Anyone seen any good number plates on cars lately?

[markjay]

Was the car properly SORNed - or was the VED just not paid?

 

[forrera]

it was sorn'ed and now I'm trying to it back on the road again for as cheap as possible, just to satisfy DVLA.

 

[Watchcame430]

My mate has a really valuable one on an old 70s Merc that will cost an absolute fortune to put back on the road. Issue is the plate is also worth 10s of thousands so bit of a tricky one.. (Can't remember what it is but it's a significant plate)

 

[ianrandom]

iove u, on one of those nasty Evoque things. Cool plate if the car was a present though.

 

[Rupert44]

I see a 4x4 up in Shropshire with the plate B4 EWE

Simple I thought!

 

[John]

My mate has a really valuable one on an old 70s Merc that will cost an absolute fortune to put back on the road. Issue is the plate is also worth 10s of thousands so bit of a tricky one.. (Can't remember what it is but it's a significant plate)

I guess he would have to do a percentage deal with a mechanical outfit to do it as cheap as possible.

He would be able to get an estimate on what it is worth now to see if it is worth bothering with.

iove u, on one of those nasty Evoque things. Cool plate if the car was a present though.

They always make me think the owner couldn't afford a RRS.

 

[Watchcame430]

I guess he would have to do a percentage deal with a mechanical outfit to do it as cheap as possible.

He would be able to get an estimate on what it is worth now to see if it is worth bothering with.



They always make me think the owner couldn't afford a RRS.

It was his dad's car who passed away. I think it likely to sit forever but you never know. I think from memory it was valued around £40k ... It's a senimental thing though.

 

[John]

It was his dad's car who passed away. I think it likely to sit forever but you never know. I think from memory it was valued around £40k ... It's a senimental thing though.

None of us can speak for anyone else but if it were my old car and plate and I had died, I'd have wanted my theoretical children to do whatever they needed to get the money from it and do something with it that they will get enjoyment out of.

I would imagine there would be photos of the car with the plate on it for the memories - perhaps in happier times rather than a car which has rusted away and will continue to do so.

Quite symbolic in a way.

 

[Watchcame430]

None of us can speak for anyone else but if it were my old car and plate and I had died, I'd have wanted my theoretical children to do whatever they needed to get the money from it and do something with it that they will get enjoyment out of.

I would imagine there would be photos of the car with the plate on it for the memories - perhaps in happier times rather than a car which has rusted away and will continue to do so.

Quite symbolic in a way.

Totally agree. A good way to look at it.

I tried to get the no value number plate that was on my first car. A car my dad bought new in 1982

The DVLA won't let me have it though

It's not showing with an mot or tax since 1993 (1 year after I sold it)

 

[dinoy]

These new rules stink .. Really unfair

can somebody put a link for new dvla rules

 

[moy24]

Was on holiday last week in Dartmouth in devon and a red Ferrari enzo drove pass with plate reading F1 TW the car looked unbelievable.

 

[John]

Totally agree. A good way to look at it.

I tried to get the no value number plate that was on my first car. A car my dad bought new in 1982

The DVLA won't let me have it though

It's not showing with an mot or tax since 1993 (1 year after I sold it)

No - I've understood for a while that once it has died, it has died.

I think they are missing a trick here though - they could generate the revenue they seem to desperate for (in making legitimate owners jump through hoops to transfer from an unroadworthy vehicle etc.) by allowing the re-release of extinct registrations and making it a bit easier to transfer them from duff cars.

After all, they were happy to take the money in the first place.

Whoever makes the decisions there is certainly a class one...

 

[Watchcame430]

It would make sense to me ... They could coin it in with all the paperwork fees, let alone reselling the plates.
In the meantime if anyone knows the location of any old white Y reg Renault Fuegos

 

[sturgeon]

I've just seen a white A class with Black lettering NO in front of PR08LOM

 

[Alfie]

F1 ART on a black RR sport in the workshop today.

 

[The Polisher]

Just followed a Jaguar down the M42 with the number plate CHE5T. I was expecting something nice to be driving it, but some old bloke!!

 

[eGuru]

I've just seen a white A class with Black lettering NO in front of PR08LOM

Saw that a few weeks ago on the M1.

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/1909998-post15994.html

 

[Conquistador]

Saw 'TRA1N' today on a black Golf with quite a beefy looking guy at the wheel. Assume it's a personal trainer or something!

 

[mat8n]

just bought a 2001 car that had number B14ANO on it, it was off the road for a year and a half and it was only good for parts, so the owner stuck the original 51 plates on it and sold it to me so she car put the private plates on her new car.
After a couple of days she rang me and she was in tears because DVLA told her the private number goes with the car and she can not transfere it to the new car despite it's on retension certificate, simply because the car had no tax.
can you believe this?

Some thing is not quite right there?

If it's on retention the old car has nothing to do with it.

You could never take a plate off an unroadworthy car. Nothing has changed there.

The cars have always had to have an Mot and be taxed.

 

[Watchcame430]

I think i read it that they tried to put it on retention after selling?

Also I think you could take them off an unroadworthy car before. Isnt that the main change?