Re: [doc] Reg plates and model years

[Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx>]

Couple of points there Chris:

You can't make a car NEWER than it is. Nothing to stop you putting an older plate on a newer car - eg Mark Bourne's DMC 1J

All the DeLoreans I've seen get W, X or Y reg

KUC 596W - James Russel-Grant '81
OUH 670X - Formerly Gavin Dunt's red car '82
UOA 596Y - Ian Titley '83

This only tells you the year the car was registered, NOT when it was manufactured, unless the car's registered more than 2
years after the end of manufacture, in which case it'll get a plate for its VIN year.

The spanner in the works comes from the northern irish plates which are 100% legal in GB, and are ageless. they take 3-4
numbers and 3 letters (in standard form), and will ALL have either I or Z in them

IIL 1611 - Me
BKZ 9095 - Paul Salsbury

Martin


Chris Parnham wrote:

> Well James,
> That's a big subject!
>
> Up till 1963 there were mixtures of letters and numbers, up to a maximum of
> 6 in total, starting with A1, up to say A 999, then AB 1.....AB9999, then
> ABC 1.....999, 999ABC etc etc. I bought CP 6115 first issued in 1928.
>
> Just to make it interesting, some were never issued at all, some would be
> issued one way around, and not the other, e.g. A1 but not 1A.
>
> After 1963 we got up to 3 letters and up to 3 numbers followed by "A" so it
> could be AAA 111 A,
> or AAA 1A etc.
> In 1964 it was a "B" , AAA 123B, etc...for the next 20 years.
>
> Then in 1983 they started the other way around, A123 ABC etc . right the
> way up to Y.
> Z is only issued in Ireland!
>
> A couple of years ago they started changing them every 6 months, this time
> with two letters, two year numbers, 3 random letters, for example....AA 01
> AAA, then 6 months later AA 02AAA.
>
> And just to complicate things further, you cannot transfer a number on to
> car to make it look younger than it is. In other words you could not put
> A123 ABC on anything older than a 83 car!
>
> AND the government , for years has been selling off any "unissued"
> registration numbers. Some by simple price, many by auction. I have bought
> loads over the years, some have been a great investment. For example 2CP
> bought 10 years ago for 3.5K is now worth over ?20K!
>
> You can keep transferring them from car to car, for about ?80, lots of
> little rules are involved, but its harmless fun.
>
> You regularly see numbers for sale over ?100,000. Generally speaking, the
> shorter the better, but then you get say, K 1 NGS , KINGS, which I think
> sold at auction for a record sum.
>
> Best regards
>
> Chris P..... G7OLF, 2CP, 49CP, BAK 5T, AXI 1698, etc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Espey [mailto:james@xxxx]
> Sent: 22 December 2002 23:25
> To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [doc] Reg plates and model years
>
> Would someone explain to me the meaning/significance of the lettering system
> of the registration plates used in the UK? Sometimes I see cars advertised
> with no model year, but with an "R" or other letter registration. How does
> this correlate with model years?
>
> James
>
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