Circa 1972 I recall waiting at the Patcham traffic lights on the A23 outside Brighton when Fiona Richmond (soft-porn star of the day, for you striplings out there) pulled up beside me in a yellow E-Type convertible and flashed me a gorgeous smile. I told all my pals about this and the reg. no of her Jag - FU 2. Nobody would believe me despite my protestations
Well after 30 years I'm vindicated. Just been watching The Car's The Star on BBC World, and there's Fiona, complete with Jag, complete with that great number.
Feel much better now.
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That was a Quentin Willson show from about four years ago. Really excellent. It even got a good review from the TV critic in The Telegraph. I handed a copy of it over to the great man at a Motor Show, His comment was, "Fantastic. Made it."
HJ
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About the same time someone raced some small saloon ai Ingliston adorned with UPU 2. I inquired, partly because it did not seem road legal, and was told the chap could only use it as a decoration off road because somebody else actually had it as a pukka registration mark.
I prefer a number as unmemorable as possible.
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Round here one of the ex P3 girls used to have registration 505 EXY on a BMW. Fairly creative at the time.
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Tomo wrote:
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> I prefer a number as unmemorable as possible.
Indeed! many years ago a work colleague took a young lady away to a resort along the coast for a dirty weekend, and b*llsh*tted his missus that he was off to Johannesburg for the weekend...
Unfortunately his car - a BMW 320 - was recognisable by the plate (CE 2442, i recall), and one of his wife's friends saw it.
"Did you have a nice time at the resort - I saw your hubby's car there?" the friend asked.
A very messy divorce...
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I wonder were the Jag and Fiona are now and which is in the best condition
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Andy, Probably both need a re-bore.
Mike
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....and she was a Vicar's daughter!
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Vicar's daughter's are the worst. I know......
As for going off for some nookie in my own car, I'd never do that (use my own car, I mean).
As for Fiona, she was on the same programme being interviewed. She looked like someone's very nice Mum.
I suffered 6 embarrassing weeks with one of my vehicles here (in the Philippines you have temp stickers till your own plates are issued, can take ages). Mine was 83 SEX, and being a foreigner in a country like this had to suffer the sniggers of parking attendants, security guards, hotel car valets, ladies (and boys) of the night, usually linked to whether that was my age and was it still possible. Even more so since Mr Pfizer's little helpers had just reached the market and were in the news quite a lot at that time....
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THe Growler wrote:
> Even more so since
> Mr Pfizer's little helpers had just reached the market and
> were in the news quite a lot at that time....
I read this week that now it available in liquid form.
So you can go into a bar and ask for a stiff one.
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Traffic cops refer to personalised number plates as 'Pratt Plates'
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I once sold FPH3 on a 1937 Standard Flying 10,in good nick,for £35.
that was 1965.
Pratt is the very word i use to flagellate myself about this.
If anyone has this vehicle i shall be pleased to give them the full sale price for it,I will waive all considerations of depreciation.
I'm just no good at this business thing.
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Makes you mad, don't it. I sold a BSA Golden Flash with "66 RYD" on it back Lord knows when for peanuts. Wouldn't that plate look great on my 1966 Mustang now?!
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Soft porn in 1972?
Were the pictures oil or water colour?
I didn't realize people had sex before 1989!
;-)
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I did add an explanation for the striplings.....
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"I did add an explanation for the striplings....."
Thanks! Can I sit on your lap while you tell me about the war? ;-)
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