Apt car registrations
 

Driving between Wootton Bassett and Wroughton today, car going in opposite direction registration C130 ENG, who can guess what he used to be. Anybody own up to it or know who it is? What other apt registrations are held by pruners?
My dream registration is advertised by one of the car registration dealers, 1 G E , however I think that that would be a little out of my price range even with an ex G.E.s wallet!

In my travels I have seen X9 RAF, X57 RAF and X111 RAF. I have two personal plates, but if I post them here they will give away my identity!

Local to me I have seen RED 3 just guessing.

I saw 618 VGS in London a few months ago.

Not aviation related (but you never know), I saw WH0 2 NAG on a large SUV in Richmond yesterday.

I saw P1 LOT near Heathrow, but I guess that was a civvy.
Similar location saw S1 NGH.

VC10 BYE at the final flight into Brunty

A certain balloonist who was part of the team who circumnavigated the globe in the Breitling Orbiter has P1 RTW (Pilot 1, Round The World). Very well earned.

Just along from where I lived in London was a famous actor with two Bentleys. The number plates were 2B and NOT 2B

I always wanted G-SPOT on a balloon as the retrieve crew would be forever trying to find it. I do want G-OFYS on the current toy .:E

Well if you are thread drifting into Aviation, the Italians have got you beaten.

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A little embarrassed here. I have an aircraft registration as my cars registration.... :uhoh:

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I worked with a US aviation company in New York about 14 years ago - their chief engineer had a personalised plate RADAR (you can choose your own in NY). I was very jealous.

Years ago I saw a brand new Jaguar XJ with the registration CAU710N.

The way it was being driven, it seemed quite apt.

There used to be lots of MPA/Sub related ones at Kinloss.... I'm guessing many have migrated a few miles along the coast.

It always seemed strange to me that the UK government misses out on a potentially lucrative money making scheme. Here in the US, you can have pretty much anything you want on your plate with a max of 7 characters, plus plenty of specialised plates with an extra logo on them like if you were or had been in the military for instance. Texas has a website where you can make one up and see if it's allowed or already taken

Having said that, I want my car to be as stock as possible. Just too many nutters and too many guns here. There have been many times when I recognised that I'd previously seen a vehicle because of the vanity plate. I just want to blend in

And to get back on topic, there's this unfortunate one:



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Pretty sure I recall seeing F6 LTG on a car in Lincolnshire about 30 years ago....and wondering if......

Was that Staedtler from The Muppets...?

A friend of mine has EX06 RAF up for sale on Six Sqn Facebook page.

AF plates
 

The recent 72 registration may well have produced a plethora of examples. Might even be one on my drive.

Farnborough Air Training Corps - 457 squadron, has a minibus with reg 457 RAF or RAF 457, cant remember which.

I'm surprised that so far someone hasn't posted vitriol about personalised plates.....

Here in Jersey we just have Jnnnnnn, but stupid money is paid for low numbers. J52 would be 'worth' over £20,000.

Talking of Richmond, remember FU 2.

Or in West Byfleet a TR7 (that dates me) 5EXY and no the driver was far from it

Feel free to start a thread in JB...... All depends how you define "vitriol " of course.

No they haven't. I selected the plate that's on the fun car.

For several years I had V2 VNE on various cars (V1 not available). Fine in airport staff car parks, after retirement it wasn't quite the same in Waitrose car park, so sold it on. I believe it is presently on a TUI Captain's motorbike...

Well last I heard (and that was many years ago in fairness) there used to be full page adverts in the newspapers listing various plates that with imagination (varying from a little to a significant amount) could be turned into words ... if you took a 1 as an I or a 5 as an S etc, but the vendors were all private sellers

Here you can go to a website and create pretty much whatever string you want, so you could have your Prune User name as your license plate if you chose to. Sure it's a private company running it, but the state gets a cut of the proceeds

It has been the same in the UK for decades.

DVLA Personalised Registrations - Buy private registrations direct from the DVLA. From £250 fully inclusive

Out of pure interest I check on Boss Hogg a few weeks ago & it comes up as BO55 HOG on a Harley Davison

I’d be a hypocrite if I did.

Back in the 90's at Colt, there was a civvy driving around in a beaten up piece of poo, Vauxhall "Astra".......On the back, where it said "Astra" He had printed out a sticker and placed it in front of the Astra badge saying: PER ARDUA AD :) Muppet

Interesting. Not quite the same though. I tried looking for BFRASER and it gave me BF03 RAS, BF04 RAS, BF05 RAS and BF06 RAS as well as several others that weren't even close

If you were in Texas you could use my plates dot com to choose something a lot closer like BFRASER or B.FRASER or B <a little map of Texas> FRASER etc

There used to be a fellow stacker kicking around who had the reg F676 RAF.

As has been mentioned AF is a Cornish registration. NT is a Shropshire reg and yes the Station Commander had a car with UNT suffix plus the desired prefix.

I could but it's not worth getting worked up about something so patently silly.

There we go.

P8ASW has been seen.

Cheapest.
 

I got a personalised number plate for only £50, by changing my name, by deed poll, to LNK 810H. Paul Raymond used to have PEN 15, with appropriate spacing.