The subject of personalised number plates surfaced on the blog of Frances Garrood recently and I think that there seemed to be a general feeling that it was something men did. I have no thoughts on the matter but these two in Tauranga were unlikely to belong to the macho NZ male! I thought that Spesh might like the VW not for its plate but for its colour!
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The BMW plate may refer to the car rather than the driver. As for the other one, my money's on its being a woman's car.
ReplyDeleteA BMW driver with a sense of humour? Surely not Marcel. My money's on it belonging to a laptop dancing self-publicist.
DeleteI've decided my next car's a pink Beetle. Reg plate: 81 MBO?
Most remarkable plate I've seen? PEN 15 ....
David the fact that it's a white BMW 2-door 3-series convertible owned by someone with a sense of humour means that the owner has to be female! This is NZ for heaven's sake - a country where only old men (who don't give a macho monkeys), women and enthusiasts drive MX5s never mind white convertibles. No one I can think of off the top of my head is less like a 81 MBO than you Yvonne. It was, I think, PEN 15 that started Frances off on this hobbyhorse. I can't imagine how it got through the DVLC PC-Police.
DeleteHahaha! Clearly that PEN 15 gets about!
DeleteI'd bet on the first one definitely being a man's car. (A single man's, as no wife is likely to put up with it.) The pink baabee though... perhaps more likely to be a girl's handbag than a man's...
ReplyDeleteNo Monica. My money's on a woman. See my last comment in response to Marcel and Yvonne.
DeleteStunning second shot. I have a personalized plate. It refers to the truck not me. Like the first car.
ReplyDeleteI'd have a personalised plate for no other reason than that I can never remember either of my current car numbers and I've had the vehicles for 8 and 6 years. Mind you it took me 15 years to remember my UK cellphone number.
DeleteI WANT ONE! Nuff said.
ReplyDeleteThought you would Spesh!
DeleteThe VW has not only a wild color but all kinds of other torques. Cool car.
ReplyDeleteHi Red. Good to see you here. I know you via Adrian's blog and I recall making a note of a statement on your blog at some time "When life gives you snow....ski". I liked that!
DeleteI think maybe both cars are lady-owned...pity you didn't stick around to make sure.
ReplyDeleteHere it's impossible to have personalised number plates like that, but folks get around that by purchasing the decorated name plate holders. They also have their vehicle pet name emblazoned across the upper part of their front windscreen.
It sounds, Virginia, as if people in your part of the world are far less inhibited and are more open about their likes and dislikes. I thought that it was quite daring having a Welsh dragon on the bonnet (hood) of my cars for a number of years.
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