Just spotted a brand-new BMW 4x4 with (presumably) a personalised plate in the form ABC 123 J. The plates are white characters on black background.
Is that correct? I'd have thought the old-style plates would be permitted through the age of the car, rather than the age of the registration.
Budgie
Budgie ( snipped-for-privacy@hotpop.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Spot on.
(white/silver) on black plates can only be used on cars registered before
1/1/73 - it's nothing to do with the actual number.
The law is still being flouted, in my area there is a a brand new Pug with an A prefix cherished number with black perspex plates. Most of these plate apparently are sold via the internet from the Irish Republic --- still rather more of a "free state" than the UK.
That however is not as bad as the old VW Polo I see occaisionally on which all of the numbers have been heavily doctored to look like letters and two of the leters doctored to look like numbers ! I was stuck behind it on a twisty back road for several minutes (the owner never drives faster than 20 mph) and it took me ages to figure out what the undoctored index mark was.
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