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Vehicle Registration Numbers

Bought a new Peugeot 2008 in2016,the garage was very good allowed me to pick the car Number.So Chose G N 1 6 B X E

This works out as Great News in 2016 Brenda Loves Eddie This my wife's and my name. Aaaarrhh. Good Aye Still together after 56 years. And she still loves me
 
Around the 1960s tried to get the registration No EDD1E from Worcester Council.But they said it would not be issuing it.:joy:
 
I have a personal plate which moves from car to car, which is one letter and two numbers followed by my initials. A plate of that format, from the DVLA, starts at about £60 but could be considerably more if you wanted the appearance of a word or a name like Roy or Bob. The transfer charge is £250 I think.
The supplying garage issues a plate when the car is registered as new, and that plate is “put in abeyance”
for re-issue on to the car when you buy a new one. So the process rolls on.
 
Hi

I suppose the ultimate vanity plate must be A1. Many years ago I saw it on an Austin Princess on the M6
and I was told at the time it belonged to Dunlop, and the car was being used for some sort of tyre trials.

Kind regards
Dave
 
Astoness said:
wonder if anyone can put year please on the reg plate of the car on the right of this pic...771 AON..just trying to confirm that the year on the pic is correct...


thanks for any help..

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AON was first issued February 1960
 
It is not an FB, it is a Model F Series 2. This is an FB: -

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1961 Vauxhall Victor FB - CarsAddiction.com

More restrained and sensible styling marked the 1961-64 FB Victor incarnation, albeit still with leanings across the Atlantic. But the new look was neat, handsome... More restrained and sensible styling marked the 1961-64 FB Victor incarnation, albeit still with leanings across the Atlantic...
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I think you will find that's an FC John. The F model had the bulbous ends on the bumper, the FB had a straight bumper as in the photo, the FC was completely redesigned, I had, bought and sold all of those models at the time..........but I might be mis-remembering.
 
The F went through two iterations following the original 1957 introduction, I had one of those original ones, 3908E, supplied new, but not to me, by Attwoods of Stafford. There was a mini redesign, tidying it up a bit, and getting rid of the swage in the back doors and the exhaust through the back bumper, and a more major rework of the sheet metal for the last year or so, with deeper windows, but still called Series F.

FB is in my picture above, FC was also called Victor 101, FD was the first of the ohc engined Victors with the coke bottle shape, and FE/VX also dubbed the transcontinental was the last Victor of all.

My next Vauxhall was an Astra LXI Estate, followed by a Turbodiesel Cavalier.

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Vauxhall Victor - Wikipedia

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Eric Gibson said:
I've always thought that personal plates are the ultimate vanity. :)
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I agree with you which is why since 2013, when I change my car I also show my vanity by buying the same letters different year plate currently JD68RGD, my wifes initials she only has two and mine. Vanity, but I like it.

Bob
 
Johnfromstaffs said:
It is not an FB, it is a Model F Series 2. This is an FB: -

www.carsaddiction.com

1961 Vauxhall Victor FB - CarsAddiction.com

More restrained and sensible styling marked the 1961-64 FB Victor incarnation, albeit still with leanings across the Atlantic. But the new look was neat, handsome... More restrained and sensible styling marked the 1961-64 FB Victor incarnation, albeit still with leanings across the Atlantic...
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John, it looks very much like an Opel, wonder why :cool:
 
I don't know, the real “Opelisation” of the Vauxhall range was somewhat later, starting with the HA Viva of 1963 and the FD Victor of 1967. Both firms were part of GM, at least the FB Victor didn’t look like a shrunken Chevrolet.
 
Johnfromstaffs said:
I don't know, the real “Opelisation” of the Vauxhall range was somewhat later, starting with the HA Viva of 1963 and the FD Victor of 1967. Both firms were part of GM, at least the FB Victor didn’t look like a shrunken Chevrolet.
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Most likely but just as with Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Honda et al many design standards were/are controlled. There are different names on each badge.
 
ROD was issued in Devon. ROD 90 is currently on a white Mercedes Benz, so someone cashed in on its value!
 
thanks Lloyd nice to know its still around, sold it to the managing director of "Caffyns", Nuffield motors group, in Brighton in 1974. Regards Paul
 
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