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Do you have a private registration plate?

Yes.

67%

[82]

No.

32%

[39]

Total Votes: 121

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custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 19533

^^^^ Liked your one when I saw it.

Can't understand why people that don't have them or or more to the point supposedly don't like them are worried about others that do.
Everyone is free to have what they want, why be bothered about what's not your own?
Having said that, it appears to be the modern day problem and phenomena with many different things!

Other people's possessions don't concern me, and I would never view anyone differently over such a fickle thing if they had or had not.
So to me the personalisation and age identifier as well as mainly finding the perfect plate done it for me.
However, I wouldn't pay over £1000 for one though! But that is just me, as I said individual freedoms and views everyone has the right to have.

This was only supposed it be a light heated thread and nothing too heavy.

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7th Aug 2018 11:46pm

defender9

Member Since: 12 Mar 2016
Location: Fylde Coast
Posts: 1613

2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 SW Keswick Green

I was speaking to an old chap at a car show last weekend he has a Volvo P1800 with a 2 letter 1 number plate from Cumbria which he bought years ago with the car just because he has an interest in the history of number plates. He told me he didn’t even know what the car was when he bought it. He was a mine of information about number plate history, a very interesting chap to talk to.

8th Aug 2018 9:42am

ian series 1

Member Since: 17 Nov 2014
Location: south
Posts: 3127

2008 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 CSW Bonatti Grey

Quote,

Did anyone here see the programme Trucking Hell? They had some on some of their HD recovery trucks to suit the business.

We’ve got some good ones on the vehicles at work (arboriculture)
And I should think one or two are pretty valuable now?

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Wanted, Forward Control Anything considered.

8th Aug 2018 10:20am

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 16857

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

My only real grumble about vanity plates is that over the years a number of classic vehicles have lost their original registration numbers to feed the craze, and that annoys me.

Can you imagine a vehicle such as AX201 or HUE166 having to have an anonymous age-related plate?

I have no objection in principle to unissued numbers being used for vanity plates, but the personal registration market, coupled with the formation of DVLC and the centralisation of registrations, has meant that it is now very difficult indeed for owners of restoration projects to reclaim legitimate and genuine original registration numbers. This annoys me particularly since one of my 80" S1s is unrestored, dismantled, never registered on DVLA, and I have absolutely no documentary proof that the original registration number (rather a good one as it happens) is the genuine number, even though the one remaining plate is clearly original. No photos, no documents, nothing. The original registering county is one which destroyed its paper records after the DVLC change, and there is no help there. The result is that the registration will almost certainly be lost when the vehicle is restored, and if there was no vanity plate market this would not happen.

I do also think that the whole business has become both wierd and rather vulgar too. A chap across the road from me has two vehicles with vanity plates which supposedly spell his surname, but the rationale is so obscure that it really doesn't work. I am not going to say what his name or registrations are, but it would be a bit like "B77OB T" spelling "Bob T", it just doesn't work for me, but he seems to think it was money well spent. More money than sense perhaps.

8th Aug 2018 10:35am

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 16857

ian series 1 wrote:

We’ve got some good ones on the vehicles at work (arboriculture)
And I should think one or two are pretty valuable now?

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Some of those must be worth a significant sum. 1 AXE, SAW 1T, LOP 1T, B16 OAK, B16 LOP in particular. I hope they are on the books as assets of the company!

8th Aug 2018 10:38am

ian series 1

Member Since: 17 Nov 2014
Location: south
Posts: 3127

They have just brought AB16OAK recently from DVLA for £300,
Right place right time.

1 AXE and SAW 1T were probably a very good investment?

80" 80" 86" 88" 90"

Wanted, Forward Control Anything considered.

8th Aug 2018 10:55am

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 19533

Those top and bottom plates would be worth £600 + if not more I would have thought.
The shorter ones seem to be the most valuable, but equally I don't see much point in having a plate with three or four letters.

This was the series I was talking about:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6kcx2c
You can see plates there not far in at all into the video.

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8th Aug 2018 11:08am

ian series 1

Member Since: 17 Nov 2014
Location: south
Posts: 3127

Worth a fair bit more than £600....

80" 80" 86" 88" 90"

Wanted, Forward Control Anything considered.

8th Aug 2018 11:32am

grafty99

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: North Devon
Posts: 4784

I think you need to add another 0 to that figure! 2002 90 Td5 Station Wagon
1990 Vogue SE
Triumph Tiger Explorer 1200
Td5 90 Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic50767.html
Tdi 110 Thread https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic69562.html
RRC Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic54492.html
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8th Aug 2018 2:08pm

Roy5695

Member Since: 15 Feb 2014
Location: Cornwall
Posts: 1123

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS DCPU Indus Silver

Love a private plate. Closest I could get to Roy Price before they got expensive.

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Yes I know it’s not spaced correctly. Different way of life down in the south west. 2011 Defender DCPU 2.2 - https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic30623.html

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8th Aug 2018 2:17pm

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 19533

Ian & Grafty - Forgive me as I'm not a valuation expert.

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8th Aug 2018 3:13pm

grafty99

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: North Devon
Posts: 4784

2002 90 Td5 Station Wagon
1990 Vogue SE
Triumph Tiger Explorer 1200
Td5 90 Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic50767.html
Tdi 110 Thread https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic69562.html
RRC Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic54492.html
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8th Aug 2018 5:43pm

ian series 1

Member Since: 17 Nov 2014
Location: south
Posts: 3127

80" 80" 86" 88" 90"

Wanted, Forward Control Anything considered.

8th Aug 2018 7:32pm

Grouse

Member Since: 16 Apr 2012
Location: on the hill
Posts: 512

I have 9 private plates, 4 are on vehicles the rest on retention, all bought as an investment and a bit of fun. Some are single digit plates costing up to £13.5k many years ago - some are 4 or 5 digits costing £800 up.

I have also bought and sold a few and made a hansom profit.

8th Aug 2018 9:16pm

legin

Member Since: 22 Jul 2017
Location: Chelmsford Essex
Posts: 1004

2012 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 HT Santorini Black

Now you will upset some one with the word PROFIT

8th Aug 2018 9:40pm

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