Personalised Number Plates

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:10 am

Bosscat wrote:
Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:58 am
Snap I bought mine in 2001 ... it cost £220 and is valued around £4k now. Its been on 2 motorbikes and 3 cars and like has been said no need to try and remember a new numberplate now 🤭
I've always wondered who owned that car with the plate KN0B 1, seen it many times parked around the Turf.

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by Bosscat » Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:23 am

Steve1956 wrote:
Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:10 am
I've always wondered who owned that car with the plate KN0B 1, seen it many times parked around the Turf.
👍🙂

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by MACCA » Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:39 am

I curently have one that spells out my last name it cost 299, although looking to get a couple more fore the wife and kids, but they are standard registration plates.
But I wont be going more than £500, which I think is reasonable.

MA09CCA I've seen a few variations on this with different numbers, and I'm also lucky enough that my daughters name can be spelt in one too, so I'm trying to locate her name with 09 in the middle as it's her birth tear, and I'll then give it her as a gift when shes 18.

I've problem with personalised plates, some people "waste" their money on fancy clothes, expensive watches or a flashy car when others that cost a lot less do "exactly the same thing"
Each to their own, if you earn your money spend it on what you like, theres zero harm can be done with buying a personalised plate IMO.
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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by claretblue » Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:03 pm

I've just changed my name by deed poll to YD12 UNV

...much cheaper than a new plate! :D
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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by claret2018 » Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:24 pm

A lot of my neighbours have them seemingly for the sole reason that you can’t immediately tell that their BMW that they spend every Sunday morning washing and waxing is 10 years old

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by CaptJohn » Sat Sep 18, 2021 1:38 pm

One of the best stories I heard about personal plates was regarding Max Bygraves. Now some of our younger readers may never heard of him but he was an excellent crooner in his day and a TV Celebrity to boot. Anyway he owned MB 1 and Mercedes wanted it. They tried to buy it from him to no avail and eventually sent him a blank cheque for him to fill in what he wanted for the plate. He sent the cheque back. :D Pure class.
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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by bf2k » Sat Sep 18, 2021 2:18 pm

To be honest I can’t care less what others think about personalised plates and my plate in particularly. It means something to me, was bought as a present so the rest you can do one :twisted:
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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by bfccrazy » Sat Sep 18, 2021 2:39 pm

The Mrs family have them and I got one similar as a present a bit ago - look alright when they’re together and not stupidly priced.

Does help at car parks where you have to put your reg into the machine :lol: - don’t have to run back to car to confirm it.
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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by BennyD » Sat Sep 18, 2021 5:25 pm

CaptJohn wrote:
Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:55 am
If I'm on a long journey I keep my attention by doing anagrams of car number plates that pass by thus I'm very interested in personal plates. One of the best I've seen was on the M6 northbound and I think Arsenal were the visitors to the Turf. It was a sporty looking Merc with a red and white Gooners scarf in the back window with the reg 505 EXY. They had changed it slightly to 50 5EXY which I thought was clever and amusing.
Now on a black 2019 Land Rover Velar that is, currently, untaxed.

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by Alanstevensonsgloves » Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:09 pm

Was driving behind an aston martin today, reg AMI5 SPY.

My thought was, what a TW4T

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by Bosscat » Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:21 pm

Alanstevensonsgloves wrote:
Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:09 pm
Was driving behind an aston martin today, reg AMI5 SPY.

My thought was, what a TW4T
How was his driving 🤔 if he was driving like TW4T fair enough ... but to call someone a TW4T just because he has an Aston with a pvt plate is a tad jealous Asg ... 😂😂😂

Saw a couple of high end German saloons (with pvt plates) between Brierfield and Burnley today being driven by people behaving like complete bellends ... now thats bell-endery of the nth degree and the TW4T epithet fits them perfectly
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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by beddie » Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:38 pm

I’ve had mine since the early seventies, at that time they were known as cherished numbers and the law was very strict on the way they were shown, no illegal spacing etc, unfortunately for reasons I don’t understand they (the law) appear these days to allow them to be shown in any format people like.

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by dougcollins » Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:40 pm

In the first year of the 'new style' registrations a guy at work bought a very ordinary car without any request for a personalised number. Shortly after delivery he sold the plate for more than the cost of his house.

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by IanMcL » Sun Sep 19, 2021 12:49 am

Corky wrote:
Fri Sep 17, 2021 8:22 pm
When we last changed cars I wanted to get POO2 YOU as a new number plate but my wife put her foot down.
So you have F007 YOU?

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by Claretitus » Sun Sep 19, 2021 9:51 am

Some of the comments on here are laughable. If you want a plate, can afford it, go get one. So what? Do people who live in a terraced house call people who live in a semi? Semi owners slag off detached house owners? Unreal. It’s all relative and the personal choice as to how you spend your disposable income.
And BTW, you can’t put a plate on a car to disguise its age ( ie to make it appear newer ). For example, a 10 yr old car must display its own year plate- 61, or older 11, 60, 10, 59 and so on. You can’t put a 71 plate on the same 10 year old car.
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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by Sean Dyche's Watch » Sun Sep 19, 2021 2:15 pm

Claretitus wrote:
Sun Sep 19, 2021 9:51 am
you can’t put a plate on a car to disguise its age ( ie to make it appear newer ). For example, a 10 yr old car must display its own year plate- 61, or older 11, 60, 10, 59 and so on. You can’t put a 71 plate on the same 10 year old car.
Whilst you are correct in stating you can't put a newer plate on an older car, disguising the age of a car doesn't automatically mean making it appear newer.

