For reasons we needn't go into here, a few years ago, and at not inconsiderable expense, I bought my wife a personalised number plate - WW15TLE. (Yes, yes, I know it's sad...) Anyway, this evening we were driving through Haywards Heath and we pulled up behind a car with the registration W15SLE! How about that for a cool coincidence?

Yes, I know this is boring and posey and of no interest whatsoever, but I just had to tell somebody. 

Cheers,

Chris

I was behind the best personalised plate I've seen the other day....WH05 HEE. Liked that one a lot....

Dave

Best I've seen was a blond bombsite in a white BMW convertible but, this being a family forum, I can't say what the number plate was.
Next best was a Range Rover with the plate GUM 800T

Quote from: Newportnobby on December 06, 2021, 09:05:59 PM
Best I've seen was a blond bombsite in a white BMW convertible but, this being a family forum, I can't say what the number plate was.
Next best was a Range Rover with the plate GUM 800T

bombsite ?

Quote from: Bigmac on December 06, 2021, 09:17:34 PM

Quote from: Newportnobby on December 06, 2021, 09:05:59 PM
Best I've seen was a blond bombsite in a white BMW convertible but, this being a family forum, I can't say what the number plate was.
Next best was a Range Rover with the plate GUM 800T

bombsite ?

If I recall, she was not what you would term a blond bombshell

In the late 80's there was a young woman driving round the Borehamwood area of North London in a Porsche with the numberplate ONP 1L, spaced as ON P1L. Not the most subtle one I've always thought!

Dave

Years ago, I passed a Rolls-Royce on the motorway, with a very expensive plate - "BBC 1"

Saw a Roller in Southampton once, MR51NGH - and, yes, the driver did have a beard and a turban 

Some years ago there was an article in the paper about a lass who had 25 EXY on her car, but not laid out  like that.
She kept getting fines for not having the characters laid out correctly but said she was perfectly happy to keep paying the fines because it got her lots of attention of another kind 

Too many years ago..here on the i o wight...jaguar xj6 with OGO 2 L

The best one I have seen recently is RU10CAL. I saw it on the way to Glossop from Stalybridge, and partway between these two towns is Hadfield. For those of you in the know, this was the place used as Royston Vasey in The League Of Gentlemen, where Tubbs And Edward asked that question to the shop visitors.

A friend on the Isle of Man, was given as a birthday present this number for his sports car,  MAN4U

Two railway related;

A few days ago, I saw B12 LNE, and many years ago, GER 999E, which was the as-built number of now preserved N7 69621. Coincidently, the latter was near Chappel and Wakes Colne, which is now the loco's home base.

There seems to be a few numberplates beginning BO55...

Martyn

I'd always thought of registering ownership of the Oxfordshire plate OO78 OND and selling it to the owner of an Aston Martin when it became valid in 2028... but sadly you can't do that sort of thing

Many years ago a black Porsche with blacked out windows (no idea how they could see out properly) used to regularly be seen around here and its number plate was BAD 1.