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What's your attitude to personal registration plates?

Poll ended at March 25th, 2021, 9:37 pm

I like them, and have one myself
14
14%
I like them, and although I don't have one I'd consider buying one at the right price
4
4%
I'm completely indifferent
16
16%
I think they're a bit ostentatious, but I've no strong feelings
28
28%
I think they're really trashy, and I'd be embarrassed to have one on my car
31
31%
The ubiquitous `other' (in which case kindly explain)
6
6%
 
Total votes: 99

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby staffordian » March 16th, 2021, 9:03 am

Another one I still see occasionally, parked up and not currently on the road is a Jag which I assume is owned by a couple of women...

M155 MRS

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby bungeejumper » March 16th, 2021, 9:39 am

There used to be a young lady in the Buckinghamshire area who I assume was called Diane. So her car was labelled DIRNE.

Close, I suppose, but I hope she didn't travel too far. In German, a Dirne is a prostitute.

BJ

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby scrumpyjack » March 16th, 2021, 9:52 am

My wife's nephew inherited ten of them, in sequence (xx1 to xx10) from his car enthusiast father and doesn't have a driving licence! :D :D

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby PinkDalek » March 16th, 2021, 9:57 am

Mike4 wrote:Then there is the ever-popular PEN 1S that eventually crops up in most discussions about personal plates.

I have in mind I actually saw this plate on a car many years ago. ...


Me too but it was/is PEN 15.

https://www.regtransfers.co.uk/info/pen15

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby bungeejumper » March 16th, 2021, 10:08 am

When I bought my daughter's first car, an 8 year old Peugeot 205, I didn't actually notice that the letters on the plate were also her initials. I got a lot of cred points for that. :D I might have got a few less if she'd known it was accidental.....

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby AsleepInYorkshire » March 16th, 2021, 10:09 am

bungeejumper wrote:There used to be a young lady in the Buckinghamshire area who I assume was called Diane. So her car was labelled DIRNE.

Close, I suppose, but I hope she didn't travel too far. In German, a Dirne is a prostitute.

BJ

D 1 ANE drives around my town

No idea who it is

Brian?

AiY

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby swill453 » March 16th, 2021, 10:13 am

AsleepInYorkshire wrote:D 1 ANE drives around my town

No idea who it is

2017 gold Land Rover?

Scott.

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby XFool » March 16th, 2021, 10:14 am

Redmires wrote:
Midsmartin wrote:With only a few exceptions, I immediately assume that the car owner has more money than sense, is very materialistic, and has an over inflated sense of their own importance. I've never conducted a survey, so I could be wrong about all this.

That sums up my attitude but the odd one does make me smile. A couple of years ago I saw 'MUS 1C' on a big Merc. I wonder who owned that one ?

I guess that's also my attitude really. Ones I remember? 100 MPH on a Porsche 911 Turbo and from AGES ago (possibly even the 1970s) TON 100 on a big, even then, old grey Mercedes saloon.

I saw a registration on a car locally a few years ago that at the time, rather took me by surprise. I wasn't even sure if it was intentional or accidental. Sadly, I can't actually recall it now! (Sorry - age?) My memory tells me it was some variation on/of: P DIRAC? PM DIRAC? PAM DIRAC?

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby ReformedCharacter » March 16th, 2021, 10:16 am

I don't go for personal registrations myself but a friend of my father acquired MAD1 when the plate was originally issued. Probably worth a bit now.

RC

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby bungeejumper » March 16th, 2021, 10:17 am

I once saw D4UGS parked in a layby near me. A shabby old 4x4. No sign of Pete Doherty, though.

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby scotia » March 16th, 2021, 10:17 am

Ok - I'm going to be a spoilsport - here are a few press clippings

BMW owners (20 per cent) are most likely to have a personalised plate, closely followed by Audi drivers (16 per cent).


Drivers with a personalised number plate are six times more likely to have received a speeding ticket in the past three years, according to data collected by MoneySuperMarket.


MoneySuperMarket research released towards the end of 2018 claimed that personalised plate owners are 50 per cent more likely to have their car stolen, compared to those who own a regular registration plate.


Maybe there's a link :D

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby AsleepInYorkshire » March 16th, 2021, 10:19 am

swill453 wrote:
AsleepInYorkshire wrote:D 1 ANE drives around my town

No idea who it is

2017 gold Land Rover?

Scott.

If I recall correctly it's a Range Rover - but trust me I have zip interest in cars so it could be a Pink Porsche :lol:

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby swill453 » March 16th, 2021, 10:28 am

AsleepInYorkshire wrote:
swill453 wrote:2017 gold Land Rover?

If I recall correctly it's a Range Rover - but trust me I have zip interest in cars so it could be a Pink Porsche :lol:

Yes, quite likely a Land Rover Range Rover.

Scott.

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby dragnips » March 16th, 2021, 10:46 am

Midsmartin wrote:With only a few exceptions, I immediately assume that the car owner has more money than sense, is very materialistic, and has an over inflated sense of their own importance. I've never conducted a survey, so I could be wrong about all this.


My personal plate is worth far more now than what I paid for it.

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby scrumpyjack » March 16th, 2021, 10:48 am

I did see one in a golf club car park a few years ago - 3 PUTT

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby stewamax » March 16th, 2021, 10:50 am

Mike4 wrote:I changed my name to E326WRO.

Come on Mike, if you are only 34 you are repairing boilers older than that!

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby stewamax » March 16th, 2021, 10:57 am

When delivering fish (a family business) in the summer holidays, I went up a drive where - unbelievably - was parked a Jag or similar with plate A1. While handing the fish parcel over I asked who owned it and was told it was owned by a charity.

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby tjh290633 » March 16th, 2021, 11:02 am

In some states in the USA (California is one, I believe) you can have a reistration of your choice, all letters, a mixture or whay have you. My wife's cousin had one or two possibly. He had a Rover 3-litre, I think, dating from the 1960s and kept it for sentimental reasons.

You see a lot on buses and coaches, Pulhams are an example, as all theirs are of the form AB12 PUL. City of Oxford have a lot like BC01 OXF.

I have a couple of friends who spotted cars in dealers with their initials or a phonetic rendering of their name, like BT for Beattie, and bought them without telling the dealer why.

Out greengrocer has just got a new van, the first I've seen with a "21" registration, but no other significance.

TJH

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby AleisterCrowley » March 16th, 2021, 11:14 am

XFool wrote:
I saw a registration on a car locally a few years ago that at the time, rather took me by surprise. I wasn't even sure if it was intentional or accidental. Sadly, I can't actually recall it now! (Sorry - age?) My memory tells me it was some variation on/of: P DIRAC? PM DIRAC? PAM DIRAC?



P Dirac ? Obviously belonged to a famous physicist. Probably a Lancia Delta


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_delta_function

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Re: Personal registrations

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Postby dealtn » March 16th, 2021, 11:21 am

Mike4 wrote:Then there is the ever-popular PEN 1S that eventually crops up in most discussions about personal plates.

I have in mind I actually saw this plate on a car many years ago. Or maybe that was a dream - was it actually issued as a car registration plate? What would its value be now? About a fiver I guess....


Yes, saw it with my mum when I was a teenager. Not sure who was more embarrassed. Must have been around 35 years ago.


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