Personalised number plates

Sister-in-law got her hubby a pair of personalised plate about 8 years ago for £550.
The car got wrecked inside by the kids but the plate survived.

I used to see one frequently round my neck of the woods: KTO 5TAR

As I've posted before, there used to be a 3.5 Rover Coupe parked near Gardners Corner in Aldgate, with the plate 505 EXY, but the '5' was moved to form 50 5EXY.

And my dad must have had foresight as he drove a car in the 1970s with the reg: 612 CJD - and my mother was a mad cow.

I had 333 STN on a Mk2 Jaguar, but there wasn't this fuss over plates back then.

The woman next door, who I thought was a doctor or a nurse when we first moved here, but it turns out she's a beautician, has 1 JAB.

I offered her £250 for it so I could sell it to a boxer.

She laughed

I offered £500

She laughed again, she knew

Many moons ago, I used to work with a doctor who had several cars and each one began with DOC then a number. He must have spent a fortune on them but he was a very successful private doctor who actually had Michael Jackson as one of his patients, when he was over here.

Of course, you can buy any number plate you like for about £40 on the internet.

They are sold, legally, as "show plates" to be used off-road only but inevitably some people will drive with them on the public highway

Why spend good money on personalised number plates when you can just change your name by deed poll?

Signed:  LV50 EZC

the old Viz ones are the best. Sorry, V12 ones

There is a person down my way who has 0RGA5M as a plate. Probably because they have never had one....It's a shiney black Range Rover. What a ****

I had a mate who nearly brought K13 RON (KIERON), but decided in the end to buy a new car stereo! He saw it advertised recently for 20x what he nearly paid for it. Can be a good investment I suppose.

Know the owner of Gef 3
Bought the number plate by buying a wreck of a car over 30 years ago just for the number plate, only time he drove it was to drive it  back to London & then had the number transferred to his own car.

They are a load of BO11OX imo

Didn't DVLC stop issuing numbers including 666? They could be worth a few quid

I love em. Have had mine for years, but always look at the DVLA to see if I see anything I like. Lot of seething jealousy on this topic.

PEN 15 and ORG 45M: Saucy number plates go on sale costing up to £135,000 each (but MU12 DER and PE12 ADO are banned)
Rude range of plates goes on sale, including BO11LOX and 53XEY
DVLA previously banned inappropriate number plates such as DR12UGS
Drivers wanting ORG45M registration will have to pay £135,000

well worth it for the amount of laughs you could have

Driving along the Embankment toward town there's a house with 2 cars parked on the drive with the plates   2B and NOT2B

humourous ones are good

On a crappy old Landrover I saw B16 NOB

they are a good investment

the ultimate tacky accessory

Cars with these plates are rather like sheep....... you wouldn't want to be seen coming out of the back of one.

Just out of interest "blackpool, what have you had and what is your current one?

Did yo make or lose on sale?

I just broke even on mine, which is excellent, considering what they did for me!

^ That proves they are for people with more money than sense, as that man agreed to pay Wolves over £10 million for Matt Jarvis

that's possibly the most vulgar looking car i've ever seen

The driver ain't that pretty either.

and that number plate shouts c***  - i'm sorry to say coming from a humble backdrop but that's another reason why the working classes should never be allowed to amass  huge wealth

or maybe you should simply have to pass a test on good taste

That's a bit harsh, Coach

I do not swear but I have always had a sneaking regard for the number plate FU 2, so I looked it up.  It is now on sale for the price of £475000.00 !!!!!!

i dithered and missed out on M15 1 SPY

Saw one in Keighley a few weeks ago - CLA1M.  I'll let you guess as to the ethnicity of the driver.

Black Polish Muslim?

in the 80,s mate of mine had the plate OK YAH, dont know what he paid for it but he had a few bob.

Keighley is the car, rear end shunt, capital of the universe!

What betting this arrogant A514N tw@t is one of the people involved.

Also it is widely publicised to never ever buy a used car from there!

In fact better to never ever go there.....

Yes, like most, I find them tacky on everyday motors, but lets face it, if you had just taken delivery of your brand new Lamborghini Veneno, you wouldn't want something like FR13 7KG strapped across the front and back.

DVLA wouldnt sell p i 55  off but they didnt know  that
in scotland its often pronounced as p i 55  aff

I must confess to having one, but there are mitigating circumstances.

The one I was allocated, started with KNO3, which looked too much like knob for my liking, so I took the plunge. Sounds like a few on here would now regard me as being an even bigger KNO3 for doing so?

Strange that there are no KN03, KN06 or KN08 plates available!!!

Any other year, such as KN07, are there in a plentiful supply!

Haven't checked but wouldn't mind a Wanka plate

They have clearly been withdrawn as someone had KN03 END &  KN03 OFF,

plates on any car under 50k = nobber
plates on any car over 50k = rich nobber
plate you have to explain as as no one gets it = total nobber
plate you have to explain stuck on a bog stock car where you feel the need to tell people what you drive  = unbelievable nobber

BRA 38B seen in Donny over the years on different ordinary cars.

Was driving behind M155 ATM the other day

No money fell out though

don't be ashamed of owning one JOCI club they are all peasants

Haven't checked but wouldn't mind a Wanka plate

Just buy a 4 x 4 and never go off road and you won't have to.

The PEN 15 plate mentioned belongs (belonged) to Steve Parrish ex Motorbike racer who also had 6 OCK as well I believe

On another forum I go on, someone is paying over a grand for a number plate that spells out the word Friends. The reason being is that he's a big fan of the show. He's lucky he's not on here. The p1sstaking would be merciless I feel.

he can Perk off

N2GEL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b052WtVvio

number plate that spells out the word Friends

Think you'll find that he is the one taking the p!ss!

