I think a well known, foul mouthed chef has the same forgetfulness with his Ferrari front plate. Although ISTR it is only a £30 fine and no points.

Unless plod gets fed up and gets the DVLA to take the plate back and issue a Q plate.

>>Do him a favour and paint it on the bonnet for him! ;-)

It'll hide the scratches another (so called) personality left on it.

"It also has a child booster seat in it. Ferrari 599 GTO - hypercar and family wagon. Who'd have thunk it?"-

My mate has two child seats in the back of his 612 Scaglietti. Not sure if they will fit in his soon arrriving 458, and his missus is now expecting a third!!!. Don't think Ferrari have ever done an MPV!.

"Is one's insurance invalidated if the vehicle does not display relevant plates ..?"

If you have insurance, you always have the third party cover regardless of what you do to your car, due to recent EU Insurance rules harmonisation.

That's not to say there aren't other disadvantages such as no cover for your losses and the possibility of having insured losses claimed back from you if you breached the contract, but for number plates this doesn't apply.

Edited by Hamsafar on 06/04/2011 at 11:19

Indeed. But surely the most pertinent point is that the car cannot be tagged on Gatso average speed zones. If you get snapped speeding through that, you get points and a fine. But not for this particular vehicle.