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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: VWKev on 22 July 2009, 22:47
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Anyone know the best sites to visit for a private reg ?
Misses birthday coming up soon and want to surprise her for when we get the car too.
Her name is Gillian and the day of her birthday is 28, "GIL 28" is friggin £5k + :shocked: :shocked:
Anyone any thoughts and where the best cheapest places to buy are ?
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Google "vanity plates"? :grin:
If I can't have M0 RAG, I'm not interested. But they never allowed a zero as a single digit. And if they did, I'd be trampled in the stampede.
Rolfe.
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i used the DVLA website for my plate, they're usually pretty fair with their pricing. mine is one prefix, double digit and my name at the end. i.e. A22 BCD cost 250 quid :)
http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/home
there's also newreg, tho i've never tried them - they seem to have a really good choice
i reckon search for the plate you want and then surf the sites looking for the best price. more than one website will have the same plate.
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http://www.newreg.co.uk/search/search_results/homepage/text/newSearch/none/none/GILLIAN/1/index.html
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http://www.newreg.co.uk/search/search_results/homepage/text/newSearch/none/none/GILLIAN/1/index.html
Cheers :smiley:
Lots of pages to look through too so should find something from that lot. Then as you say, hunt the net for the best price.
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It's almost always cheaper to go direct to the DVLA as their prices include the £80 assignment fee.
Some of the other places are advertising a lot of plates that they don't have and in many cases they advertise plates that are still for sale with the DVLA but they add £100 to the price.
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my brother has one on his porsche (t0sser!), and his missus paid about £500 off the dvla website - was easy to use and came through pretty quick by all accounts.
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DVLA is the best for price to be honest and everything is included (i.e. VAT and transfer fee). I think Newreg and the like, you need to add the VAT and transfer fee so things then get pricey...
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Private plates are all very well on old cars to disguise the age, but if you have a 59 plate you want to show it off for six months at least!!! No point in having the very latest model and pretending it's a 15 year old BMW 318, as that's what their owners seem to do. :evil:
Then again if you're a self obsessed celebrity it's okay to put a nice plate on your Ferrari or R8 I guess..... :grin:
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Other than being 'in fashion', I fail to see the point of them... :huh:
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I've seen some really cool ones.
MOT 10N
1 AM
J1 MMY
and as I said, I'd kill for M0 RAG, if it existed.
But these sorts of plates would cost tens of thousands. I don't really fancy the obscure ones.
Rolfe.
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Stick with dvla kev they are the cheapest,some sites even advertise plates that are still with dvla and at a bumped up price,you can not but cheaper than dvla.
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Private plates are all very well on old cars to disguise the age, but if you have a 59 plate you want to show it off for six months at least!!! No point in having the very latest model and pretending it's a 15 year old BMW 318, as that's what their owners seem to do. :evil:
Then again if you're a self obsessed celebrity it's okay to put a nice plate on your Ferrari or R8 I guess..... :grin:
I`d say wanting to show the world you had a 59 plate was more self obsessed ,oh look at him he has a new car he must be rich :laugh:
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What I'm finding with the dvla though, is that I cant get a registration starting with GIL - with the other sites I can. Not sure why or what I'm doing wrong.
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I'm afraid if you want a decent plate, then you have to pay the price.
There are loads of ones where people try and use 13 as a B, 4's as A's etc - but they all look terrible and are illegal. You can get thousands of these on eBay! A good old date / initials ie '11 XX' will cost you the guts of £5-7k and if you want it round the other way ie 'XX 11' its more likely to be £10-13k (obviously price dependant on numbers and letters).
Number plates seem to be a love 'em or hate 'em thing. They're handy for hiding the age of your car should you desire... and it makes it easy to remember your cars number plate if you've always got the same one!!
The best thing about them though is that if you buy a decent one, it will only increase in value.
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What I'm finding with the dvla though, is that I cant get a registration starting with GIL - with the other sites I can. Not sure why or what I'm doing wrong.
