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

irish1967

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

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

And not road legal at all.

The Muppet

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

zuutroy

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

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

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

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

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

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

What are the small numbers on the right side for?

Do-more

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

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

04 D4 04 55

Max_Damage

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

NiSmO

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qazz

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

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

qz

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

KTRIC

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

does my safrane with 97 d 97 count?

Seth Brundle

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

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skibum

Aston martin: 0? D 7007

chicken_food

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

porsche 911 with a reg of XX D 911

Do-more

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

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

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Do-more

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!

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

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!

Wishbone Ash

I occasionally see a yellow BMW M3 with the (Leitrim) registration 03 L M3.


Speaking of Leitrim do any of our Leitrim Boardies know if their County Council went from 'SIT' to 'UIT' or did they do the unthinkable and use the 'T'?

TIT5 anyone?

colm_mcm

I know someone with 01LS15 which is spaced as 01-L S-15 (It's an S-15 Silvia)

drdre

my dads friend had a db9 with a 04 d 89.it looked class.

irish1967

I have often wondered, given our governments needing to take every cent of our money why they dont issue 'vanity plates'.. What i am saying is why cant they issue personalised plates to a person... the plate belongs to that individual and their vehicle carries the standard plate.. when the vehicle is sold on it takes its 06 plate or whatever with it and the person keeps the personalised plate. In these days of modern technology surely it would not be to hard to record who owns what plate. Ok.. so the present system is easy to understand but why not let each person ahve their own plate and the vehicle have its own plate??? Am I being a little niave on this?

irish1967

if your name was Murphy how much would you pay for Murph 1 If you are a Dub how much would you pay for HILL 16????

irish1967

This is a plate photo taken tonight in Donegal... how many husbands would love to put this on theirs wife's car????

digweed

there's a polish audi tt going around galway with the reg. P0 TTTT. up north a few weeks back saw a sierra cosworth with BIG 63R ( the 6 was shaped to look like a G).

D.

Wishbone Ash

1. The owner of this Antrim registered Porsche must be exercising his/her religious liberty. I wonder would they park it in the Lower Shankill. :eek:

2. Apt registration for a Porsche 911 Carrera 2.

3. Nice one on a Roller.

4. Bond-007, is this your Audi?

irish1967

digweed wrote:

there's a polish audi tt going around galway with the reg. P0 TTTT. up north a few weeks back saw a sierra cosworth with BIG 63R ( the 6 was shaped to look like a G).

D.

hmmm.... something dodgy about the cosworth me thinks.. BIG is the new fermanagh plate but wonder where the R suffix came from

JHMEG

Wishbone Ash wrote:

Speaking of Leitrim do any of our Leitrim Boardies know if their County Council went from 'SIT' to 'UIT' or did they do the unthinkable and use the 'T'

I vaguely remember seeing TIT at home when I was a kid.

I saw a UK reg Audi A4 about a year ago with the reg: A4 NVY. According to the HPI website it's on an X5 now...

Blitzkrieger

05 C 206 - on a 206
06 C 1800cc - on a 206 again. Must be proud he has a tiny little engine.

Sizzler

I know someone with a 911, O6 D 911.

yellow012

Saw an ice cream van around Naas with the reg 06 xx 99.

Blue850

There was a Polo with the reg 00 G71 with a black screw beside the top right of the 7. I know of a Fiat 127 1300GT with the reg GSI27.

RobAMerc

Anyone see Vroom Vroom last night.
Some ponse paid 300k stg for "51R"
Thats crazy when you think it was on a mclaren slr worth the same amount !

Blitzkrieger

Previous record was 200k for A5TON. At some point it becomes obscene.

Blue850

I've seen a Sunbeam Tiger at classic car shows, not sure of the full reg but part of it is 4748 which has been altered to read 4.7 V8

qazz

01 LS 3 on Audi S3 in Portlaoise

Seth Brundle

I suppose I should mention that I used to own **-**-320 on a BMW 320i.

Wishbone Ash

Blitzkrieger wrote:

06 C 1800cc - on a 206 again. Must be proud he has a tiny little engine.

I presume it was a 206cc model (i.e. Coupe Cabriolet- not cubic centimeters)