No problem with private plates, but why-oh-why do folk come up with such bloomin contrived nonsense!?
The latest subject of my ire is.. H15 LTS which is attached to a rather nice Esprit currently for sale. The plate is a unique selling point as it
apparently spells 'HIS LOTUS'.
NO IT DOESN'T... IT SPELLS H15 LTS!!!!
Caps off... and breathe!!!
[Edited on 25/2/10 by scootz]
I totally agree with you, private plate owners who think in some strange place that they actually read different. Im mean whats the point anyway.
I have a personalised plate - L8 CWR.
And do you know what it spells? Nothing. It's my initials. Nothing more, nothin less.
Admittedly the L8 part was quite appropriate, as I'm often tardy for things....
My private plate is
UVD 11 H and means jack sh*t. Got it off an old landy before I scraped it
some good ones HERE
RAy
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Originally posted by mad4x4
My private plate is
UVD 11 H and means jack sh*t. Got it off an old landy before I scraped it
Sometimes, just sometimes you can get a decent one for not much.
My brother (Roadkill on here) got L33 3OND for next to nowt and it looks (even using the correct legal font) suprisingly like "Lee Bond".
A bargain for a plate that should last a lifetime 
A9 BTO
[Edited on 25/2/10 by locostbuyer83]
I'm going to buy P100 ?DE at some point, to go on my ford P100 predictably. Plus the DE suffix is local.
back in 93 L14 MMC was auctioned for not much. It spells my name and I don't think its too contrived.
Wouldn't mind that one
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Originally posted by locostbuyer83
A9 BTO
[Edited on 25/2/10 by locostbuyer83]
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Originally posted by UncleFista
Sometimes, just sometimes you can get a decent one for not much.
My brother (Roadkill on here) got L33 3OND for next to nowt and it looks (even using the correct legal font) suprisingly like "Lee Bond".
A bargain for a plate that should last a lifetime
How do mine do;
BU54 BYE on the 'Busa engined Vortx
and T15 CGA on the Disco ('tis CGA?)
Both properly spaced with no modifications.
[Edited on 25/2/10 by sucksqueezebangblow]
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Originally posted by scootz
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Originally posted by locostbuyer83
A9 BTO
[Edited on 25/2/10 by locostbuyer83]
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Originally posted by Charlie_Zetec
I have a personalised plate - L8 CWR.
And do you know what it spells? Nothing. It's my initials. Nothing more, nothin less.
Admittedly the L8 part was quite appropriate, as I'm often tardy for things....
I have one of these.
A Citroen Synergie.
and could easily be tempted to put this plate on it.
Exactly as it appears here.
That's sad, isn't it ?
Incidentally, it's £250 all in from the DVLA and I reckon it might actually be quite a sellable plate.
S111 NRG
I saw one today on a Navara where the front was spaced out to says MARKS 1
the rear said M888 RKS or something similar. He was driving like a C*** aswell
Yeah. Why bother with poxy private plates?..
Q is does anyone know the whereabouts of RUS 805T???
- can't be worth more than a couple of hundred quid!
I think it's quite amusing that KN is a prefix now - especially if your car was registered in 03..............................KN03
......................would particularly suit the kn0b that tried to run into me on the motorway this morning
My old man once bought a tatty old VW Derby for about £50, the reg was EWE 6V, which he sold for £550 if I remember correctly - good deal for my dad
but who on earth wanted that!!
I do like the ones such as MAG1C which Paul Daniels apparently owns, or P1lot but most are gash.
My mate has bought a few plates for him, his missus and the kids all with the last three same letters, but now as he's bought 4 it has pushed the
price of those letters up by a few hundred quid even though it's only him that seems to be buying them!!
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Originally posted by russbost
Q is does anyone know the whereabouts of RUS 805T???
I personally don't like private plates at all and think they take away from the purpose of the number plate itself. Going back to the original point though, people who claim their number plate says something when it doesn't is annoying, though I'm more annoyed when they've got a show plate thats spaced wrong to make it look more like it spells something it doesn't. I really don't get how people get away with driving with illegal plates as its so obvious, and its an MOT failiur (My dad failed an MOT because a garage made him a plate where one of the numbers wasn't think enough by a few millimetres), do they swap them over for the MOT?
But I don't have a '58 vehicle!
I wonder why you thought of KN08 when you were looking at "my" reg???
Mine is.
