While attempting to find the house of a friend of my middle daughter in an area north-west of where I live this evening, after a 7-year-olds' shoe mix-up on the fringes of my middle daughter's wedding in Sussex yesterday - of course we are to have nippers during the honeymoon -, I parked for a few minutes behind a car that had a letter and three-digit number followed by the letters LUD.
My condition after leaving the dance floor at 5 a.m. with my wife, only five years younger than I am, made me think idly that if I knew the car's owner I might offer him a tenner plus any out-of-pocket expenses for it as a sort of private joke.
I was that tempted. Does my insane vanity know no bounds?
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Go for it - Lud deserves a memorial, not enough people know who he was.
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Weren't in a South Midland city renowned for its university and its, erm, bags, were you, Lud? There were lots of -UD plates there while I was learning to drive. I may even have learned behind one myself.
It's not very vain, though, is it? Chances are most people wouldn't even notice it wasn't the one the car was issued with. Perhaps that's the point.
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"....in a South Midland city renowned for its university"
Yes, Oxford Brookes - the best university in Oxford by a comfortable margin. (You can guess where I went....:).
UD was certainly an Oxfordshire registration. Numbers with CUD, DUD or MUD must have been easy to remember.
I always wonder, Lud, whether you had a judge or Ned Ludd in mind when choosing your nom-de-keyboard.
Edited by Avant on 06/09/2009 at 23:53
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Surely the only appropriate plate would be M1 LUD.
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£245 will get you M1 00 LUD on your car from dvla-som
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Just on the vanity plate point I saw a rather nice car the other day driven by a personable young woman and bearing the plate T3 ATS.
Except the 3 seemed to have been turned around.
Go for it Lud! How much time do you have left to do pretty silly stuff?
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Haha, enough I would imagine.
FWIW, a "pimped" Audi Q7 (blacked out windows, LED DRLs, big black wheels) thumped past me at 100-odd mph on the A42 this evening - sporting the reg "BAN 1M"...
Dave TD
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'er behind the doors loves cruising and when I went to finish the deal for the new Colt I was showed a list of about Twenty available numbers at that dealer. Guess what **** PNO was there and further guess what. She's chuffed to bits and not a penny spent. But then she did talk me into having the metallic blue instead of cheap white. Damn.
Morning all in wet again Devon. MD
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This wouldn't have appealed to Lud's sophisticated tastes but I was passed at considerable speed on the M40 last week by a black Range Rover that certainly didn't date from 1982. It bore the plate OBO 110X.
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I was tempted by M 16 NCV (my Initials) as a tasteless jibe directed at my mentally challenging son who thinks that I work on nefarious matters for MI6. I decided that seeing it might drop him over the edge so I passed, ony £175 though!
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As an Oxfordshire resident I see lots of _UD registrations, and there's a LUD round the corner. I think of the hon member every time I see it, and I'm one up on most BR members as I've met him!
Edited by oldnotbold on 07/09/2009 at 12:32
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wouldn't have appealed to Lud's sophisticated tastes
I'm afraid it would have WDeB... but you probably knew that.
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Was following a Scooby WRX the other day, looked severly modified with the private plate, PA55NOT (Pass Not).
Couldn't help but think to myself how often the old bill must stop him....
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Cheaper to do what Simon Cowell does and have lots of mirrors around.....
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I passed a MINI on the M6 the other week - pretty good no. plate, but I'd be terrified of jinxing my car with this one:
PR 08 LEM
... Clever, but no way would I want to risk my car becomming a problem child!
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Used to see this in Bristol regularly A1 RDO - owned by a hairdresser I believe...
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SNIP
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 07/09/2009 at 20:12
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Don't do it Lud, pls. , or I'll seriously have to think about cancelling my subscription to you.
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No need to worry woodbines. I didn't know the car's owner. He wouldn't have taken a tenner for all that hassle. The mood has passed.
For the curious, my handle has nothing to do with Ned Ludd despite what may be slightly catty allusions by NC and others (but I'm not offended NC). It was my nickname at my last school where the son of a small-scale car manufacturer - the make is now defunct - asked if my surname, the same as that of a famous former racing motorist and lord in those days, meant that I was related to him. I wasn't, but he took to calling me My Lord, and others shortened it to a disrespectful 'Lud'. So it wasn't hard for me to think of a handle here, capisce?
Oddly enough that lord's grandson, not in the direct male line though so not a lord, has been one of my closest friends for fifty years. He's a car freak and has had some tasty motors. I feel I've had a lot of luck, undeserved I am sure, in that sort of thing.
I will regard any public attempt to decipher any of that into names as a bit intrusive though.
