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Re: Personalised number plates for celebrities

Interesting. Was this plate assigned by chance, or are vanity plates

>allowed in the UK now?

I think you'll find they've been around for 15 or so years now. Our DVLA has the quaintest of double standards in auctioning off the most attractive new registrations each year, charging a premium price for other "desirable" registrations, but instigating fines if the numbers and letters are mis-spaced or stylised, which most people who buy registrations want to do to make them look like the name they are supposed to represent.

Either way the DVLA is making a packet from it.

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Chris Bolus
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Chris Bolus said

As I understand it 'Vanity Plates' can have anything you like on them. In the UK 'Personalized Number Plates' must be genuine registrations issued by the DVLA and for transfer to a different vehicle they must be already in use on a road legal vehicle which you also own. Unless you are buying directly from the DVLA of course :)

Much longer that 15 years - though that may well be the time that the DVLA have been selectively selling any number that comes up with the numbers 1 to 19 in them - I remember seeing Jimmy Tarbuck's Roller with the plate 'COM1C' in the late 60s and IIRC he was taken to court for 'adjusting' the spacing.

One of the best I recall was on a Jag MkII parked on double yellow lines outside Coventry Probation Service Offices with the plate BAD 130Y naturally with spacing of the '13' suitably adjusted!

JG

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JG

JG ( snipped-for-privacy@crescentcomputing.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I actually saw "PEN 15" the other day.

On a Smart...

Signwritten for a numberplate dealer.

(RAC's got it as being on a black Merc ML)

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Adrian

Yeah, isn't it owned by the bike racer turned truck racer, Steve Parrish?

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SteveH

Used to be, I've seen it being advertised a few times lately, but it's big money to have a dick as a reg plate.

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Pete M

The DVLA started making registrations available for selected purchase at H reg, ie 1990. Gradually back-tracking the preceding letters. AFAIK registrations issued before then just happened to be generated as part of the sequence, I don't think you could specify a combination. Maybe if you were _very_ wealthy... ISTR that it was also quite difficult to get a transfer, you had to own both cars before that time.

There used to be a Mini, an ordinary black MkI, in Newark with the registration "5 EXY". I bet the plate is still around, but I bet it's not on a Mini any more!

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Chris Bolus

I saw that plate once, on a Range Rover, in West Bridgford near Nottingham.

David

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David Lane

Which is not so far from Newark is it? It was worn by the Mini up to the late 70s.

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Chris Bolus

This would have been about 84-85.

Havn't seen it since.

David

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David Lane

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