Just received my copy of LFH and being a petrol head was interested in the opening article by Marjorie Smith regarding her father Stanley Owen Bolton.
The registration number MB 88 is listed for sale on regtransfers website for an eye watering £35000!!
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Allan
Vehicle Registration MB 88
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Re: Vehicle Registration MB 88
Wow, I think we should have all kept our old registrations when the cars themselves gave up the ghost.
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Re: Vehicle Registration MB 88
Of course you have to still have the car to transfer the plate. We have several old plates on our garage wall - when I met hubby more than half my lifetime ago he used to restore old cars - but without the vehicle they are sadly just wall decorations. We don't have anything as fabulous as MB 88, but they would've still been worth a few bob.
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allanpshepherd123
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Providing you actual own the registration mark and have the proof of ownership (V750/1) you can retain the plate number for £25 annually when not assigned to a vehicle.
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Allan
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Allan
Re: Vehicle Registration MB 88
Is it different when transfering the number from the original vehicle? I know that if you buy a registration number from Swansea then yes, you can pay to retain it; we've done this, too, as we bought a number from them.
However, and it may have changed of course, at the time (and we're going back about twenty years) the donor vehicle had to have a valid MoT and tax disc, otherwise you lost the number when scrapping the car. It would've cost too much to get the old vehicles roadworthy, hence the plates on the garage wall.
Shame.
However, and it may have changed of course, at the time (and we're going back about twenty years) the donor vehicle had to have a valid MoT and tax disc, otherwise you lost the number when scrapping the car. It would've cost too much to get the old vehicles roadworthy, hence the plates on the garage wall.
Shame.
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allanpshepherd123
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I have tried unsuccessfully to locate 4499 NF which was on a 1962 Mini Cooper 997cc that I had and sold on about 35 years ago. Amazing car that carried me, my wife, mother/father in law and daughter all over Wales. How on earth did we manage to squeeze everything into that car I will never know. Registration plate is probably on someone's garage wall!!
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Allan
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Allan
Re: Vehicle Registration MB 88
Probably (quick check... no, it's not on mine! lol)
That number would be worth a tidy sum nowadays, though.
As you say, it's amazing when you look back at family car holidays - how on earth did people manage? We have one old car SORN'd in the garage, it's over sixty years old and still starts first time. The boot lid drops down on webbing straps to accomodate suitcases on top, and the number plate flips down on hinges so that it is still visible when the boot is open. The engine is 8hp (933cc) and on a good wind and going downhill you can hit fifty in it, just about - and pray you stop afterwards. How on earth did people go off touring the Scottish Highlands for a week in these cars? - even on the Continent. They must've been made of strong stuff.
That number would be worth a tidy sum nowadays, though.
As you say, it's amazing when you look back at family car holidays - how on earth did people manage? We have one old car SORN'd in the garage, it's over sixty years old and still starts first time. The boot lid drops down on webbing straps to accomodate suitcases on top, and the number plate flips down on hinges so that it is still visible when the boot is open. The engine is 8hp (933cc) and on a good wind and going downhill you can hit fifty in it, just about - and pray you stop afterwards. How on earth did people go off touring the Scottish Highlands for a week in these cars? - even on the Continent. They must've been made of strong stuff.