Yet another thing wrong with cherished number plates

Giraffoto

Not only are they stool-looseningly vulgar

Not only are they always c@ck, and don't quite say what they're meant to, despite owners who fondly imagine that **51EVE somehow looks like "Steve", for example

Not only are they turning up on ordinary appliances, rather than the shiny sports cars that are their natural habitat, like a booming voice from the heavens shouting, "behold my mediocre car!"

Not only are they a weird fusion of text language and computer code that only show that the owner decided to waste money on a number plate that imparts no information to anyone - LV426, what the hell does that mean? K40KTY? What???

Not only would they only ever impart information about which no one cares one iota, even if they were the perfect plate - if I could get one that said "EZEKIEL" and that happened to be my name, WHO. THE. HECK. CARES?

But they are now so all-pervasive that I find myself glancing at normal number plates and wondering if there's some message contained in there!! XYZ24V - does your car have 24 valves at all? ZZ51BLY, is your surname Sibly?

I'm off to lay down with my tinfoil hat on so the number plates can't get me

RideOnTime

I changed my name to OV55 JKL...

drlodge

My Car Reg is D2 LOJ Get it? :roll:

debeli

My discdain for vanity plates is as much a function of my own troubled relationship with social snobbery as it is a mark of the owner's crass and slightly arriviste profile.

I have found a few plates extremely funny. The saintly Steve (Stavros) Parrish was once stopped by an off-duty traffic officer for having rounded off the top of the figure 5 on his plate 'PEN 15' and movd the numbers closer to the letters. I found that hilarious and still do.

On a more modest level, I once saw B1GKA on a Ford Ka. This was not long after the model was introduced and it hit just the right note.

Almost all other plates are terrible banners of social insecurity and material ambition.

Happily, I enjoy disapproving of others and the vast number of vanity plates on British roads give me ample opportunity.

drlodge

I saw the plate "RX 7" on a...RX 7.

pblakeney

My all time favourite of the ones that I have read about is - K9 POO

I mean, why?

wongataa

Giraffoto wrote:

Not only are they a weird fusion of text language and computer code that only show that the owner decided to waste money on a number plate that imparts no information to anyone - LV426, what the hell does that mean?

It means someone is a fan of the film Alien or Aliens as LV246 is the fictional location where they are primarily set. I recognised it.

veronese68

There used to be a battered old Jensen CV8 with the reg number CV8 in Wimbledon, that worked. There was a Lamborghini Diablo in an attempt to make the word DIABLO it had a 4 made into and A and an S made into a B by extending the tails until they was a gap of less than a hairs breadth before the joined the horizontal, that was rubbish. The result was a number plate that looked nothing like it was supposed to, I hope he had the plate confiscated or something.
I had an Alfa with a normal plate that was X???BBC and people kept asking if it was a private plate or telling me I should sell it. Why, it was a bog standard plate that was about a quarter of the way into a run of 999 plates that start with an X and end in BBC, hardly anything special.
I'm not a fan of them unless they really are short, simple and exactly what they say without bastardisation.

Colinthecop

My wifes names is Lita-Jayne so her L1TAJ was kinda perfect for her for not much cash.

I just wish she felt COL1N would be a similar worthwhile investment.

tlw1

can't comment too much on this thread as I did own S40 TUS spaced to look like lotus - in my defence is was dirt cheap! :oops:

Fav is the wife's uncle Roger with J 10LLY & R10 GER on a couple of cars

drlodge

Colinthecop wrote:

My wifes names is Lita-Jayne so her L1TAJ was kinda perfect for her for not much cash.

I just wish she felt COL1N would be a similar worthwhile investment.

I thought about DAV1D but if available would cost about £30k I think.

sloppyschleckonds

Anyone want a WAC plate?

VTech

I don't get the fact that because someone doesn't like something, they think everyone else shouldn't ?

