Category 3 Plates

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The "Yes I know it's not legal but it made me smile" plates thread

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No conspiracy. I've thought for a long time there was a third variety of plate, namely the not strictly legal amusing plates that most of us would forgive. The timing is entirely coincidental.

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PorkInsider said:

I like seeing the incredibly bad ones with modified characters, spacing, screw caps, fonts... the whole gamut of chavplating possibilities on display.

Category 4.

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A nearby business provide equipment for bands on tour and, yes, this is a tour bus.

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shakotan said:

Half the plates on here are legal though...

I didn't say it would be easy. It's why I lie awake at night.

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We should let him have this.

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On the M40 this morning going to Wolverhampton I heard Chris Evans waxing lyrical about Cilla Black and her statue being unveiled near the Cavern yesterday. On my return I was overtaken by a black Audi TT with the registration CILLA. Made me smile.

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Do you have an assistant by name Dr Watson?

I'm on Pyle Hill, parallel to the A339, just south of The Plough.

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We had 1275 GT on the Real Good Plates thread recently. Perhaps there is a British Leyland nostalgia boom.

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It was on a newish Discovery so not as jinxed as all that.

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No picture but I was following a van the other day wearing S113ARU. They hadn't made a big deal out of it and I was thinking there's a Subaru aficionado somewhere who'd pay a pile of money for that. When I looked a bit harder the van belonged to Simpsons Subaru. D'oh.

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PA57 GAS on the M4. Took me longer than it should. I don't know why you'd want it but it made me smile when the penny dropped.

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Bowerz said:

Quick question, why create a seperate thread for plates just because of their spacing? Are you guys hating on the fact they've changed the spacing against how it should be? If so, why? I know it isn't 'strictly' to the letter of the law, but that law was to stop people disguising their plates and making it look like the letters aren't what they are. Surely if it's still completely clear what the plate is and can be read by ANPR it isn't that bad?

The thread is for plates that might be wrong legally but are forgivable because they're funny and/or clever. Because the two established plate threads, Real Good and C12APPY, are often so divisive this one found a place to potter along.