Re: Personalised number plates for celebrities

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

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)

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

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.

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!

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

David

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

This would have been about 84-85.

Havn't seen it since.

David