5460 VK 16.. is that SAGO?...
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Originally posted by morcus
, do they swap them over for the MOT?
hi all
i must say i do like private plates bought 1 for my son when he was 1 now 3 that spells j88 kej if you cant see what it is his name is jake johnston
and a couple of weeks ago got 1 for the wife which is d20 naj her name donna the only problem is i dont have 1 as i cant afford c1 on a good note my
son has made 150 quid on his plate says the valuation email i keep gettin
I think it's all a load of twaddle. I'm currently applying via deed poll to have my name changed to Q*** KCP
I saw a plate on a saab on the M1 near Leeds. I would love it for my bike or car as it spells my name and even the last letter is correct for my
surname RU55 ELB 
I'm pleased that your pleased Main82000... better still that your wife and boy are pleased... but I don't get where you make the names Jake
or Donna from those reg's.
Maybe I suffer from some sort of 'plate-colour-blindness'... I just can't see the message amongst the letters and digits!
I know its sad but I've got F14VES (my surname is Flavell)
Another worth having on this forum is Jon Ison's
he managed to pester the DVLA to issue JON 150N
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Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
...the DE suffix is local
i think they are harmless and on the right cars look very cool.
majoirty are for cocks though, forinstance I saw V6 6EXY on a clio V6!
was my car lol, but loved it and paid £300 for it
Back in about '95, I got excited about the plate S1MON coming up in about '98.
Then heard it had sold for £150k - oh well!
ATB
Simon
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Originally posted by Mad Dave
I know its sad but I've got F14VES (my surname is Flavell)
Here in Northern Ireland we use a different sequence of plates and some of our plates can make good money from English buyers. I sold the plate of my
missus's Starlet. I believe it to be on a Range Rover somewhere around Liverpool. I got a whole £50 for XIJ 2550.
I think that plates that read easily as a name are perfectly OK but the KN03's that think that their plate reads like their name (only if you are
a blind man on a horse) need help.
A while back I was looking for a plate for my daughter for her 1st car. I was looking for H64NOO or H84NOO or H94NOO.
My reasoning for this plate for my daughter, Oonagh, was that when you look in your mirror you would know that Oonagh was behind you.
If anyone on here knows where I can get any of the above plates I am still interested.
I tried to buy F4RTS which DVLA had up for £399 but after I had given my card details, they withdrew it!
When I bought my plate I remember seeing F4RTY which amused me
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I tried to buy F4RTS which DVLA had up for £399 but after I had given my card details, they withdrew it!
Is mine ok? - V10 RTX
Sister's ex has a cracker - SH17 on his Bmw 3 series coupe. The cops dont like him for some reason even though his name is S Hughes
A bit shallow I know, but I have just bought V13NTO for my Viento. My daily drive plate is V8OOY and its on a V8
Not a chav plate, but a few years ago I saw "B1" on a grand old 1950's Bentley.
How much would that be worth!
Round the corner from us there was a Volvo 360 with the number VWA 110Y which would have made VW ALLOY. We put a bit of tape on R155 EAD round at the
bike shop and made PISS EAD
I think the funniest/Dumbest ones are all the morons who had BMW X5'S and bought plates starting X5, I've seen more than a few of those now on other similar cars.
some years ago I bought FAT3OY, for not much money, one add in the Sunday times for offers netted me 10 grand .
Still looking for another winner .
People still call me fat boy though.
Denis.
i think i've seen fatboy around here on a big 4X4 i reckon.
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Originally posted by scootz
No problem with private plates, but why-oh-why do folk come up with such bloomin contrived nonsense!?
The latest subject of my ire is.. H15 LTS which is attached to a rather nice Esprit currently for sale. The plate is a unique selling point as it apparently spells 'HIS LOTUS'.
NO IT DOESN'T... IT SPELLS H15 LTS!!!!
Caps off... and breathe!!!
[Edited on 25/2/10 by scootz]
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Originally posted by Davegtst
Hold on a minute, this is my car...
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The third most expensive license plate in the world was sold in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, cementing the UAE as a vanity-plate record holder.
A plate bearing solely the digit ‘7’ was sold in Abu Dhabi for 17 million dirhams, or $4.6 million, in a government auction on Saturday.
well it wasn't me
Sorry the taker of the biscuit has got to be those that have their name on it, only it's so vague they then have to have their name in smaller
letters underneath to let you know what the plate's supposed to say.
The best one I saw made no sense at all until I looked in the mirror, Dave W... No idea how they made it now
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