Most Inventive Car Number Plate

[Nix]

Ok this will obviously be different throughout the world as there are different types of plates in different countries and even different types within different states in the same country and then different types within the same state.

I used to have a number plate NIXCAR because my name is Nick and it was my car - thats where NIX comes from.

That form of number plate is known as a custom plate and got to the point where it was costing me AU$488 extra on top of my car registration to have it.

People used to ask me all the time what it stood for ???

Anyway a pool company in Sydney called Creative Pools has a truck with CRE8IV for their plate. Again a custom plate.

Yesterday I saw a bright yellow car with EGY01K which is clever and uses one of standard formats of XXX99X so would have been a custom plate within that category but only costs AU$100 a year extra to have.

Full details of NSW plate formats and a simulator goto http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/myPlates/index.jsp

[D4\/!d]

Mine would be: DAV1D, daughters' would be LOU15E, JUL1E, and CHR15.

Spanish embassy car in London is SPA1N
Comedian Jimmy Tarbuck's car, is (was) COM1C

[Train]

IMQKRNU

PAID FOR

A couple of the many I have seen.

[shotsi]

Found this in my bookmarks: http://www-chaos.umd.edu/misc/origplates.html

shotsi:)

[Sarrkazztic]

Never seen the point in paying the extra money for vanity....but...if I did I would probably do


DOMIN8

[Steve R Jones]

Had a custom plate once: SKYLUV

Saw it on a pink cadillac in front of a genlemans club years earlier.

Had all sorts of people stop me in parking lots and ask who I flew for;)

[Nix]

Originally posted by shotsi
Found this in my bookmarks: http://www-chaos.umd.edu/misc/origplates.html

shotsi:)

Thanks for that it's gonna take me a while to read through them all.

Noticed NIXCAR and EGY01K are not there.

[^dAvEy^]

Originally posted by Nix
I used to have a number plate NIXCAR ... a custom plate ... costing me AU$488 extra... that better = about $10-25 CAN! :confused: :p

[Train]

488.00 AUD {Australia Dollars = 364.926 USD United States Dollars


488.00 AUD {Australia Dollars} = 444.079 CAD {Canada Dollars }

Now that is some extra cost.


The converter I used. (http://www.xe.com/ucc/)

[^dAvEy^]

no kidding - holy wallabee, dundee!
:eek:

[Nix]

Originally posted by Train
488.00 AUD {Australia Dollars = 364.926 USD United States Dollars


488.00 AUD {Australia Dollars} = 444.079 CAD {Canada Dollars }

Now that is some extra cost.


The converter I used. (http://www.xe.com/ucc/)

and that's per annum !!!!!!!!!!!1

[Nix]

See here for the exorbatent price list http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/registration/numberplates/pricelist.html

[Tuttle]

$488?! Wow, and I thought the $190 (1-6 characters) or $240 (7 chars) here was extreme.

Coolest number plate I ever saw was on a motorcycle (which down here only has to display a rear plate, not a front one). It was simply "CYA".

[Zedy]

Number plate I saw was AA-0000
Takes a bit of decyphering but -
AA stands for Always Available.
0000 = 4 noughts or noughties.
Ergo, AA-0000 = Always Available for Naughties.

[Narf]

K8R2NO1
Wished it were mine :cool:

[Ridgerunr]

Bought my '72 Ford camper special pick m' up truck back in 1995. It was owned by a Widow and had been her husbands truck. Her kid had borrowed it many times to haul fertilizer and Lord knows what else and it was basically straight in the frame,but a real mess elsewise :eek:
Totally rebuilt it mechanically and gave it a nice medium blue paint job. After all I put it through,figured it was only fair to give him a name. 'Blue' was not available for a custom plate. Someone else had that. So,,his plate reads "OLBLOO" and he seems happy with that. ;)

Custom plates here in Orygun are usd$80.00 for 2 years and I can live with that...:cool: