Old style car registrations

carchaeologist · 30-03-2010 10:55PM

Some more from DoneDeal.ie!:)

Nice reg on this BMW 320 Convertible.

And another Fire truck,this time from Limerick

Toyota Crown Hearse

traleegirl101 · 05-04-2010 07:35PM

My Dad used to have a navy blue Cortina with the registration 666 ZX :eek:

carchaeologist · 06-04-2010 06:47PM

traleegirl101 wrote: »

My Dad used to have a navy blue Cortina with the registration 666 ZX :eek:

Nice,it was a 1.6L going by the records. Any pics,thats one id love to see! How long ago since he had it?

Blue850 · 06-04-2010 09:58PM

Grand old reg on a grand old lady:)

Blue850 · 06-04-2010 10:09PM

bob50 · 06-04-2010 10:12PM

Hi there The Fiat 500 looks great i remember having one when i was 17 what a great car it still looks better than the new fiat 500

Thanks bob

Bearhunter · 06-04-2010 11:14PM

traleegirl101 wrote: »

My Dad used to have a navy blue Cortina with the registration 666 ZX :eek:

There used to be a car in Wexford when I was growing up in the late 70s/early 80s with the rego YMI 666, which I always read as "why am I 666?"
It was a yellow Renault from memory.

carchaeologist · 15-04-2010 07:44PM

This is one of Blue850s pics from recently,cool reg eh!

carchaeologist · 27-07-2010 10:41AM

Time to resurect this thread!
Full?id=3455786

Blue850 · 29-07-2010 10:35PM

Blue850 · 29-07-2010 11:17PM

Great Galway reg for a Dino 246

Go Harvey Go · 28-09-2010 01:02PM

carchaeologist wrote: »

IIP*** was issued in 1963,but was overlooked in the 80s in the reversal of that series for some reason.

Reverse IIP actually was issued, around mid-1981.

Did you mean RIP?

Go Harvey Go · 28-09-2010 01:35PM

The last Roscommon registration before the change was 292 BDI - but I've discovered that no Cartell records exist as regards 1-99 ADI and 1-99 BDI.

Given that reverse ADI commenced in February 1986, is it possible that, with the change looming, Roscommon County Council decided to play around a bit and hold back the numbers 1-99?

On the other hand, Sligo reached reverse AEI in April 1986 and started it from 1, as did Waterford with reverse AKI two months later.

carchaeologist · 11-10-2010 12:02PM

Couple more here for ye..

Great reg on this Wolseley.

nightster1 · 12-10-2010 06:55PM

Passed this fine machine in traffic today, anyone know what it is?

is this an Irish reg?

carchaeologist · 13-10-2010 10:28PM

nightster1 wrote: »

Passed this fine machine in traffic today, anyone know what it is?

is this an Irish reg?

No,that looks like a Guildford/Surrey registration from December 1959.

carchaeologist · 13-10-2010 11:30PM

Scrapyard/old irish reg porn..:D
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scrawb/sets/72157624866278872/

Go Harvey Go · 16-10-2010 08:47PM

carchaeologist wrote: »

Scrapyard/old irish reg porn..:D
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scrawb/sets/72157624866278872/

Excellent find Carky!

:)

I particularly like the photos of the VW Derby registered 262 FZF, and the Subaru Leone registered 9791 AI.

These registrations would have been among the last in Cork and Meath respectively before the change - Cork finishing at 542 FZF, and Meath reaching 9999 AI in December 1986, before issuing 1-88 ZN. (Wonder if any of those 88 vehicles are still going round?!)

Silvera · 16-10-2010 10:31PM

My thread is going strong!

Old Irish Trade Plate...

Red Alert · 16-10-2010 10:34PM

277 OZU was the bus that brought me home from school most days.

16-10-2010 11:14PM

Red Alert wrote: »

277 OZU was the bus that brought me home from school most days.

Tried to Google this and there's some photos of this bus (KD277) on fotopic.net sites, but they're all down right now for some reason.

EDIT: It's back up now, here's three:

http://freddeanjnr.fotopic.net/p55813989.html
http://freddeanjnr.fotopic.net/p66195577.html
http://freddeanjnr.fotopic.net/p66195596.html

greendragon3 · 17-10-2010 12:22AM

what a brilliant thread , i love old irish regs , cant stand the new style or "ZV" style plates on old cars , bring back the old irish reg i say !!! anyway here are a few of mine .

carchaeologist · 19-10-2010 10:30PM

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

before issuing 1-88 ZN. (Wonder if any of those 88 vehicles are still going round?!)

