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quoteWith almost a thousand votes, personalising those motorhome or caravan wheels certainly got you talking…
And we can now reveal that a huge 77% of our readers have a personalised registration plate!
In our latest poll, 48% said they had a private number plate on their caravan and tow car and nearly a third of voters had a personalised plate on their motorhome.
And once again you shared some wonderful stories, which included registration plates showing a union of marriage, initials of family members, combined with birth dates or the year you bought your vehicle and some plates reflecting the name of your prized motorhome or caravan.
Many of you not only find that it’s a way of personalising your wheels, but that they are incredibly easy to remember when setting up your car or motorhome insurance, or parking or pitching up.
One reader went to the extreme of changing her name by deed poll so it matched her £33 number plate ZD01 PGY. She’s now called Zeda Doreen Oliver Imogen Paula Gina Yasmin!
The rest of the results revealed that 30% of voters didn’t have a personalised plate on their caravan or motorhome. Six per cent said they would like one on their motorhome and two per cent said they would like one on their tow car.
Here’s some of your stories and comments….
George Mitchell bought this plate for his car and caravan when he retired – G15 OAP. His wife Gillian says it stands for “One Amazing Person” when she drives the car!
It’s a family affair for Steven with S40 LRJ. The S for Stephen, L for his wife Lynn, R for his son Ross and J for his daughter Jennifer!
And these tourers keep it close to their name: David Duggins has DL12 DUG on his motorhome, Al has AL51 VAN and Rodney gets strangers calling him by his name after his wife bought him this number plate – R40 DNY.
Tim explains his TK11 BUS plate: “We always called our VW T5 the bus and a “tiki” being a spirit of freedom we have TK11 BUS,” he said. “My initials are also TK and to be honest we needed something easy as we could never remember the bland registration number it came with!”
Elaine and Gary bought E4 GMB for their 30th wedding anniversary and Campbell has H11 CGF on the motorhome – which stands for Hi to Campbell and Gwen Foster.
Steve Bonar’s shows affection for his wife with his initials and his wife’s name – SB04 KYM and former police officer Andy Culley has his old collar number on his plate – TIL 1345.
Ron Carthy bought his reg – RC60 RON near his 60th birthday, and it also includes his initials and name.
Ray Jones has RJ02 ETJ. “My initials and my wife’s initials,” said Ray. “Easy way to remember the registration number, particularly with the common systems in public carparks.”
Julie Tanner has T44 NER on their caravan named Mini Tanner Manor. “Like having it on the tow car and the caravan – makes us happy and that’s all that matters!” she said.
John D Sheil searched the DVLA for a bargain personalised number plate for his motorhome and three cylinder car and manged to find P300 JDS & P600 JDS. “Poseur 300, my initials for my three cylinder car and 600 for my six geared vans.” he added.
John Helliwell’s number plate combines his name and birthday – 855 JON and Dave has R777 RNR fitted to his Autocruise Renoir to “spice” it up a little!
But, personalised plates aren’t for everyone.
Dave thinks it’s a waste of money and Colin Charlett says he has better things to spend his money on.
“I spend my money on food and beer a lot more fun than a number plate that means nothing to anyone,” commented Dave.
I am rather saddened by those who criticise cherished plates and I do wonder if the self same people would tolerate someone criticising THEIR choice of clothes/hairstyle/household colour scheme etc?
Yes I do have a cherished plate, ¥$€ 1345
The letters mean nothing but the numbers are my old “collar” number from my days of being a police officer, the plate means something to me and has now been on 7 different cars, AND I had another, with the same numbers, on my motorhome SO “Yah Boo Sucks!” to those who don’t like them, I DO.
Andy Culley
Thanks Andy. We love to see personalised plates on motorhomes.
I’ve owned the reg plate 50ROD since 1963 (when I was 19 years old) and paid £5 for it. It’s been on many of my cars and motorhomes since then. Part of it is vanity, but I just think it looks nice on the vehicle At one time, a few years back I had H15OME (His Home) on my Auto Trail and rather foolishly sold the plate with the motorhome.
My daughter bought me LE51 ART before it was actually released back in the year 2000 because my first name is Les and I love to paint, both as a hobby and a semi’ professional portrait painter. In that year she paid about £200 for it directly from DVLA. Recently I was offered in excess of £1000 for it. Which shows that it can be a sound investment as well as a lot of fun. If I had invested that £200 back then I doubt that it would have earned more than £1000 by now, and I have had many years of fun from displaying it on my past four cars and three caravans.
What a lovely present Les. Thanks for sharing.
I bought one of the last Land Rover Defenders and bought a. Plate LRO2 ART
Land Rover Owner Too, Art (hur)
Just a bit of fun , that’s all
There’s some very negative and critical comments about personal plates. I think it’s a personal preference and should be left to the individuals, whatever their reason for having them.
I’ll wager that these people who criticise private plates, but don’t own one, still personalise their motor-home/vehicle with their own favourite colour scheme, having furry dice, silly bumper stickers or tinker about with the engine because ‘they know best’. So, what’s the difference ? There are some things I can’t abide to see when I’m on a site, but i’d never dream of criticising the owner.
To each, his own. Or, for all European travellers: vive la difference.
Personalised numbers may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s just a bit of fun. My number (W28GEO) was a gift from my wife. I now have it on my fourth car. Nobody is trying to force anyone to have a personal number if they don’t like them, so each to his own.
people with these private plates must have very boring lives wanting to be noticed with there private plates it just says look at me pathetic
I am in full agreement with Eric Morgan, we have a private plate for the same reason it removes all the look at us in our new car/camper/motorhome,
As for phils remarks unless you can afford RR1 private plates are just family fun
Regarding number plates Mine is PRM1F
or Pride of Roy McCaslin 1 FOOL
it is like everything else it is personel taste I have my owm number plate t23 jdr t is nothing but 23 is my birthday and my name is james david reid
Vanity plate says it all.
When I retired 10 years ago I purchased HA5 3DOM which loosely makes has freedom. Appropriate I thought.
Yes, I have personal number plate. For exactly the opposite reason most people have a personalised number.
I’m not looked down on by people who have “the latest/this years/only six month old model”. My number, a combination of three letters and three numbers, makes my car in effect “ageless”.
my name is chris james and i have
C j14mes on our tow car.
personal number plates say one thing about the people wanting to be important ,ill let you decide the next few words
My wife and I have JS65TES our initials (J my middle name) on our Motorhome called Montie. Article is easy reading and just a bit of fun the same as having a personalised number plate.
Complete waste of time