Old style car registrations

Caddyvanman · 06-09-2012 10:38AM

Any idea what year or vehicle this is: TZM 490

Go Harvey Go · 06-09-2012 09:27PM

Cragmore Matchbox wrote: »

I agree with you. ZV is boring and uninteresting. It is now also becoming almost illegible with all the digits. It would hjave been soooo much simpler and more regional to have imports use either their own plates (majority coming from UK or NI anyway) and if there were unusual German or other strange plates, just continue a system from the old sequences county by county, for example;

AIU 1000 to AIU 9999
BIU 1000 to BIU 9999 etc

ACI 1000 to ACI 9999 etc etc.
Dublin and other multiple letters counties would have had many more numbers to meet greater demand in those areas.

This system could have lasted for years and years and would be similar in layout to the N.I. system which is very readable and memorable. Then, just leave it at that and not be always fiddling with a system and making it impossible to understand.

Just my opinion for what it's worth.

Any comments ?

Not a bad idea at all.

Of course, once those extended sequences were completed, they could move on to the corresponding reverses (1000-9999 AIU, 1000-9999 BIU, etc).

Caddyvanman wrote: »

Any idea what year or vehicle this is: TZM 490

Galway, spring 1975.

It doesn't show up on Cartell or Motorcheck, so the vehicle in question has obviously long since been scrapped.

patcaff · 08-01-2013 07:37PM

Hi Guys,
Anyone know when the reg 961 JZO might have been used or an older one 21 TRI. Any help would be really greatly appreciated.
Pat

patcaff · 08-01-2013 07:38PM

I should have said both are Dublin registrations. AFIK.

Go Harvey Go · 09-01-2013 07:19AM

patcaff wrote: »

Anyone know when the reg 961 JZO might have been used or an older one 21 TRI. Any help would be really greatly appreciated.

961 JZO was issued around the late summer of 1981, and 21 TRI in early 1975.

patcaff · 09-01-2013 12:11PM

Thanks for the info on 21 TRI Go Harvey Go. Really appreciated.m Now here is one to test you- 114 iiz , a Mayo reg. Renault 12.

Go Harvey Go · 10-01-2013 07:49AM

patcaff wrote: »

Now here is one to test you- 114 iiz , a Mayo reg. Renault 12.

Early 1978.

r3nu4l · 16-01-2013 09:59AM

Here's one. Anyone know what year this car was registered in?

473 EZJ

It was a Vauxhalle Chevette L (Opel Kadet)
According to Cartell the car or log book is alive and well.

Go Harvey Go · 17-01-2013 06:03AM

r3nu4l wrote: »

Here's one. Anyone know what year this car was registered in?

473 EZJ

It was a Vauxhalle Chevette L (Opel Kadet)
According to Cartell the car or log book is alive and well.

Mid-1980 in Dublin.

r3nu4l · 17-01-2013 10:25AM

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

Mid-1980 in Dublin.

It must have been an import though right? It was a Vauxhall and the Opel brand was the one on sale through dealer forecourts in Ireland (Republic anyway). So if the car was registered in 1980 in Dublin, could it have been older and imported from NI?

Blue850 · 19-01-2013 12:21AM

Vauxhalls were sold new in Ireland, probably up until the Chevette was replaced in 1984

L1011 · 19-01-2013 11:55AM

I believe some dealers of that era were branded as "GM Opel Vauxhall" or something similar; there's a derelict Opel/Fiat/Citroen dealer in Meath that still has this branding on it anyway.

21-01-2013 02:01AM

Cragmore Matchbox wrote: »

I agree with you. ZV is boring and uninteresting. It is now also becoming almost illegible with all the digits.

Unfortunately I now think that ZV is the lesser of two evils. While I would have initially preferred, for example, 79-D-xxx over a 5-digit ZV reg, the fact that said reg would now be 79-D-120xxx is worse.

The Royal Scam · 21-01-2013 02:08AM

My father followed a guy home in a mk2 Escort with the reg 810 JIM , offerred him cash for it there and then . and drove it home. My dad Jimmy is a little crazy

tonyheaney · 07-01-2016 07:16PM

trying to trace an irish reg OIU 792 anyone know who i might be able?

L1011 · 07-01-2016 07:18PM

Scrapped (or otherwise not on the road) before 1992 by the looks of things

Go Harvey Go · 07-01-2016 07:23PM

tonyheaney wrote: »

trying to trace an irish reg OIU 792 anyone know who i might be able?

