J***GNH

[Tahrey1043]

sweet, thanks

always thought that proggy was deceptively small... probably just a BASIC script comparing the last two (or 2nd & 3rd) letters of user input against such a list and a bit of simple GUI code

soooo NH = northants, and about 50% of anything with an O in the middle is indeed birmingham. seems a bit of a loose area definition though - how far does "birmingham" (or indeed northampton) officially extend? Don't think i've ever seen a brum city line...



ooo interesting stuff there btw --- what do you think the registrations where the middle letter is X or Z are reserved for? (Q is fairly obvious - "cherished" regs and kit cars... or not?? its surely not for reasons of clarity, when I/J and U/V are still included)
and the SV / SY "NON SUFFIX MARK" entries?!

oooh, spooooooky

[tainmrk3polo]

SV is probably special vhicles- eg cops or something

[GroovyCarrot]

Q isn't used anywhere on number plates except as a prefix for kit cars, rebuilt writeoffs, seriously modified cars, ex-MoD vehicles etc. Cars that need to be reregistered with no implication of a date of registration, anyway. It's not used anywhere else for the same reason as 0 is never used, only O - they're all too easy to confuse for the same letter, especially to the electrotrickery in speed cameras etc.

I don't know about X, but again, Z is never used except on Irish cars, as it's too easily confusable for a 2. Apparently the Irish are just better at telling their letters and numbers apart than we are Strange that I is used in the end of number plates, seeing as I reg was skipped due to clarity issues with 1 and J..

Anyway, it appears that my car is from Brum.. which is odd, because it's second owners were in Romford and I'm it's third - seems an awful long way to go for a Polo

[GroovyCarrot]

I've just realised why a lot of cars around here are rather amusingly called 'POO' - OO is chelmsford, only about 40 minutes away Something new every day..

[Karl_CLCoupe]

I discovered with L-reg CL Coupes that my car was part of a 'group registering'. Basically from L723 ONV to L989 ONV. Every one of them is a White CL Coupe. Would be even more freaky if they were all 1.3s too.

Karl.

[Gareth_GT_Hatch]

It's not used anywhere else for the same reason as 0 is never used, only O

what does that mean?




two of my cars there, one utilising a zero and the other utilising the letter "O" Unless you meant something else...?

[GroovyCarrot]

Oh, ok, my mistake then It's never used as a prefix or suffix certainly, but yeah, now I think about it it is used elsewhere..

[Tahrey1043]

i've got BOTH on the one plate!

[GroovyCarrot]

Ooh! How exciting!

[Tahrey1043]

*faints with overexcitement*

[Krupa]

I've become quite a sad bastard as far as this goes, I've started collecting pics of Polos with similar plates.

I have pics of the following:

J668GNH
J671GNH
J696GNH
J731GNH
J752GNH
J755GNH
J759GNH
J799GNH
J830GNH
J916GNH
J927GNH
J934GNH

All Polo GTs, not all owned by people on the forums either.

I don't reckon all of those are press cars... seems like quite a long list.

Should also be noted that H*** ERP plate GTs and K***AHP plate G40s are quite common.

[Tahrey1043]

*hands krupa a bobble hat*

well, at least it isnt trains, thats some consolation

[bstardchild]

*hands krupa a bobble hat*

And a parka, clipboard and a pen that doesn't run when the paper gets wet

[ste mk1lx]

*hands krupa a bobble hat*

And a parka, clipboard and a pen that doesn't run when the paper gets wet

you've forgot one important thing a camera

[Tahrey1043]

i guess that'll be a mobile phone covering a lot of those bases these days then

well maybe not the thermos or bobble hat