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Does anyone here play the custom, vanity, personalized number plate game?
I've wasted more money than I should have, but I just can't help myself...
These are the plates I have taken off cars I've sold (or never mounted on the front). In addition to this I have ELAN, TREE CV, 3CVVAN and I think that's all at the moment. Except for PHIDI (I bought for my mom) all the rest have been on various cars I've owned.
GLASS'S is not because I wear them but because I worked there (it's an automotive publisher in the UK). I actually ordered it in California and took it to Weybridge and bolted onto the MD's Jaguar in the parking lot one day. Sadly he instantly figured out who did it, and ordered me to take it off so he wouldn't get cited for false plates.
Back in the day ~ 1990 ~ business was a lot of fun and we enjoyed life while at the same time making lots of money. The company was owned 1/2 by Lord Thomson of Fleet (Thomson Tours & Travel, Thomson Newspapers, now Thomson Reuters) and half by a private family in the UK. Now its part of the AutoVista Group which is too big and corporate and complex to mess with.
Alas, same thing happened to Autodata (another client)
and Haynes (ditto). Also Clymer, Chilton, Valley Forge, Sun Technicomm and a host of other automotive-related companies. Gads.
Build the company up, sell it, a few people get rich, a bunch get swapped like pawns to new bosses, and the game starts over again... Can't say I miss being in the thick of those sorts of things.
Oops, this was about number plates, wasn't it? Sorry, I digressed.
Mike
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Does anyone here play the custom, vanity, personalized number plate game?
I've wasted more money than I should have, but I just can't help myself... These are the plates I have taken off cars I've sold (or never mounted on the front). In addition to this I have ELAN, TREE CV, 3CVVAN and I think that's all at the moment. Except ...
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but it is fun to do. In my country we have no custom plates. They are strict overhere. When the police spot a car without correct number plates, the driver get a ticket. There was a time when people put a small number plate on their car, because the large...
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In India it is almost the same as here
Yes, also here Pun, the government kill all the creativity. All must be registered the way government dictate. We can not drive above 120km/h freely. We can not buy a house. We can not send students to university for free. We can not get a secret bank acc...
I asked for LOW TUSH but didn’t get approval
It was considered potentially offensive.
Belgium ....
There has always been a possibility here to have special numberplates, but only the past ten years it become more famous here. You pay 1000 Euro and you van have a plate with 1 to max 8 letters. If you want to add numbers i think it gets a bit weird you h...
STI
Like the Saint ... actually it is a WRX on this pic ( you can’t see the difference between an STI or WRX) which is less powerfull. He wanted to buy an STI later on but encountered serious health conditions ... .
