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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭drdre


    Now this is the best plate.
    07 - D - F430
    He is the same guy with the DB9 04- D89


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    netwhizkid wrote:
    I was in Cork City today and spotted a very rare plate, a Kuwaiti one :eek:. It was on a Black Mitsubishi Colt (LHD) that was parked in the Wilton Shopping Centre around 2.30 to 3.30ish. A number plate from Kuwait was a first for me anyway. I snapped it on my phone.

    I've seen a few Kuwait plates in Dublin. I also saw a Honda Civic from UAE aswell a few weeks ago.

    I saw yesterday in Terenure a Mercedes W123 with South African plates on it. It was in the driveway of a house. I wonder if I could get some pics of it soon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Max_Damage wrote:
    I've seen a few Kuwait plates in Dublin. I also saw a Honda Civic from UAE aswell a few weeks ago
    I've seen a fair few middle eastern plates in Dublin especially around hospitals - (presumably owned by doctors?).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭drdre


    I've seen a fair few middle eastern plates in Dublin especially around hospitals - (presumably owned by doctors?).

    theres loads of foreign cars around dublin.in a carpark that i was in yesterday i seriously saw over 20 different foreign cars from uk,poland,latvia etc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    drdre wrote:
    theres loads of foreign cars around dublin.in a carpark that i was in yesterday i seriously saw over 20 different foreign cars from uk,poland,latvia etc.

    It's gotten to the point I now nearly consider Eastern European plates as Irish, given the amount of them here!

    About 3 weeks ago, I saw the first Russian reg. (RUS) here. It was on an old Mercedes van on the M50. I've also started seeing a good few Moldovan (MD) and Croatian (HR) cars around aswell.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭jame5_b


    when i brought my MINI cooper in from england it had the reg ye53 fun (yes fun)..

    a few people told me its worth a few pounds. i saw on them web sites in the uk they were looking for £2500 for ye54 fun. does anyone know by any chance how you go about selling them?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    drdre wrote:
    theres loads of foreign cars around dublin.in a carpark that i was in yesterday i seriously saw over 20 different foreign cars from uk,poland,latvia etc.
    Kuwaiti and middle eastern plates in general will be in Arabic script. That's what makes them more noteworthy. There's nothing special in seeing eastern European plates. They're everywhere!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    jame5_b wrote:
    when i brought my MINI cooper in from england it had the reg ye53 fun (yes fun)..

    a few people told me its worth a few pounds. i saw on them web sites in the uk they were looking for £2500 for ye54 fun. does anyone know by any chance how you go about selling them?

    Try www.regtransfers.co.uk or someone like them, they all buy and sell numbers, google will bring up tons of them, normally they will give you a free valuation. They do have new style plates with FUN in them for as low as £344 but that is still the thick end of €500 so better than a kick in the teeth. Reg numbers are a funny old business, one digit wrong can have a huge effect on values. YES 3 FUN doesn't have nearly the same appeal as YES 4 FUN. Still you have nothing to lose and probably a right few quid to gain, best of luck and let us all know how you get on.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Kuwaiti and middle eastern plates in general will be in Arabic script.

    Great for the speed cameras!

    Going slightly off topic, but it got me thinking today. Given the amount of Jap import cars here, has anyone here actually ever seen a vehicle here with Jap plates on it? I have twice, one was many years ago (can't even remember what car they were on), and the other was about 3 or so years ago on a motorbike. The Japanese font really turns heads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    Max_Damage wrote:
    Great for the speed cameras!

    Given the amount of Jap import cars here, has anyone here actually ever seen a vehicle here with Jap plates on it? I have twice, one was many years ago (can't even remember what car they were on), and the other was about 3 or so years ago on a motorbike. The Japanese font really turns heads.

    When a car leaves japan to visit another country, it is given a set of exact plates but the kanji lettering is now in English. About ten years ago a family travelled here in a campervan (Liteace) and the number plate read Kanagawa, Japan on the top line and the numbers on the bottom line.
    I have also noticed that some japanese car's number plates are so small that the number plate is an imitation of the japanese lettering, ie 00 D in small lettering and 1234 on the bottom line in large lettering.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Lord Mayor of Sligo! :D
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    It's enough to make you go cross-eyed!

