Anyone seen any good number plates on cars lately?

[MOCAŠ]

Stopped at the lights behind this today. Apparently belongs to Viscount Boyd of Merton.

 

[crazydoctor]

just found this on my phone. Took the pic last year in Leicester at some point.

 

[MOCAŠ]

I am sure this has been mentioned before....

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/driving-incidents-roadrage/71991-slr-4ak-spotted.html#4

Businessman pays a record £375,000 for F1 number plate | Mail Online

4 K is currently being advertised for £250,000. Hard to imagine that in the early Eighties it was acquired by a student, Simon Ward, when he bought the Morris Minor it was on... for £90. Neither vendor nor purchaser paid any attention to the number plate at the time. Only when it was later pointed out to him did it click, and when he sold the Minor he made sure he transferred the plate onto his next car - a second hand Morris Marina.

Mr Ward and his family obviously got the bug, as they later owned the following plates: 222 K, 333 K, POT 1, POT 1T, POT 2, POT 4, POT 6, POT 8, POT 14, POT 254, POT 570 and POT 893.

 

[Mike Walker]

D 21 on Mercedes ML in Chislehurst Kent last night.

 

[MOCAŠ]

Mr Ward and his family obviously got the bug, as they later owned the following plates: 222 K, 333 K, POT 1, POT 1T, POT 2, POT 4, POT 6, POT 8, POT 14, POT 254, POT 570 and POT 893.

I was a little slow on the uptake here, but having just Googled him, it seems Simon Ward is now a professional pool player; which explains all the POT plates...

 

[Mike Walker]

And there was me thinking he collected earthenware or smoked summat illegal......

 

[PXW]

B16 DYX

Spotted today near Terminal 5 LHR

lol

Used to know the owner of that one - a tall guy called **** (Richard)....at the time he was a facilities manager working for a big oil company and the plate was on a Vectra iirc

 

[PXW]

Spotted today in Camberley G1PSY on a Bentley convertible.

 

[MOCAŠ]

Used to know the owner of that one - a tall guy called **** (Richard)....at the time he was a facilities manager working for a big oil company and the plate was on a Vectra iirc

How disappointing. I'd assumed it must have belonged to a troupe of touring oversized lesbians.

 

[PXW]

How disappointing. I'd assumed it must have belonged to a troupe of touring oversized lesbians.

Sadly, truth is often duller than fiction

 

[markjay]

BULION today (one L) - must be someone working for either the Royal Mint or for OXO?

 

[markjay]

Spotted BUL 10N on a black SEC on the A40 the other week.

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/gene...-good-number-plates-cars-lately-340.html#5095

MOCAŠ beat me to it.... a year ago!

 

[MOCAŠ]

Today's sightings (spaced as shown) incuded:

KAT 11E on a BMW 3 Series in Kensington Church St.
8UK on a VW Passat in Hammersmith
6OND on a Bentley Continental GT in Ealing

That last one is particularly confusing, as 60 ND is also out there somehwere, on a silver Aston Martin DB5. Both plates were sold at DVLA auctions, as were 80 ND and 8 OND:

60 ND: £3,100 (Dec 2004)
6 OND: £7,600 (Apr 2007)
80 ND: £5,000 (Jun 1997)
8 OND: £12,400 (Jan 2002)

 

[A210AMG]

 

[MOCAŠ]

Looks like the DVLA missed a trick with that one - it wasn't withheld for auction, so would have been sold as a standard Select Registration.

80 NDJ did go to auction, though, and made £2100 in December 2009.

18 OND made £11,500 in April 2006.

 

[Charles Morgan]

I've seen this before in KwikFit having a puncture repaired, but saw it today in Green Street in Mayfair (a target rich environment given almost every car had a personalised plate)

I didn't bother to photograph any more as I was hurrying to Selfridges to pick up some specially ordered Rouennais ducks delivered from Rungis in Paris for Caneton 'Tour d'Argent' tomorrow. That and some kidneys for devilled kidneys for breakfast on Sunday.

 

[MOCAŠ]

Someone at the DVLA is obviously clued-up, as just about every AMG model name that can be configured as a registration has been held back for auction.

 

[markjay]

Someone at the DVLA is obviously clued-up, as just about every AMG model name that can be configured as a registration has been held back for auction.

In the olden days it was just MBZ....

 

[LTD]

Saw a nice one today in Glasgow on a Jaguar XK convertible.

5TAN (Yes, it was displayed rather naughtily but you would too if your name was Stan)

 

[MOCAŠ]

In the olden days it was just MBZ....

Indeed, although they were never sold by the DVLA (or DVLNI, as far as I know).