InArduisFouette
Well-Known Member
next year presents an interesting potential VRN in the UK
KE74MIN
KE74MIN
Custom number plates
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
yes, there are certain 'rude' combinations they don't issue. there was never a FUC...K or a F...UCK sequence for example - and they stopped issuing GAY quite a while ago, although there may be a few still out there that were issued before they noticed the word had a second meaning...
Although some slip through the net - I remember OBO 110X getting a mention in the national press some years ago, although it seems to have gone out of circulation.
1927
Funnier than he thinks he is.
I remember years ago OBO110X was on a Gold MK2 Cortina Ghia in Cardiff.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
That's vaguely what I remember from seeing it in the papers - must be a good 30+ years ago...
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Scroll down this link and you will see dozens just from this year
Banned car number plates: naughty 74-reg number plates deemed too rude for the roads | Auto Express
The DVLA has revealed its list of new-for-2024 number plates judged too saucy for the streets, and there are plenty of potential shockers on the banned list
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Used to cause us no end of bother when you were on guard duty at the Depot. If one was parked up, in theory, they were registered at the Guard Room, but in practice...
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Who's GTV?
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
A neighbour, often considered a very up his arse newcomer, had WH0’5 JJB on his Audi. Until it failed its first MoT for an illegal plate. It made it easy to find him when he was seen driving around the village very aggressively and well over the speed limit.Who's GTV?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I do sometimes wonder how some of the dubiously-spaced, or obviously interfered-with plates don't end up in a tug from the OB.
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
If someone called Ellen ( LN) with more money than sense gave (2) someone called Oswald, or Osborne, or Ozymandias (0ZZY) a car, they would want to buy our numberplate. But this scenario doesn’t seem to interest the valuation algorithms.
Anyway, what happens if you successfully sell the plate you were randomly allotted? Do you get a new one of the same vintage from the DVLA bran tub?
Anyway, what happens if you successfully sell the plate you were randomly allotted? Do you get a new one of the same vintage from the DVLA bran tub?
hash tag
Books, not bombs
No ones right now. It's looking for a home.Who's GTV?
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Mrs Tags 500 failed the MOT simply because one space was a few mil out.
On the road yesterday, amongst others, we saw a plate that looked like M D14NA M....very clearly illegally spaced!
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
1982 Ur Quattros were 10 valve though. They weren't 20V until '88.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
broadly speaking, yes, there is a 'stock' of unused numbers from each year in the past, so it would get issued with a previously unused number that's the right 'age' for that vehicle.
similarly if you register a car from new with a personal number (so it never had its own age related number) and then want to transfer that off.
or if you register a car that was new outside the DVLA's remit in england / wales / scotland (although it's optional to keep a n ireland number if the car moves to england / wales / scotland) or for some other reason was not registered when it was built. (this has changed over the years - i'm aware of some classic vehicles that got 'imported' from the channel islands in the 70s and got DVLA registration numbers as if they were new in the 70s.)
if you sell a personal number (or put it 'on retention') then the vehicle usually gets its original number back, but this isn't guaranteed, and (for reasons that must have made sense to someone) you're then not allowed to transfer that number to another vehicle (my current car has that on the registration certificate - i presume one of the previous owners had a personal number on it but transferred it off again before i got it.)
not that i've ever had a personal number, i just had a temporary job in the local DVLA office before they all got shut down 10 years or so ago.
personally think they should double the fees for anything to do with personal numbers, and be honest and call it a twat tax
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
A grey Jag iPace?
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Yes. The plate would also work if this Ozymandias character was a liquid nitrogen tycoon. Perhaps I could get hold of a copy of Refrigeration Technologist Quarterly, find someone appropriately named, then approach them on LinkedIn to ask what they would pay for the plate.
Edit to add: my target customer exists and is in Bognor Regis!
British Built Commercial Fridges by Osborne Refrigerators
Osborne Refrigerators manufacture & supply commercial refrigeration for beer, wine, food, fish & milk, and specialist toolchest fridges for garages/man-caves etc
www.osbornerefrigerators.uk
Edit again. Balls. Jeff Osborne is 93 and - although still actively running the eponymous refrigeration firm - he is unsurprisingly not present on LinkedIn.
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MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
I wonder if it's someone's full time job to think these up or they just run a staff suggestion scheme.Scroll down this link and you will see dozens just from this year
Banned car number plates: naughty 74-reg number plates deemed too rude for the roads | Auto Express
The DVLA has revealed its list of new-for-2024 number plates judged too saucy for the streets, and there are plenty of potential shockers on the banned listwww.autoexpress.co.uk
nick
Pleomorphic Adenomas R us
You are, of course, correct. (1984 in the case of the Sport Quattro according to this "focused" individual. )
Now I want to know what is that 1982 Audi? (presumably it involves body kit)
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
There’s a fancy house near here that has two cars with personal plates, think one is a Bentley and the other something more mundane. What makes it worse though is they have small slogans at the bottom of the plate (where you might have the name of the garage the car came from on a normal plate) which say something like ‘he who dares wins’ and another glib one about endeavour or prosperity or something like that. Can you imagine how much of a self-satisfied tosser they must be? Makes my skin crawl.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
To paraphrase Pontius Pilate, what's so funny about FF73 GTT?
I think they now stop anything that could be read as referring either to a variety of meatballs or a derogatory slang term for gentlemen of the homosexualist persuasion...
T & P
|-o-| (-o-) |-o-|
Ah, I get it now. That’s a bit of a stretch, imo…
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
my regular plate ends in BYO, I hope the banger lasts long, my favoured personal plate is simply not available so never gonna happen, also couldn't afford it anyway.