    Sorry it's a bad photo but the number is 01 D 11111 (illegally spaced as Ol D lllll of course!)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭macnab


    A friend of mine had a car with the reg ### SHI, a friend of his thought it would be funny to put a T at the end, and it was funny. However his car reg was ### CLI. I think the next part is obvious. Poetic justice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭blastman


    RobAMerc wrote:
    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 !
    I know the guy who has "CRX 51R" in the UK. He's selling it soon. I'd be tempted if I could actually put it on my car.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭Calibos


    2 well placed Little black screws (to help keep the number plate on like :D ) would sort out that plate nicely


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    The best reg I've seen was on an Enzo EN20 it just looked the business!!! The loacl newsletter even did a story on the car when it appeared in Cork 2 summers ago!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,283 ✭✭✭gucci


    Calibos wrote:
    2 well placed Little black screws (to help keep the number plate on like :D ) would sort out that plate nicely

    would that be to make the plat look like TT or 007??

    sorry pass no heed on that statement, cant believe i wrote that bit of blonde moment


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭conical




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    I never knew we were allowed draw our own plates.....
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭drdre


    The best reg I've seen was on an Enzo EN20 it just looked the business!!! The loacl newsletter even did a story on the car when it appeared in Cork 2 summers ago!
    Does someone still have the enzo in ireland.Have you seen it, What colour is it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭drdre


    conical wrote:
    Saw this in Donnybrook yesterday...
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    Thats a nice plate :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭E92


    Theres a number plate on a DB9 in Cork and it is 06-D-29. Theres also an M5 with 01-C-5 and theres a 3 litre Z4 with 04-C-Z4. No pics unfortunately.


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 6,526 Mod ✭✭✭✭sharkman




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    ROFL it's neither a BNW or an M5!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    MIN 1 was put on a Nissan Micra (there was a photo of it in the Irish Times motoring page back in the late 80's beside an article bemoaning the waste of good plates on the wrong cars, and urging the Gov't to allow plate transfers).

    Best plate on a public service vehicle (another photo in the Irish Times) - an ambulance in Clare - 999 DIE :eek:

    Also seen in Dublin around 2001: 1 GLI on a Mk1 Golf GTI Cabrio (these are badged as GLI)

    Lovely old plate on a lovely old Alfa Romeo Guilietta, now probably rusted to death :( 1111 TI

    I've also seen 87 RN 25 on a Renault 25 - yeah, but why bother...

    Best of all was IX 1, spaced in the middle of the plate as [ IXI ] on an 80's Audi 100


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,164 ✭✭✭hobochris


    steve06 wrote:
    I never knew we were allowed draw our own plates.....
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    its trick truckers use, when they need to pull a trailer that isnt their regular trailer... i.e. not that one with their offical tractor reg plates on..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    hobochris wrote:
    its trick truckers use, when they need to pull a trailer that isnt their regular trailer... i.e. not that one with their offical tractor reg plates on..


    yeh some trailers have places for square number plates and some for rectangle, most drivers(i know) have a square plate to put on the trailer but when they have a rectangle one they write it on


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭peepsbates


    i bought a 316i two weeks ago with xx x 316, i never noticed when i test drove till the gf pointed it out next day:o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    I'm a bit puzzled by a reg I saw in Swords today.

    WZS *** (Dublin) on Euro style plates on a Nissan Almera!

    According to www.cartell.ie the plate belongs to a Ford Sierra. :eek:

    If someone wanted to forge a plate, why on earth would they screw it up so much with a pre 1987 reg (uncommon enough as it is) on a modern car? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 511 ✭✭✭PanhardPL


    I'm a bit puzzled by a reg I saw in Swords today.

    WZS *** (Dublin) on Euro style plates on a Nissan Almera!

    According to www.cartell.ie the plate belongs to a Ford Sierra. :eek:

    If someone wanted to forge a plate, why on earth would they screw it up so much with a pre 1987 reg (uncommon enough as it is) on a modern car? :confused:

    WZS... was issued on 2/85 and lasted until 3/85 and Nissan did not have an Almera available then. You should have reported it to the Gardai as this car could be used in a robbery.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Do your duty, report it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    I was reluctant to report it as some people say it's possible to transfer a reg here if the other vehicle is destroyed. The only time I've ever heard it done was the 'VIP' plate for the Popemobile in 1979. I have a vague recollection of junkyard saying it was possible though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    I'm a bit puzzled by a reg I saw in Swords today.

