Number plate mystery - Any sleuths who can help?

AdrianC

That_Sinking_Feeling said:

No brand new bodyshells exist for this car, as far as I'm aware (and I did look, albeit a few years ago now). It's an old Ford, and not even a particularly fashionable or desirable one.

The bodyshell of the original car (car A) was beyond repair. The bodyshell of car B was used instead. Hence the car technically retains the identity of car B - masked by a personalised registration number that is similar to (but obviously not the same as) car A's now decommissioned number.

Yes, the official angle on that is that you used some of the parts of A to repair and return B to the road.

MalMonroe

demontfort said:

BOWFER said:

silverwhistle said:

No, I don't take that from the OP's post even if you did. I'd be concerned too that something was being hidden by such a strange change. They also didn't say they were going to change the plate but were worried about resale value, which seems a eminently sensible thing to do.

They asked if they could change to a 17 plate.

I'm not a big fan of cars, less so of expensive number plates. I was concerned an old plate might devalue the car, rather than wanting to draw admiring glances from ladies at my 17 plate as I sped along with the wind in my hair.

I'm also buying it for my dad's 75th birthday but was worried about his reaction when I told him how much it cost for a car with a 10 plate (at least now I know it's easily resolved).........You'd understand if you'd met my dad in a bad mood!

As a 'lady' I am relieved to hear that you don't want to draw admiring glances from any of us because we are not impressed by cars. Nor by showy off men who drive them. We can drive our own. And as for car reg plates, I prefer my own thank you, it's a 2021 plate. More showy than a 2017, I think?

I am concerned about your dad 'in a bad mood'. Hopefully nobody ever would be in a bad mood if they were being given a car - whatever the registration plate said. Sounds very ungrateful and I'm glad he's not my dad because no, I would not understand that reception at all.

mgfvvc

Would EEJ 1T devalue the car?

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MalMonroe said:

demontfort said:

BOWFER said:

silverwhistle said:

No, I don't take that from the OP's post even if you did. I'd be concerned too that something was being hidden by such a strange change. They also didn't say they were going to change the plate but were worried about resale value, which seems a eminently sensible thing to do.

They asked if they could change to a 17 plate.

I'm not a big fan of cars, less so of expensive number plates. I was concerned an old plate might devalue the car, rather than wanting to draw admiring glances from ladies at my 17 plate as I sped along with the wind in my hair.

I'm also buying it for my dad's 75th birthday but was worried about his reaction when I told him how much it cost for a car with a 10 plate (at least now I know it's easily resolved).........You'd understand if you'd met my dad in a bad mood!

As a 'lady' I am relieved to hear that you don't want to draw admiring glances from any of us because we are not impressed by cars. Nor by showy off men who drive them. We can drive our own. And as for car reg plates, I prefer my own thank you, it's a 2021 plate. More showy than a 2017, I think?

I am concerned about your dad 'in a bad mood'. Hopefully nobody ever would be in a bad mood if they were being given a car - whatever the registration plate said. Sounds very ungrateful and I'm glad he's not my dad because no, I would not understand that reception at all.

You might not be but I have seen a lot of anecdotes of people on things like dating apps who get way more attention from women if they're posing in front of a flashy car with the respondents specifically talking about the car. Different world the modern one Mal, maybe you could nip down to the local police station in your 21 plate and report your neighbours who you know are breaking covid rules?

Biggus_Dickus

mgfvvc said:

Would EEJ 1T devalue the car?

Eventually, one would assume.

Jenni_D

mgfvvc said:

Would EEJ 1T devalue the car?

This person may like it.

https://www.facebook.com/eejit.pukdeeto

pattycake

cymruchris said:

My dad bought me a plate for Christmas last year - his last Christmas before he passed away - he wanted to get me something that I could keep as long as I was driving a car that would always remind me of him - and it's one that I'll easily remember as it features my initials - he often talked about the regret of not keeping his first car's plate - as he didn't know you could do that back then - it'd be worth thousands today. Not all plates are for snobbery - some have sentimental or very personal meanings to them.

When my dad died, I had his car which had only done 1750 miles from new.  He had it for about 18 months but in his very late 80s, didn’t drive very much.

Out of my other inheritance I purchased a number plate with my initials to put on the car.  I’ve still got the car 8 years later and it’s still very low mileage!  When I eventually replace it, the number plate will come with me.  It was a pure extravagance and will always represent what I was bequeathed by my dear old dad.

poppasmurf_bewdley

pattycake said:

cymruchris said:

My dad bought me a plate for Christmas last year - his last Christmas before he passed away - he wanted to get me something that I could keep as long as I was driving a car that would always remind me of him - and it's one that I'll easily remember as it features my initials - he often talked about the regret of not keeping his first car's plate - as he didn't know you could do that back then - it'd be worth thousands today. Not all plates are for snobbery - some have sentimental or very personal meanings to them.

When my dad died, I had his car which had only done 1750 miles from new.  He had it for about 18 months but in his very late 80s, didn’t drive very much.

Out of my other inheritance I purchased a number plate with my initials to put on the car.  I’ve still got the car 8 years later and it’s still very low mileage!  When I eventually replace it, the number plate will come with me.  It was a pure extravagance and will always represent what I was bequeathed by my dear old dad.

That's what living in a democracy is all about.  Spending your own money how you want to spend it, despite others thinking you should spend it how they think it should be spent - as several contributors on here have shown.  

Richard53

My favourites:
For sheer sauce, a pink Bentley Bentayga owned by Rhiannon, director of Trade Centre Wales car supermarket: RH14NON
For a smile, a Peugeot van owned by a local bed shop: D1VAN

AdrianC

A couple of fine examples I saw yesterday.

Both <prefix> <single digit> <three letters>... Nothing exceptional there, right?
Both on those "4d" raised-letter plates... (They change over time?)

And both with the backings SO darkly tinted that the regs were damn near illegible.

Why on earth would somebody be so vain as to pay for a reg they want to shout to the world, pay a considerable amount extra for the actual plates... then be so embarrassed by it that they want to stop people from reading it?

Both were, of course, on black-painted, "pimped", up-market German-brand vehicles.