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I will admit to having a private plate but in my defence it was purchased because I had an an American car with restricted space for a plate so needed 6 digits to (almost) maintain the correct font.
My first thought was to get one of my dads old plates from the 60's as he had a thing about Rover P4's but they are both still in use - one a Bentley and the other a Porsche.
I saw V14GRA once. Not really a bold claim unless you invented it.
Also for extra ****iness aren’t they referred to as ‘cherished plates’? 🤢
V14GRA
Not geeky enough and sildenafil is going to be hard to fit on a UK plate. There is a certain geeky satisfaction in trying to find good scientific number plates. Since antibodies are Y shaped and always drawn as a Y, I mulled a few other options to match.
Documentary on tv about Dubai last night. Chap paid $9m to have the plate "5".
A Guy at work was desperate to own a private plate so he bought G1 MDA. The thinking was that if you looked in your mirror when he was behind you it would loosely resemble his name (Adam G) and that was worth paying a few hundred quid for.
A colleague thought that GIMDA was bound to mean something in some language so he put it into Google translate. Turned out that GIMDA means uterus in Lithuanian.
He didn’t put it on his new car.
I guess my reference was missed.
"Not geeky enough and sildenafil is going to be hard to fit on a UK plate."
C14 LIS ?
Pointed out by a friend...
[i]@WCA – I thought those black and white plates were illegal unless they were on a car old enough to be registered when they were the normal design? Or do you have a second MOT specific set. 🤔[/i]
Clearly they car is wearing its Show Plates for display purposes only and the MOT ones are in the boot.
I guess my reference was missed.
Top Gear?
Edit: <span dir="ltr">SY51</span> FUS wouldn’t even register as “don’t understand”, you’ll have to explain.
I’m not that knowledgeable about classical mythology, but even I got that reference!
Mine is pretty non-descript but means something to me. It’s also on a VW California 4motion for added bonus points.
Personally I think the more pertinent question is why are there so many over sized SUVs trolling around? Stupid, pointless and anti-social.
Sez the man with an SUV that’s twice the size of a Range Rover. #rollseyes
Impossible to even guess what the plate on this car could be worth; it’ll never be sold, it’s been on the car for around fifty years, and the car alone is worth an eye-watering amount.
Sez the man with an SUV that’s twice the size of a Range Rover. #rollseyes
Uhm exaggerate much? 😂 Also what’s the point of a Ranger Rover? Absolutely nothing. Completely pointless waste of space. A California 4motion on the other hand. Now that’s a practical vehicle.
I used to drink with a fella who owned a Vauxhall Calibre with the reg B16COK. He split from his g/f who ended up with another mate. Suffice it is to say that number plate did an awful lot of heavy lifting.
I saw K8 BU5H on a Lotus in Hackney in the late 90s... i think it was actually her!
1997 a black convertible Saab with P1LL3D UP outside Tribal Gathering near Luton. They must have been pulled over all the time.
K8 BU5H
K8 8USH more likely.
P1LL3D UP
I think you may have been on drugs if you saw a UK plate in this format.
C14 LIS ?
The second I is troublesome, but I had though of that one too. I met the person who did invent viagra. It’s not on his car. Sildenafil wasn’t invented for its current use. That was noted as a side effect in the first in human trial. And the rest is history.
Nearest to mine would be KE 51 MPT but the last letter is missing.
I saw a Lambo with "EN 20 WHO" carefully scripted to look like "Enzo Who?" which I thought was a nice touch. Shame it was before the 20 year plates came out so must have been a show plate.
Just put "1" into the MOT check thingy, it's on a Mazda 6 that died a few years ago. Surely that's worth a tonne of cash
Always bemused by anger at private plates – seems a bit of a pointless thing to get upset about.
no anger or upset. just bemusement.
and I regularly see STW 1 on a brown RR corniche convertible driving around Totnes.
They’re a bit naff these days – seems they appeal to a certain demographic
They have always been naff and always appealed to ****ers. At least they do the job of letting people know the owner is a ****er before they even get out of the car I suppose.
Only exception I can think of is Nick Mason's 250 GTO plate
Erm, the Viagra one is i think supposed to be a self-depracating penis extension joke surely?
Sure, the exact alpha numeric combinations may have been different.
I've a private plate.
Cost me 12€ to choose a plate of my own rather than a computer generated one.
MTB BOSS
Although BOSS is spelt using numbers. And this being Germany no one gets it.
But it makes me smile.
Have been complimented several times by others bikers about the MTB part.
^^^ Thank goodness your here to to make me realise what an absolute knob I am. Even though I have never met you and know nothing about you, I shall always be grateful to you for showing me the way to enlightenment🙄
Instead of paying £1000s for a registration with numbers pretending to be letters that requires a bit of creative reading to understand it, why not just get a couple of big stickers made up with your name on and put one on the boot and one on the bonnet?
You can then choose the font, size, spacing, colour and position.
If you want to announce who you are please make it easier for people to understand.
Instead of paying £1000s for a registration with numbers pretending to be letters that requires a bit of creative reading to understand it, why not just get a couple of big stickers made up with your name on and put one on the boot and one on the bonnet?
You can then choose the font, size, spacing, colour and position. If you want to announce who you are please make it easier for people to understand.
or even across the top of the windscreen?
Daz <-------> Daz's bird
I'll also admit to having a personal plate. Had it for years, mainly on motorbikes, but it has moved several times.
Cost me £buggerall back in the day.
Now sits on my Land Rover Defender as it is impossible without the original plate to tell whether it is 7 years old or 25 years old! Kind of works for a classic or timeless vehicle.
