Anyone seen any good number plates on cars lately?

[John]

The DVLA try and weed out any potentially 'offensive' numbers now.

I'm not sure what they did in 2004, as the rules etc keep changing to drive up more revenue on sales, but they may have withheld it.

The rule about the donor car needing tax and MOT is gone, I put MBC 2 on retention yesterday as it has valid SORN - that's all that's required now.

It was a daft rule. I wonder how many registrations were lost as a result...

How are plates like PEN 15 still exist or is the offensive rule not applied retrospectively?

 

[Oldbarrack]

It was a daft rule. I wonder how many registrations were lost as a result...

How are plates like PEN 15 still exist or is the offensive rule not applied retrospectively?

The original PEN 15 is still around and was not banned retrospectively.

 

[Oldbarrack]

It was a daft rule. I wonder how many registrations were lost as a result...

How are plates like PEN 15 still exist or is the offensive rule not applied retrospectively?

PEN 15 is still a DVLA registered number, no retrospective ban.

PEN 1 S was not released however I believe;
I recall some 'noise' at the time, but after a lot of fuss about PEN 15 in 2005, I doubt it, but could stand corrected.

 

[John]

No I know. I believe a "Steve Parrish" or similar at least used to own it.

My understanding that plates released which are deemed to be offensive, even after the right to display them has been bought, are confiscated.

I don't wish this on whoever currently owns the right to use it but it does seem to be a bit strange that this can be displayed still if that is the case.

 

[Darrell]

S1UTB in a Megane convertible or similar on the M25 yesterday.

It was spaced out to read S1UT B.

 

[Oldbarrack]

No I know. I believe a "Steve Parrish" or similar at least used to own it.

My understanding that plates released which are deemed to be offensive, even after the right to display them has been bought, are confiscated.

I don't wish this on whoever currently owns the right to use it but it does seem to be a bit strange that this can be displayed still if that is the case.

If that's the Steve Parrish who formerly did speedway bike racing I will ask him as he lives nearby me.
As I remember it he just made up the number plate but never actually owned the number, but I could stand corrected.

He demolished the large old style garage he ran next to his house and built small industrial units on that land, and his son still sells used commercial vehicles from a small patch he kept outside his house.

It maybe a different Steve Parish though as the Wiki page has him born in Cambridge whilst he was actually born and lived in Ipswich, as was I, and where I always assumed his career in speedway started.

My wife's old car still has 11 MBC on it, but I spaced the two 1's about 1mm apart to look like the number 1.
She was pulled by the police at Gatwick airport and had to send the police some sort of certificate from an MOT station after I made up a 'properly' spaced one for the car; I think the majority of the new plates purporting to spell words look ridiculous, but then I'm probably too much of a traditionalist, so let it be so.

The biggest irony of course is that DVLA auction the better ones shown in the 'illegal' layout,
but then your not allowed to use it that way .....

The mirror, MBC 11 is still on my S55, so that will be back on the roads shortly.

 

[mat8n]

The biggest irony of course is that DVLA auction the better ones shown in the 'illegal' layout,
....

No they don't, DVLA never advertise an illegally spaced plate.
They sell plates that could be adapted but never advertise them that way. And those they do advertise at auction have a very cheap reserve.

 

[Oldbarrack]

No they don't, DVLA never advertise an illegally spaced plate.
They sell plates that could be adapted but never advertise them that way. And those they do advertise at auction have a very cheap reserve.

I get at least 10+ emails for every auction from the auctioneers, (who are not the DVLA),
and those certainly used to write a comment as to what it may spell,
but it's largely irrelevant now, and I scarcely read them, as virtually all the quality stock is gone.

When they first started, few numbers even started below £1,900,
now they're mostly just the scraps left, padded out with the withheld new 'word spelling' variants.

The registered dealers buy an increasingly large % of stock and customer orders from them now,
and it's become a sort of protocol for the dealers not to bid against each other if one has a buyer in mind,
as the dealers often request a non reversed number to be added to the next auction if they have a buyer for it.

 

[John]

Just as a matter of interest - what happened with the "01" plates which would have come out in March 2001 had Y not?

I'm sure I read somewhere that if enough interest was there for an 01 plate, they would be auctioned off...

And does this apply to other previously unregistered plates and is there a way to look these up?

 

[b1g1an]

If that's the Steve Parrish who formerly did speedway bike racing I will ask him as he lives nearby me.
As I remember it he just made up the number plate but never actually owned the number, but I could stand corrected..

It's the Steve Parrish who used to be a 500 GP rider, nicknamed Stavros by Barry Sheene who was his team mate at heron Suzuki, went on to International truck racing and more recently commentator for the BBC and others, think he's still with BT Sport at the mo.

Last time I saw his plate it was on a 190E Cosworth at Donnington at the 1995 British GP that also saw a certain number 46 make his UK debut in the Euro 125s. A 15 year old Vale was introduced by the legendary Chris Carter as a lad who would one day be a world champion, an underestimate if ever there was one.

 

[Darrell]

KK05TAS on an SL (I think) near Sloane Sq.
CU57 HTA & CU57 MTA on a Cayenne and a G63 by Chelsea Barracks.

 

[markjay]

FA11 BAK

 

[DoberMan]

FU 2
Tonight, on an E Type Jaguar driven by Fiona Richmond (anyone remember her?) in 'The Car's The Star' on iPlayer from 1997!

 

[mat8n]

1 RUG

 

[Codger49]

FU 2
Tonight, on an E Type Jaguar driven by Fiona Richmond (anyone remember her?) in 'The Car's The Star' on iPlayer from 1997!

Yes.

 

[Darrell]

1 RUG

Wig wearer?

 

[Lennox]

GT1 1YUM on a 500bhp mk7 Golf GTI.


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[Darrell]

1XR on an immaculate old shape A class by Sloane Sq station.

 

[bluestreak]

AUS1 on jag XJ. Are they Austrian or Australian?

 

[mat8n]

1XR on an immaculate old shape A class by Sloane Sq station.

2XR lives near me, saw it the other day on an Aston, years ago it was on a lotus carlton.