Living in Leicester, where every other car has one, including mine, 'private' registration plates rarely make me smile.
Coming out of Stratford-on-Avon today, though, one did. An Aston Martin Vantage ... V8 OOOF
Living in Leicester, where every other car has one, including mine, 'private' registration plates rarely make me smile.
Coming out of Stratford-on-Avon today, though, one did. An Aston Martin Vantage ... V8 OOOF
Of the new ones I've recently seen NAiI SAW which presumably is NA11 SAW with a number plate bolt and TAII END which possibly is TAiI END without the bolt? Shame it's not the BP as TAll END made me think of an inappropriate one (although John Humphrey's did once say it on the BBC Today program.
If that is how the 'plate was spaced then I'd be thinking that the owner was a bit of a cock, TBH. Nice car though.Originally Posted by Tinker
#grumpylawabidinggit.
Couldn't resist this, Just bought it for one of my vans.
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Seen a while ago on a Range Rover with very dark windows was SPL1F. Nicely done,I thought.
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That is amusing. Good show.Couldn't resist this, Just bought it for one of my vans.
Thank you, I'm quite happy to have dug that out
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What does it mean?
The only thing that comes to mind is WE MOW ?
Yes, looking closely (now on my PC) a web address is on the plate!
I'm not usually a fan of private reg plates*, but there is a locksmith van I see driving about Manchester with "LO57 KEY" which I think is bloody brilliant!
*Edit*
My Mum has an "XJS" plate on her XJS so I have to make an allowance for that.
I own a gardening company and WE MOW grass
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Too simple!
I was trying to imagine what word 'WE02' could be made into (squinting, perhaps with the addition of coloured screws etc.).
WE visit jobs 2 MOW. I would have liked MOW 1T but that probably cost 100 times more.
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I read it as " We too Mow" in the sense " We also mow, in addition to other gardening services offered by ourselves "
Perhaps "We Love (heart) To Mow", with a screw positioned on the nought?
LA51 GET near me. A colleague who may/may not have taken drugs in his youth recently obtained AC10 FAN. His surname begins with FAN and he has it as ACID FAN
Couldn't resist this, Just bought it for one of my vans.
''WE OWE TO MOW '' ..... me thinks.....?
Couldn't resist this, Just bought it for one of my vans.
I'm seeing 'we owe to mow' .... ?? Great !!!
One of the best, some time ago on a 928 S4 'TOO 510W'' - (and all legit !) love it :-)
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Illegally spaced. Should read V80 OOF. Amazes me how plod turns a blind eye to these illegalities. I think local government is missing a trick by not prosecuting them. It's a potential revenue gold mine!
EDIT: They could call it the TWA7 tax.
Actually my nephew got done for just that.
Deserved it.
Cheers,
Neil.
I've nothing against private plates (I've owned a few) but illegally spaced and presented ones really get my goat for some reason. It's particularly rife here in the West Midlands. At least half the 'private' plates I see are illegal (spacing, font or both). Some of them are SOOOO ludicrous I can't see how the Police's number plate recognition systems can spot them.
No road tax or insurance? Just bastardise your plate so it's indecipherable.
There's a chap in Norwich with 5 TOP.
It used to be spaced incorrectly as 5TOP but he's spaced it properly now.
I saw 'A HERO' having a tyre change today, a nice white Bentley I think. Couldn't be bothered to work out what it really was - maybe A 11 ERO?
There's a Nissan GTR around us with
HE59 ONE, it took me a couple of sightings to 'get it'
I always remember being in Leeds as kid and seeing a (now) old school 911 with 'CRAIG' as the reg
Nottingham was rife with them back in the day, they issued GRAIN to a moped (FS1E) near me!
HE59 ONE - nah, not getting it yet
I remember Ronnie O Sullivan overtaking me on the M4 Bristol a few years ago now.
"CUE 8OY"
A relatively fast car by normal standards so assume reading from the rear...
He5 9one
A long time ago I saw 60 NE on a Ferrari 355 that was coming towards me, and as I turned to look at it go past I saw that on the back it had been pushed together to read "Gone". I too get annoyed with the illegal spacing but I think I'll give him that one.A relatively fast car by normal standards so assume reading from the rear...
He5 9one
I saw MUS 1C on a Roller on the M1 about 10 years or so ago. Think Paul McCartney owned it at the time. The driver did not look like him though.
MUS1C and 50UND were both around in Worcestershire a lot when I was growing up in early 2000s. Stella McCartney lived that way but no idea these belonged to Paul!
At my school gates we had a pair of crackers:
B1TCH on a black Mercedes coupe (I think a CL); and
W1TCH on a Mitsubishi pickup.
They're a bit of fun to some, but a tedious fool I once had to endure had a very cheap plate with the letters 'CJD' at the end as those were his wife's initials. He took me out to the car park once to point out that below the registration on the number plate was written 'mad cow'. He was very proud of it and showed everyone he could - to him the joke never wore off.
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I saw something really bizarre this week on the A14 near Cambridge.
I was following a Ssanyong 4x4 monstrosity and it had a very usual age related plate (SH04 RJK or something of that vein) but underneath the plates, both front and rear, was a tiny little 1" by 6" plate with another plate (which was something like SJH 1).
The mind boggles.
XII ICEY on a Mondeo this am and a Ferrari passed me the other day with 5 SEG
Even WRC cars have suspect plates these days. On Ogier’s Fiesta: X M59ORT (in non-standard font).
MUS 1C lives near me in North Oxfordshire (photo I took below as my local petrol station a few months ago), definitely not Paul McCartney
The B1TCH plate must have been something else, as I don't believe that's ever been released by the DVLA
Untitled by Alex L, on Flickr
You’re right - just checked and they didn’t issue it, which really shouldn’t be a surprise. I’ll have to ask my mum whether she remembers it...
I just saw ‘GUE57S’ on the M5. Must be subconsciously looking for them.
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I know a chap with a very similar registration on his jet!
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Saw that same plate on a big Merc sports model few years back at Branscombe parked outside a beach cabin. Always wondered who owned it!
Two MBs on the M62 today. A DO8SON (maybe the former E-Eastender/partner of Prof.Brian May?) and BO55 ELE
Please don't be offended, but I can assure you that nobody outside of the UK would think any of the above examples were cool, witty, funny or otherwise remarkable.
That anyone is prepared to pay as much as a fiver for an incomprehensible mix of letters and numbers on their cars is totally beyond me.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
KL11JOY would be a good reg for some on here.
I've got ALF4..... on my red thing.
PEN 1S would be better
RIAC
I'm sure when I was a wee lad I used to see PEN 15 on a BMW 2002 parked on my friends road. Never paid much attention to it back then and by the time it made some sense the car was no longer there.
Used to belong to Steve Parrish the motorcycle racer.
I saw it on his SL500 at Donnington back I the mid eighties
Vanity plates are big business in America.
R
Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
I know.
They are at least legible, unless the ones in the UK.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
We have M1 CAR and M1 FUN near us.
Some I've seen around locally are PU51 RUB on a VW Beetle, BAT 114N (made to look like Batman) on a black Lamborghini Diablo GT and R8 LEX on a Mercedes.
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