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personalised number plate need help
corrado vr6 - 17/12/11 at 10:46 PM

Hi there im thinking of getting a personalised number plate for my mini for reasons i will go into later but if i was to say it could be

D3 NHS

What would you think i was trying to achieve here as said after some ideas i will go further into detail but would like to know if im going along the right lines first without saying lol any feedback will be much appriciated Greg

ReMan - 17/12/11 at 11:16 PM

DEN (High Speed)
DEANS?
mini HS?
Knob head with spare cash? Just kidding we have one too

Confused but excited. - 17/12/11 at 11:17 PM

Are you a nurse, Denis?

[Edited on 17/12/11 by Confused but excited.]

Ninehigh - 18/12/11 at 04:48 AM

I get the feeling you'll use a strategiacally placed screw to make Deniis

Unless your name is Shned

corrado vr6 - 18/12/11 at 08:54 AM

Hahahaha Was worried the NHS theory would come into play lol but no I don't work for them, its the closest I can find to DENNIS it would be for my 'G' reg (1989) mini and be in memory of my Dad who sadly passed away, have since looked into his initials although a strategically placed screw would help but not sure if that's closer to DENIS although i would know what its meant to say lol anyone got any other ideas?

scootz - 18/12/11 at 09:00 AM

Far too contrived!

Surely there are a-million-and-one better ways to remember your Dad...

big-vee-twin - 18/12/11 at 09:19 AM

Unfortunately you'll probably end up on one of those crap number plate sites, that highlight the Knob heads who try to make a shxxt numberplate look like another shxxt number plate.

When my Dad passed I planted his favourite rose in my garden for him.

Peteff - 18/12/11 at 09:21 AM

Don't go on here it will end up costing you a fortune. (DVLA auction site)

bobinspain - 18/12/11 at 09:21 AM

Was at a track day and a chap with a 911 who was a bodybuilder (gym type) had the reg B1 GME (suitably re-spaced).

Scott, if you're talking 'contrived', how about this, R18 USE ? I had it on my Elise111S and it was graphically altered to split the U into an L and an I, so it read R1 ELISE. Now that's contrived ! (I still have the plate and I weighed in the car for a 340-R).

scootz - 18/12/11 at 09:58 AM

Mmmm... 340R!!! Probably my favourite car!

I looked at one after I sold the Exige and the Lotus dealer told me it would never lose any money at £18k... I was skeptical and didn't go for it!

I was wrong... and have regretted it ever since!

I haven't seen one go for under £20k for a few years now! Most are advertised in the high-20's.

bobinspain - 18/12/11 at 10:25 AM

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Originally posted by scootz
Mmmm... 340R!!! Probably my favourite car!

I looked at one after I sold the Exige and the Lotus dealer told me it would never lose any money at £18k... I was skeptical and didn't go for it!

I was wrong... and have regretted it ever since!

I haven't seen one go for under £20k for a few years now! Most are advertised in the high-20's.


Mine was #315 of 340. I bought it new from Nelmes of Romford who 'did me a deal' on the 111S I'd bought from them a year earlier.
A year later, we made the decision to up sticks and move to Spain (2001).I sold my 340-R to a B.A. pilot who had an Elise as well and got £19,500 for my 3000 miler. List when I bought it was £35k and I had the 'track-pack' fitted. All in all, a very expensive exercise.
I got to Brands a few times, Goodwood, Donnington and Cadwell. Great fun!
There's a 340 with under 10k miles for sale here in Spain. The garage are asking 44,000 euros for it. Not worth anything like that kind of money.
Someone once described the car as 'a dune buggy on steroids.' Not far off the mark. A lot, mine included, included developed an incipient misfire at high revs (red-lined at 7,200 rpm) which was all but incurable and a pain on trackdays.

Humbug - 18/12/11 at 10:35 AM

I was going to say, hopefully whatever you are trying to achieve doesn't involve reading the 3 as E and/or putting coloured bolts in strategic positions.

If I saw D3 NHS I would think it was either some local health authority unwisely splashing out money on a reg no. or someone with the initials NHS, and the D3 bit just because having a single digit makes it look a bit different.

Mr C - 18/12/11 at 02:30 PM

Some very good reasons here fro not doing it and better ways of remembering your father. they are pretty chavy as well as money pits, you don't ever own the number, only the right to use it.

I've had three recently all bought with beer glasses on, currently have two. they are a PITA to transfer and a PITA to keep on retention and cost you money on each occasion as well as red tape and hassle. I'd relinquish them but one was a pressie to swmbo and the other cost me too much to just give up.