The vehicle with this reg is not on Cartell, as alluded to by L1011.

But there are no doubts about where the reg is from and when it was issued - Limerick in late 1965.

Good to see this thread active again after nearly three years, BTW...

dandyelevan · 07-01-2016 07:31PM

Rookie145 wrote: »

This has me thinkin', it was IE or EI that was the Clare reg.

IE was Clare. There was one famous Clare No Plate.
EIE 10.
'EIE AYE OHH'

Another was the Kilkenny number plate RIP 13. No one wanted that number so if I remember correctly, a Kilkenny Priest took it eventually.
All the 'Z' numbers were Dublin,. except ZB (Cork) and ZM (Galway)

Go Harvey Go · 07-01-2016 07:50PM

dandyelevan wrote: »

IE was Clare. There was one famous Clare No Plate.
EIE 10.
'EIE AYE OHH'

Another was the Kilkenny number plate RIP 13. No one wanted that number so if I remember correctly, a Kilkenny Priest took it eventually.
All the 'Z' numbers were Dublin,. except ZB (Cork) and ZM (Galway)

EIE 10 was issued around April 1963. The less memorable reverse, 10 EIE, was issued around October 1979.

RIP 13, meanwhile, dates from around October 1968. There were no reverse RIP registrations, though - probably for very good reason.

Quite a few of the Z codes were taken by other counties and cities - Cork also took ZK and ZT, Cork City ZF, Meath ZN, Donegal ZP, Wexford ZR, Kildare ZW, Kerry ZX and Louth ZY.

Truckermal · 10-01-2016 09:08PM

What county was EIS/DIS???

Go Harvey Go · 10-01-2016 09:15PM

Truckermal wrote: »

What county was EIS/DIS???

Mayo, 1984/85.

Silvera · 11-01-2016 10:38PM

Good to see my thread going strong!

Blue850 · 12-01-2016 12:32AM

dandyelevan wrote: »

IE was Clare. There was one famous Clare No Plate.
EIE 10.
'EIE AYE OHH'

A "1963" Mini

Go Harvey Go · 12-01-2016 08:31PM

Too bad that MIN 1 was given to a Mk1 Escort rather than a Mini (and later transferred to a Nissan Micra)...

Fortunately, a good number of VWI registrations in Waterford City (September 1985 to October 1986) were given to Volkswagens: VWI 200 was given to a Jetta, VWI 300 to a Passat, and VWI 500 and VWI 600 to Golfs.

tonyheaney · 13-01-2016 10:30PM

Trying to trace the year,

what i have so far is its the savoy theatre November 6th & 7th 1982 but it could be 87, by the Taxi says 97 sim, was the 97 the year.

Go Harvey Go · 14-01-2016 12:50AM

tonyheaney wrote: »

Trying to trace the year,

what i have so far is its the savoy theatre November 6th & 7th 1982 but it could be 87, by the Taxi says 97 sim, was the 97 the year.

No years on the old system.

97 SIM was issued in Galway in early 1983.

And the blue Ford alongside appears to be registered 21 OIU - which was issued in Limerick in early 1979.

tom_k · 14-01-2016 10:30PM

tonyheaney wrote: »

Trying to trace the year,

what i have so far is its the savoy theatre November 6th & 7th 1982 but it could be 87, by the Taxi says 97 sim, was the 97 the year.

Hi Tony,

On the leftmost of the photo the parked car seems to be a white Mercedes W124, this model I believe wasn't introduced until 1985. Behind that is what may be an Isuzu Gemini (possible 1985-86) or is it a Saab 9000 (first produced 1984), behind that is a Nissan Micra K10 which I don't think was introduced to the European market until 1983.

Unless I'm mistaken on any of these three identifications, I would suggest that the photo was not taken in 1982 but on a later date.

Hope this helps.

Hearse 1 · 15-01-2016 12:05AM

Definitely pre June 1987 as City of Dublin Bank was not there then!!

Patch123 · 15-01-2016 12:19AM

I think behind that merc is a rare beast - an Alfa Romeo Giulietta.

tom_k · 15-01-2016 12:57AM

Patch123 wrote: »

I think behind that merc is a rare beast - an Alfa Romeo Giulietta.

I think you're right. A great spot!

Old style car registrations

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