ZZP Registration

carchaeologist

Anyone know of or own a car with one of these registrations? It was issued by mistake in 1982 by Donegal C.C. It went up to ZZP407 before the mistake was spotted and IH then started at 408IH.

Just a curiosity....:P

2cv

carchaeologist wrote: »

Anyone know of or own a car with one of these registrations? It was issued by mistake in 1982 by Donegal C.C. It went up to ZZP407 before the mistake was spotted and IH then started at 408IH.

Just a curiosity....:P

Pardon my ignorance, but why is ZZP a mistake? :rolleyes:

carchaeologist

2cv wrote: »

Pardon my ignorance, but why is ZZP a mistake? :rolleyes:

Because registrations with two Zs beside each other were never issued,apparently because of confusion with the ZZ series for temporary imports. ZZP was one that got away,almost!

Silvera

It would be interesting to know if any are still 'live' out there alright?!

(nearest I've gotten is '207 ZP' on my fathers old Kadett;):D

mamakevf

You should put this in the Donegal section too

irish1967

I thought it had something to do with diplomatic plates at the time. Remember seeing a few about. Lived in Lifford at the time and all donegal cars had to be registered there n those days.

testicle

Here's a quick sample:

ZZP 407 - Renault 18
ZZP 406 - Not Registered
ZZP 405 - Not Registered
ZZP 404 - Opel Kadett
ZZP 403 - Toyota Corolla
ZZP 402 - Not Registered
ZZP 401 - Opel Kadett
ZZP 400 - Opel Kadett
ZZP 399 - Opel Kadett
etc

Looks like the Opel Kadett was quite popular!

carchaeologist

testicle wrote: »

Here's a quick sample:

ZZP 407 - Renault 18
ZZP 406 - Not Registered
ZZP 405 - Not Registered
ZZP 404 - Opel Kadett
ZZP 403 - Toyota Corolla
ZZP 402 - Not Registered
ZZP 401 - Opel Kadett
ZZP 400 - Opel Kadett
ZZP 399 - Opel Kadett
etc

Looks like the Opel Kadett was quite popular!

You did a Mywheels check on those? Wonder who spotted that series wasnt meant to be issued,and why didnt they re register the 407 wrong numbers with IH plates.

carchaeologist

testicle wrote: »

Looks like the Opel Kadett was quite popular!

Looks like it, 408IH is also a Kadett.

Firblog

irish1967 wrote: »

I thought it had something to do with diplomatic plates at the time. Remember seeing a few about. Lived in Lifford at the time and all donegal cars had to be registered there n those days.

Remember the diplomatic thing too, think it was what diplomatic cars used in UK at the time. (Wonder did anyone really take the piss in London in Donegal reg car)

PanhardPL

All Irish Diplomatic Vehicles in the UK used 185 D ...

corktina

i think zz plates are cars temporaily registered before export.(could be wrong...)

Yarisbob

Unless I am very much mistaken ZZP 404 was a creamy white 1.2 pushrod Kadett which was owned by my old Irish teacher He had it about 1986 or so..

Sommits twigging my memory.. PM sent with teachers name

corktina

i recall a new car in very early 1987 appearing as (i think) CZK something and later reppearing with an 87C number....as far as I rmember there was a court case about it...is that a similar faux pas?

carchaeologist

corktina wrote: »

i recall a new car in very early 1987 appearing as (i think) CZK something and later reppearing with an 87C number....as far as I rmember there was a court case about it..

542FZF or 338FZF(Theres a bit of confusion as to what was the actual number,someone cartell it) was the last Cork registration,so maybe it was something similar to that reg?

is that a similar faux pas?

Its not really the same,that just looks like that was someone sleeping at the desk in the registrtion office after the new years party in 1987!