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- Lemon Quarter
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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...
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- Lemon Half
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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
Close, I suppose, but I hope she didn't travel too far. In German, a Dirne is a prostitute.
BJ
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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!
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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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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. I might have got a few less if she'd known it was accidental.....
BJ
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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?
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AsleepInYorkshire wrote:D 1 ANE drives around my town
No idea who it is
2017 gold Land Rover?
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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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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.
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I once saw D4UGS parked in a layby near me. A shabby old 4x4. No sign of Pete Doherty, though.
BJ
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Ok - I'm going to be a spoilsport - here are a few press clippings
Maybe there's a link
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
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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
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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
Yes, quite likely a Land Rover Range Rover.
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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