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

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  • Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭FreeFallin




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭DJ Hafez


    FreeFallin wrote: »
    Brabus? Unless brabus work with the S320 diesel, then i think this owner is bluffing

    http://www.driving.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=1217523

    It's a lovely car he has actually. Lovely big chrome-ish alloys without being a boyracer. see it every so often

    dsc00172cb1.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    FreeFallin wrote: »

    Kahn work with the 320's, Brabus could well easily do so as well.


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


    DJ Hafez wrote: »
    It's a lovely car he has actually. Lovely big chrome-ish alloys without being a boyracer. see it every so often
    :eek: Those wheel are awful IMO! A bit like wearing flashy runners with a suit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    :eek: Those wheel are awful IMO! A bit like wearing flashy runners with a suit.

    Aye, something i did the other day going to a wedding. I got laughed at:(

    Wheels ruin it IMO


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    +1


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


    Max_Damage wrote: »
    Might aswell throw this up here while we're at it...

    It's even on Cartell...

    Registration IRL1
    Make CHEVROLET
    Model UNKNOWN
    Description Not Available
    Fuel Type PETROL

    I presume that it was an Irish Presidential car or similar, but that plate should not have existed anywhere in the UK or Ireland - RL is a combination from Cornwall, but would never have had an I, Q or Z in front of it in any case.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    Buddies dads car is 08-C-163 Its a CL63 AMG!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 888 ✭✭✭tdc


    Kahn work with the 320's, Brabus could well easily do so as well.

    yeah brabus can do the 320, i just dont see the point in the reg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    tdc wrote: »
    yeah brabus can do the 320, i just dont see the point in the reg

    Ah yes, now i get ya...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,782 ✭✭✭P.C.


    This one might have been posted before.

    Even though I do not like Volvos, this one was in very good condition for an eight year old car.

    Dec08%20058.JPG


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 goodladdy


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

    diggin up a really old post ere but was it a white e30 320?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭veetwin


    Spotted recently leaving the Ryanair building at Dublin Airport: 0x D 737 8 on a 3 series coupe. Took a moment to figure it was a pilot with a liking for the Boeing 737 800.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭mik_da_man


    Spotted this a while back but thought it was apt given that's the 7th Jan 2009

    3177045565


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,152 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    mik_da_man wrote: »
    Spotted this a while back but thought it was apt given that's the 7th Jan 2009

    3177045565

    What are you driving, a ford Connect?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,152 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    I have wondered about this thread. What do the people that constantly complain about showing people number plates think of this thread?


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭mik_da_man


    Berty wrote: »
    What are you driving, a ford Connect?


    Nope a Focus


  • Registered Users Posts: 296 ✭✭Irish-trucker


    I'm working in england at the minute , and i saw a mercedes actros recovery truck with the reg T8W ME :D made me smile

    A lad on the site has a lovely red E39 M5 with the reg V8 O NO :D

    Sorry no pics , lorry was on the move and the pic of the m5 is on my old phone which is in ireland :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,152 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    There is a 2003 Dublin Reg Taxi driving around Limerick with an odd number plate. I had no camera and If I had he went passed me so I would never have gotten it anyway.

    The rear number plate read 03 D XXXX and the front number plate is an original metal white plate with the IRL under the EU stars but it says "SEBASTIAN".

    Anybody else seen this? It was 313131 taxi(name of company and their phone number).

    Navy Octavia


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Had to do a double take on this one...:p
    Image913.jpg
    Its either polish or lithuanian or something.Nice try at going undercover!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭jrar


    Had to do a double take on this one...:p
    Image913.jpg
    Its either polish or lithuanian or something.Nice try at going undercover!:D

    Definitely not Polish - could very well be Lithuanian but cannot see the nationality code on the EU band.

    Don't suppose there's any way it could be an old Wexford plate ?!?:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭pcardin


    jrar wrote: »
    Definitely not Polish - could very well be Lithuanian but cannot see the nationality code on the EU band.

    Don't suppose there's any way it could be an old Wexford plate ?!?:rolleyes:

    Estonian plate. Nice to see them here. Haven't seen many Estonians in IRL.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,660 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    plate.jpg

    Stephens Green on Friday night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Flesh Gorden


    Didn't get a pic - and might already have been posted - but one i'll never forget was a Bentley i seen in Dublin

    06-D-666

    Suited it pretty well


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    Flying Spur? Sat in it in Terenure Car show a few years back, nice owner!
    There's another registered as 06-WW-666


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭Capital Slow


    saw a Old mini the other day

    01 MN 1, nice reg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 fourx4fan


    Ok, number plates are not exactly rare or funny but certainly something strange about them. Stopped to look at the 04 Golf GTi few days ago and noticed a red and a blue Audi A4 with reg 05 KK 2005.
    th_05kk2005.jpgth_05kk20051.jpg
    Checked this No on Cartell and it's a DAF.


