"Well, we've both seen your personalised reg plate
It's not the worst crime, I agree.
But we both know full well that it really should spell
T W A T O N E."

My favourite was a BMW M5 I saw in Wolverhampton once, with the plate M4NLY. Oh dear ... just how insecure would you have to be to display that?

Can better that! Steve Parish, he of motorbike and truck racing "fame" had, or maybe still has, PEN 1S - once followed me down the Edgware Road in it......

Couple of years ago I was overtaken on the M42 by a guy in a very flash Italian sportscar with the numberplate EGO 2 81G. My initial reaction to seeing his car (TOS 53R) was replaced by a grudging acknowledgement that at least the guy had a sense of his own ridiculousness.

About 6 or 7 years ago whilst at Run To The Sun we followed a newish, gangster spec (slammed, black, big inch rims, limo black tints) 7 series Bimmer into Newquay - the 'plate was DRU 680Y, which with 'clever' spacing & strategically placed fixing bolts became DRUG BOY - the slogan underneath read: "Who says crime doesn't pay".

Let's hope that's been dealt with by now, by the use of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

i had heard that. Although the time i saw it, it was on a flourecent jacket coloured mondeo..

Older lady around here has W1TCH on her 911

hahaha

There's a family up my road that have replaced their X5 with a white Q7 with all the extra unnecessary sports trim and has the number plate WA11 CER

When you see the plates from anywhere except up close, the 1s join together to form an N, which coincidentally describes perfectly what the whole family are.

We used to have an old F reg Panda when we lived in France, it was RHD and UK registered but I put it on French number plates, F9 5G NN. With the BZH sticker on the boot, very few could work out where it was from when it was in the UK. I wouldn't do it now though, it's just naff, like private plates are mostly naff. I've gone off those too and put my Turbo R back onto a normal G reg and given it its dignity back. Although I might get away with putting my plate on the 2CV, if I had proper period raised digit 1975 plates made up, and I didn't dick about with the spacing. WAR 83N might look like an original normal plate on it. But the car's a 90, not a 75, so it's still wrong I guess