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

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

Very dim and distant, Swindon postcodes start with SN1 

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

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

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:

And, on a Tesla:


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... 

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...    

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