GIL is not available on a UK plate - only Irish... and the DVLA won't sell Irish plates.
'I' is not a regular UK character.
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What I'm finding with the dvla though, is that I cant get a registration starting with GIL - with the other sites I can. Not sure why or what I'm doing wrong.
Dvla hold all the plates that have not been released yet,the other companies sell plates that are already on the market and they list the plates dvla hold but they add a premium and extras,Dvla also have auctions every now and then,same as a normal auction that is where the other plate companies pick up there plates.
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What I'm finding with the dvla though, is that I cant get a registration starting with GIL - with the other sites I can. Not sure why or what I'm doing wrong.
GIL is not available on a UK plate - only Irish... and the DVLA won't sell Irish plates.
'I' is not a regular UK character.
So using the letter 'I' or the number '1' is not UK. So if I buy the 'Irish' version which is obviously better as they are not hung up on being allowed to use certain letters, I can still use it in the UK ?
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I don't think there is any problem with using them on a UK car as I see heaps of them every day. You will also see alot of MAZ, KAZ and others ending in Z if you look out, because Z is another non UK letter.
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I don't think there is any problem with using them on a UK car as I see heaps of them every day. You will also see alot of MAZ, KAZ and others ending in Z if you look out, because Z is another non UK letter.
Aha ! It's starting to make sense now. DVLA seems best as most say for standard plates, but for the 'I' in my misses name then It seems I have to go with the Irish.
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If you want an A123 ABC style plate or a AA55 AAA style plate, then the DLVA is the place to get one.
nationalnumbers.co.uk is a good place to find irish and other dateless plates.
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If you want an A123 ABC style plate or a AA55 AAA style plate, then the DLVA is the place to get one.
nationalnumbers.co.uk is a good place to find irish and other dateless plates.
your plate isn't P3 EPS by chance is it? :p
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your plate isn't P3 EPS by chance is it? :p
No actually! I used to get called PEEPS at school, and when registering on a couple of forums years ago I discovered PEEPS had been already taken. Since then I've always used P3EPS since its usually available. I did look at buying the reg P3EPS when I was a student, but it was £1300. By the time I was working and had the cash, it had been sold!
I just have a cheepie 'A12 ABC' plate just now, but hopefully one day I'll buy my initials with a '12 AB' style!!
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I once saw K33 LAW parked outside my shop.... :(
then I saw K88 LAW on a van at a supermarket.
have registered interest in buying these if they ever become availabe but sadly not heard a peep in years...
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I saw AND123W on a DB9..... i saw that on Newreg a couple years before for £69,000....some people have tooooooo much money!!
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What I'm finding with the dvla though, is that I cant get a registration starting with GIL - with the other sites I can. Not sure why or what I'm doing wrong.
me and my brother bought 61LLY as a present for my dad. As my surname is Gill :smug:
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What I'm finding with the dvla though, is that I cant get a registration starting with GIL - with the other sites I can. Not sure why or what I'm doing wrong.
me and my brother bought 61LLY as a present for my dad. As my surname is Gill :smug:
I saw that up for sale very recently, wasnt it about £16,000 ?
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What I'm finding with the dvla though, is that I cant get a registration starting with GIL - with the other sites I can. Not sure why or what I'm doing wrong.
me and my brother bought 61LLY as a present for my dad. As my surname is Gill :smug:
I saw that up for sale very recently, wasnt it about £16,000 ?
I paid a little less less than that. Was offered more than double a few months ago, but refused. Great investment, especially as there is no capital gains to pay :laugh: You do find that companies constantly try to sell your plate and call you with offers all the time even though you havent listed it for sale.
Strange thing is the lady who has G1LLY lives a couple of streets away :grin:
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I've just bought a plate for my misses as part of her xmas. It said it was unavailable on every site I checked apart from newreg. I have purchased it and went through all the checks, I got the conformation email but right at the end it says they will send me the v750 then it says.. "N.B. In the event that ** *** is no longer available, we will contact you"
Does that mean that maybe they dont actually have this plate even though they are selling, or will it still go through ok ?
