I went to see my dentist this morning. I hadn't noticed the license plate on his car before:
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I must admit I stared at this for ages until it clicked :)
It took me a while to work out the 'AKY'! When I lived in England, my dentist always used to smile when I visited - only because my initials are 'DK'. :)
That's a great number plate.
Reminds me of my dentist when I was a wee lad. His name was
Mr Howley.
He terrified me aged about 8!
I once passed a silver Toyota on the M1 in the UK driven by a blonde, with the plate M1LFH.
She was!
Bob
Quote from: port perran on November 14, 2022, 05:59:00 PM
That's a great number plate.
Reminds me of my dentist when I was a wee lad. His name was
Mr Howley.
He terrified me aged about 8!
My dentist in Exeter was Mr Hacker!
LO LO
AQ IC
I8 2Q
B4 IP
I once saw M155PVC. The driver was a lady, but I couldn't tell what she was wearing. I have also spotted MML1K a couple of times, but it was spaced to read MM L1K. Possibly the owner was in the ice cream trade, but possibly not.
i saw OGO2L on a jag many years ago.
We had a thread on number plates a couple of years ago......
Martyn
Quote from: martyn on November 14, 2022, 08:48:16 PM
We had a thread on number plates a couple of years ago......
I have a job remembering what I did yesterday so.....................
Saw a Range Rover with the reg 'GUM 800T' once, and one I can't put on the open forum but a blond girl was driving a convertible BMW with a 'laugh out loud/I'm shocked' plate! :goggleeyes:
I've seen a few over the years but I think the best was a grumbling wedge of orange cheese on Euston Road - a Lamborghini - registration plate - D14BLO.
Long ago, I saw the same car on the M6 a number of times - a Rolls-Royce, with the number BBC1. That must have been worth a bit!
Quote from: Bob G on November 14, 2022, 06:03:14 PM
My dentist in Exeter was Mr Hacker!
I have no idea who my GP is these days but a few years ago it was Dr Hole and guess what I had to see him about one time? Yep :moony:
My own plate is "SW6 4 CFC". Nothing as inventive as the dentist, but if you want to watch Chelsea, the best place is in SW6.
Yeah, I'm a nerd :)
Nothing so clever as the previous, but personalised plates are/were popular in NSW. I had little black and white MN00 plates on various motorbikes for a long time until I finally surrendered them. They were only a one off $25 fee in 1976.
Quote from: LASteve on November 15, 2022, 03:12:54 AM
My own plate is "SW6 4 CFC". Nothing as inventive as the dentist, but if you want to watch Chelsea, the best place is in SW6.
Yeah, I'm a nerd :)
Or you could be in a dim and distant part of Swindon generating highly polluting greenhouse gases :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: Bob G on November 15, 2022, 09:53:01 AM
Quote from: LASteve on November 15, 2022, 03:12:54 AM
My own plate is "SW6 4 CFC". Nothing as inventive as the dentist, but if you want to watch Chelsea, the best place is in SW6.
Yeah, I'm a nerd :)
Or you could be in a dim and distant part of Swindon generating highly polluting greenhouse gases :smiley-laughing:
Very dim and distant, Swindon postcodes start with SN1 :smiley-laughing:
Shortly before the general introduction of the A suffix in 1964, in July of that year Kent issued a reversed version of its first number series which was D. Unsurprisingly the single digits were applied to cars owned by the County Council, some used for chauffering dignitaries around. I recall seeing some lined up in front of County Hall. Looks like generous pre-decimalisation pricing now:-
1 D
2 D
3 D
4 D etc.
My Mum's white Anglia estate had to wait for 2452 D.
Useful site for getting the right aged registration numbers on your N vehicles for the pre-1972 period:-
https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/reg-letters.htm (https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/reg-letters.htm)
Most appropriate one I recall was a young tearaway in the next building to where I was working; he drove an Escort Mexico registration APR4T - he certainly was!
Quote from: martyn on November 14, 2022, 08:48:16 PM
We had a thread on number plates a couple of years ago......
Martyn
This one:
https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=55560.msg739235#msg739235 (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=55560.msg739235#msg739235)
started by me, for which I beg forgiveness...
