Registration Numbers Club

Football, Football

Whether you’re a football fan or not, you can’t have failed to notice the sheer amount of coverage given to the game this spring with all the final matches being played in the last few weeks and featured heavily in the newspapers and on television. The FA cup final won 1–0 by Chelsea, the first to be played at the new Wembley stadium and Liverpool beaten 2–1 by AC Milan in the UEFA Champions league final in Athens. London Wasps convincingly won against Leicester Tigers in the Heineken rugby cup final at Twickenham and in the Tennents Scottish cup final a late goal by Celtic ensured that they beat Dunfermline Athletic by just 1 goal to 0.

If you’re now wondering just what exactly you are going to occupy yourself with over the summer months until the competition starts once again, why not consider a football related cherished number plate … and once you’ve assigned it to your car why not join the Registration Numbers Club … after all we have an annual rally in the summer months … just the job to keep your mind on the ball!

How about choosing a great plate such as GOL 111E or FOO 71E or even G1 OAL. Show your friends who you support by investing in BOL 70N, CHE 151E, V111 LLA, 6 MU or AR53 NAL. And if it’s rugby you prefer why not show it by putting W1 GAN on your car. Maybe you’d like to tell the referee a thing or two . . . REF 7 or REF 80 could help you see things his way.

Cherished registrations are fun but there are some very precise rules governing how you display your chosen plate. The combinations shown above are all pretty obvious as to their meaning, and displayed correctly leave no doubt about the intention. There are, however, some very dubious ones out there, very often advertised on internet auction sites, which require serious modification to make them mean anything at all. Would you really have known that J17 NCK was bought to read Jane or that JE53 GAS was intended for Jessica?

All dealers and the DVLA quite clearly state that you should not purchase a registration if it is your intention to mis-space or mis-represent it. It is an offence to do this as it also is to use fixing bolts to obliterate or enhance any of the characters to corrupt numbers to appear as letters or vice versa. Offenders are liable to a fine of up to £1000. The law is very clear on this point and the Secretary of State for Transport can withdraw the registration permanently from use if you are found guilty and you will have no come back whatsoever against the decision. You would in fact lose the money you had paid for it along with any other costs involved in its purchase. It is also possible for a vehicle to fail an MOT test for having an illegally displayed number plate that contains letters and/or numerals not of the authorised style and size and laid out in accordance with the DVLA criteria. You have been warned.

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