their car interests....

Are you a Geordie by any chance?

RED 405M. Horrible green Fiat 128
KUN 9490 and KUN955P. White and green Suntor Marina campers supplied from the factory in Devon hence the registrations.
XJR384T the Orange Horizon GLS with acres of brown velour a digital clock
And internally adjustable mirrors was science fiction to 8 year old me in 1979.
There were a few others - all Volvos.

My Dad got a personalised plate years ago. A birthday gift from my mum. Now he's gone I have it on my cars - a Land Rover at the moment. All things being equal it'll be put on a Discovery Sport soon. I like to think he would have approved.

[mybrainhurts]

My parents didn't have reg numbers, just National Insurance numbers, I believe.

[CS Garth]

wildcat45 said:

Are you a Geordie by any chance?

RED 405M. Horrible green Fiat 128
KUN 9490 and KUN955P. White and green Suntor Marina campers supplied from the factory in Devon hence the registrations.
XJR384T the Orange Horizon GLS with acres of brown velour a digital clock
And internally adjustable mirrors was science fiction to 8 year old me in 1979.
There were a few others - all Volvos.

My Dad got a personalised plate years ago. A birthday gift from my mum. Now he's gone I have it on my cars - a Land Rover at the moment. All things being equal it'll be put on a Discovery Sport soon. I like to think he would have approved.

Not far off - Hexham. Was it the new car ref on the Orion that gave it away (I think DCU was County Durham where the dealer who was a mate was)? Am sure wiki has shed loads on this but we're harking back to when the DVLA has multiple offices rather than just Swansea - my inner geek nearly stops there but I know COO was Colchester and had many an Essex reg'd fast ford on this nomenclature

[V8Wagon]

TAC 563R - Orange Chrysler Alpine
MWN 901X - Blue Talbot Solara

[DickyC]

LBL 25 - Morris Minor convertible
RJB 888 - Morris Minor Traveller
??? - Wolseley 4/44
WXM 529 - MG Magnette
FLN 618C - Vauxhall Victor 101 - dad's first company car
371 ATA - Frogeye Sprite - mum's first car
SUC 887F - Rover 2000 - dad's second company car at the peak of his career
ARK 606H - Triumph 1300TC - company car with new company
??? B - Mini - redundant and back buying his own cars
BRD 376K - MGB GT

And then I left home and I lost track.

Odd I can't remember the Wolseley's or Mini's numbers.

[jonwm]

I knew one day these engraved regards numbers would become useful

Moms
URU 581S brown cortina
D133 BAB blue fiesta pop plus
H618 ODA while fiesta lx (became my first car)

Dad's
E372 CMJ white cavalier
G439 UUE blue volvo 740gl

Dad had a company car that changed every 2 years, these are all I can recall although remember the cars

[Mr Adds]

I can only remember from when I was 6....

F527HFT Red Ford Escort 1.3 popular, my dads first new car
H199EVK white Rover 216 SLi, I loved it, used to polish the chrome door handles
N948CUD red mk1 Ford Mondeo workhorse
L881XBB white Citroen Xantia 1.8lx
V814FPD Grey Mk2 Punto 1.2 elx, car I first drove
S198CBR Blue Nissan Primera 1.9 slx, was great to drive
NM02??? Green Skoda Octavia 1.9 Ambiente. Another workhorse, went with over 250k on clock
KV08??? Grey Peugeot 308 1.9 tdi- crap!
FJ52XAW black BMW Z3 2.2 sport- we went half on this for a weekend car sorely missed
NG12BCE BMW 116d urban, dads retirement present to himself, 2nd new car went crackers with options
SY62WFN Grey BMW X1 20d xline, bought on a whim, suprisingly good!

[Captain Smerc]

LRT694K - Stag , old english white
SJF15N - Range Rover , Sahara beige
PAR208R - XJS , black with red leather , used to get taken & picked up from school in the early 80's , headmasters face was a picture looking over from his Granada

[velocemitch]

LVH 86E, Green Hilman Minx, dad swapped his Vincent for it, bad decision in hindsight!.
EWU 360H gold cortina 1600E
UYG 99L. green Saab 99L, he kept that about 25 years.

Funny how you can remember a reg number from fifty years ago, but not a current one.

[Zedboy1200]

Great thread....

OVB ??? Moggy Minor
RKE 268M Renault 12
And an 1966 E reg Amazon 122S..... Got to do some regression therapy to remember that one!

[London GT3]

Earliest ones that I can remember are 1960's and 1970's:

MYK 972D - MkIV Zodiac
YLF 281G - Triumph 2.5pi
CAP 611K - Volvo 164
GAP 255N - Volvo 164E
504 NMF - Mum's Wolseley 1500
GNK 125L - Mum's Fiat 124ST

[paulrussell]

I can only remember one of my dads cars registration number H893 LOG, which belonged to a Maestro. Unfortunately it was the one that came with the electronic dash. My dad bought it when it was around a year old to replace a mk1 Micra.

[Martin_M]

My dad bought a private plate and put it on a new R reg rover he bought - A20 EVM.

He then replaced that with a C220 Sport S reg which cost £32k at the time - S95 EGD. The last time I saw it was in Greenock a couple of years ago.

He also had V26 CLK on his CLK but forgot to renew the retention when he bought a new car and I believe he no longer has the rights to it as a result.

[kiethton]

Just a couple as they didn't change cars that regularly:

P228PGO - Volvo 850 2.5 20v estate. Bought near new in 1998 and sold with the gearbox starting to misbehave in 2004 ~125k miles later. Dark blue (small) 5 spoke alloys, no spoiler and cream leather. Loved the car, ferried caked in mud from many football games sat in the boot. Saw it a year or so after sale in Sidcup (SE London) so stayed local? Would love to see if it's still around

R482VWC - ford Mondeo 2.0 petrol GLX estate in silver. Worst ever auto box that shat itself at 60k miles after I started thrashing it around the (private) drive from 15....owned from new and sold in 2004 with ~62k miles. As it was my
Mums car there wasn't really a straight panel on it...also wonder if it's still alive?

[grumpy52]

FUV684C Hillman Superminx in tartan red ,dads first after he passed his test (the year before I did )
LEB882G Vauxhall Victor,dark blue .dad used to keep this at just under 85mph on the motorway, mum could see the speedo needle if he went over this .

[williredale]

E710HTP Izuzu Trooper is the only one I can remember before they put private plates on their cars. Bought new and I remember being there when they chose it. Since they got private plates I don't have to remember them.