Cherished Number query - Retention Nominee (long)

I'm pretty sure that a new number would be assigned.

: Tarbuck had "COM1C", : Paul Daniels had or has "MAG1C",

Doesn't that fat racist bloke have "1 LAF" on his roller?

Ian :

: especially the lightweight who : decided I was vulgar and unimaginatve, based purely on the fact that I : have a personal plate

What's wrong with that assumption? The white stilettos are only a guess.

Ian

Hmmm...

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember michelle saying something like:

What are you wibbling on about? I don't see the connection.

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Pete M" saying something like:

All of the old-moneyed people I've met tend to run around in fairly anonymous cars and certainly don't draw attention to themselves with vanity plates.

As Blaney says... vulgar and unimaginative.

"Yo, raghead, I think youre a terrorist" "No Im not" "Well I think you are, so Im going to try and kill you anyway" [BANG] "Yah boo, missed" [BANG] "S*it, bloody raghead shot back at me! See, I TOLD you he was a terrorist!"

See, self fulfilling propehcy sort of thing. Get it now?

(Alternatively, of course, you could substitute the bit after the second Bang with "S*it, I just shot another one of us. Hey? Dead guy? Sorrrreeeeeeee"...

There is a certain Ebay trader who ISTR uses the name Billclinton (plus a number) who sells numerous classic cars. Every single one has an age-related plate. Which suggests something about why he sells so many. Interestingly enough, few are roadworthy, which also suggests foul play as to how the plates are transferred. I'm saying nowt more.

Not always. If you go through the same VLO the car will often get its original plates back. This happened with a Rover I bought from my parents. When I sold it, it got its original plates back.

Sorry you feel that way. Most people here are friendly and helpful, but I think you've touched a raw nerve here, and then made it worse by having a go at a couple of people. And these are mild-mannered people compared with some (where is Jerry right now?).

Please don't judge us all by the reactions of a few.

To be blunt, no, I prefer old cars. My newest is a '94. They cost less, long-term. I bought a 1990 Saab, ran it for six months, costing nothing in repairs, and sold it at a loss of £300. If I'd done that with a new car the loss would have been at least 10 times that.

The interest was there, but not the mechanism for cheap and easy transfer. You had to own both the cars to transfer the plate IIRC - few could afford to do that. DVLA made it simpler because they realised they could make money from it.

Sorry to disappoint but the number plate belongs to the DVLA and then whoever owns the car.

as soon as you sell the car you lose all entitlement to the number plate

michelle ( snipped-for-privacy@zzzxxxzzz.null) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Umm, my most recent car is '96, and I'm currently toying with what to replace it with. The replacement'll probably be older - late 80s/early 90s.

Oh, and I've done 2,000 miles in it in the last two weeks, so it's not as if it's not used heavily.

The car before was bought at 8 yrs old and 100k miles, and did 70k in three years, before I sold it for this one four years ago. I still think that was a mistake.

Well, no, I'd probably sell the plate off separately - but it wouldn't have been attached to the car when I bought it.

Why is it non-transferrable? Was it non-transferrable in your ownership?

-- Howard Rose

I've noticed that too. Cars that cannot possibly have run in the last

-- Howard Rose

ALL retention certificates are non-transferable

Then how do people transfer plates they have just bought?

It seems that all you would have to do is to get the new owner of the car to sign a transfer document to put the plate on your car... providing they are both taxed.

Have you spoken to them about this?

-- Howard Rose

I'd like the number plate FLO551E, as this is what I call my woman.

The Blue Max ( snipped-for-privacy@Jasta1.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Baaaa!