Not so cherished number plates

cyberyacht
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edited February 2018 in Fun & Trivia #1

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  • Oneputt
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    edited February 2018 #2

    Scaffold company owner I knew in Portsmouth had - B1TCH

     

  • triky auto
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    edited February 2018 #3

    cool  My new VolvoR has a number plate i purchased from D.V.L.A :-

                                      laughing       V90 PW    laughing.

  • cyberyacht
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    edited February 2018 #4

    Well all I can say is AP05ERS tongue-out

  • cyberyacht
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    edited February 2018 #5

    PRA7T

  • cyberyacht
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    edited February 2018 #6

    KN08HED

    BL08BYS

  • Mitsi Fendt
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    edited February 2018 #7

    Can't see the point in them. I'm sure I have better to things to spend my money on.

  • cyberyacht
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    edited February 2018 #8

    There don't appear to be any creative people out there either.

  • AJB
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    edited February 2018 #9

    well well - why the 'nasty' comments? people have a choice...let them do what they wish just like choosing a small caravan instead of a Winnebago - or vice versa.

    Just to be clear - my family gave me a personalised plate as a 60th birthday gift - and I love it!!

    btw - is 'V90 PW' correct? or should it be "V9 OPW"?  better get it right otherwise it won't register on ANPR and you might get stopped.....

     

  • huskydog
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    edited February 2018 #10

    I have 2 of them, so does that mean I wasted my money twice wink

  • AJB
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    edited February 2018 #11

    not really....but it leaves you open to twice the abuse from those who complain about virtually everything - and even then are quite rude about it!!

  • Mitsi Fendt
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    edited February 2018 #12

    If it gives you pleasure then you have not wasted your money. What I said is that I don't see the point and therefore I would not buy them. You may consider some of things I buy a waste of money.

  • ihatew0rk
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    edited February 2018 #13

    I bought a plate direct from dvla for £600 on the day they released D prefixes which i subsequently sold it for £2500 5 years later. How is that a waste of money? Whayever floats your boat. Cleverest ones i ever saw were 2 B & parked next to it was NOT 2B 

  • G Cherokee
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    edited February 2018 #14

    It was cheaper to change my name to FN66 SLT

  • cyberyacht
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    edited February 2018 #15

    I started this thread as "Fun & Trivia" to encourage some creativity instead of endless alphabetical lists, not so that lifestyle choices could be criticised. 

  • triky auto
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    edited February 2018 #16

    undecided That's 'Joe Public ' for you  C.Y !!surprised.

  • ihatew0rk
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    edited February 2018 #17

    Unfortunately dvla won't release anything really "imaginative", bit like rude scrabble! I'm convinced I once saw PEN 15 but I can't be sure. 

  • Milothedog
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    edited February 2018 #18

    We have 3 of them. My Wife has S99 PAT, I have S99 STT on my Motorbike, my Son has P99 PTS and my 44 year old classic car still retains its original XCB 999M.

    We like 9's. My money so really don't care what others think cool

  • Milothedog
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    edited February 2018 #19

    I think that was issued? but they won't issue P155 OFF for some reason cool

  • ihatew0rk
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    edited February 2018 #20

    Absolutely right milo, pays your money and takes your choice as my dad would have said!

  • cyberyacht
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    edited February 2018 #21

    AT05SER 

  • cyberyacht
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    edited February 2018 #22

    Come on you lot. Do I have to invent them all myself?

  • cyberyacht
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    edited March 2018 #23

    I was surprised at the number of personalised plates I saw while at Brighton. Sadly no creative ones though.

  • moulesy
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    edited March 2018 #24

    Slightly off topic but can anyone explain why so many folk with personalised registrations choose the number "666". I see loads round here - seems like tempting fate to me!  undecided

  • JillwithaJay
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    edited March 2018 #25

    Am I bovered what others think?  Do I look bovered.  We have one each and one in particular certainly attracts comments in our circle of concert goers.  

    I'm not doing anybody any harm and, after all, it's my money to spend/waste as I see fit. :-)

     

  • Milothedog
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    edited March 2018 #26

    When I moved to the bus industry in 82 after being  made redundant from a Rootes main dealers, London Transport as it was then were still running a lot of Routemasters. many of them had a registration number ending DYE, and yes we had 666 DYE. This particular bus wasn't popular with many drivers and eventually the number was transferred (after pressures from the union) to our Chief Engineers Volvo S80.

    As far as I know, he is still alive after retiring and moving to Spain, in fact he came over for my retirement works do in 2012 and looked very well  cool 

  • old ludlovian
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    edited March 2018 #27

    Cy  I bought a mgb gt many years ago borrowed some money of mother to pay for it took it home to show her she said don't liked that I said why the number plate mab 767p reminded her of her name Mabel pound she hated Mabel always gone by Joan still got the car but mother as soften to my Mabel now 

  • cyberyacht
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    edited March 2018 #28

    So what is it , JwJ? H4YDN

  • RGR2
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    edited July 2018 #29

    Way back before the fashion, or maybe they started it, there were two cars always parked outside one of Cheltenham's swankiest hotels. One chap owned a Rolls that sent the message UPU2 and his partner had a Jag FU2. Priceless now, I reckon, if you had the nerve.

  • RGR2
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    edited July 2018 #30

    We may have been labouring under a misapprehension. The following comes from some published research but who knows for sure?

    666 is generally believed to have been the original Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible.[4] In 2005, however, a fragment of papyrus 115 was revealed, containing the earliest known version of that part of the Book of Revelation discussing the Number of the Beast. It gave the number as 616, suggesting that this may have been the original.[2] One possible explanation for the two different numbers is that they reflect two different spellings of Emperor Nero/Neron's name, for which (according to this theory) this number is believed to be a code.[5][6] However, other scholars state that the number cannot represent Nero.[7]

  • lornalou1
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    edited July 2018 #31

    agree. a registered number plate maker will not make a plate up that isn't legal. all those with no gaps to get a name are breaking the law and will fail the MOT. doesn't stop them buying on ebay though.

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