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Have seen a few crackers but the 1 that I will always remember. I was hitchhiking back in 80/81 when a triumph stag shot up the M6 slip road with this reg HOP1N thought that was cool. Also P155AFF its a scottish thing.
My private reg is an old motor bike reg reversed ie old bike ABC123A I now have A123ABC as a reminder to my past. Just adds a wee touch to the car/bike
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I've been looking out for H11RDY for ages. :sad:
Saw JUL 14N the other day....on an Avensis :sick:
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I used to have a cool plate with plenty of history, I had BMX 1T (BMX IT). I used to race BMX bikes when I was younger and was quite good, I bought it off a guy called Craig Schofield who was World Champion in 1985, his dad bought him the plate for winning that race. I bought it off him around 1995 and sold it back to him a couple of years ago.
I was sitting at traffic lights at Battersea one day and little mark from Take That pulled up next to me, wound his window down and said nice plate mate! Takes all sorts I suppose!
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these people with private plates :rolleyes:
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I used to have a cool plate with plenty of history, I had BMX 1T (BMX IT). I used to race BMX bikes when I was younger and was quite good, I bought it off a guy called Craig Schofield who was World Champion in 1985, his dad bought him the plate for winning that race. I bought it off him around 1995 and sold it back to him a couple of years ago.
I was sitting at traffic lights at Battersea one day and little mark from Take That pulled up next to me, wound his window down and said nice plate mate! Takes all sorts I suppose!
I used to race BMX bikes too, but I was sh!te. Nearly all the tracks were a million miles away from me and I didn't like falling off.
I remember Craig Schofield, Tim March and quite a few others who's names escape me now. I saved all my BMX Action Bike mags for years and years until one day my boiler leaked all over the boxes and ruined the lot. :angry:
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I used to have a cool plate with plenty of history, I had BMX 1T (BMX IT). I used to race BMX bikes when I was younger and was quite good, I bought it off a guy called Craig Schofield who was World Champion in 1985, his dad bought him the plate for winning that race. I bought it off him around 1995 and sold it back to him a couple of years ago.
I was sitting at traffic lights at Battersea one day and little mark from Take That pulled up next to me, wound his window down and said nice plate mate! Takes all sorts I suppose!
I used to race BMX bikes too, but I was sh!te. Nearly all the tracks were a million miles away from me and I didn't like falling off.
I remember Craig Schofield, Tim March and quite a few others who's names escape me now. I saved all my BMX Action Bike mags for years and years until one day my boiler leaked all over the boxes and ruined the lot. :angry:
Ha, Tim is a mate of mine, he was in my shop this week wanting me to fix his bike (again)! There was a pretty cool track in Exeter BITD, there was a national there. What bike did you have Exo? I've still got all my mags too!
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so does anyone actually have an answer for my question ? :grin:
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If the question is 'where is the best place to buy a private plate' and you're looking for something like GIL 28 (or similar), then the best place to buy is probably the DVLA auctions. Everyone else selling that style of plate will be putting a large mark-up on what you could have paid yourself!
Go onto the DVLA site and download the catalogue. The next auction is the end of Jan.
http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/home/en/Auction/next
Register, and bid if theres anything you like!
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so does anyone actually have an answer for my question ? :grin:
Gossa, I'll take this to PM (but the answer is my last one was a Raleigh Aero Pro way back in 1984, slightly modified of course)
And for Kev, I think that anwer was DVLA! :grin: Although I know nowt about poofter plates (and apologies to anyone offended by that terminology, it was done in jest), I'd perhaps get a cool one if I won the lotto.
I'll keep my 09 plate until then though as they're uber rare thanks to VWs nice waiting lists.......
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I've just bought a plate for my misses as part of her xmas. It said it was unavailable on every site I checked apart from newreg. I have purchased it and went through all the checks, I got the conformation email but right at the end it says they will send me the v750 then it says.. "N.B. In the event that ** *** is no longer available, we will contact you"
Does that mean that maybe they dont actually have this plate even though they are selling, or will it still go through ok ?
