Best Number Plates you have seen out and about (Adverts don't count)

[hamster]

Best plate I've seen recently is on a bright yellow Ferarri round the corner from my London office. Black windows, reg 'SPY 500' - just makes me chuckle.

 

I wouldn't give you tuppence for that, that makes the owner look silly. Nor the Ferrari either. There's a sexy yellow Saab driving around the country roda os Hampshire with a reg that anyone could would be proud to put on their car. I do of couse refer to the numbers and letter that form the reg plate HAM 57ER.

 

Dear Santa,

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[Nineteen Canteen]

Are you sure it wasn't a fold away shopping bike with SB1?

 

Are you suggesting the fold away shopping bike is uncool - its seriously cool compared to that red chopper you keep locked up in your garage.

[Gigersaint]

Probably Stiffler's Mum?

 

Didn't give it a thought that Sh1tbreak could be down there and she wasn't alone in the car.

[St Chalet]

My mates ex-car. Appeared in the Sun and was stolen 2 days later from outside his house.

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/motors/293990/Lambo-owner-is-motor-mouthy.html

[Ponty]

My mates ex-car. Appeared in the Sun and was stolen 2 days later from outside his house.

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/motors/293990/Lambo-owner-is-motor-mouthy.html

 

That's exactly the sort of effort I was on about earlier. The guy has a £120k car then spazzes it up with a number plate that doesn't even work. At best it spells "U TOZSER" but, in reality, it's not even that good.

[EastleighSoulBoy]

That's exactly the sort of effort I was on about earlier. The guy has a £120k car then spazzes it up with a number plate that doesn't even work. At best it spells "U TOZSER" but, in reality, it's not even that good.

 

+1.

[Johnny Bognor]

Are you suggesting the fold away shopping bike is uncool - its seriously cool compared to that red chopper you keep locked up in your garage.

 

...but does your shopping bike do this???

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtW3TJod2Bs

 

or this? (particularly after 40 seconds)

 

Or sound like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnhlvHp7iHo

 

Do shopping bike owners do this? (On 0.46 and 1.03, you can spot my car and I especially like the doughnuts on 2+ minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inOQDOVQ7IU

 

Still, if this turns you on, then each to his own

Edited 14 November, 2009 by Johnny Bognor

[Jillyanne]

Theres a new style Volkswagen Beetle going around the city with the Herbie stripes and decals with the number plate HER 131E. Obviously on the car the 1 and 3 are closer together to look like a B which I thought was pretty cool.

 

Seen that a lot around Eastleigh.

[Nineteen Canteen]

...but does your shopping bike do this???

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtW3TJod2Bs

 

or this? (particularly after 40 seconds)

 

Or sound like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnhlvHp7iHo

 

Do shopping bike owners do this? (On 0.46 and 1.03, you can spot my car and I especially like the doughnuts on 2+ minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inOQDOVQ7IU

 

Still, if this turns you on, then each to his own

 

Sorry JB my anti-virus software blocked access on the grounds of good taste. I know I said you had a red chopper in your garage but I don't want to see vidoes of you taking it out. Thank god for Norton.

[Johnny Bognor]

Sorry JB my anti-virus software blocked access on the grounds of good taste. I know I said you had a red chopper in your garage but I don't want to see vidoes of you taking it out. Thank god for Norton.

 

I bet you bypassed the taste filter and had a sneaky look.

[Nineteen Canteen]

I bet you bypassed the taste filter and had a sneaky look.

 

The Gekko is on order. BTW did you happen to hear Nick Mason on Danny Bakers R5L show this morning. He was identifying cars by the sounds of their engines - now I wouldn't mind his 250GT or 350GTB. Money no object those are the Ferrari's I would own but ever since I first saw the opening sequence of the original Italian Job my all time favourite supercar is the Muira preferably in the Alps with Matt Munro on the Eight Track! Ferrari's from the late 70's through to the late 90's are mainly horror shows fashioned unfortunately from 20 years of bad taste and excess.

 

Of the modern day stuff I would have a Maserati Quattroporte GT in burgundy although they probably call it Barolo Red. It would be a joy to drive such an elegant, classy and a thing of exquisite beauty, still that's enough about the wife the car is bl00dy gorgeous.

[Johnny Bognor]

The Gekko is on order. BTW did you happen to hear Nick Mason on Danny Bakers R5L show this morning. He was identifying cars by the sounds of their engines - now I wouldn't mind his 250GT or 350GTB. Money no object those are the Ferrari's I would own but ever since I first saw the opening sequence of the original Italian Job my all time favourite supercar is the Muira preferably in the Alps with Matt Munro on the Eight Track! Ferrari's from the late 70's through to the late 90's are mainly horror shows fashioned unfortunately from 20 years of bad taste and excess.

 

Of the modern day stuff I would have a Maserati Quattroporte GT in burgundy although they probably call it Barolo Red. It would be a joy to drive such an elegant, classy and a thing of exquisite beauty, still that's enough about the wife the car is bl00dy gorgeous.

 

If money was no object then you do you think I would have a 348? When money is no object, then you can afford to have taste. Money, no object, then it would have to be: Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder

The Lamborghini Miura is a beautifull car and would be a close second, but the 250 wins it for me.

 

As for money being the object, you have to buy what you can afford and the above two cars are above the realms of 99.999% of people.

 

The F308, F328, F348, F355 and now F360 are "affordable" cars, so are not the preserve of the super rich. In fact, despite ludicrous servicing costs, they are much cheaper to acquire than a modern day salloon. Take my 348, I paid £34k five years ago and it would sell for about £28k now, I make that about £100 per month in acquisition cost. That is less than buying a brand new Ford Fiesta. So for less than a Ford Fiesta, you get the Ferrari experience and the roar of a screaming V8 behind you - something the Fiesta lacks.

 

As for the Quattroporte, a stunning looking 4 door saloon car, the depreciation would be too much to bear. The other problem is that the Mazza is a confused car. Is it a supercar? Is it a saloon? Who knows? Modern supercars should not have 4 doors IMO.

Edited 15 November, 2009 by Johnny Bognor