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Once bought a VW variant with private reg on, in fact swapped it for a knackered Viva and a 1275GT with rumbling crank. The reg was WRS 47, spent two nights going through the phone book ringing everyone with a surname beginning in S and the initials W R. Sold it to W R Spoors a haulier in Sunderland for £250 thought I,d won the pools, I,d be about 18 at the time. :lol:

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HOW MANY CHERISHED NUMBER PLATES HAVE PASSED THROUGH YOUR HANDS OVER THE YEARS.

BOUGHT A BABY AUSTIN BACK IN 1974 WITH NUMBER PLATE SUN 10 FOR £ 10.00 SOLD IT AFTER SOME WORK FOR £30.00. WHAT WOULD THIS BE WORTH TODAY ?.

 

 

PLEASE DON'T SHOUT, IT MAKES MY BRAIN HURT.

 

Tim

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My dad bought a '62 Wolseley 16/60 about 1966, before "cherished" number plates were in vogue. It happened to be numbered RFA 5. After running it for five or six years he became aware of the market for personalised number plates and advertised it for sale. It was bought by a Mr. R.F.A. Smallshore who paid double the "book" price for the car + number plates.

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Family friends, years ago, had PRT 1 on a Rover P4. They disposed of it at least 40 years back, when vanity plates were almost unknown.

The registration mark on my car is unique (I believe they all are...). However, it doesn't spell anything, nor does it broadcast to the world that I may have more money than sense.

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Family friends, years ago, had PRT 1 on a Rover P4. They disposed of it at least 40 years back, when vanity plates were almost unknown.

The registration mark on my car is unique (I believe they all are...). However, it doesn't spell anything, nor does it broadcast to the world that I may have more money than sense.

:lol:

 

Derek

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HOW MANY CHERISHED NUMBER PLATES HAVE PASSED THROUGH YOUR HANDS OVER THE YEARS.

BOUGHT A BABY AUSTIN BACK IN 1974 WITH NUMBER PLATE SUN 10 FOR £ 10.00 SOLD IT AFTER SOME WORK FOR £30.00. WHAT WOULD THIS BE WORTH TODAY ?.

 

Hardly cherished as such but Jan Got me E** MJG for my 50th last year - think it cost her around £350

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My best friend is a judge these days. His car sports the letter and numbers J11 followed by his initials. Say it aloud and you get "jail".

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I still have YOH 695 kicking about somewhere but never got around to transferring it onto either of my current vehicles. I have had lots pass through my hands over the years when in a former life I was involved in a business specialising in classic and modified vehicles.

 

I remember back in the 80's taking an old Ford 100e for inspection as the plate was to be transferred. The donor car had been lowered, debadged and had an Alfa Romeo twin cam engine fitted (along with numerous other modifications to the running gear to handle all the power) A young slip of a girl aged no more than about 17 came out of the office to inspect the car. She placed her nice shiny clean hard hat on her head (in case she hit it on the bonnet) and proceeded to walk around the car ticking off things on her clipboard. She asked to see the chassis plate and another tick appeared once this was done then she started to look concerned. She wanted around the car twice more looking increasingly puzzled. I asked her if there was a problem. She replied that she could not see any markings on the car that told her it was a Ford! She needed to see a badge on the car to identify it as being a Ford otherwise how could she positively identify the car?

 

I thought for a moment and looked around to see if there was anyone close by who was old enough to be able to identify the car as a Ford without being prompted. - no one around - I then looked at the steering wheel and saw the familiar old horn push with 5 stars on it. I then launched into a very confidant explanation that the 5 stars on the horn push where categoric proof that this was in fact a Ford. During the era this car was made Ford used the marketting tag line of "The Ford Five Star Service" and there for her to see with her own eyes were the 5 stars on the horn push so what more evidence could she possibly need? She looked at me, looked at the horn push, shrugged her shoulders and ticked her sheet!

 

The sale proceeded and I breathed a huge sigh of relief! I could not believe that she accepted such a tenuous explanation!

 

Edited to add - I have fallen in love with the new Fiat 500 (having owned and loved the old version for several years) Near the marina someone has a Fiat 500 in my favourite colour (pale blue) with every optional extra that I would choose (there are lots) and I have to slow down to dribble every time I drive past.

 

The number plate is X 2 LUV

 

it is very obviously a ladies car and it is obvious from the number plate that it was a gift - whoever she is she is a very, very lucky girl and I am not the least bit jealous at all ................. honest ................ :lol:

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Tam & Di

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My wife had a Mini GON 4 T wish we'd kept it.

 

 

Di saw a car in a supermarket car park a while back numbered D 14 TAM which could have been spaced DI 4 TAM. Mildly funny, but I'd never get up the energy to seek out anything like that and follow it through.

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An acquaintance is a mild-mannered accountant in a large city in the north-east of the UK. After marriage in his late 20s, he and his charming wife moved into a modest three-bedroom place in the modestly respectable part of town, as one would. Then the small software company he was CFO for grew over twenty years into an extremely large software company, and (personally and corporately) he found himself in charge of more money than he knew what to do with.

 

I know. A burden, what?

 

Anyway, he decided to do Something He'd Always Dreamed Of. He found an auction of 'cherished registrations' where (let's say) LEN 1E was up for sale, and his first name was Lenny. (It isn't, and the actual fit between plate and name is much better, but out of respect for a pal...) He decided to go for it, and ended up the winner for 30K. (It wasn't 30k, but it was something equally outrageous and just a chip off the top of his mountainous bank balance.)

 

So he got some plates made up, and a few evenings later proudly showed them to the missus.

 

"If you put those on your car and drive out in them," she said, "I'll leave you on the spot."

 

He put them in the attic of his modest three-bedroom semi, where they (and he, and his charming wife) stay to this day.

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