Kev, I bought my daughter a private reg about a month ago for passing her test and also for a Christmas present direct from DVLA.
I've just went on to newreg and searched for it and it is has told me the number is still available from them, which it clearly isn't as I have all the paperwork. So to answer your question, I'd be really surprised if newreg had your number when everywhere else didn't unless it was actually theirs to sell.
Especially if it is in the form of A1 XYZ or AB59 XYZ. As most (if not all) of the registration companies just link up to the DVLA database and then charge you a premium for it. Always go to DVLA first if it is in the form that I just quoted.
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Thanks :) I dont think its available then as its not on dvla :sad:
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When I type in my 2 initials to get a 'AB 12' style plate, newreg list they have about 20 plates. In reality they don't have any of them - and if I clicked BUY, they'd send an email to the owner offering them cash for it!
At least the auction plates are actually for sale!
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these people with private plates :rolleyes:
:grin: :grin:
yes no point puttin it on an old banger
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When I type in my 2 initials to get a 'AB 12' style plate, newreg list they have about 20 plates. In reality they don't have any of them - and if I clicked BUY, they'd send an email to the owner offering them cash for it!
At least the auction plates are actually for sale!
Ah so thats how new egg are working. Looks like my misses aint getting her plate then.
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Ah so thats how new egg are working. Looks like my misses aint getting her plate then.
Yeah... and then if you actually own a nice "12 AB" style dateless plate, you'll probably get through stupid offers for it all the time!
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the next change, from 59 to 60 allows a plate MY60LFR or similar. I drive a company car so aint going to indulge...
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I nearly got VW59OLF but someone got there only minutes before me.
A lot of people seem to use private plates to try and hide the age of there car. A couple of people i work with have done this, they seem upset when i told them the age and even the date there car was first registered.
You have to love the new car tax website :grin:
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damn, got email this morn from newreg, the plate i wanted is no longer available :sad:
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I Have Registration No MY59 GTD for sale if anyones interested. I Have the Certificate of entitlement from DVLA and as not yet been assigned to any Vehicle. Has been Valued at £1200.00 by 2 Reg plate dealers. Was going to put it on my New GTD Golf ordered back in Sept 09,But for unknown VW delay Reasons it will now not be Delivered untill March 2010 or maybe later :cry:so it will be a 10 plate.
If You have your New 59 plate GTD Would Look Great :smiley: MY 59 GTD
Open to Sensible Offers. :smiley: :smiley:
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I've just spent 40 odd minutes looking at private plates, there are some real bargains to be had out there found this one "M999 AGD" AGD being my initials, M999 meaning nothing but looks pretty cool lol for £244 with all taxes etc.
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I Have Registration No MY59 GTD for sale if anyones interested. I Have the Certificate of entitlement from DVLA and as not yet been assigned to any Vehicle. Has been Valued at £1200.00 by 2 Reg plate dealers. Was going to put it on my New GTD Golf ordered back in Sept 09,But for unknown VW delay Reasons it will now not be Delivered untill March 2010 or maybe later :cry:so it will be a 10 plate.
If You have your New 59 plate GTD Would Look Great :smiley: MY 59 GTD
Open to Sensible Offers. :smiley: :smiley:
Valued at £1200?!
I bet you bought it for £245.
Not really my cup of tea... but you'll maybe find someone.
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Valued at £1200?!
I bet you bought it for £245.
Not really my cup of tea... but you'll maybe find someone.
Sounds like a bit of a scam, that was his 1st post . . . . . . :undecided:
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AGD is not your initals
we know the truth, Letters of your favorite song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POv-3yIPSWc
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:D :D :D
How do you come up with this lol
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:kiss: Easy when you know how :tongue:
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It is No Scam!!
Just Thought i would offer it to a Golf Enthuisiast with a new GTD at a sensible price before i take up there offer, because they would no doubt bump up the price. and i did not pay £245.00 for it either a lot more than that.