    I then noticed that all of the other plates were 04 xx 2004, 05 xx 2005 etc. I checked these numbers on Cartell and are all false.

    th_04kk2004.jpg......BMW 530.

    th_04w2004.jpg.....No record.

    th_04wd2004.jpg....No record.

    th_05w2005.jpg.......BMW X5

    th_05wd2005.jpg......Mondeo.

    th_07kk2007.jpg.......Passat.

    th_07w2007.jpg........No record.


    Obviously, these cars are imports which are yet to be registered. Suppose it's hardly crime of the century but if I owned any of these numbers, I wouldn't be too happy. Some of these cars were parked on the forecourt but some were on the public roadway. Seems a very strange practice to say the least.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    Nothing strange about it. Although i wouldn't do it myself, alot of people do.


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


    UK imports waiting for their true Irish plates.
    The dealer doesn't want to reg them until they're bought to improve cashflow and to ensure that the buyer gets the reg that they want (for their county). All legal and above board...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 fourx4fan


    Type 17 wrote: »
    UK imports waiting for their true Irish plates.
    The dealer doesn't want to reg them until they're bought to improve cashflow and to ensure that the buyer gets the reg that they want (for their county). All legal and above board...

    Seriously............ Are you telling me that it's legal and above board for me to put the reg number of someone else's car on mine and park it on public roadway?
    Something like 04 A4 2004, 05 BMW 2005 would be fine but I cannot understand how it would be legal to use someone else's reg.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    fourx4fan wrote: »
    Seriously............ Are you telling me that it's legal and above board for me to put the reg number of someone else's car on mine and park it on public roadway?
    Something like 04 A4 2004, 05 BMW 2005 would be fine but I cannot understand how it would be legal to use someone else's reg.

    Well, technically what you are saying is true. Generally you would see XX-LK-0000. I see where you are coming from though.


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


    fourx4fan wrote: »
    Seriously............ Are you telling me that it's legal and above board for me to put the reg number of someone else's car on mine and park it on public roadway?
    Something like 04 A4 2004, 05 BMW 2005 would be fine but I cannot understand how it would be legal to use someone else's reg.

    For you, it wouldn't be legal as you are not a motor trader. A registered Motor Trader may keep vehicles that are not registered to them (or registered in Ireland at all), and can drive them on the road if they display up-to-date trade plates. Whether any plates are fixed to the car in the space provided, or what is written on any that are fitted is irrelevant.
    Presumably parking some cars on the road without trade plates displayed on each one is technically illegal, but given that they are parked outside what is obviously a motor trader's premises means that it is easy to determine what is happening, and it is fairly apparent that the trader is not trying to pass the cars off as registered to those indexes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 fourx4fan


    Well, technically what you are saying is true. Generally you would see XX-LK-0000. I see where you are coming from though.


    Ah yes, that makes sense but having an actual reg plate is looking for trouble. I wouldn't be happy if I saw mine on something.
    Wonder do they go to the bother of removing them when going on test drive?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    fourx4fan wrote: »
    Ah yes, that makes sense but having an actual reg plate is looking for trouble. I wouldn't be happy if I saw mine on something.
    Wonder do they go to the bother of removing them when going on test drive?

    I'm actually stumped. Made me think lol...

    It can't be legal for them to have those plates on the car, or drive with the plates on them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 fourx4fan


    Type 17 wrote: »
    For you, it wouldn't be legal as you are not a motor trader. A registered Motor Trader may keep vehicles that are not registered to them (or registered in Ireland at all), and can drive them on the road if they display up-to-date trade plates. Whether any plates are fixed to the car in the space provided, or what is written on any that are fitted is irrelevant.
    Presumably parking some cars on the road without trade plates displayed on each one is technically illegal, but given that they are parked outside what is obviously a motor trader's premises means that it is easy to determine what is happening, and it is fairly apparent that the trader is not trying to pass the cars off as registered to those indexes.

    I accept what you are saying......but my a agrument is that the cars have plates on them that are belonging to other cars. As limerick Man said, he often sees 00-LK-0000 or something similar. That is completely understandable and while it might not be technically legal but who gives a sh1t in that case.
    I also accept that the dealer is probably not trying to pass cars off as registered to those indexes but surely it cant be correct for same reg to be on two Audi A4's and also on a DAF truck. Motor trader or not, that can't be legal. It's certainly foolish........but surely it can't be right:cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    fourx4fan wrote: »
    I accept what you are saying......but my a agrument is that the cars have plates on them that are belonging to other cars. As limerick Man said, he often sees 00-LK-0000 or something similar. That is completely understandable and while it might not be technically legal but who gives a sh1t in that case.
    I also accept that the dealer is probably not trying to pass cars off as registered to those indexes but surely it cant be correct for same reg to be on two Audi A4's and also on a DAF truck. Motor trader or not, that can't be legal. It's certainly foolish........but surely it can't be right:cool:

