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Back in July I was looking for a nice mumble plate for my tribute 250. I thought F250 WTF. would be quite a cool player. (Use your imagination s as to what WTF stands for). I contacted DVLA and they said that the plate has never been allocated and they would put it up for auction if I liked. Of course I said yes and he sure enough in Feb they told me the timed auction would be held in March.
Starting price was £130 plus fees etc so I started bidding. My max was £300 plus fees which would be £500 plus in the end. Unfortunately someone bid against me😩. After a couple of extra bids they are winning at £320 plus fees.
It’s gone too high for me now so if anyone on here as deeper pockets than me and want a great plate for their 250 then log on to DVLA timed auctions. Bidding stops at 11am tomorrow morning!!!
Good luck
If you want to chance your arm, you can get Black & White plates made up.
I have a black and white show plate with a legal black and yellow that I can clip over the top. I quite regularly 'forget' to clip the plate over and just run on black and white rear plate. I have been pulled a few times and had a photo from the speed police. The number plate has never been mentioned. Even the MOT man is okay as long as he has seen the bl;ack and yellow in the boot.
That’s great advice. I will be getting black and silver shoe plates made up and chance my arm?
My friend had a new McLaren and never put a plate on the front of the car because he said it looked ugly!!!!!
He never got stopped in 3 years
I used to ticket people with dodgy 'show plates' all the time, but then I was a complete b&stard.
Actually, the only ones I actually prosecuted were those who'd altered the characters so much that the reg couldn't be read or was misread as another vehicle.
I almost arrested one driver because she was driving around in a Mitsubishi Lancer with a reg ending EVO that pinged as a stolen car from South Wales.
When I asked her if the reg number was correct she maintained that it was and that it was her car. On closer inspection I noticed that the letter O had a bit of black tape on it, which, when picked off showed up a 5mm gap half way up the right hand side of the letter. When I asked her if it was actually meant to be a C she got really angry and said 'Any fool can see that's a C.' Funnily enough, she got a ticket for failing to display her registration.
Oh, and I also ticketed a Ferrari owner for no front plate after he went past me at about 150mph on a local A road while I was driving a diesel Peugot prisoner van. I didn't try to go after him, obviously, but when you've had a unique custom wrap on your Fezza it makes it quite recognisable when you're sitting at traffic lights a few days later and a police van pulls up behind you...
Mine comes up as BMW too, you cannot change that bit. The model is a Z300S Barchetta rather than a Z3 so when plod looks it up on his computer because he doesn't recognise the car he sees a name he doesn't recognise and assumes it is something old. If he sees Z3 he notices the car doesn't look like a Z3, assumes there is something dodgy and pulls you over for a chat
