What's the funniest car number plate you've seen?

CiB

JAY 1??V. I forget the numbers but they don't matter - it was attached to a MK2 Ford Escort, a bare-shell BDA-powered machine that I got to drive [once] as a 17 y-o. Talk about grin like a loon - every time I saw it made me smile, but driving it was something else.

greg66_tri_v2.0

Not funny, but quite cool. By Chelsea Harbour there's a house with a small courtyard behind garage doors. When the doors are open you can see two high end cars (one used to be a Bentley, I think. Not sure whether it still is).

2BE

And

NOT2B

Apparently owned by an actor-type.

SimonAH

Sad I guess, but I bought one from DVLC for my motorcycle that is my surname with the Is replaced with 1s and the E with a 3. Helps that I have a weird Scandinavian surname 'cos it was the cheapest possible cost. Still roughly five bills though - and took me three years to get them to release it as a plate. Now I need the same one with an 8 for the E for Mrs AH.......

Not funny so OT

walkingbootweather

DVLA Auctions wanted over £20k for a plate with my surname, but I had the last laugh - changed my name by deed poll to XEG263T

TommyEss

I once saw a bright yellow Fiat Coupe with the reg K66P UP - once they got a little way ahead it did indeed read "KEEP UP" - should be put on a faster car, mind.

gtvlusso

A laydee that works in the Estate agent office next to my office has a Mercedes SLK with the plate:

MR5 8ENZ

Mrs Benz

Steve Parrish - the motorsport commentator and team mate to Giacomo Agostini and Barry Sheene has:

PEN 1S

Underscore

Clank wrote:

Steve Parish's (he of motorbike and truck-racing fame) Rude Mercedes was shod with 'PEN 15'.

Class!

Yes, seen this one - Steve Parish co-owns a pub nearby and saw his Merc parked up in the local town. Very funny.

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t4tomo

there is someone in Watford who drives a range rover that reads as DOYLE., Think the actual letters are YD10YLE. I always think that's an odd choice.

mudcow007

My mate is a mechanic an there is a guy who brings his Mercedes SLK (yep tarts car) to hime an the plate is

69 BOY

GrahamN

personally can`t stand personal plates but I have seen

JOB8Y on a transit van

&

AUD1 on a big audi

lostboysaint

One of our Contracts Managers has R88F OF on his Audi convertible.

A few favourites are:

C1 SSY - on a Range Rover owned by a 6'8" surveyor in Wimbledon.

AK47 - on an AMG tuned Merc SL in the days when AMG were a proper tuning company and the SL was a proper car.

C3RBY - on a TVR Cerbera owned by a friend of mine.

Hoopdriver

I knew a teenage hoon who managed to get 6UL DV8 on a plate (back in the 70s, in the US) - until somebody in motor vehicle registry figured it out and recalled it.

Gypsum_Fantastic

Not stricktly speaking number plates but I have seen two particularly funny driving school cars

Learn to drive with PMT

The JSM driving school

Wallace1492

H1 PAS on a driving school car

D3S POT on a deranged friends car

R4 DOX just saw last 2 days on a big merc

Jason82

I have seen Paul Daniels Lambo with Magic 1 as the plate quite a few years ago in Cranleigh surrey

Kieran_Burns

Diving school van where I used to live:

D 1 VER

when it works, it works.

gtvlusso

I used to own a private plate :oops:

A13 GSX

Because I have a GSXR1100R bored to 1300cc

I was young.....it was fast, I nearly got banned.

asprilla

H2 EAU on a director of Northumbrian Water's Jaaaaaag.

TommyEss

Rosemary Connely (the diet lady from the 80s/90s) lives in the next village to where I grew up - her Rolls Royce has the plate "RO51E".

Blacktemplar

The Beginner wrote:

A chap I used to work with had P15 ORF, bought it from DVLA who had already refused to release P155 OFF and P155 ORF.......

Simon

There's a red Ferrari 360 on the south side of Glasgow with the reg P155 AFF

I've seen a Jaaag XKR with M1 AOW

fossyant

RAP 1D on a Renault Aplina (many moons ago when there were new cars)

rolf_f

Today I saw S810CCO

Cool plate - it was on a VW Sbiocco......... :roll:

I did see L8MBO on a Countach many years ago. That at least managed to look OKish.

chilling

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Some tooth filler my dad knew.


I want

M4EPB and E11APB for my kids.

lostboysaint

Rolf F wrote:

Today I saw S810CCO

Cool plate - it was on a VW Sbiocco......... :roll:

I did see L8MBO on a Countach many years ago. That at least managed to look OKish.

Oh yeah, that's reminded me. A bright orange Gallardo was repossessed by a business next door to us and had the number plate L11MBO with the top of the two ones (if you see what I mean) tilted towards each other to make an A. The repo guys who drove it back were stopped 7 times by the Met, Berkshire and Hampshire Constabulary DESPITE having trade plates on it and keeping within speed limits. *

* The guy appeared 10 days letter to clear his arrears and take his car back and paid £45k IN CASH!

GAndy

The Beginner wrote:

A chap I used to work with had P15 ORF, bought it from DVLA who had already refused to release P155 OFF and P155 ORF.......

Simon

Hmm, years ago (i.e. when P would have been new) I actually saw P155 OFF, on the back of a small Peugeot I think, J19 of the M6. Must admit I couldn't believe the DVLA had actually let it slip through the net.

Andy

donncha

The owner of the Chinese take way in the village where I grew up:
FAT 4 Y

nottscobb

I was cycling home the other week and someone either had mean friends or had upset someone - Their rear number plate had a big yellow sticker over it with black writing in perfect size saying I 'heart' C0CK (heart being a picture of a heart)

It took me a couple of takes before it registered and the lights changed before I had time to get my phone out to get a picture. It kept me chuckling most of the way home though.

Butterd2

Greg66 wrote:

Not funny, but quite cool. By Chelsea Harbour there's a house with a small courtyard behind garage doors. When the doors are open you can see two high end cars (one used to be a Bentley, I think. Not sure whether it still is).

2BE

And

NOT2B

Apparently owned by an actor-type.

You beat me to it. Not a big fan of personalised plates to be honest but those 2 always make me smile.

Bassjunkieuk

Where to start :-)

Asides from the Pimlico Plumber one's EKE already mentioned I've seen quite a few interesting ones.

WOW 69 on an Audi parked in Croydon (have photo if needed :-))

MED1A on an Aston Martin in St Martin's lane car park

R1 VAL on a Bentley alongs NKR - Driver was texting at the time so he made it onto my YT channel :-)

G3 EKU on a BMW as I headed round Clapham Common Westside a few weeks back, just tickled my inner geek!

Have spotted the usual assortment of oh-so-orginal X(3/5/6) etc on various BMW's, not such a fan of those as it's rather un-inventive but I didn't mind so much see the reg plate on the McLaren F1 I spotted yesterday starting F1...I guess as it's a supercar I can make some allowances.

Best one for that though was on Top Gear a couple of weeks back when reviewing the new Renault Clio Cup they had the plate CL10 CUP on it.

TommyEss

I beg to differ - best in that type is Nick Mason's Ferrari 250 GTO with the reg 250GTO.