Pics of apt, rare, funny number plates taken in Ireland if possible

irish1967 · 10-09-2006 5:22am #1

There are quite a few great plates running around these days.. anyone seen ones that are apt, memorable,funny or just plain silly?

Heres a pic of the most expensive N.I plate on a Dodge Ram LHD... its apt both for the size of the beast it is on and for the price paid (£104,000 sterling)
(the same guy from belleek in Co. Fermanagh paid £30,000 each for BIG2 and BIG3 on the same day)

irish1967 · 10-09-2006 5:26am

Heres one spotted this evening... First time I have seen an english number on Irish county plates... Quite clever though.. was on a nice new Merc

Stephen · 10-09-2006 10:17am

And not road legal at all.

The Muppet · 10-09-2006 10:37am

I don't have a picture but I saw an X5 with the plate X5 OIL the other day.

zuutroy · 10-09-2006 11:07am

Saw an Irish M3 with Irish numbers, but the plate was German. i.e. Had D instead of Irl above the EU stars. Bit strange I thought.

kikel · 10-09-2006 11:57am

Seen a blue Mazda MX5 a few years ago. Can't remember the year but it was XX MH 5. The H was made look like an X. so it read XX MX 5

RobAMerc · 10-09-2006 1:00pm

zuutroy wrote:

Saw an Irish M3 with Irish numbers, but the plate was German. i.e. Had D instead of Irl above the EU stars. Bit strange I thought.

At the terenure classic car show I noticed a few irish cars with irish regs but german D plates ?
The cars were all Audis bmws etc so I presumed they are a german car club or something.

Silvera · 10-09-2006 2:58pm

The 'IG' in AIG, BIG, etc was actually an unused 'Irish' combination up until about a year ago. i.e. Ireland - North or Republic - could have used it!

Co. Fermanagh 'took' it as their combinations were running out.

jayok · 10-09-2006 5:51pm

No photos but I did see:

A Lexus LS430 with the reg 02-LS-430

and Honda S2000 with

xx-D-52000 (with the 5 shaped as an S) ..

Do-more · 10-09-2006 5:52pm

Here's another one of those "German plates"

I was wondering where in Germany Ä represented and then wondered about the strange number spacings, had a look at the tax disc and it was in fact an English number A398HKD, totally illegal spacing and letters! My guess is it is an attempt to beat Radar cameras.

Also saw 05MH54 on an Audi S4 close by, the 5 was "rounded off" a little to look like an S!

Remember years ago seeing the English plate A 1 on a Mark 1 Granada Estate being used as a service barge by Dunlop at the Phoenix Park Races. At one time when Dunlop was going through hard times they reckoned the plate was worth more than the company!

Our man in Havana · 10-09-2006 7:12pm

What are the small numbers on the right side for?

Do-more · 10-09-2006 7:35pm

Bond-007 wrote:

What are the small numbers on the right side for?

I would guess that they are the date of first registration 13/10/82

qz · 10-09-2006 7:43pm

Saw a Merc S55 AMG once, spaced exactly like this, no bars:

04 D4 04 55

Max_Damage · 10-09-2006 7:54pm

I saw a Nissan Sentra (remember those?) in Granard today with the reg. KIT xx (xx being numbers, obviously). Somewhat humorous.

NiSmO · 10-09-2006 8:50pm

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qazz · 10-09-2006 9:02pm

Bond-007 wrote:

What are the small numbers on the right side for?

This plate is not legal since 13/10/1982. They're German temporary plates valid only in Germany. You get them when you buy a car and you want to drive it home and the car is not insured or tested. When you import a car from Germany you need to get plates with red colour instead of yellow.

zuutroy · 10-09-2006 9:05pm

BMW Z3 with the following: 00-D-23 007

qz · 10-09-2006 9:24pm

I actually remember seeing 9*-D-007 on an old SL. Odd!

KTRIC · 10-09-2006 10:10pm

Do-more wrote:

Here's another one of those "German plates"

It seems to be a mix of a couple of different plates stuck together by someone trying to pull a fast one.

Reasons why its fake :

1. Format not used until 1995
2. The small numbers on the right hand side mean the plate is valid for 5 days from the date displayed.
3. Plate appears to be recently printed. Thats a MkI Golf and the plate is very new looking,

Guy:Incognito · 10-09-2006 10:23pm

does my safrane with 97 d 97 count?

Seth Brundle · 10-09-2006 10:48pm

NiSmO wrote:

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I don't get that one.
My father used to have a carine with 9*-D-1557 though!

NiSmO · 10-09-2006 11:05pm

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skibum · 11-09-2006 12:25am

Aston martin: 0? D 7007

chicken_food · 11-09-2006 1:30am

audi s3
03D30303 so it just looks like 03030303

06-d-87 which looks like 06 DB7 (can be seen in ormonde cinema car park)

my favourite was ken dohertys K 4 KEN on a 3 series. Doesnt have it anymore though.

Theres so many more,i just dont want to make people bored!

declanoneill · 11-09-2006 8:20am

porsche 911 with a reg of XX D 911

Do-more · 11-09-2006 8:12pm

Do-more wrote:

Here's another one of those "German plates"

Havn't found a definate answer but I figure that the German plates are used to beat the number plate recognition software used for the London congestion charging. Guess this type of German temporary plate really does the job with all the extra digits on the right hand side. These type of plates can be bought online at www.germanplates.com

KTRIC · 11-09-2006 8:14pm

Do-more wrote:

Havn't found a definate answer but I figure that the German plates are used to beat the number plate recognition software used for the London congestion charging. Guess this type of German temporary plate really does the job with all the extra digits on the right hand side. These type of plates can be bought online at www.germanplates.com

What was wrong with my explaination ?

Do-more · 11-09-2006 8:26pm

Do-more · 11-09-2006 8:27pm

KTRIC wrote:

What was wrong with my explaination ?

Absolutely nothing wrong with it, it explained the "what" very well, but I was looking more as to the "why".

Cheers

Do-less!

AJ! · 11-09-2006 8:44pm

declanoneill wrote:

porsche 911 with a reg of XX D 911

Real original...I'm sorry to say I saw a Boxter the other day with XX D 9113

Do-more · 11-09-2006 8:52pm

That reminds me I saw a Volvo 740 Estate with the plate OFF 41Y over for a GAA match recently illegally spaced to read OFFALY of course!

Pics of apt, rare, funny number plates taken in Ireland if possible

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