Real Good Number Plates vol 5

Real Good Number Plates vol 5

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Fun Bus

17,911 posts

218 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Parked side by side in a suburb of Nottingham tonight:

700 E - Ferrari 488

200 E - Bentley CGT


julianm

1,534 posts

201 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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In Ripon - is it possibly the third plate ever issued?

av185

18,505 posts

127 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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L5 VER

Green x type estate.

Kudos for avoiding the Chav route and not butchering into LEVER.

Somebody

1,180 posts

83 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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av185 said:
L5 VER

Green x type estate.

Kudos for avoiding the Chav route and not butchering into LEVER.

I don’t find that to be a good plate at all, sorry

breadvan

1,997 posts

168 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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CRA1G said:
RichardHMorris said:
Just a quick question: which is 'best': 3 RHM, 2000 RM or 8000 RM?

The reason I ask is that 2000 RM is on the Abarth that's out and about most, 8000 RM is on my sports-tourer Triumph that I use occasionally and 3 RHM is on my old 2002 Kawasaki (from new) that mainly lives in my garage and doesn't get out much.

I wondered if the numberplate cognoscenti would suggest some swapping of plates?
Imo.....

3 RHM
2000 RM
8000 RM

And that's price order as well...
Agree with CRA1G but don’t bother. I did it once with my plates and as soon as I started selling/buying various cars they were out of sinc again.

jamei303

3,002 posts

156 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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Somebody said:
av185 said:
L5 VER

Green x type estate.

Kudos for avoiding the Chav route and not butchering into LEVER.

I don’t find that to be a good plate at all, sorry
If you spend your life writing articles about the L5 vertebra then perhaps it is quite good.

Just because a plate doesn't spell some basic word doesn't mean it's not appropriate for the owner.

2 GKC

1,896 posts

105 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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Appropriate to the owner it may be but as the previous poster said it isn’t a good plate

jamei303

3,002 posts

156 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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2 GKC said:
Appropriate to the owner it may be but as the previous poster said it isn’t a good plate
Is it's legal and appropriate for the owner then it is a good plate.

1HAM is crap if it's meant to say the owner's name, Ian.

However, correctly spaced on a butcher's van it's good.


Feirny

2,518 posts

147 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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AMV 8 on a new Vantage the other morning.

droopsnoot

11,919 posts

242 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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A few from Oulton Park last weekend








2 GKC

1,896 posts

105 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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jamei303 said:
Is it's legal and appropriate for the owner then it is a good plate.

1HAM is crap if it's meant to say the owner's name, Ian.

However, correctly spaced on a butcher's van it's good.
But not a lot of point in posting it on this thread if an entirely ordinary plate is made good only because of some tentative relevance to the owner

av185

18,505 posts

127 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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jamei303 said:
Is it's legal and appropriate for the owner then it is a good plate.

1HAM is crap if it's meant to say the owner's name, Ian.

However, correctly spaced on a butcher's van it's good.
Yep it is good.

And like my example of L5 VER, made even better by not being illegally butchered and thus not making the platee an obvious Chav and in the same moronic category as an increasing number of illegally butchered and tragic vanity Chavplates currently seen on our roads. rolleyes

Edited by av185 on Thursday 23 May 10:55

Gojira

899 posts

123 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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av185 said:
Yep it is good.

And like my example of L5 VER, made even better by not being illegally butchered and thus not making the platee an obvious Chav and in the same moronic category as an increasing number of illegally butchered and tragic vanity Chavplates currently seen on our roads. rolleyes

Edited by av185 on Thursday 23 May 10:55
Realistically, I think we need a third category, for properly spaced plates that mean somthing to their owner and friends, but don't mean anything to everyone else laugh

Trouble is, people will see them and not notice, so a thread would die of under-use real fast!

For example, the plate on my XE isn't hugely obvious - X15 plus my initials is clearly much older than the car, but it bothers me not in the slightest that most people who see it won't know what an X15 was, even if they do guess what my initials are!

But even then, there really isn't the clear cut "properly spaced is cool, mis-spaced isn't" that some folks claim - I used to see TUR80 around here a lot, on various interesting motors, and I don't believe anyone who claims that is crap!


666OD

1,075 posts

122 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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RichardHMorris said:
Just a quick question: which is 'best': 3 RHM, 2000 RM or 8000 RM?

The reason I ask is that 2000 RM is on the Abarth that's out and about most, 8000 RM is on my sports-tourer Triumph that I use occasionally and 3 RHM is on my old 2002 Kawasaki (from new) that mainly lives in my garage and doesn't get out much.

I wondered if the numberplate cognoscenti would suggest some swapping of plates?
3 RHM is the best for me - stick that on the Abarth and allocate the others to the bikes smile

rich1888

40 posts

149 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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Feirny said:
AMV 8 on a new Vantage the other morning.
Me too!
Its Dan Trent with a Press Car I believe

Shnozz

27,472 posts

271 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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rich1888 said:
Feirny said:
AMV 8 on a new Vantage the other morning.
Me too!
Its Dan Trent with a Press Car I believe
Well well. Interesting given your report of his driving Feirny..

av185

18,505 posts

127 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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Gojira said:
av185 said:
Yep it is good.

And like my example of L5 VER, made even better by not being illegally butchered and thus not making the platee an obvious Chav and in the same moronic category as an increasing number of illegally butchered and tragic vanity Chavplates currently seen on our roads. rolleyes

Edited by av185 on Thursday 23 May 10:55
Realistically, I think we need a third category, for properly spaced plates that mean somthing to their owner and friends, but don't mean anything to everyone else laugh

Trouble is, people will see them and not notice, so a thread would die of under-use real fast!

For example, the plate on my XE isn't hugely obvious - X15 plus my initials is clearly much older than the car, but it bothers me not in the slightest that most people who see it won't know what an X15 was, even if they do guess what my initials are!

But even then, there really isn't the clear cut "properly spaced is cool, mis-spaced isn't" that some folks claim - I used to see TUR80 around here a lot, on various interesting motors, and I don't believe anyone who claims that is crap!
Although if spaced like that it is illegal and seen as being influenced by Chaverry therefore crappy.

Obviously much much cooler to leave it legal and original.

Feirny

2,518 posts

147 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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Shnozz said:
rich1888 said:
Feirny said:
AMV 8 on a new Vantage the other morning.
Me too!
Its Dan Trent with a Press Car I believe
Well well. Interesting given your report of his driving Feirny..
I did wonder if it was him, as I know he lives localish and should well know the layout of the roundabout.

Gojira

899 posts

123 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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(re TUR80 as a plate)

av185 said:
Although if spaced like that it is illegal and seen as being influenced by Chaverry therefore crappy.

Obviously much much cooler to leave it legal and original.
Given that the first time I recall seing it was on a brand spanking new XR3 Turbo, I'm not sure Chavs had been invented at that point...

It is interesting though, the number of folks here who don't seem to give a rats backside about law-breaking when it involves a speed limit, but are obsessed beyond reason about the width of a gap between letters and numbers confused

Yep, I hate -most- of the crappy numberplates in t'other thread as much as anyone else, but it really -isn't- Legal =Good, Illegal=Chavvy

It isn't a black and white world out there there are a whole range of shades of grey.

If I was being cynical, I'd suspect that some folks are jealous on here rolleyes


Croutons

9,869 posts

166 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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900 E on a fetching blue but old Disco. Eye catching all round!
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