michelle ( snipped-for-privacy@zzzxxxzzz.null) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
What - exactly - did your post have to do with classic cars, though?
I mean - you've got a couple of egoplates that can't go onto a car registered pre-86, and you think we're going to know?
You didn't think that uk.rec.cars.misc might have been a better place to ask?
Do you have any better clue as to why genuine classic enthusiasts really do not like the whole naff egoplate trade now?
SteveH ( snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Definitely.
It fails on all the criteria.
Nor'n Iron? Check. Non-memorable number? Check. Random letters? Check.
Is it in italics with an Eng-ur-laaaand flag at the edge of the plate?
Fair question. Well, I did say earlier that my hubby had been offered a few bob for the ***LRR registration he has on one of his oldies. I assumed that people talking about classics would know something about the subject - for all I knew such 'enthusiasts' may well have a little tradeoff in selling the plates for money to keep the cars on the road.
I didnt think the age of the PLATE necessarily affected the argument to be honest. After all, the REASON he wanted to retain the plate is irrelevant, it was the mechanism to do it I was asking about, and I assume (unless you know different) that the process of retaining a plate is the same no matter whether its for a pre-86 car or a pre-55 car
Didnt even spot it in the list. Thanks for pointing it out now though.
Not really no. I did come up with an example showing the trade to be KEEPING classics alive rather than killing the trade, and nobody that Ive seen has shown an example where it actually contributed to REMOVING one from use!
No, just bog-standard plate.
Not really. Sorry.
San Francisco last week. New York last weekend. Colorado Springs this week. Kuwait next week.
And you want me to get out *more*?
It'll take more than you to upset me, love.
You haven't met 'Tone' yet, have you?
Another problem is that you can't get the old size plates any more - just those crap "narrow letter" ones :-(
-- Howard Rose
1966 VW Beetle 1300 Deluxe 1962 Austin Mini Deluxe 1964 Austin Mini Super Deluxe
lol
True. TBH, I don't bother working up to these flamboyant insults. I just tell people when I think they're wrong (which, when you think about it, is what usenet's all about).
Why can't you simply phone the new owner of the car and ask them to sign the transfer of the plate over to you? They can't sell it since you have proof that it is not theirs to sell.
Get the forms from the DVLA and fill them in - all the current owner has to do is sign them.
They will probably have to go to the local VRO for the transfer, since they would need to get their tax disc and V5 changed to the new number.
Offer to buy them new numberplates too, then they'll have no reason to complain!
-- Howard Rose
1966 VW Beetle 1300 Deluxe 1962 Austin Mini Deluxe 1964 Austin Mini Super Deluxe
You can, if you know where to go.
They'll be sold as 'show plates', but that wouldn't bother me.
I dont want to UPSET you, "love". I merely want to point out why you have trouble with the opposite sex ;o)
Oh dear God, dont tell me theres a worse one than Ive met already
I've been doing it all day. I'm going to go to the mall now, and buy some cologne and a present for my niece, then I'm going to go and get drunk.
Im not sure that would actually have any legal standing, since the document itself is stated to be non-transferable.
The old man sold the Jag with its original numberplates (I assume it would get those back, especially since the personal ones had only been on there a few months) in the boot!
I don't.
I merely want to point out why you are unimaginative and vulgar.
'Fraid so.
unimaginative and vulgar.
I took the trouble to correct your last sentence for you. No charge
SteveH ( snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Ohmigawd, it's a fridge-freezer.
At least mine was the right shade of elephant-arse grey for a filing cabinet.
It's gotta be worth a few squid on fleaBay. Most naff crap sells there.
Mall? Youre AMERICAN? Oh, that explains things for me. Im sorry, I misunderstood and thought you were having a pop at me, whereas if youre a Yank then its obviously nothing personal, you ALWAYS talk to people like that!
michelle ( snipped-for-privacy@zzzxxxzzz.null) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
No. People that do that are lower than slugs.
An example of why :- I'm heavily involved in the running of a national car club. Somebody's contacted the club to try to trace a 50s car they used to own, with a very interesting history. The only ID they have is the plate. The plate is shown as no longer registered. Does the car still exist? Who knows. Somebody may have that car, and will never know about it's past.
Quickly tarting over to get through a ropy ticket. Or - far more often - an identity swap onto a good identical car, re-mot, then destroy the evidence asap.
Yes, they have. You've ignored it.
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