Private Plates

[The German Flower Pot]

Not technically the correct use of the word i know but ive just bought my 1st one and am very happy

most sites id not show my redg as they are full of numties but on here ive yet to find any numpties so i thought id start a thread about what you bought, why you bought it and how much.

Mine ...

Plate - D2 GFP
Why - D is for Danny, 2 is for my 2nd w124 coupe, GFP is for German Flower Pot
Cost - £499 (all in from the dvla)

i found the plate for £750 on 2 sites then + VAT + £80 transfer fees = £961.25 then somone told me about dvla and saved a fortune

my mate "frankieboy" has just got

Plate - V8 FMP
Why - V8 as its a 4.3 V8 clk, FMP are his initils
Cost - £399 (all in from dvla)

i am tempted to get D3 GFP for the twin turbo but as im probably going to sell it i wont bother

anyone else care to do theirs?

 

[jibcl500]

My plate JIB 4100, parents started calling my Jib as a kid, possibly because I was the sucked that had to pull in the jib sheet on dads boat. Family always call me Jib, wife Giles which sounds like im being told off.
Also have 321 PPP soon to be on a car.

 

[AAPete]

I have just got P 50BER P for Peter and 50BER due to the fact I havent had a drink for 17 years

 

[Geezer]

Sympathies.

 

[AAPete]

Greatest thing I ever have done!

 

[The German Flower Pot]

im only 37 and dont drink, although i never had a problem i decided in july 1994 to never get drunk again as i hated being drunk, being sick and i was drinking too much when i did drink (now known as binge drinking nowadays i suppose) and just hated the whole thing

so 14 years later i still do not drink and never will get drunk again

plus if i had to drink 8 pints of anyhting in a day now id pick milk or lucozade!

anyway well done on staying off the bottle, my uncle now has bugger all lower intestine and is on pills to keep him alive after 50 years of drinking every day

 

[outsmartsmart]

Got a couple of his'n'her plates that spell our surname (if you think/read an '8' as an 'O' anyway) and an 'age hider' I bought because I liked the symetry of it; M2YSM which will be going on the Merc' soon

 

[jberks]

The Mrs has a D2 - D2 SGB - no great reason for the D2 - just that it looked better than the other options. Mine is 41 JBB. I bought it from a used car trader in Romford back in 1987 for £900. It took me 2 years and lots of failed attempts before I finally tracked down a non prefixed JBB plate.

The JBB bit is obvious and the 41 I always used to say would be my age in 2008. Seemed a long way off back then .........

 

[JEZ.S320L]

On my ML, I have JEZ - followed by 4 random numbers (it was dirt cheap and took the year off). On my S-Class, I have just bought a plate with my REAL initials - DWS, prefixed by (almost) the engine size (like JEZ, it was cheap and took the year off).

 

[stumpy]

ALT4R on one of my wedding cars..................

 

[The German Flower Pot]

The Mrs has a D2 - D2 SGB - no great reason for the D2 - just that it looked better than the other options. Mine is 41 JBB. I bought it from a used car trader in Romford back in 1987 for £900. It took me 2 years and lots of failed attempts before I finally tracked down a non prefixed JBB plate.

The JBB bit is obvious and the 41 I always used to say would be my age in 2008. Seemed a long way off back then .........

41 JBB

got to be wort a fortune now id guess £10,000 + (going by when looking for mine 2 number 3 letter plates were a fortune)

 

[Myros]

Danny, I notice you have it in Silver on black

be careful the pointy-heads don't show an interest in you. Doesn't the car have to be registered before 31/12/72 for you to use those?

 

[jberks]

41 JBB

got to be wort a fortune now id guess £10,000 + (going by when looking for mine 2 number 3 letter plates were a fortune)

Not sure about 10k but certainly more than I paid for it
All academic though. I refused to sell it when I was penniless and had people 'knocking on the door', even though it was worth ten times the car it was stuck to. I always used to say, hold out and one day that I'll put it on a Merc....

I've had it so long now, to everyone round here, it is me, so I'd never sell it.
The kids can flog it and have the cash when I'm pushing up daisies.

 

[A210AMG]

As a family we have a few...


C2BER on my car (I'm in the IT industry CYBER)
SLX 280 bought it years ago cheap
SW5 1AND (Bought for a Landrover I Owed SWS initaial and Landrover...)
T1NYK wifes nick name is TINY and initial K
KWS 55 on dads his initials and 55 as a merc...
S55 KWS his estate
KW51SLK...KWS 1 SLK (this was going on an SLK..)
J33P MS (On brothers jeep Wrangler)


some others I think but cannot remember...

 

[pomm001]

be careful the pointy-heads don't show an interest in you. Doesn't the car have to be registered before 31/12/72 for you to use those?

Sadly have to agree

on a very bad day it could cost you £1000 fine
JK the singer fella got a £500 fine recently for the same thing

be careful

 

[Blobcat]

I've BL08CAT on retention as I don't have anything to nail it to as yet & RUS plates on my W211 & RUS on my CBR

 

[pkinsey]

I have S400 PCK on an S430 (PCK) being my initials and my wife has K 18RNA on her Sportscoupe - wanted 10RNA as she is called Lorna, not available so thsi was the nearest. Cost - £250 each from DVLA.

Peter

 

[Edslk]

Cheapest or most expensive?!

We have

S66 SLK

on an SLK230.

Came free with the car or nearly 8k for the plate with a free car!

Ed

 

[SimonRaf]

I have S70 RAF on mine. £499 from NewReg (only 4 weeks for full transfer, very quick for NI)

S - for Simon

70 - only 2 digit number available at the time.

RAF - My nickname all my life (Surname Rafferty)


My identical twin brother has S77 RAF on his Audi, and my wife now has S777 RAF on her Nissan!!

 

[cobra]

plate

mines edz 533 on my ml letters pretty obvious no,s mean nothing
wife brought it years ago for a christmas pressie so dont know price but it has been on my cobra replica for about 12 years have just changed it this year onto ml
cobra