1ZN-10ZN were not issued for some reason also,so that just leaves 78 of them...

Go Harvey Go · 22-10-2010 11:50PM

carchaeologist wrote: »

1ZN-10ZN were not issued for some reason also,so that just leaves 78 of them...

10 ZN actually was issued - according to Cartell and also MotorCheck, it was/is a Toyota Corolla.

Looks like you're right about 1-9 ZN, though - I gather that with the change being just days away, Meath County Council decided to play around a bit.

On a similar note, it appears that Louth went straight to 101 ZY onwards after issuing YZY 999 in September 1985 - skipping reverse IY and 1-100 ZY. Wonder if even then, some 16 months before the change, there were some serious considerations about a new registration system?

carchaeologist · 23-10-2010 01:32PM

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

10 ZN actually was issued - according to Cartell and also MotorCheck, it was/is a Toyota Corolla.

They just didnt issue the single numbers so,interesting.

On a similar note, it appears that Louth went straight to 101 ZY onwards after issuing YZY 999 in September 1985 - skipping reverse IY and 1-100 ZY. Wonder if even then, some 16 months before the change, there were some serious considerations about a new registration system?

I guess the new system was being considered since the early 80s because it was S.I 231 26/6/81 that authorised ASI-YSI(Less QSI) AZG-YZG(Less QZG) AZS-YZS(Less QZS )and AZV-YZV(Less QZV). SI,ZG,ZS and ZV were never issued in the original allocations. So it was obvious from at least then,but surely from years before that there was going to be a serious shortage of marks in the 80s.

S.I no6 9/1/86 authourised SI,ZG,ZS and ZV(which was never issued in the original pre '87 series). Strange that these were issued after the three letters/digits formats were, as it was always the opposite since the registration system began.

audi4444 · 23-10-2010 02:16PM

luv the old reg that new type has cost us a fortune fine cars worth nothing just because of a plate:mad:

Go Harvey Go · 06-11-2010 08:30PM

One thing I wonder is how much the decision to specifically start the current system in 1987 was influenced by the situation in Clare, which finished at 107 XIE.

Had the old system lasted one more year, it would have been touch and go as to whether or not the Banner County would have reached 999 ZIE, and thus exhausted all IE combinations, before the beginning of 1988 - given that they would have moved on to reverse YIE sometime in the spring of '87, and reverse ZIE by the autumn.

If they had, then I wonder how the last few days of the year would have been negotiated. The best thing to do would probably have been to transfer a few IE**** registrations from the early years of the system - since issuing an S.I. prescribing new marks would have been rather farcical, as would taking registrations from neighbouring counties like Limerick or Galway.

carchaeologist · 06-11-2010 08:53PM

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

One thing I wonder is how much the decision to specifically start the current system in 1987 was influenced by the situation in Clare, which finished at 107 XIE.

107XIE is/was a Red Austin Metro City. Wonder is it still out there?
Heres one from very near the end, an imported Elan.

Im not sure if it was Clare that was the problem, Dublin was pretty much near the end even by the start of 1986,short of issuing SI, ZG and ZS in reverse, and ZV both ways also,there wasnt very far to go. The game was up as they say!

Go Harvey Go · 06-11-2010 10:43PM

Believe it or not, Dublin would have actually been alright for at least another two years.

After ZS 8710-9999 and ZV 1-9999, they had the reverses of ASI-ZSI, AZG-YZG, AZS-YZS and AZV-YZV (excluding the Qs, of course), as well as those of SI, ZG, ZS and ZV - a grand total of over 148,000 registrations.

This is mainly why I was thinking more of the situation in Clare.

Kilkenny and Wicklow were also running dry at the end of 1986, their respective last issues being 235 UIP and 426 TNI - and as regards replacement codes, IG (now used by Fermanagh) and VI were the only ones still available.

carchaeologist · 07-11-2010 03:44PM

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

Believe it or not, Dublin would have actually been alright for at least another two years.

After ZS 8710-9999 and ZV 1-9999, they had the reverses of ASI-ZSI, AZG-YZG, AZS-YZS and AZV-YZV (excluding the Qs, of course), as well as those of SI, ZG, ZS and ZV - a grand total of over 148,000 registrations.

I guess so,looking at it like that!

Old style car registrations

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