Personalised Number Plates - Naff or Cool?
Discussion
Where do you stand on personaIised number plates? I think sticking a standard issue number plate on your pride and joy is akin to wearing dirty trainers with a nice suit. Why take time choosing the colour and options only to deface it with a randomly chosen number?
Long before the DVLA realised they could cash in, cars could sport interesting or low digit numbers by chance to compliment the car. Nowadays a personalised plate (or as we used to call them ‘flash plates’ back in the day) is the only option, but what constitutes cool and what is naff?
In my book anything that looks like you’ve bought a written off 1978 Escort that happens to spell your name is crap (the R843 PAT style plate). Also in this group I put anything that has a random age letter and your initials is also no go, so P28 ACJ is out and akin to monogrammed cufflinks.
Anything that has some humour, spells a word or relates to the actual car is cool - so 'MAG IC' (once owned by Paul Daniels) or 'THE 928S' that Porsche used to own are cool.
Obviously symmetry and fewer digits look better on a car (or is that just my personal affliction kicking in?) and year letters that are an A, S or X with a single digit or duplicate digits are OK...
And black / silver are better than yellow / white plates (where legal)... and no badges or flags. And no gel plates or carbon fibre style (too Max Power Corsa!)
Am I alone in this?
Long before the DVLA realised they could cash in, cars could sport interesting or low digit numbers by chance to compliment the car. Nowadays a personalised plate (or as we used to call them ‘flash plates’ back in the day) is the only option, but what constitutes cool and what is naff?
In my book anything that looks like you’ve bought a written off 1978 Escort that happens to spell your name is crap (the R843 PAT style plate). Also in this group I put anything that has a random age letter and your initials is also no go, so P28 ACJ is out and akin to monogrammed cufflinks.
Anything that has some humour, spells a word or relates to the actual car is cool - so 'MAG IC' (once owned by Paul Daniels) or 'THE 928S' that Porsche used to own are cool.
Obviously symmetry and fewer digits look better on a car (or is that just my personal affliction kicking in?) and year letters that are an A, S or X with a single digit or duplicate digits are OK...
And black / silver are better than yellow / white plates (where legal)... and no badges or flags. And no gel plates or carbon fibre style (too Max Power Corsa!)
Am I alone in this?
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