Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Classic Morgans (pre-CX) BL;ACK AND SILVER NUMBER PLATES

I have the same black plate with silver letters / numbers

BUT I still haven't removed the HLBL and will do it soon.

Anyway the best to drive with it is still not to have any occasion of being caught. I don't drive faster than the limited speed and respect the laws

I'll drink to that! ooops - sorry - no drinking & driving!

For sure I don't drink either when I drive

The trick is to get a non age related number plate (6 digits - cheap as chips), they look better anyway, particularly if they are not your initials. It does not work on an Aero though. Then carry a pair of yellow and white under the passenger seat with some stickies from halfords. If stopped, and in four years I have never been, you say sorry officer I was at a show last weekend and have forgotten to put them back on. I will do it now. I take it you have already removed that ghastly central stop light. They also make the car go faster and sound louder (if a Plus 8).

Hehe,

Yes, 'at a show, forgot to change them'...
I know a +8 owner who forgot to change them over when going for his MoT, they mentioned his plates as this was the third re-test, not so much because of the black/silver, but the one on the back said xxx 508x, the one on the front (the correct one!) said xxx 580x...
Number plate people do occasioanlly make mistakes!

Cheers,

Graham,

I have had MOT guys that say not bothered mate - I am only concerned with safety items. Others make the temporary stickers more secure.

Tim

I said in my earlier reply that I was toying with the idea of doing just that, this discussion has inspired me to get on with it.

I've just bought an nnn KPX plate for my 4/4, which is a 1963 Sussex registration. It should have the added advantage of letting me blag a pass for the classic car park at next year's Goodwood Revival.

(Several decades ago I worked in the audit department of the council in Chichester. My boss there had an Austin Cambridge with the registration 1 NPO, which he had got by the simple expedient of wandering down the corridor to the registration department and asking for something interesting! If only it was that easy now.)

~iw

Ian, is "PO" an (old) Chichester registration? I have "nnn PPO" on my '05 4/4.

And does anyone have a weblink for the areas each pair of letters came from? This used to be in every AA and RAC handbook when I was a child - but I can't find an equivalent on the net (yet).

Thanks
Nigel

http://www.cvpg.co.uk/REG.pdf

Keep reading, it's a long way down........

A very interesting and informative article Dave, Thanks for sharing.
It seems that, as usual, we find ourselves in the (very Common)groups