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I'll give £245 for it, seems fair.
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You can get pretty much any MY** GTD or VW** GTD plate for £612 on newreg.com
Why you would want to spend even £600 on a plate that you'll have to leave on the car and get no extra back for is beyond me!
R2 GTD - £143... thats more like it!!!
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I've just spent 40 odd minutes looking at private plates, there are some real bargains to be had out there found this one "M999 AGD" AGD being my initials, M999 meaning nothing but looks pretty cool lol for £244 with all taxes etc.
nobody would realise it's a private plate. I think you have to have two numbers after the year/letter at most.
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I've just spent 40 odd minutes looking at private plates, there are some real bargains to be had out there found this one "M999 AGD" AGD being my initials, M999 meaning nothing but looks pretty cool lol for £244 with all taxes etc.
nobody would realise it's a private plate. I think you have to have two numbers after the year/letter at most.
they would on a mk5 golf :wink: as its the old style plate :cool:
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true. But you can get M _ _ XXX (ie 2 numbers) for £250. I've got J90 SCH and it was £250. I used to have B19 SCH but left it on a mk3 VR6 when I bought the A reg mk1. So stupid.
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I agree with A7UFO on this one.
I have W4--- which I bought in 2002, I bought V7--- for my wife in 2003, then J6--- and L5--- which I am keeping on retention for our kids when they have their cars in 12 and 13 years time.
The most expensive was W4 at £399, and the others were £250. We will keep them for ever as they have our initials, and will become quite rare in years to come. Even though I pay £25 each a year to keep the kids numbers on retention, I think it is worth it as we won't be able to buy single digit plates by the time they have their cars. You struggle to find them now.
I think that as time goes on, prefix plates will become sort of dateless, as the gap widens between the age of car they go on and the year of the plate. Also because the new style private plates still have 7 digits, they dont really stand out as being special.
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You telling me people wouldn't realise M999 isn't a private plate :shocked:
This is a pointless debate as private plates are the LAST thing on my mind at the moment :grin:
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You telling me people wouldn't realise M999 isn't a private plate :shocked:
To people who "know" it would be a private plate, but in my humble opinion, the majority of people who do not care about cars, it just looks like any other.
When the prefix private plates were launched in 1990, virtually all of the ones that were taken up were single digit, and to be fair, they did stand out.
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I'd have thought the whole 999 thing would have given it away and the fact mine clearly isn't an M reg.
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I Have Registration No MY59 GTD for sale if anyones interested. I Have the Certificate of entitlement from DVLA and as not yet been assigned to any Vehicle. Has been Valued at £1200.00 by 2 Reg plate dealers. Was going to put it on my New GTD Golf ordered back in Sept 09,But for unknown VW delay Reasons it will now not be Delivered untill March 2010 or maybe later :cry:so it will be a 10 plate.
If You have your New 59 plate GTD Would Look Great :smiley: MY 59 GTD
Open to Sensible Offers. :smiley: :smiley:
Valued at £1200?!
I bet you bought it for £245.
Not really my cup of tea... but you'll maybe find someone.
This one is available for you p3eps. :smiley:
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm104/tomashandmilly/Detailing%20pics/IMG_1194.jpg)
Could be worth a few bob in a year or 2 when some of you guys with the R start turning your rare car into show cars. :tongue:
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Pic wont work for me ? ?
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Pic wont work for me ? ?
Wouldn't work for me - then I came out and back in!
R20 SXY
I'm afraid my car won't be a show car - just a method of getting from A to B... and a bit of fun at the weekend!
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I'd have thought the whole 999 thing would have given it away and the fact mine clearly isn't an M reg.
Let me put it another way. If M9--- had been available and at the same price, which one would you have gone for?
Neither is better than the other, and we all like different things which is what makes them personal resigstrations I suppose.
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I had R20 GTY for £200 cheap i thought, will do for the new car when it arives lol :smiley:
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A porsche round my way has B17 SLO - love it!!
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