Edited by Lud on 07/09/2009 at 19:16
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For the curious my handle has nothing to do with Ned Ludd ....It was my nickname at my last school .......So it wasn't hard for me to think of a handle here capisce?
maybe we need another thread re how we chose our names on here....mine's due to my Westcountry heritage and dreadful table manners....:-)
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>>..the same as that of a famous former racing motorist and lord in those days, ..>>
That wouldn't be Lord Strathcarron by any chance, someone who I enjoyed many a lunch and fine wine with over the years at various motoring shows and events?
An absolutely delightful, very down to earth gentleman, who often embarked on marvellous motoring expeditions as part of his journalist work.
Edited by Stuartli on 07/09/2009 at 19:35
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maybe we need another thread re how we chose our names on here....
Remember this one?
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=31388
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Remember this one? www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=31388
no...it was a year before I joined
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I thought your handle referred to an ancient king in the Thames area of Celtic descent - who sported (allegedly) the grand name of Lludd Llaw Eraint founder if London (allegedly of course)
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I sometimes wonder if the Celtic/Welsh double L sound arose because people lost their teeth so young in ancient times PU... I pronounce it well myself.
Best to have an umbrella if you are in the front row of the stalls at a Welsh Nationalist fundraiser though...
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I thought we had nearly lost you there for a moment Lud, a vanity plate indeed sir, consider your reputation, and your user name, "A 123 LUD", no way me "Lud".
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I'm in Wales at the 'moment - Nice place.
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Does my insane vanity know no bounds?
You're the best person to answer that question!
;-)
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I'm not vain either but..
inspired by this thread I had a look to see what was available the other day and I am now sorely tempted.
My first name is four letters and surname is five.
I can get a plate with the first two letters of my first name followed by the year number of my existing car where the two numbers ( not that I would ) with a bit of 'adjustment' could be made to look like the last two letters of my first name .
Then I could get the first three letters of my surname which for anyone who knows me would be an instant identifier to all other road users and inflate my vanity no end.
Cost £25,000 all in.Its a snip
Regards from Mr RG59XXN :0)
( Apologies if that is anyones real number !)
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I'm surew this one's available somewhere Helicopter..
CH09 PER
(again, apologies if anyone owns it already!)
Edited by woodbines on 08/09/2009 at 17:24
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i saw a classic plate on a driving instructors car the other week it was PA55 YET and underneath on a sticker it had 'dont worry call **************' made me chuckle
Edited by welshlad on 08/09/2009 at 17:34
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I have to admit I went for the following plate when registering my W124 Merc, bearing in mind I live in Munich (first registration letter) and the car is an E320:
M [My Initials] 320
Didn't cost anything but very childish.
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I am not tempted by CH09PER.
My brother has a personalised plate which was from the first car he owned, does not identify him ,just sentimental reasons.
I have an admission to make though , despite my tongue in cheek post above , having had a look I am actually very tempted by one plate which is on the DVLA list at £245 all in which is about as cheap a you can get for a vanity plate.
It is a plate with the same year number as my existing Accord but would identify me to family and anyone who knows my full name and is not my initials but virtually my full name.
SWMBO is also tempted by a similar plate at the same price .
Is it worth the hassle though ? Its so cheap I might just do it as a birthday / anniversary / Christmas present to myself and her......
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Is it worth the hassle though ? Its so cheap I might just do it as a birthday / anniversary / Christmas present to myself and her......
Hassle? There's no hassle.
1) Order number, either from DVLA website or phoneline, paying by credit card. If using the phone, the presence of a human being rather than an automated switchboard makes it a less painful process than paying a utility bill over the phone.
2) Wait about three or four days for the paperwork to arrive.
3) Take paperwork to VRO office, and transfer the reg to the car. (OK, that's the closest to hassle, but on each case it took me less than 15 minutes in the building, of which the process at the counter took about three minutes).
4) Wait for the new registration documents to arrive, then get plates made up (took five minutes at my local motorparts place).
5) Notify insurers over the phone of change of registration.
Easy. :)
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Easy. :)
Are we to understand from your detailed and instructive post, NW, that you are in the final analysis more vainglorious than I am?
I think we should be told...
:o}
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Are we to understand from your detailed and instructive post NW that you are in the final analysis more vainglorious than I am? I think we should be told...
Hmm :)
Both the vehicles I drive (car and campervan) have personal plates. However, this isn't my vanity, it's the vanity of the owner of these vehicle -- the man in my life. A 4-legged man, to precise.
And he is amazingly vain. Both registrations are similar variations on his name.
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I was that tempted.
Don't! Vanity plates are naff unless jokey. The best one I've seen is 5 XC on a top of the range Aston Martin. It certainly was.
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