Personalised plates

[Chris Sweetapple <Highwood@domain.elided>]

Here in the U.K. we have personalised plates, but they have to be genuine=

registration numbers in the same format that you would normally expect to=

find, i.e ABC123, 123ABC, ABC123A, A123ABC etc.  You can't just choose a
word and put it on your car as long as nobody else has got it, you have t=
o
go about finding the number you want, which may mean buying another car
which bears your desired number ,and paying 80 pounds to have it
transferred.  There is a thriving market in registration numbers with som=
e
being worth many thousands of pounds.  More recently the government has
caught on to the idea of making money by selling registration numbers (wh=
y
it took them so long is a mystery to me), so acquiring a personalised
number is now easier.

Some years ago I found '69 GTV' which has been on my 1969 1750 GTV for th=
e
past 11 years, and then about 5 years ago I found quite by chance a rusty=

old Vauxhall Cavalier (Small Chevrolet in USA?) with 'B69GTV' ('B' stands=

for 'Bertone').  I bought the car on the spot and this number is currentl=
y
on a'retention certificate'.

I've seen a few other Alfa registrations here such as B1 4LFA, ALF4 80Y,
164ALF, A1 5PYD and various 'GTV' numbers, but I wouldn't swap 69GTV for
any of them.

Chris Sweetapple
Highwood Motor Company
Swansea, U.K.
69 GTV (69GTV)
77 Spider (UCF652S)
99 156 (T344BWN)
94 Vauxhall Omega Estate (M297JUY)
99 156 Selespeed (V??????) Coming soon!

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