Cheers,
Chris
We don't see any bumper stickers these days, used to et some good chuckles with some of them, the one that sticks in my mind
"Get really stoned - drink wet cement"
Quote from: Dorsetmike on November 15, 2022, 05:40:14 PM
We don't see any bumper stickers these days, used to et some good chuckles with some of them, the one that sticks in my mind
"Get really stoned - drink wet cement"
In a "green" vein, I've seen:
Earth First
We Can Mine The Other Planets Later
And, on a Tesla:
This Car Runs On Coal
Jon
I've seen 2-Rollers in w london, a white one , WOM 13, and also PEN 15
Quote from: Railwaygun on November 16, 2022, 01:30:59 AM
I've seen 2-Rollers in w london, a white one , WOM 13, and also PEN 15
Not to explicitly mention the plate on Fiona Richmond's yellow E Type Jaguar which I saw regularly in the early 1970s on the King's Road area. But I will provide a link to it.
https://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?t=1411#:~:text=In%20the%20early%2070%27s%20porn%20baron%20Paul%20Raymond,had%20a%20lot%20of%20press%20coverage.%20David%20Jones
Quote from: Railwaygun on November 16, 2022, 01:30:59 AM
I've seen 2-Rollers in w london, a white one , WOM 13, and also PEN 15
One of the fascinating things in the previous thread was how many different members claimed to have spotted the latter on so many different vehicles in so many different places despite photo evidence of the ownership and actual vehicle being provided... :hmmm:
Either it gets swapped around at least twice a week or there's a worrying number of members who really ought not to be driving due to their eye-sight deficiency... :worried: ::)
Bearing in mind that there are at least two possibilities here, PEN 15 and PEN 1 S. I definitely saw the latter when I had much better eyesight in the 1980s. It was at brands hatch on a truck racing day but was owned by a motorbike racer whose name I cannot for the life of me think of right now. Strangely, neither of those numberplates seem to show up on the government database but there are several articles on the Internet regarding both.
Steve Parrish perhaps?
Good man! I'm 99% sure you are correct
I stand corrected, it was PEN15
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:smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
When I first moved out here I was highly amused to see :censored: (changed by forum) on an XJ6. Evidently the DMV didn't know much British slang.
More surprising was a Corvette that passed me on the 170 freeway. It had a heart "love" symbol which hopefully I can reproduce here and it read:
8HR♥︎BTN
Usually the DMV are pretty good about spotting that stuff, but this one evidently slipped through the net. Unlike the UK, there are some symbols which can be used on a license plate. The heart, a waving hand, a star, a few others. You can only use one, and it doesn't actually have a value, so if there's another license plate already out there with the same number/letter combination without the symbol you can't use it.
Edit - the censored word started with B, ended with X and had two L's in the middle :)
Nothing wrong with ballbox surely. We used to use them at the snooker club :hmmm:
You could choose your own plate in Germany long before you could do so here. German plates are two or three letters for a city, county or region, two alphas in sequence (ie AA through to ZZ) then numbers. I remember once being overtaken on the Autobahn by a Saab, reg: SA AB 900
As a Yorkshireman I was also amused in Augsburg (Bavaria, area letter A) to be in a traffic jam behind A UP 259
I remember Steve Parrish having that number on one of those blue tiny cars for the disabled, mind you he'd replaced the 125cc engine with a very tuned 750cc
I saw the number on the A1 a couple of years ago, it was fitted to a Porsche .
I'll have to dig though my phone to find it, but shortly after the VW investigation revealed that they'd been falsifying emissions data from their diesel-engined cars for years, I saw a Jetta (?) here in LA with the plate
1 CLN DSL
The owner had x'ed out the plate with red electrical tape, which I thought was genius. I'll look for the photo.
Found the picture. Barham Blvd above the 101 freeway - morning rush hour when there was such a thing pre-COVID
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Back in the early 90s the company I worked for had quite a few customers who had daily drive type cars that had personal number plates.
The cleverest one I can recall off hand was MOT 10N on a racing green Bentley; the strangest was JCB 7 on a transit van!
Saw this shiny red Ferrari in Bere in Devon (home of Peco) a few years ago.
My family certainly did a double take (no prizes for guessing our surname!)...
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Toothpaste? :smiley-laughing:
sings with a high voice?
When the N prefix plate came out I remember publishing a picture on the back of the N Gauge Journal of a member's plate - N9 NGS
About 35 years ago a work colleague spotted an Austin A35 in South London with his initials and a single digit. The plate was originally issued in 1936. Determined to get the plate, he offered a generous amount to buy the car and its plate which gave the seller more than enough to buy a good quality 2/3 year old car with a lot more space than the A35. Win/win. He transferred it to his BMW...........no not an Isetta. :-)
Quote from: Michael Shillabeer on November 23, 2022, 06:16:30 PM
When the N prefix plate came out I remember publishing a picture on the back of the N Gauge Journal of a member's plate - N9 NGS
The late Hull MRS Member Stephen Pugmire had N9 MMS on his Volvo 480...
Quote from: woodbury22uk on November 23, 2022, 06:26:35 PM
He transferred it to his BMW...........no not an Isetta. :-)
My Dad's Isetta was 135 ARU
He also had a Heinkel/Trojan with the number 527 HOT
Butchers nearish to me has M1NCE on a van and M2NCE on their car, also seen 1CUP on a VW Polo a few years ago, probably worh more than the car!
Craig