    WZS *** (Dublin) on Euro style plates on a Nissan Almera!

    According to www.cartell.ie the plate belongs to a Ford Sierra. :eek:

    If someone wanted to forge a plate, why on earth would they screw it up so much with a pre 1987 reg (uncommon enough as it is) on a modern car? :confused:

    Funny enough that you mention that, I remember seeing about a year ago a Land Rover Discovery on old Irish plates. I was wondering what was going on there.

    Back on topic, I've seen quite alot of cars going around with Kuwait plates on them. The latest one was a Peugeot 206 CC in the city centre.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    I'm a bit puzzled by a reg I saw in Swords today.

    WZS *** (Dublin) on Euro style plates on a Nissan Almera!

    According to www.cartell.ie the plate belongs to a Ford Sierra. :eek:

    If someone wanted to forge a plate, why on earth would they screw it up so much with a pre 1987 reg (uncommon enough as it is) on a modern car? :confused:

    You didn't happen to cop if it was right hand drive or left?

    Countries such as Sweden, Latvia and Lithuania are still issuing this style of number and in many cases the registrations duplicate old Irish numbers.

    Didn't get a snap but saw a Volvo with the reg. WMD ### last summer in Sweden. Pretty apt I thought as cars have probably killed many more people than Nukes have!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    Max_Damage wrote:
    Funny enough that you mention that, I remember seeing about a year ago a Land Rover Discovery on old Irish plates. I was wondering what was going on there.

    Range Rovers and Discos are re-manufactured on old chassis rails by a company in the UK. They keep the original chassis number and registration. That way you can have a new Disco but in the eyes of the Revenue commissioners it is 15 years old which has benefits for Tax purposes (Benefit in kind etc.)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    Shouldn't that plate be on a truck!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Max_Damage wrote:
    Funny enough that you mention that, I remember seeing about a year ago a Land Rover Discovery on old Irish plates.
    Do-more wrote:
    Range Rovers and Discos are re-manufactured on old chassis rails by a company in the UK. They keep the original chassis number and registration.
    Here's an example - a Discovery with old Kilkenny plates on a LR Defender chassis.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    unreadable, and playboy bunnies on it too....

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,249 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


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    Neighbours M3, couldnt keep my eyes off it when I called up to his gaff today!

    This is like one of those magic eye things, you either see how cool the reg is or you don't!


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  • Posts: 3,620 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    bigkev49 wrote:
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    Neighbours M3, couldnt keep my eyes off it when I called up to his gaff today!

    This is like one of those magic eye things, you either see how cool the reg is or you don't!

    Nice. That colour paint really needs to be kept clean!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,249 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    Yeh but a flick of dirt on a RWD car looks pretty cool :D! Agreed though this one needs a bit of a spit and shine

    Saw an M6 in cork yesterday too with "messin" wheels on!! no pic though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    bigkev49 - there's a 2003 yellow BMW M3 that I see occasionally with a Leitrim registration but it's spaced appropriately to give 03 L M3


    You blanked out the county in your pic but we all know that it has to be Dublin. No other county goes as far as 77,734. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    bigkev49 - You blanked out the county in your pic but we all know that it has to be Dublin. No other county goes as far as 77,734. ;)

    A quick check on a certain CAR website will TELL the rest of the reg!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    It appears that Kildare Co. Co. are attempting to increase revenue from Premium Reg numbers by issuing plates with decimal places! :D

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭2 Espressi


    Spotted in Limerick on Friday, and yes, the owner was of the Auburn persuasion...

    487984173_a3ebf337b1.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    MrOhm.jpg

    Sorry for the really bad photo, the number is M12 OHM, the font for the 12 is different the the rest of the plate and makes it look like an R, so the plate reads MR OHM probably in the electrical business I guess!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,769 ✭✭✭eljono


    Couple of English reg. trucks spotted in Adare.

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    And the new A5;

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    IN - Ingolstadt, Audi HQ
    A5 - model
    001 - first one registered?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭drdre


    I like the nikes plate. :)


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