I do think it is possible to be ironic with a private plate as internet troll bait, but do tend to agree that spending big on one is a little pointless. Nevertheless, I don't fully understand the hate for them.
My neighbour has WOW 1 on his range rover. Those aren't his initials so I don't really know what it relates to.
World Of Warcraft?
Daz <——-> Daz’s bird
"Me & 52 Others" on the sunscreen of a bus - seen on some 80's TV show I think
Daz <——-> Daz’s bird
I resemble that comment. My friend Tracey did date a Daz, and it wasn't me.
And I like this pair but they are well known: 2B or NOT 2B
Anything that needs suspect spacing and/or judicious use of screw covers is not OK. Just sad.
Now sits on my Land Rover Defender as it is impossible without the original plate to tell whether it is 7 years old or 25 years old! Kind of works for a classic or timeless vehicle.
Who does hiding the age 'kind of work' for and for what purpose?
-You (and probably most of people that you know well enough to care about their opinions of you) know how old the car is, so the age hiding value of the plate doesn't work for you/them.
-The vast majority of other people in the world don't care about you or how old your car is, so the age hiding ability of the plate is worthless to them.
-A Defender Fanboi would probably be able to date your car, so the plate doesn't work for them.
-Anyone who has a legitimate interest in knowing about your car (garages, DVLA, Police, local au thority etc) would very quickly be able to find its age for whatever purpose they need to from your registration number, so it doesn't add value to them.
If some people think that you have a newer car than you actually do; so what? It just feels a bit weird to be trying to impress stangers with something wholly unimpressive.
Mr "Loadasmoney" has a whole page devoted to his cherished plates collection....
https://www.pimlicoplumbers.com/blog/pimlico-number-plates-are-part-of-our-brand-identity
Go on @peekay, I'll bite then......
Who does hiding the age ‘kind of work’ for and for what purpose?
Because an old car is self evidently old, so not pretending to be brand new. Not attaching an age to an old car isn't fooling anybody. It is more about making it timeless. The 'kind of' comment dates the car to a broad period of time rather than a specific year. Mine for example would have been made any time between 2007 and 2016, so in any case not exactly a spring chicken! As it happens, mine is actually one of the later Defenders off the line, so in a way attaching a non date-specific plate to the vehicle is disguising the only element of its age that one might like to boast about should it be of interest (which it isn't).
-You (and probably most of people that you know well enough to care about their opinions of you) know how old the car is, so the age hiding value of the plate doesn’t work for you/them.
It isn't about other people's opinion of me. My Defender is old. They all are. They haven't made a new one since 2016. I am not trying to 'hide' anything.
-The vast majority of other people in the world don’t care about you or how old your car is, so the age hiding ability of the plate is worthless to them.
In which case, my private plate is met with total indifference by everybody in the world except you. See my previous comment about the ironic bating of internet trolls. Well done you! And, away......
-A Defender Fanboi would probably be able to date your car, so the plate doesn’t work for them.
Indeed they probably would. It's a 2014 BTW and I really didn't like the plate was on it, I already had the private plate (which cost me all of £25 back in the day) so I decided to use it.
-Anyone who has a legitimate interest in knowing about your car (garages, DVLA, Police, local au thority etc) would very quickly be able to find its age for whatever purpose they need to from your registration number, so it doesn’t add value to them.
I guess you mean authority as a single word there? I never suggested that I was some sort of criminal on the run trying to evade identification or capture. See also my earlier comments. I am not trying to convince people in public positions that my car is newer than it is when even the newest Defender is now 7 years old at a minimum. I suspect it won't have any impact on my ability to evade road tax, speeding fines or any other charges relating to my car or driving. I hope at least that a police officer's interpretation of the law would not be diminished by them finding out just how old my car really is.
If some people think that you have a newer car than you actually do; so what? It just feels a bit weird to be trying to impress stangers with something wholly unimpressive.
It really isn't about trying to impress strangers (with an 'r' by the way if you are trying to impress us with your spelling here - more haste less rage with the typing might help - this topic really has got you very upset hasn't it?!). It is an unashamedly old car. Strangers will be entirely unconvinced that I have just driven it off the forecourt given that it is a rusty, beaten up old tractor of a vehicle.
Have a lovely and happy New Year trying not to get too wound up by silly little things. Life's too short!
Thanks for your reply, in hindsight I was being a bit trollish, and I suppose that as I am actually indifferent to your number plate, I shouldn't have commented on it.
I also misspelled 'authority'
Last time that this topic came up, somebody said something along the lines of "there are two types of people; those that have or like personalised number plates, and those that don't understand them or the reasons people have them. They never change between the two".
Happy New Year to you too, also try not to get too wound up by silly little things. Life’s too short!
😘
Blimey!
Ha, nice piece of self awareness there @peekay.
All received and typed with my tongue firmly in my cheek!
I am not sure I actually put as much thought into buying or transferring the plate itself as I did into my post-rationalization reply!
I think I might be a third type in your non-overlapping venn diagram - I have one and don't really care and don't really understand why people feel either passionate enough to invest lots of money in one, or passionate enough to think so badly of those that have one (we are, after all on page 3 of a topic, and some really high quality topics on here don't even reach that!).
If you really want your blood to boil.... https://drivetribe.com/p/the-most-expensive-number-plates-GrnkyRptS3G8e9GR2szWhQ?iid=GASWRVGDShGOf5ePg1Sbmg
Puts my £25 into the shade!
V14GRA started life on a Toyota 1999/2000 Yaris Verso in Doncaster, used to park in the car park next to mrsmidlife's office. Quite a bit bigger than a regular Yaris.
Please tell me the Yaris was blue?