Anyone remember their parents reg numbers?

[billzeebub]

I only remember the ones from around 7/8 yrs old until just after I started driving

B352 YGO - AustinRover Montego 1.6L Saloon (a cream white colour with black go faster stripe)
E970 TDA - AustinRover Montego 2.0 VandenPlas EFi Saloon ( dark red metallic with grey lower half)
V135 LGH - Volkswagen Bora V5 (silver)

all owned from new and all manual gearboxes.

[Jaguar steve]

No problem. Same registration number has been on all the the family cars since the 1930s and has been passed down from my grandfather to my mum and is now mine. My son or grandson or niece can squabble over who gets it when I drop.

[wildcat45]

CS Garth said:

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

VK CN CU FT all North East numbers. Pre 1974 - God this is a sad thing to know - VK and CN were Newcastle. CU was South Shields and FT was Tynemouth. After 1974 they became general numbers for Tynesude Wesrside and Northumberland along with BB JR NL along with Sunderland numbers BR and GR and RG which was moved from another area. Scotland I think.

I live in Tynemouth and until fairly recently there were a couple of FT personal plates floating round on modern cars Numbers like FT 7 which was the old police chefs number or something. I think the mayor of Nirth Tyneside'sifficial car is FT 1 or something.

[VX5195]

J733 KOT - Blue Ford Escort
T164 TVX - Purple/Blue VW Polo 1.4
SO55 FWX - Peugeot 206

I'm only 20 and I bet in 20 years time I will still be able to remember these registration numbers :')

[bungle]

C367YDD - Peugeot 205 wedgewood blue
D206NDA - Peugeot 309, also wedgewood blue

[164 coupe]

GSE 872G. Mk II Cortina 1.6 L. First car I remember Dad with.
HSU 95L. Renault 16 TL. Written off on an icy road by my mother.
RSO 88L. Austin Allegro 1.5 c/w Quadratic steering wheel!i learned to drive in this!
MRS 630P Renault 16TX. First car he had with a radio! Even had a separate cassette player!
JSO 375 Triumph Herald Convertible (Mother's car) Wish they had kept this!
CLS 122V. Citroen Pallas. In a nice shade of bright yellow!
JSC 386T. Renault 20 TS. Built for comfort! Big comfy seats and very soft suspension!
A579 SGE. Subaru 1.8 GLX Saloon. Front wheel drive , not 4x4 and totally gutless!
D602 PNS. Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0 CDi. Surprisingly fast( if Dad wasn't there!!)
J787 HRH. Ford Sierra Sapphire 2.0 GLS. great RWD fun!
S256 AFS. Renault Megane. The last car before he passed away.

Quite a mix here, but each one has some great memories associated with them.

[Alg123]

Py55 off

[164 coupe]

Kiltie said:

ORS 30M - my old man's BMW 3.0 CSi

My mate in Keith owned this car in the very early 1980s. It is still on the go as I passed it on Anderson Drive a few weeks ago!! I think I have a photo of it somewhere!!

[milu]

ARB 938L mk3 Cortina gxl. Yellow with black vinyl roof.
JKY 100P. 'Jacky loop' yellow Reliant Robin!
Can't remember others,there weren't many since I'm the only car nut.

Edited by milu on Sunday 23 August 23:41

[Hoofy]

anonymous said:

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Ouch. So everytime your sister visits, you probably think of your mum!

[722Adam]

I have a list of all the cars my dad's ever owned, along with the plates. He simply recalled them all one day and wrote them down. Since then the list has been kept up to date, with mine being added as I started to drive.

First on the list is a Lambretta TV175 - ROO 337.
First car was a year later, an Austin A40 - YXO 762.

[Jakarta]

AFX 404Y - White Allegro estate
BRU 155T - Orange with black vinyl roof twin carb Allegro HLS
C60 SPJ - Dark Red Montego 2.0 Estate - A junior army officer in his new Golf threw himself into the side an wrote it off.

There were many more Austin monstrosities, I don't remember the numbers of the numerous 1800's and Princess's that we had.

[GuitarTech]

Of all the cars my dad had, I can only remember one registration ( don't know why I remember this one in particular )
It was a green mini BCX121B. I remember we drove to Hunstanton in Norfolk for a weeks holiday in it, and I was allowed to sit in the front so I could make rollups for my dad. Normal back in the sixties....

[belleair302]

TPO 974K, a 1974 Mini Clubman Automatic in a mustard yellow with wood side stripe.
KNK 194V, a light blue Escort estate in light blue. Car I passed my test in.

[SimesJH]

TTE 332M (?) - White VW Passat bought new around 1973.
Various Renault 5's, a 6 and a new Devon VW Bay Window. All numbers elude me as photos of them are few.
HNJ 521L - Silver Renault 16TL bought secondhand around 1977.
SKR 857R - Blue Renault 16TL bought secondhand around 1979/1980. One of the first cars I drove, tentatively, at age 11 under Dad's patient instruction.
B784 VYV - Silver Volvo 340GL bought new in August '84.
D776 EYU - White Volvo 360 GLT bought new in August '86.
K602 PKO - Red Vauxhall Cavalier bought new September 1992.

Edited by SimesJH on Monday 24th August 06:42

[Vee]

I think I'm the saddest/geekiest of the lot !
For some reason registration plates stick in my mind.
I could tell you the reg of 30+ cars my parents, sister, myself, wife & her family have owned over the past 25 years, but, I could not tell you my Mum's or Dad's mobile number.

[3xpendable]

For some reason I was able to memorise plates as a kid and still can to an extent now. I knew almost every family car reg past and present as well as every teachers reg in school!

[karona]

AEG 444 B, Vauxhall Cresta Estate, big enough in the back for 5-a-side football
UCS 5 Volkswagen 'bus, split screen, barn doors, Dormobile conversion, would be worth a fortune now.

[king arthur]

KUY962D - Father's gold Mk II Jag.

[funkyrobot]

D437 XDO - Sierra Estate
G765 TES - Montego Estate
L814 UTL - Montego Estate
F258 HRH - Sierra Cosworth

I think.