For the FTAO of JL

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Rich B wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:28 am
DeskJockey wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:04 am Spotted the perfect plate for JL (assuming a name change for sproglet-to-be) on the M1 yesterday! JAM3S 5R. Buy the matching JAM3S JR and you'll be set!
Aside from the fact neither plate can exist of course....

Maybe JAM355R
The S didn't look like a 5, but I'll bow to your superior geekness when it comes to number plates.
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DeskJockey wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:55 am
Rich B wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:28 am
DeskJockey wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:04 am Spotted the perfect plate for JL (assuming a name change for sproglet-to-be) on the M1 yesterday! JAM3S 5R. Buy the matching JAM3S JR and you'll be set!
Aside from the fact neither plate can exist of course....

Maybe JAM355R
The S didn't look like a 5, but I'll bow to your superior geekness when it comes to number plates.
I thought even children and girls understood the basic format of UK numberplates?
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Rich B wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:58 am
DeskJockey wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:55 am
Rich B wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:28 am
Aside from the fact neither plate can exist of course....

Maybe JAM355R
The S didn't look like a 5, but I'll bow to your superior geekness when it comes to number plates.
I thought even children and girls understood the basic format of UK numberplates?
Clearly not.
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Rich B wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:58 am
DeskJockey wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:55 am
Rich B wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:28 am
Aside from the fact neither plate can exist of course....

Maybe JAM355R
The S didn't look like a 5, but I'll bow to your superior geekness when it comes to number plates.
I thought even children and girls understood the basic format of UK numberplates?
I think a lot of non car people don’t. I recently amazed someone when I told them that the reg plate shows the vehicle registration age and location... They thought it was just randomly assigned!
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DeskJockey wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 2:21 pm
Rich B wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:58 am
DeskJockey wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:55 am

The S didn't look like a 5, but I'll bow to your superior geekness when it comes to number plates.
I thought even children and girls understood the basic format of UK numberplates?
Clearly not.
in all seriousness, you must have noticed the prefix/suffix and the current style plate layouts - all with the same order of letters/numbers?
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Rich B wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 3:17 pm
DeskJockey wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 2:21 pm
Rich B wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:58 am I thought even children and girls understood the basic format of UK numberplates?
Clearly not.
in all seriousness, you must have noticed the prefix/suffix and the current style plate layouts - all with the same order of letters/numbers?
Not something I keep at the forefront of my mind. But I am aware.
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Actually, I'm confused! Was thinking earlier, how is there a "same order", when you can have private plates?

I get the old x123xxx and the newer xx12xxx style, but there are private plates that have fewer symbols.
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DeskJockey wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 7:20 pm
I get the old x123xxx and the newer xx12xxx style, but there are private plates that have fewer symbols.

Scroll down a bit for history;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_r ... ed_Kingdom



It might still not make sense afterwards :)
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Rich B wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:58 am
DeskJockey wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:55 am
Rich B wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:28 am
Aside from the fact neither plate can exist of course....

Maybe JAM355R
The S didn't look like a 5, but I'll bow to your superior geekness when it comes to number plates.
I thought even children and girls understood the basic format of UK numberplates?
Even Danish children and girls? I know I always try to work out a country's format when abroad but it's not necessarily something you can easily perceive.
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mik wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 1:18 am Just shows how few actual human cops are around these days - would have been pulled within a couple of days when I was a sprogling. :roll:
I never cease to be amazed by how many cars are flying around London with a headlight, brake light or tail-light out. Its usually 3 or 4 every journey if you count those just with headlights blown.

Then again, in London unless you're ram-raiding a shop front or murdering someone, the police pay little attention anyway.
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I got by without a front plate for about 6 months, only eventually mounted it because I couldn’t be bothered to deal with the ANPR parking which wouldn’t let me in and had an upcoming MOT. Can see why almost anything semi interesting in London doesn’t bother with one.
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Jobbo wrote: Mon Dec 17, 2018 2:58 pm
Rich B wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:58 am
DeskJockey wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:55 am

The S didn't look like a 5, but I'll bow to your superior geekness when it comes to number plates.
I thought even children and girls understood the basic format of UK numberplates?
Even Danish children and girls? I know I always try to work out a country's format when abroad but it's not necessarily something you can easily perceive.
I always found it amusing the when the UK changed to the current format, they said that EU rules were the reason for introducing a local identifier for the first 2 letters, just at the moment Spain did away with their 2 letter local identifiers.
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T26 PHY on a red mk2 Clio.
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AB55EXY on a gt86. Spaced out as AB5 5EXY. I actually contemplated purposefully causing an accident......
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F1 CRU not on an F1 :cry:
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Our nearest Morrison’s is in Stamford, if you go midweek when the old people are there you get some nice Old Money plates.

There was a P38 RR once with just 3 digits.

The best ever seen by me wasnin dubai, it was just the number 7 8-)

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All the single digit plates are on cars worth less than a grand. I wonder if they’re just unaware of their value.
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K9 POO on a CRV driven by an older lady. What she was trying to say...
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