A bog standard van
The UK obsession with personalised number plates is strange, but a little endearing. In the States, you can register your own word, in Europe you don't get much choice. Here, people put their names on the plates, why? In case they forget? However I did quite like this plumber's van, though. For the foreigners, "bog" is slang for a toilet. Bog standard, on the other hand, just means basic, with slightly derogatory overtones, and has nothing to do with toilets.
Here's the result of a quick search for Ham, or maybe pork
would be cheaper.
We have had several revisions of the number plate format, each helped put more words on cars. Two of my favorites I've seen - First, years ago, on a beat up BMW, driven by a bro', BOL 1 X (normally swear words don't get issued -they missed this one!) and the second three days ago on a motorbike TU 05 LOW.
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post a commentinteresting. have'nt seen too many personlized ones in brussels.
Personalized plates are also quite popular here in the Philippines...I don't know but i guess seeing your name "driving" around gives people a certain ego boost =)
And what do you think of the truckdrivers who have their wives'and kids names displayed behind the frontwindow!
I didn't know it was legal to have only a name plate thought, thought it had to be a name and some numbers.
That must of cost a fortune, bloody fantastic though.
Not as many people own cars in NYC, but those who've got the fancy ones usually have something creative to say with the license plate...like that particular blue color, not one you see over here...
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My favorite is one I saw quite a few years ago in Louisiana, USA. It was a "bro" driving a Jag and the license plate read PO NO MO.
Andreea - In common with a lot of the continent, I don't think Belgian plates lend themselves to personalising in the same way.
Anne - be interesting to see some!
Chris - thanks, I love the way blogging gives permanance to a fleeting moment!
Dutchie - In the UK, our plates are issued to the car and for a long while were in the format A999AAA or AAA999A where the lone A denoted the year, so it is easy to get S1NGH (for a sikh) or L10NEL, for example. Now we have moved to AA99AAA where the 99 is the moth and year (two - eg 06 or 56 - a year)
Mark -reckon so!
Brian & Lucy - the blue is non-standard. Most vans are white!
Brant - I do likr the way you can get to choose all of your plate.
Trivia for the day? The three people that do not need to have number plates on their cars in the UK: 1) The Queen 2) President of America 3) Prime minister of Malta. DO NOT ask me why, I don't know.
what a random piece of trivia...fabulous! i love the flexibity of our number plates, but the new style makes it a bit harder. Around Edinburgh you see a lot variations for Hibernian FC such as H18BES, H1BBS. Hearts is a bit harder.
As my daugter pointed out, I missed the fourth one in the line up. The Pope, which makes me smile, because it means that the pope can come over here, pick up speeding tickets on his non-licensed car, and blame it on the queen. Sweet.
Nice Van,
Man :)
I like Pimlico they are great company - London Trademark.
That must of cost a fortune, bloody fantastic though.
Thats a great spot Ham. Loved your photo of the guitarist from the other day aswell.
interesting. have'nt seen too many personlized ones in brussels.
That sounds a good idea! Anyway, is it legal to put a number plate like this? Our place prohibits this kind of activity, I wish they could allow us too.
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Love The Plate Bog 1, Its A Nice Personal Touch To The Business, Keep Up The Good Work Pimlico Plumbers.
Pimlico no doubt is a UK leader in plumbing.They can afford any number plates they like...
Nice to see a personalised number plate with a sense of humour! :)