Personalised number plates

[PrincessWellington]

Why would someone pay money to have a misspelt version of their name on their car? Or words?

E.g. M41HEW, A11CET, OF55IDE T

I get the initials ones, not that i would want one, don't get this.

I have a theory though!

[JenaiMorris]

Why is it moronic to enjoy driving a Ferrari, SirChenjin?

[ladyjadie]

There's one down my road - A HO7DEN

Yes, it belongs to her

[VerySmallSqueak]

What are those things people used to have at the top of the windscreen with their name and their boyfriends name?
You know...[ SHARON KEVIN]

Now they were cool ......

[Sparklingbrook]

What are those ping pong ball things people have on their aerials? They are well weird. I don't know what statement they are making.

[BlingBang]

No joking. There is a car neat us with BENIS - so tempted to change it a little with some tape. Saying that my husband has a personalised plate, hs choice, his money I guess. If I had one at least I might remember it I stead of having to run out to the car everything the garage or such asks what it it.

[tigerdriverII]

Personally, I think they are generally for twats.

However (1): there is someone who lives near me who has a correctly spelled version of my unusual name, and I see him nearly every day and feel like saying, "Oi, that's mine!"

(2): I have seen MUS1C and MAG1C. My guess for the latter is Paul Daniels. No idea who the former might be.

[BOF]

DP's first car (he learned to drive not long before we met) was second-hand, and obviously a bit dodgy, as when he went to part exchange it, they found the chassis number didn't match the reg.

Apparently it had once been registered as B1G 80Y . Not sure if I've got the exact combination right there, but you get the idea.

There is NO WAY in a million years I would have gone out with him with that reg!

[bluebump]

My ex has a pp which says j1ggy, thankfully he never had it on his car when we were together but I've seen him with it since. I've nothing against pp in theory just this one makes him look like a prat going through a mid life crisis.

[flowery]

I totally get the pointless and waste of money viewpoints, absolutely, and I'd agree actually. Each to their own, we all make different choices about how we spend our money.

But I do find it hilarious that a bunch of people on the internet feel certain I must be a twat, chavvy, tacky, vulgar, naff and a plonker etc etc just because of something I happen to own. I'm not sure I'd be that open about being so judgmental, snobby and ignorant, even if I was, so kudos for that anyway.

[Sparklingbrook]

I have a leather sofa, a feature wall and twigs and sparkly shit. According to MN they are crimes against interior design. I don't give a monkey's.

Everyone has their own opinion of what is naff don't they?

[olgaga]

The best I ever saw were on his and hers cars I would see parked outside a nearby house on the way to DDs primary school.

STD1 and STD2.

It made me smile every time I saw them! Maybe they worked in the local clinic?

They don't have them any more - how they managed to sell them on I'll never know.

[RedToothBrush]

Jenai, with regard to your comments about Ferarris...

There is the tunnel under the runways at Manchester airport. If you head up there on a weekend theres a fair old chance you'll be overtaken by a muppet doing 90mph through the tunnel to get the full effect of the acoustics. All kinds of cars - boy racers, really flashy sports cars, old white vans... the lot.

Despite being a pretty easy, bit of road, its an accident blackspot as the twats speed through the tunnel and then are confronted by a roundabout which completely throws them. Every single piece of street furniture, bar one, has been hit. Several times.

Remarkably, though, somehow there's plenty of people who manage to control their urge to show off and drive sensibly despite having very expensive vehicles. With your logic, they should all be taking aim at the solitary sign which is yet to be hit as to paraphrase 'whats the point in having a ferarri or whatever if you don't do this'?

How do they manage to do this? I would suggest its because they aren't a twat and don't share this view that the only way you can enjoy a car, is to behave like an utter moron and endanger everyone else on the road.

I can not get my head around the utterly bizarre logic, that if you love your car you need to show off in it.

And that this in turn must entail driving in a way, that is liable to end up with you needing the services of the local fire service and paramedics, an expert in bodywork repair and the extortionate fees of Mr Loophole to save your license.

I think perhaps you reveal more about your attitude to cars and the need to show off, from your comments than you perhaps realise.

[YouHaveAGoodPoint]

ODFO

[SirChenjin]

Moronic if you think that they only way to 'enjoy' a Ferrari is to drive like a moron Jenai. See RedToothBrush's excellent post above.

[YouHaveAGoodPoint]

X29 MPH. It's a bargain. I am tempted.

[Sparklingbrook]

I would imagine the only way to enjoy (still don't get enjoying a car but still) a Ferrari is to book one of the track days at Silverstone or similar.

[Fakebook]

Ugh I hate personalised number plates. They look so tacky.

There's a woman who picks her Dd up in a massive 4x4 with a number plate 5 - (3 letters of the surname) at our school. Once I saw exactly the same car with the number plate 4 - and there was an older woman (grandma?) driving it. I think the whole family have all bought the same car and have different variations of the number plate. Weird.

[cartoad]

There are a couple of good ones local to me but I'm guessing they probably must have set their owners back a fair bit as they're words rather than just initials.

One is P5 YCH (Psych)
Other is 1 NET (which looks like I NET)

Paul Daniels used to have a red Ferrari with the number plate MAG 1C on which was a good one too.

My dad used to have coaches and he used to put cheap private number plates onto coaches because people would get really fussy about having the new coach or get upset because they were on a coach that was a year or two older than the other one sent to pick them up. However all his coaches were really well looked after and depending on the time of the year there might only be a month or two's difference in age of the coach but if they were bought either side of the (then!) annual registration letter change, they'd kick up a fuss. Much easier to have private plates and have people appreciate the actual nice-ness of the coaches they actually had rather than any perceived problems because of a letter on the front of the coach.

[Somethingtothinkabout]

There's a G0 5LOW plate on a Bentley kicking about Glasgow. That's quite funny.

But as a rule, I abhor private plates. Tacky as anything. Plus, everyone who knows you would know where you were. You couldn't really deny being somewhere if you needed to.

[hulahooper2]

bought by pretentious folk trying to hide the age of their car.

[Horsemad]

I have actually seen PEN 15, on a black 4wd, I
kid you not.

Who on earth would want to drive round with that?!

[JenaiMorris]

Driving sporty cars is fun. That's why people in them grin so much. They're not smiling because they're rich and you're not - I doubt they give a toss tbh.

[timidviper]

I don't like them, think they are pretentious and rather stupid, but DH hates them with a passion.

DB, SIL and DN all have stupid, posey ones. I only have to mention them to get DH all wound up