Originally Posted by Heinz
Very interesting that you can get official information about a particular car based on the license plate, Richard, I just tried it re the Morgan in the picture above. In our country, the (so-called) data protectionists would go through the roof.

Heinz, my experience when I lived in Switzerland in the 1980s was that one day on my way home I stopped to get petrol and forgot to pay (an honest mistake). By the time I got home less that 15 minutes later, the police were on the phone telling me about my transgression. The difference was that the licence plate identified the car's owner, not the car, in fact I had a "Wechselnummer" which meant several vehicles could be registered to the same number plate and could be switched between cars (saving on road taxes). Maybe in Germany it is the same ?

Peter
2009 3-litre Roadster "Ivor", royal ivory / green