Private Numberplates



At a company I used to work for the sales director's wife gave him a personalised number for his birthday, so he had to put it on his brand new Range Rover. He was sadly proud of the fact that he had a brand new Range Rover but the rather shit personalised number was actually for what then would have been a six year-old car. So whenever possible everyone would prime customers before any meeting with him so that they could drop into conversation when possible that they liked his car but given the status of his job they thought he might have had a newer one. It used to wind the fucker up magnificently, and the joke never grew old for the rest of us. I suppose if half of us had put as much effort into doing our jobs as we did into stuff like that we might not have been made redundant, but you've got to have a laff innit.
 
Back in the late 60s I had an Escort 00G 700G, nothing too special about it in personalisation terms - it just came like that. But it was noticeable and I got no end of 'I saw you at soandso' comments. Just as well I wasn't up to mischief.
 
A mate once had A131 OKE on a XR3i he bought. It wasn't intentional it was just its original number. The car got stolen and was never seen again but when he asked about retaining the plate he was told it was worthless. I can't help thinking the insurance company sold on the reg number.
It read as A BLOKE with a little bit of manipulation.
 
I'm in Pompey, more Mackems than mags down here.
Although I have replace the previous number plate banner F*CK THE MAGS with SAFC because my missus objected for some reason.
 
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