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Private Number Plates...

I've got one!
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I like the idea, but I'd rather spend £250 on drugs and hookers
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Meh
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Private plates are for wankers
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I am not a number! I am a free man!
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Post by KungFooBob »

It's been a while, I wonder if attitudes have changed.

£250 private plate, direct from the DVLA, includes the transfer fee, would you?
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Nope, it was cheaper to change my name by deed poll.

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I only ask because the wife just got a £828 tax rebate :)
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Unless its THX 1138 I'm not buying it.
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Post by Mr. Dazzle »

I've got one on my bike.

I think it's tacky :D

It was Mrs D's 21st Birthday present from her folks, it's on my bike only as a holder. If you don't use it you lose it AFAIK.
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I saw a Mclaren with the plate FA57YEP on my last trip to the big island. And I overtook him in a my scabby van.

That showed him.
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BE11 END.
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Post by KungFooBob »

I can get T888 GMH for £250.

Cos my initials are GMH, innit (Not KFB in real life, although if you bought a Fiat in Doncaster in the mid 00's you'd get a KFB plate).
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Depends.

If it's one of those plates where you need to use your imagination to get it to mean anything apart from a failed attempt at something,then nah.

OTOH if it was one like Steve Parish,then probably nah,but maybe. :lol:
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The registration on my new Gladius is SK63 UBR........is that SKUB R or is it too far away?!
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Amulree wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:09 pm The registration on my new Gladius is SK63 UBR........is that SKUB R or is it too far away?!
Nearly! The 63 oughta be 55 tho...

Or even SKUB 55. See it's a nearly thang again.
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Post by Le_Fromage_Grande »

I'm not changing my name to Xavier Pretentious Muppet 862 Yvonne
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I have one on retention and one in my BMW. K12 and my initials.

They're not silly money and you can always move them about.
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When we bought the saab it came with a plate for the car
S44BXX
but nowadays unless it's a 4 or 5 index plate, not really cool anymore....if it ever was!
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If I could get OLD 61T I might be tempted.

If I was still driving. :)
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Never quite understood it, but each to their own.

My wife's Yamaha after completing her CBT ended with the letters FEK.

Which she said a fair bit down the intercom the first few rides, so it was like a personalised plate for no money at all :thumbup:
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I freely admit to Having one which is my Initials and the first two numbers of my Army number Frivolius I know but it also has Ulster instead of GB and the logo "what traffic jam" along the bottom. Yes its on a bike 🤪
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maccecht wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:58 pm I freely admit to Having one which is my Initials and the first two numbers of my Army number Frivolius I know but it also has Ulster instead of GB and the logo "what traffic jam" along the bottom. Yes its on a bike 🤪
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Post by JackyJoll »

Not very private if everyone can see it.

Very naff though.
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Post by MrLongbeard »

I'd have one if I could find something that didn't need dodgy bolt placement to read right