If someone is happy to get a PP then why should it bother me, you or anyone ?
Me, the wife and my son all have PP and they fit the bill very well.

I got mine for fathers day a few years ago, the wife for her birthday and my son when he passed his test.
Each to his/her own.

thegreatdivide

There's a guy down the road that has H20 TAP and I saw 2000AD a while ago. Both are pretty cool.

Buy yes - most are just pointless. And people that put them on those German 4x4's (any of them - they're all pi$h) need to have their car torched.

I don't even know why I'm commenting in this thread - I hate cars with a passion...

RideOnTime

Why don't people just get a bit of cardboard and write their actual name on it and stick it in the window.

simonhead

Friend of mine has a number that are all close to his business name so for that i kind of get the point. I dont hate them and if others like them so be it but i wouldnt bother myself.

me-109

Debeli wrote:

The saintly Steve (Stavros) Parrish was once stopped by an off-duty traffic officer for having rounded off the top of the figure 5 on his plate 'PEN 15' and movd the numbers closer to the letters. I found that hilarious and still do.

So you have PEN15 envy?

VTech

RideOnTime wrote:

Why don't people just get a bit of cardboard and write their actual name on it and stick it in the window.

Because having BUG 11 on your car is bada$$

imposter2.0

VTech wrote:

Me, the wife and my son all have PP and they fit the bill very well.

Almost certainly true...

Flâneur

Unless it is something you can associate with I'm not a huge fan, however a lot of my friends have them and for all but one they were a gift (birthday, anniversary, 18th etc) and were kept whether they really wanted one or not. I know for such a small price that even if my better half got me that made no sense I'd still put it on.

Do some people try too hard with them? Yes. Some of those who try on a budget (buying old plates for instance) can look terrible. Doesn't make them a bad person, just someone who spent their excess cash on something others wouldn't.

Bet if you get angry at such plates you must have terrible rage when driving or cycling on the road.

VTech

Imposter wrote:

VTech wrote:

Me, the wife and my son all have PP and they fit the bill very well.

Almost certainly true...

Don't be a hater, it shows poor taste.

imposter2.0

VTech wrote:

Imposter wrote:

VTech wrote:

Me, the wife and my son all have PP and they fit the bill very well.

Almost certainly true...

Don't be a hater, it shows poor taste.

Don't know what you mean - I'm agreeing with you. What did you think I meant?

Frank Wilson

It's just pretentious showing off, rather like listing all the bikes you own at the bottom of every post on here :?

Majestic 12

Best cherished number plate has to be:

imposter2.0

Best plate ever, on the best car ever (although that's not an exact replica)...

VTech

Frank Wilson wrote:

It's just pretentious showing off, rather like listing all the bikes you own at the bottom of every post on here :?

Does anyone really believe that ?
What about for business, or a chosen profession.
What about names ?

As I mentioned, mine was a gift off my sons and says what I do. My wife's is her name (spelt correctly) my sons is his name, again spelt correctly.

I once owned GUM841l but sold it. Like wine, you can make a killing in plates if you get it right.

Mikey23

No probs... Just think its rather silly and pointless. If it does it for you thats ok by me even though i cant understand why

VTech

I guess it's the same as someone who buys a bike for £90 and is happy with it. Never quite understanding why people in here will spend upwards of £1500 on one. Thinking "how stupid are them idiots wasting all that cash on a bike"

Each to his own.

crispybug2

Not a personalised number plate as such, but a mate of mine kept his French number plate from when he spent three years living in Paris. His main reason is that he works in Central London and if he fancies driving in the number plate isn't recognised when he goes into the congestion zone and he doesn't get charged.

Mr_Cellophane

Giraffoto wrote:

Not only are they always c@ck, and don't quite say what they're meant to, despite owners who fondly imagine that **51EVE somehow looks like "Steve", for example

Perhaps he forgets where he parked the car because he has a mind like a sieve. 8)

Sawilson

My all time favourite, which used to drive around the local area,

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