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I couldn’t possibly comment on such occurrences 😂And yet in those days, people of influence were usually able to get" XXX 1" and the Fire Brigade usually got "XXX 999" when each new XXX allocation was started.
I couldn’t possibly comment on such occurrences 😂And yet in those days, people of influence were usually able to get" XXX 1" and the Fire Brigade usually got "XXX 999" when each new XXX allocation was started.
I had a BX 16 petrol estate which followed a rubbish Volvo 245 estate. The difference in reliability and running costs was chalk and cheese. The BX whilst a bit rattley was a brilliant carThis is the first number plate I ever bought. It's an Irish plate from the BXI series. I hadn't long bought my first Citroen - a BX-TZDTurbo, so the number plate fitted well. In those days no one bothered about spacing. The bloke adorning the bonnet is a 30-year younger edition of myself, having a coffee break south of Dijon. The last time I checked, the vehicle still exists.
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The whole series G - single digit - three letters were expensive, partly because they were the same format as ham radio callsigns and DVLA thought hams would want their callsign on their number plate.When the DVLA released the "G" suffix plates for sale (this was in the late 90's when the surplus G suffixes were put up for sale) I looked at buying "G4RYB" but as I had a company car at the time it would have just sat in the drawer on a retention certificate, the cost then was £3,500.