If there was such a plate it would be many thousands of pounds!

What were the actual letters and numbers as I would say there is nothing remotely like that!

Always happy to be proved otherwise though!

Well wouldn't you know it!!!!

FR13NDS is available by auction with a reserve of £1,000.00.

I-SPIED this one outside Lidl in Taunton the other day. Thinly veiled "I got a 2:2 in Philosophy" imo.

least he between the lines

Vulgar,"Look at me" classless nobs.

Thinly veiled "I got a 2:2 in Philosophy" imo.


A lovely little thinker but...

... Had a spot of bother with the dialectics.

Guilty ...I was a young plonker once....
I had DOO 170 plate on a Jag XJS V12...ended up in Kingston Crown Court accused by the Plods of "reckless driving" ...they were pissed cos they couldn't catch me in a Ford Escort ...nice couple of young guys in Rally Jackets on the Jury so got found "NOT GUILTY" ...

I outran a plod in my V8 Rover., but he was on a'Noddy Bike' anyone remember them?

Had to google that Foxy. Can't remember them, might have been a regional thing.
Look real cumbersome.

reminded me of the AA bikes in the late 50s/early 60s.
My Dad was a member with the badge on the frint of the car. Remember the bikers saluting when they saw the badge.

I think it was a London expression aka, nowadays the AA man is more likely to give the one fingered salute!.

I think they did 0-60 in 2 1/2 days.

After reading through this I've developed a bit of a complex. Think I'll just keep my retention certificate in my filing cabinet

Ok ...here's another, here's me at a Car Auction looking to buy a nice set of wheels, in comes a beautiful immaculate "J" Series 7.2 litre Jensen Interceptor in beautiful metalic blue ...Oooh I thought must buy that so bid on it ...got it ...got outside didn't notice the number plate when I was bidding ... got outside ...Oh phuck number plate GAY 321 !
ARghhhhhh

Was that Wimbledon Auction, Ron. They saw you coming, 

No ...boxing -
it was at Farnborough Car Auction ...now moved to Blackbushe.

My Son was given as part of an employment package to use for fun ...a Ferrari F50 - number palte JAZ 88
If I knew how to post pics on here ...I'd post a pic of it.

excuse spelling ...I've had a few.

Apr 16, 2017 -- 8:24PM, Rockinron wrote:

No ...boxing -it was at Farnborough Car Auction ...now moved to Blackbushe.

I play golf at AVISFORD PARK

There is a number plate for sale AV12 PAR at £329

i used to go in a pub where the landlord was telling everyone about his personalised plate ' bwc' , which bore no resemblance to his name . ...' beer, wine , crisps ' he pointed out ...

Saw this in either Stirling or Perth. C31TIC or similar.
Good plate if yer a fan but must make the car a target for the nutters.

People who buy them are F345 PRX

They won't seem a very good investment when we're all using driverless cars.

will driverless cars not require a number plate?

bloke used to drive a top of the range soft top beamer around nottingham in the 90s-U PR1X-he lost the car and the plate in a game of backgammon,made me smile.

There should only be one private plate available, and that's 1MA PR1K.

will driverless cars not require a number plate?

When the transport revolution comes in there will be little point in owning a vehicle so no point in owning such a plate.

There is a dizzy blonde housewife driving a Range Rover who live in my town with the plate 'ORGA5M'. Why, oh why??

Forum names in caps are similarly dubious imo.

More personalised numberplate news.


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Aunty Post 05 Apr 13 11:27

Have to admit to buying two numbers.

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now ,why does that not surprise me ?

I once saw a black beemer coming out of a Golf course in Surrey ...CUE 8OY
I wonder who owns that ?

Quite happy to admit that I've had two of them.

The first one on my RX8, simply because adding a GB massive plate, into the otherwise stylish grille,
would have totally ruined the look of it (they don't show hideous number plates in promotional brochures)!

I bought A17 RXB which read as AN RX8....
Cost £250.00 and got this back as additional to the sale price.

Second one T16 MPS for my Mazda 6 MPS.
This read as Ti6 MPS (Turbo injection 6 MPS).

Cost £250.00 but bought back, for £350.00, by the main dealer for his own car.

My biggest regret was not buying another one, again for £250.00, as an investment!

MY 51 RON.....MY 5 IRON....Just another RON plate, but significant for golfers, and not picked up by DVLA....

Needless to say, that when I made the decision to buy it, just a few days later, it was gone!

Of course, I just realised that this is an ancient thread, on which I will have commented before!

The other issue with the RX8, was that it was far from ideal to restrict cooling air to the radiator!

I once saw a black beemer coming out of a Golf course in Surrey ...CUE 8OY

This number is currently on a Bentley Continental GT.....

Show your vehicle reg number, and I will use my psychic powers to tell you what you drive.....

I can do that, too, Aunty

Perhaps we should keep this to ourselves now!

Interestingly, my e-type is still showing as black, but was completely de-trimmedand re-finished in red, shortly after delivery!
Surprising that, over the years, this hasn't been picked up at some point!

You would have thought so, Aunty.

Cue 80Y is owned by Jimmy White I believe.

Nothing quite says tw@t like a personalised number plate.

I agree CH4RW311

Nothing quite says tw@t like a personalised number plate.

I know a chap who has a personalised number plate which was a 21st birthday gift from his parents. He hates it. "As soon as dad dies, it's coming off."

That sounds like motive to me Ramruma.

That sounds like motive to me Ramruma.


Catch 22. All the witnesses will remember the number plate.