Apt car registrations
I was waiting to cross a road in Central Lincoln in around 1991 when a Roller or Bentley (not sure which) trundled by with the plate 1RAF. That could not have been cheap.
Best plate I ever saw was on the front of a Lamborgini Diablo and it read T13 VOM. It took me a while to realize that if he was behind you and you looked in your rearview mirror, it read MOV E1T.
Best plate I ever saw was on the front of a Lamborgini Diablo and it read T13 VOM. It took me a while to realize that if he was behind you and you looked in your rearview mirror, it read MOV E1T.
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I’ve had one in my rear view mirror that said ECILOP. I pulled in let it past. Tasteless paint job on it.
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Colleague of mine left to work for a job with the Home Office purchasing police cars. I drew up a farewell card depicting a jam sandwiched Reliant Robin with Bodicea hubcaps sporting the number plate F1 LTH...
Tabs please !
I'll never forget going through training with someone who had FA51 JET. A bold move while at Linton on the Tucano, and I wonder how well received it was wherever he went next; which wasn't Valley..!
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An amusing one I saw parked outside the local flying club was a bright red Ferrari with “R8 PAL”. A commonly used greeting in this part of the world.
Sighted my all-time US favourite when heading to my daughter's beach house in the Hamptons - a blue metallic Jaguar convertible with the top down in the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane of the Long Island Expressway, which requires a minimum of two occupants. Occupants in this case, one man and an Alsatian, with the Jaguar sporting the license tag BOLLOX....
I subsequently asked a friendly state trooper if the definition of "occupant" included four-legged friends and, after a moment of reflection, he replied, "Only if it is a seeing-eye dog, Sir"!
Jack
I subsequently asked a friendly state trooper if the definition of "occupant" included four-legged friends and, after a moment of reflection, he replied, "Only if it is a seeing-eye dog, Sir"!
Jack
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I vaguely recall someone writing someplace that there is a “Thing” in the USN that the Commanding Officer of many vessels have “Vanity Plates” with the ship’s pendant number thereupon and they are transferred to new COs.
I have no idea if this is truth or fiction. It may even have been in one of Tom Clancy’s novels.
I have no idea if this is truth or fiction. It may even have been in one of Tom Clancy’s novels.
