The UK has an unhealthy obsession with personalised number plates which used to be/are called "cherished numbers"... you know, having fun, or being posy, or really sad, by making a bunch of letters or numbers into a name or word...
I always find a car with the make/model mimiced extra sad and some I've seen are a Saab Turbo with
TUR130, and also
TUR80, or one with
AUD137 or any variant of
BMW or
M3 or
M5 or
J33P or
AML, etc...
RR1 is an exception... Many of these, I presume, are followed or preceded by the initials of the owner - one of my old bosses had a car plate given to him by his brother which read
V8 with his initials which he was dumb enough to put straight on his "P" plate Jag, not knowing that the rule applies that the plate can only go on a car that age or newer... what is sadder still is that I recently saw him in a newer Jag with that plate... so he bought a car to match the plate...
A fun one I've seen is
BAD 80Y or possibly
V33 WEE and
V33 DUB on Beetles, or
ELV1S, but my favourite was a foreign plate high-end white Porsche that simply had
GONE as the plate...
There are also the risque plates... one of the most notorious plates to slip through the censors net was/is owned by an "actress" called Fiona Richmond, and that plate was
PEN15 ...
What about foreign plates, and the misunderstandings of language... I have seen a German Porsche in London with the plate which begun
RO*CK xxx, but I have also seen another hi-end car which begun
FU*CK xxx ... And I believe that there is an ex-pat. Brit living in California with a plate that reads
B*LL*CKS and no one is the wiser, other than a few enlightened souls...
Another line of thought goes like this - German tourists were up in arms over a yoghurt drink advert emblazoned all over London Red bus's a few years back which stated in big friendly letters... "
FRIJJ - FRESH, FILLING AND FICK" ... I don't get what all the fuss was about...
BTW, Uwe... there is a high end motor-chain called Guy Salmon near us and the guvnor and his wife used to own
V1 and
V2 ...
So, whilst on my way home on Saturday from an overtime job at a BAe site in Essex I saw a silver/grey Porsche convertible (probably a Boxster), but I did-not get past the plate as it read
EB03 EBO - a Gibson fan, perhaps...?
Anyone else found better, or willing to stand up and admit to one...?
