Anyone seen any good number plates on cars lately?

[MD5]

Saw this one a few months back

and this one yesterday

 

[seven]

TOP 1C [remember them?] on a white 220 M4 west this morning

 

[ringway]

Saw this a while ago.

 

[Gareth]

X6M OK

(on an X6M funnily enough)

 

[markjay]

VIC 00 on a white Aston today.

Is this V1 COO?

 

[MOCAŠ]

VIC 00 on a white Aston today.

Is this V1 COO?

Yes.

 

[Mike Walker]

Saw the following over the last 24 hours:-

4 MRN - BMW M3 on M25 Jct 10
1 MNJ - Audi A5 ditto
70 JO - Discovery
484 ARB - Toyota MR2
VJO 19 - VW Beetle

 

[KillerHERTZ]

 

[ringway]

Saw this earlier today.

Also PSS 6 on a battered old Sprinter van.

 

[Mike Walker]

85 KG on a 6 series BMW last night

 

[ringway]

In Wilmslow this morning.

 

[a111r]

At the Aldegate roundabout tonight, I saw an highly modded Ariel Atom or 'copykit' thereof, driven by a hipster, bearing the slightly shunted index:
C1LNT

 

[eGuru]

YE5 4LAN on a W203, I think.

 

[christopherwk]

R10 WAN on a black W221 S-Class on the A4 today at Chiswick.

 

[markjay]

55 BB today.

 

[PXW]

J17KES on a dark Audi coupe in Camberley this evening. Chavved up with square numbers and a screw head to read JAKES

 

[MOCAŠ]

Saw a few today:

100 MG on a Chelsea tractor
5 WWW on an E Class
26 OO on an SL (spaced to read 2600)
JU54 FUN on a Mini

 

[ringway]

Saw CLA55 on a white Range Rover yesterday.

I seem to remember seeing CLA55Y on a black Range Rover several times over the years.

 

[MOCAŠ]

I seem to remember seeing CLA55Y on a black Range Rover several times over the years.

This was originally on a rather humble Ford Cortina:

You have yet to spot CLA 5S, which is apparently on a Bentley Arnage.

 

[MOCAŠ]

London Transport also used to match the numerals form the registration plate in the buses' fleet numbers, so you would quite find that a bus with, say, 69 on the number plate would have a fleet number of 69 (or maybe 169, 269 etc.).

They were allowed to continue using white-on-black number plates into the 1980s.

Found this, which neatly illustrates both points: