Cherished Number Plates

[First_Lexus]

This thread made me use RegTransfers to see what my two are valued at. Both cost £250 from DVLA, and are prefix low number and initials. I don’t think they’re special in any way - they don’t spell a word or anything.

Received a mail (well, two separate mails) yesterday to say one is valued at £450 but that the other is £1200! No idea what the difference is, apart from the fact the one with the higher value is an ‘A’ prefix and the other is an ‘S’ prefix.

I’m not going to sell, but if you’ve got one you don’t like or want it may be worth getting a valuation!

[royoftherovers]

41 minutes ago, Phil xxkr said:

Actually John it was given to Fiona Richmond by Paul Raymond of Raymond's Revue bar Soho. He had it on his Rolls Royce and an E-type. 😎

So, it was misreported as it was actually Fiona Richmond. Thanks Phil.

Incidentally Phil, what do you have on the Jag ?

[Marko89]

Our plate is meaningful to us and probably means absolutely sod all to anyone else looking at it. It is our wedding anniversary plus our initials. I see quite a few round our way that are football related - RFC/AYR/KFC even an old Skoda Fabia saloon with PT--PFC covered in Partick Thistle stickers.

Personally I'd never go for anything football related as it makes your car a target, I learned that after my rear window was smashed on my first car for having an Ayr scarf on the parcel shelf! 

[Phil xxkr]

7 minutes ago, royoftherovers said:

So, it was misreported as it was actually Fiona Richmond. Thanks Phil.

Incidentally Phil, what do you have on the Jag ?

M-- XK 

[Malc]

many moons ago when i had my 2nd hand car sales business we would sometimes take a p/ex, or even buy at auction cars with what might have beeen a possible valuable registration plate

N 4 PRO  for instance on my business owned Saab 900 ?  that I used before my first Ls400  .........  and whilst the advertisers were taking a punt on trying to find a buyer for this regn. and then I guess approach us to sell to them, the advertisers, middle men never managed to sell any of 'em

Whatever special regn you might think you have,  to realise any value from it, for yourself, will be nigh impossible to achieve

So, buy it especially for you and your memories whatever BUT don't expect anyone else ever will want it

Malc

 

[Russ59]

1 hour ago, First_Lexus said:

This thread made me use RegTransfers to see what my two are valued at. Both cost £250 from DVLA, and are prefix low number and initials. I don’t think they’re special in any way - they don’t spell a word or anything.

Received a mail (well, two separate mails) yesterday to say one is valued at £450 but that the other is £1200! No idea what the difference is, apart from the fact the one with the higher value is an ‘A’ prefix and the other is an ‘S’ prefix.

I’m not going to sell, but if you’ve got one you don’t like or want it may be worth getting a valuation!

You’ll be bombarded with emails from them now😉😉

[First_Lexus]

1 hour ago, Malc said:

any value from it, for yourself, will be nigh impossible to achieve

So, buy it especially for you and your memories whatever BUT don't expect anyone else ever will want it

Agreed. I was simply curious, but await the expected avalanche of emails from them with joyous anticipation!

[J Henderson]

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[Boxbrownie]

1 hour ago, J Henderson said:

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Pimlico plumbing are famous for having a series of slightly dodgy toilet related plates on their vans.

[imgo]

I know that not everyone likes personal number plates, but they are becoming increasingly common. I had to wait 20 years before I could afford to buy my registration (my initials) in 2004 from a dvla auction, and looking at the current sale prices of similar registrations, I have not regretted it.

I think that the short plates look great on my IS300h, what do others on here think??

I have been stopped by two traffic cops trying to tell me that they are illegal plates !! (They backed down only after I had to explain the law to them).

[Glyn Jennings]

38 minutes ago, Boxbrownie said:

Pimlico plumbing are famous for having a series of slightly dodgy toilet related plates on their vans.

Horrible man. Hiding beyond the fact he only ever uses the same self employed plumbers to do his work providing them his vans and clothing. In the eyes of the taxman he was employing them but he fought this so he didn’t have to provide sick pay, holidays and all the things that cost employers to provide benefits their employees while making shed loads of money from them to buy a new Bentleys every year. 

[Phil xxkr]

39 minutes ago, imgo said:

I know that not everyone likes personal number plates, but they are becoming increasingly common. I had to wait 20 years before I could afford to buy my registration (my initials) in 2004 from a dvla auction, and looking at the current sale prices of similar registrations, I have not regretted it.

I think that the short plates look great on my IS300h, what do others on here think??

I have been stopped by two traffic cops trying to tell me that they are illegal plates !! (They backed down only after I had to explain the law to them).

Oddly enough Mike they also represent this - 

ImGo: A Novel Tool for Behavioral Impulsivity Assessment Based on Go/NoGo Tasks. 

Coincidence by any chance? 😂

[imgo]

33 minutes ago, Phil xxkr said:

Oddly enough Mike they also represent this - 

ImGo: A Novel Tool for Behavioral Impulsivity Assessment Based on Go/NoGo Tasks. 

Coincidence by any chance? 😂

You been googling Phil??

[Phil xxkr]

2 hours ago, imgo said:

You been googling Phil??

How else would I know Mike is the diminutive form of Michael? 😎. 

[DavidCM]

10 hours ago, royoftherovers said:

And it has been reported that Fiona Fullerton had FU2 !

One of my neighbours,back in the early 1980's bought a primrose yellow S3 E type roadster with the FU2 plate..I seem to remember that it was owned by Billy Smart at the time but as it was long ago I could be mistaken.I think the reg no mustn't have been included in the sale as the car went to a regular reg. no. soon after.

[Ls400 lover]

      Hi all.

if you have a few Thousands of spare cash around,

and have already made provision for gifts to your

closest Charities, good luck, buy a nice one.

If however you just want an inexpensive cover

plate, try this. I have a Ls400 car vintage 98.

within a two hour train journey I opened the internet 

at the private plates for sale. There is a lot of choice.

I started by entering numbers and letters into the

box provided for checking number plates for sale.

I mixed my initials, family initials car numbers for

the best and cheapest available. I did this for the

entire journey. Result was. L400 TJO. Cost £169

for the plate plus £80. For the DLVC. £24. For number 

Plates. Total: £273 spent. Make up your own personal 

plate. It does not have to cost a fortune to have a

cover number on your car. Hope this helps.

Ls400 lover.

 

[Alan Thompson]

Not personalised by me, but my 18 plate Mitsubishi Outlander ended FEK.

I was thinking of having a sunstrip made up with Ted & Dougal 😁

But actually, I uttered something very similar to the registration when I realised the car had been stolen from the car park near my office last July!

I had a number on retention acquired from DVLA when 70 plates first became available, thinking the 7 looks like a T and it spells my nickname. Most people have trouble seeing it as a T, but it's there for me and like others have said, it's easy to remember now it's on my NX450h+

[Phil xxkr]

On 7/22/2022 at 6:17 PM, DavidCM said:

One of my neighbours,back in the early 1980's bought a primrose yellow S3 E type roadster with the FU2 plate..I seem to remember that it was owned by Billy Smart at the time but as it was long ago I could be mistaken.I think the reg no mustn't have been included in the sale as the car went to a regular reg. no. soon after.

Spot on David 🥳, Paul Raymond sold it to him 😎

[DavidCM]

The memory from about 40 years ago still works!!!I'm sure I might still have an old photo of it somewhere.If I find it I'll post it.

It was around that time another neighbour bought himself a new Escort  RS2000  I think--never took much interest in Fords-it had those fishnet inserts in the headrests--Red with a Black vinyl roof.

Anyway,one day it was parked on his drive,spotlessly clean and only a few weeks old.He climbed up on the porch roof/flat roof of the garage to gloss paint his first floor windows (you'll probably guess where this is going..) and dropped  a medium sized tin of Brilliant White on the car bonnet and it spattered everywhere over the car and drive,garage door(It wasn't white either).

Even I learnt a few new swear words and I never had the heart to ask him whether he claimed on the insurance.

[Phil xxkr]

On 7/22/2022 at 8:53 PM, Alan Thompson said:

Not personalised by me, but my 18 plate Mitsubishi Outlander ended FEK.

I was thinking of having a sunstrip made up with Ted & Dougal 😁

But actually, I uttered something very similar to the registration when I realised the car had been stolen from the car park near my office last July!

I had a number on retention acquired from DVLA when 70 plates first became available, thinking the 7 looks like a T and it spells my nickname. Most people have trouble seeing it as a T, but it's there for me and like others have said, it's easy to remember now it's on my NX450h+

Not quite as risqué as that but I do know a chap from my village who many years ago turned down 1 AN. His reason was quite rational, he, and still does, like a few sherbets and having such a number would make him, Ian, instantly identifiable 🥳

[Lexiguy]

I remember as a 16 year old reading a car magazine which stated that due to the amount of enquiries where the following plate would be issued it had been decided not to issue it! STR 1 P.

[Barry14UK]

I bought a reasonably priced  plate from the DVLA that suited my car many years ago and then sold it on at a profit, (the buyer of my car not being prepared to pay extra for it when I eventually sold the car to him). So encouraged by this, I bought a much more expensive plate from an approved seller with a '1' digit before the three letters.  This has been on several of my cars now and has increased in value considerably. It also looks nice on the car and hides its age.

[Boxbrownie]

I had a Mercedes’ CLS 350 a few years ago (beautiful car btw) and found a plate for it, CL5 3S0L I made the plates for especially for the sale (illegally spaced) and the first person to see it bought it because they said the plates suited the car, I had several enquiries after asking if I had sold the plate with the car!

 

I got asking price, which was considerably more than I bought it for at auction 9 months before 😆

[Spock66]

On 7/22/2022 at 6:17 PM, DavidCM said:

One of my neighbours,back in the early 1980's bought a primrose yellow S3 E type roadster with the FU2 plate..I seem to remember that it was owned by Billy Smart at the time but as it was long ago I could be mistaken.I think the reg no mustn't have been included in the sale as the car went to a regular reg. no. soon after.

FU2 is currently on a 1965 Blue Rolls Royce.

[Herbie]

About half a mile from where I live, a Mini Clubman has the plate U2, and also knocking around Preston is a Range Rover with the plate 1E.

Each of those plates cost more than my house (which is currently on the market for £210k) and I'm sorry but I find it obscene that someone can spend so much money on something as trivial as a car number plate.