My mum has a personalised registration on her car, and I've no idea how old her car is. Therefore, it's been disguised.

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by Claretitus » Sun Sep 19, 2021 2:25 pm

Sean Dyche's Watch wrote:
Sun Sep 19, 2021 2:15 pm
[quote=Claretitus post_id=<a href="tel:1645755">1645755</a> time=<a href="tel:1632041477">1632041477</a> user_id=1205]
you can’t put a plate on a car to disguise its age ( ie to make it appear newer ). For example, a 10 yr old car must display its own year plate- 61, or older 11, 60, 10, 59 and so on. You can’t put a 71 plate on the same 10 year old car.
Whilst you are correct in stating you can't put a newer plate on an older car, disguising the age of a car doesn't automatically mean making it appear newer.

My mum has a personalised registration on her car, and I've no idea how old her car is. Therefore, it's been disguised.
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Yes, you too are correct, but the insinuations earlier in the thread were that you can make a car appear younger. You can’t.

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by Quicknick » Sun Sep 19, 2021 2:46 pm

One of my motorbikes in Portugal had NJ as the letters, my first two names. I've got to admit I liked that. But that was just coincidence. I wouldn't pay for a personalised plate.

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by MACCA » Sun Sep 19, 2021 2:52 pm

Quicknick wrote:
Sun Sep 19, 2021 2:46 pm
One of my motorbikes in Portugal had NJ as the letters, my first two names. I've got to admit I liked that. But that was just coincidence. I wouldn't pay for a personalised plate.
Scrubber ..... ;)

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by yTib » Sun Sep 19, 2021 2:59 pm

tantamount to wearing a toupee.

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by IanMcL » Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:42 pm

Quicknick wrote:
Sun Sep 19, 2021 2:46 pm
One of my motorbikes in Portugal had NJ as the letters, my first two names. I've got to admit I liked that. But that was just coincidence. I wouldn't pay for a personalised plate.
I thought your name was Quick?

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by IanMcL » Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:45 pm

I understand our Mr Scholes has the plate, CT1 UTC







(I made that up)

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by IanMcL » Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:45 pm

IanMcL wrote:
Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:45 pm
I understand our Mr Scholes has the plate, CT1 UTC







(I made that up)
It is CT15 UTC

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by gsyclaret » Sun Sep 19, 2021 6:58 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:55 am
Who's Hughie Green 🤭🤭🤭

Doesn't Jimmy Tarbuck own COM 1C
correct, saw him driving it in blackpool

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by Bosscat » Sun Sep 19, 2021 7:17 pm

gsyclaret wrote:
Sun Sep 19, 2021 6:58 pm
correct, saw him driving it in blackpool
I think Paul Daniels used MAG 1C on his motor as well...


He did
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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by ijkay » Sun Sep 19, 2021 7:43 pm

Iloveyoubrady wrote:
Fri Sep 17, 2021 6:58 pm
Completely stupid unless you plan to keep the car forever!
your the stuoid one its not the car you keep forever its the number plate

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by Bosscat » Sun Sep 19, 2021 7:44 pm

ijkay wrote:
Sun Sep 19, 2021 7:43 pm
your the stuoid one its not the car you keep forever its the number plate
Was waiting for someone to tell him that 🤭🤭🤭

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by ClaretCliff » Sun Sep 19, 2021 7:49 pm

Joe Davis used to have CUE 1.

Saw BFC 1 knocking about recently. I’m not a big fan of personalised plates but wouldn’t mind that one.

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by beddie » Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:25 pm

ClaretCliff wrote:
Sun Sep 19, 2021 7:49 pm
Joe Davis used to have CUE 1.

Saw BFC 1 knocking about recently. I’m not a big fan of personalised plates but wouldn’t mind that one.
And I’ve seen 1 BFC on a nice motor. I think one of the two is owned by an ex player of ours, if he still has it.

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by Iloveyoubrady » Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:29 pm

ijkay wrote:
Sun Sep 19, 2021 7:43 pm
your the stuoid one its not the car you keep forever its the number plate
Taken out of context. I was talking about plates with a cars model on it. So yes - you keep the number plate forever, but change cars, it won’t make sense and is stupid. Only works to have a car with model plate if you have the car to keep for many years.

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by BurnleyFC » Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:41 pm

Have personalised number plates on both our cars and really like them.

Mine has my initials in it and was really cheap (£250), the wife’s spells out her name and was more expensive (about £1000 at the time) but has appreciated in value.

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by yorkyclaret » Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:55 pm

beddie wrote:
Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:25 pm
And I’ve seen 1 BFC on a nice motor. I think one of the two is owned by an ex player of ours, if he still has it.
See 1 BFC often, believe it is owned by a former board member.
Like the one I have seen knocking about on a driving instructor's car, PA 55 YET

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by tarkys_ears » Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:56 pm

The DVLA need to start replacing all these BO55 ones with CUN7. It would suit the owners SO much better!

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Re: Personalised Number Plates

Post by IanMcL » Sun Sep 19, 2021 9:08 pm

tarkys_ears wrote:
Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:56 pm
The DVLA need to start replacing all these BO55 ones with CUN7. It would suit the owners SO much better!
Blimey. I thought Cristiano had joined the United Nations for a minute!
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