    Start a new thread on this topic, with the same pics. It'll keep off topic posts of this thread:D


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


    fourx4fan wrote: »
    I accept what you are saying......but my a agrument is that the cars have plates on them that are belonging to other cars. As limerick Man said, he often sees 00-LK-0000 or something similar. That is completely understandable and while it might not be technically legal but who gives a sh1t in that case.
    I also accept that the dealer is probably not trying to pass cars off as registered to those indexes but surely it cant be correct for same reg to be on two Audi A4's and also on a DAF truck. Motor trader or not, that can't be legal. It's certainly foolish........but surely it can't be right:cool:

    If it was my dealership, I probably wouldn't do it, but the only time it would be an issue would be if the car was being driven on the road and the driver did something wrong (eg: photo'd by a speed camera). If he's going to allow these cars out on test drives, then I would tend to think that, to avoid such issues, he should ensure that the trade plates are placed over these plates rather than in the front/rear windows as they usually are. Parked up, there isn't really any serious issue. It strikes me that he isn't using the 04-KK-0000 version because he doesn't want to immediately draw attention to the fact that he is selling imports.
    Start a new thread on this topic, with the same pics. It'll keep off topic posts of this thread:D

    Fair play, I'll post there if required.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    Start a new thread on this topic, with the same pics. It'll keep off topic posts of this thread:D

    For the love of God don't! It'll descend into show plates versus vanity plates versus snobbery madness :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    qz wrote: »
    For the love of God don't! It'll descend into show plates versus vanity plates versus snobbery madness :eek:

    Yay for boards :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 fourx4fan


    Type 17 wrote: »
    It strikes me that he isn't using the 04-KK-0000 version because he doesn't want to immediately draw attention to the fact that he is selling imports.


    Seems likes that's his game but if it were me, I'd put 04-KK-85000 in order to evade getting a punch in the gob from a trucker driving a DAF.

    It would certainly put me off buying from him.......probably more from the stupidity point of view more than the fact that he's trying to attract customers on somewhat false pretenses.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    fourx4fan wrote: »
    Seems likes that's his game but if it were me, I'd put 04-KK-85000 in order to evade getting a punch in the gob from a trucker driving a DAF.

    It would certainly put me off buying from him.......probably more from the stupidity point of view more than the fact that he's trying to attract customers on somewhat false pretenses.

    I think your reading into it a bit far. At the end of the day, the dealer is just sticking the year (2005) at the end of the plate. Albeit wrong, it wouldn't stop me buying a car from them, or changing my opinion on them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 fourx4fan


    I think your reading into it a bit far. At the end of the day, the dealer is just sticking the year (2005) at the end of the plate. Albeit wrong, it wouldn't stop me buying a car from them, or changing my opinion on them.

    OK Limerick Man.........accept that......cars looked very nice.......especially that multi coloured DAF A4:D

    In the current climate, it's not easy for anyone in that business.


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


    liam.jpg

    Spotted this in Blessington recently.

    Also saw my first 09 vanity plate recently 09 D 69 on a 3 series convertible.
    So some plonker has gone out and spent €1000 on a plate which will make their car virtually unsaleable in the future...:rolleyes:

    invest4deepvalue.com



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭Bearcat


    Do-more wrote: »

    Also saw my first 09 vanity plate recently 09 D 69 on a 3 series convertible.
    So some plonker has gone out and spent €1000 on a plate which will make their car virtually unsaleable in the future...:rolleyes:

    could'nt agree more, what a flute especially in these times blowing a k on a pathetic reg no.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭Alfie1


    I saw 09 C 99 today, no pic tho. It's a WHITE FORD TRANSIT NT 300SWB 2.4

    I guess there's still money to be made selling ice-cream :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,451 ✭✭✭CharlieCroker


    saw a Focus ST yesterday with 09-C-57 (done to look like ST)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭DJ Hafez


    [Nerd Joke]

    1337 - I think not :p

    dsc00480nah.jpg

    [/NERD JOKE]


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Flesh Gorden


    I was wasting time on Cartell
    looking back at the old Cork reg lord mayors cars (XX-C-1) - Ford all the way except for 1984
    Now I know they wern't always reserved for the Lord Mayor but a part of me hopes these where

    84-C-1 - Massy Ferguson - Diesel
    the only one on par with this is
    81-D-1 - Lotus


    Also looks like 09-D-4 is still up for grabs
    Any takers? :D



    .


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    I got a picture of an M6 today and the first two charecters of the reg were M6, didn't get a shot of the reg though.

    Bloody lovely looking car.


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