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Old style registrations (pre 1987)
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Yep, I'd agree with that idea. I still find it strange to see someone who has imported or reregistered an older car and is running around with a reg like 65-KE-3 or whatever.Wouldn't it be a good idea to issue unused old style regs to imported 1970/1980's cars (which are now increasing in numbers) ?
The more pre 87 cars that use the new number system the more chance there is of a mess up/duplication when say 2065 comes around. But the real fun will start in 2087. Number format will probably have to be altered slightly to take account of the century.
<edit> you beat me to it with the tale of the 1903 reg!
And I agree that there will be many younger people reading this forum who will think this whole discussion is nuts
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Especially when vintage cars (over 30yrs old) can get 'ZV' registrations when imported here !
Other future duplications I have seen (i.e. regs already issued to vintage cars) -
31-LH-15
55-D-1 (the Lord Mayor in 2055 won't like that!)
53-W-26...........etc etc
Strangely I have yet to see a 1940's 'new style' reg
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ctrl + alt + shift + e - A difficult manoevre, involving two hands. The fact that my diligence has been noticed has made it all worthwhile though
It's strange how the old registrations became etched in our minds. They were so much more characterful than the dull, 04 - D - xxxx nonsense we have today (and them Europlates make it look even blander).0 -
CIÉ..........I did it
Yeah I suppose nostalgia plays a part in it, but the old registrations had a little bit of 'mystery' about them, i.e. most people couldn't figure them out
The only bit of variety in the current system is when you spot a cherished plate that matches the cars model number, e.g. a BMW 520 with the reg 03-D-520 or the rare(!) occcassions when you see a very low number on a reg e.g. 04-WW-4
Actually why is it that we see so few really low reg numbers ?
(I rarely see one below four digits - i.e 04-DL-xxxx )
I would like it if we now had the choice of some form of reg plate that we could transfer from car to car.
For example,
The govt could issue a number and county letter(s) to people (for a fee of course!) which they could keep and transfer to their next car etc etc
Say, for example, somebody in Wicklow could apply for the number - WW-200 (or 200-WW) or a person in Donegal could apply for 5500-DL etc).0 -
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Victor_Meldrew wrote:ctrl + alt + shift + e - A difficult manoevre, involving two hands. The fact that my diligence has been noticed has made it all worthwhile though
Or you can do Alt Gr+ Shift+E if you want to do it in 3 fingers
I actually notived the hand-pulled "Bin-Trailers" that the corpo workers use in town use the old style registrations still - ZV XXXX0 -
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Yeah I remember seeing a lot of 1986 cars from less populus counties (i.e. most counties outside of Dublin and Cork) with regs of format "1234 XX" Presumably this meant that they had at least another 26 X 999 combinations left with the first being "1 AXX"
But it would have been extremely messy if in 1986 they had taken unused reg combinatiosn from say Carlow and allocated them to Dublin. It probably would have caused a few heart attacks in motor tax offices around the country
TBH, the old system would have been unsustainable during the car boom of the 1990s when many more regs wer being issued than ever before. At least with the current number system, we shouldn't run into any problems until 2087....
BrianD3
I reckon that when the old system ended it had only around two years left in it before problems began.
Clare, Kilkenny and Wicklow were getting close to the end of their respective series with Clare finishing at 107 XIE, Kilkenny at 235 UIP and Wicklow at 426 TNI, and there were only two marks that had not yet been issued - IG (now used by Fermanagh) and VI.
Had the old system continued beyond the end of 1986, Clare would have completed IE at the end of 1987 or the start of 1988, and then probably taken IG - reserved marks issued from 1982 onwards tended to be as close as possible to the original marks of the counties that took them, like for instance Limerick County taking IV after completing IU, and Tipperary South Riding taking GI after exhausting HI.
That would have left just VI, and the headaches would have probably started then, with Kilkenny and Wicklow set to complete their series at roughly the same time - which would have been around the start of 1989.0 -
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