Conference terri::cars_uk

    
    My father used to have a nice plate - I wish he hadn't sold it as it
    would have suited me kinda well (and no, it wasn't insulting).
    
    It was '21 TD' (or the other way around).
    
    -Tony (Dallison 21yrs old al la 21 TD)

    This morning I saw A 7 VNE, with the 7 doctored so that half the top
    horizontal was missing and the vertical stroke intersected with the top
    of the V to read ANNE.
    
    Ought to be banned for life.
    
    JK

    Driving in this morning I was about 10th in the queue behind a slow
    moving lorry on a road which it is notoriously difficult to overtake.
    
    Most drivers were waiting patiently, until behind me arrive a bright
    red Fiesta XR2, whose drive proceded to gamble in the gaps between
    oncoming traffic and the couple of car lengths between the queueing
    vehicles. After a couple of near misses (even by my standards (-:) he
    succeeded in passing the truck and zoomed off.
    
    Nothing unusual so far.
    
    
    Few minutes later, on the Woodcote road in Caversham Heights, saw same
    Red fiesta parked outside of a house, with the driver taking from the
    boot and fixing on the roof a magnetic driving school sign. Presumably
    he was about to pick up his first customer of the day!
    
    JK

    
    I think he probably taught a few contributors to this notes file
    
    :-)

    RE: .3336
    
    We've all seen that, lots of times, and like me, most people probably
    just shake their head in disbelief, and thankGod that they survived
    another person's stupidity. in this case, I would report him. No
    hesitation.
    
    Laurie.

    
    A driving school using a 5GTT.....
    

    
>>    A driving school using a 5GTT.....
    
    Thats nothing. Over here in Switzeerland they are learning in 
    Golf G60s and BMW M3s, probably in case they need some acceleration
    to overtake a slow lorry with blinds on the window.
    

I don't think I could have got behind the wheel of such beasts when 
on my driving lessons.  The Nissan Micra was enough of an animal at 
the time!

Why do they do it???  Prestige symbols for the Instructors?

Rob.

RE: -.1

They're all private driving schools (apart from the Micra fleet) - so the cars
double up as personal cars. I guess that being an instructor requires a 'macho'
car round this neck of the woods!

Steve

    As of 1-July-1992 VAT registered driving schools can claim the VAT back
    on the purchace price of any school cars. So you can expect to see a
    lot flash cars around ...
    
    	Rik

    
    Anyone want driving lessons in a Ferrari? :^)
    
    Don't worry, you have to look under cars in them! :^)
    
    Seriously, though, is it possible that these cars are used for advanced
    driving only? The thought of letting a complete beginner loose in a
    5GTT is terrifying!
    
    Mark
    
    PS My instructor warned me his Allegro 1.3 was a powerful car!

    
    
    	A local driving instructor who used XR2s claimed it was because
    they had such torquey engines. If the learner made a muck up of the
    gears, it didn't matter so much. I leave it to you're own discretion
    whether you believe him or not...
    
    Graham.

    
    Seen in Brussels thsi morning (on the underpass at Montgomery):
    
    
    
    A Peugeot 309 with rear window blinds decorated with a FOOTBALL SCENE!
    
    Mike H.
    
    

    Did anyone see the black Escort Cossie pace car in the F1 racing
    yesterday ?
    
    How did Mansell keep up ? :-)
    
    Gary.

    re Driving schools in Switzerland
    
    The list of schools in the telephone book gives not only the name but
    also what kind of car.
    
    They can afford it - last year it cost sFr.150 for 90 minutes!!!
    
    Therese

    
    Seen on saturday,
    	A metalic blue convertable Merc Reg:HI JAG.
    
    	Most impressive!
    
    A.
    

	I hate to raise this subject again but, a couple of days
ago I was driving my Citroen BX (with rear blinds suitably lowered)
around a roundabout in Bracknell when I came up behind another BX.
On the rear window he had seven (yes, seven) small aerials of
slightly different lengths, but about two or three inches long and
one about two foot long on the roof near the usual radio aerial.
His blinds were drawn (but the car was real - thank you Spike
Milligan)... Now, I wonder what he was hiding?

	BLU1Y

On a smokey blue Astra GTE outside my gate...pesky thing :-)

    
    Spotted less than a mile from my home this morning :-
    
    A Brooklands Green Marcos! - It was a Mini Marcos, though! 
    
    And :-
    
    at the traffic lights just down the A4 from the Newbury office (towards
    Thatcham) a metallic red (burgundy really, I guess) Mantula Spyder
    (actually I think it said 2.0i on the back, so that may mean it isn't
    technically a Mantula, but anyway it looks the same!).
    
    Mark

    Some more number plates to bore you all !
    
    A Honda Prelude.  H11 NDA, all letters spaced to read   H O N D A
    
    Fiesta XR2.       A13 ODY, reads A BODY
    
    Merc 190.         A19 OSE  reads A 190 SE
    
    5 series BMW     plate reads from a distance: RICKY, dont know what
    letter/number combo though, wasn't close enough.
    
    What a busy little plate spotter i was this weekend.
    
    
    Nick.

A lot of the people with number plates where the spacing is non-standard or 
who have other incorrect features will feel even funnier after the new MOT
changes become effective in January.  They will fail!!

jb

    Re .-1
    
    I guess they could put the "legal" plate on for the MoT  and put the
    "risky"  one back on after and chance being pulled over by the boys in
    blue.
    
    Roy

    I regularly see 
    			A 17 GLE
    
    Spaced to read
    			ANGIE
    
    but failing and reading
    			ANGLE
    
    Unless of course her name *is* Angle
    
    JK

    Seen on a red Lotus something-or-other on the A33 on saturday:
    
    CDD 15K 
    
    spaced and using incorrect symbols to read 
    
    CD DISK

What, Compact Disk Disk....That's cool (?)





	Ian

    
    Why does an off road vehicle have its rear light clusters, placed in
    the rear bumper ?????????????
    
    Steve

    re . -1
    
    Is this a joke? I don't know, why does an off raod vehicle have its
    rear light clusters placed in the rear bumper?????? ;-)
    
    I think it's just design, there's no apparant special reason, because
    not all OR vehicles have this... or is there?

    
    Seen in passing ...
    
    A Black 944s with the plate 'All HYD'

    
    I think -2 ish was refering to the fact that lights on the bumpers are
    very vulnerable to damage when the vehicle is off-road. But then most
    off-road vehicles are only bought for pose value - and are most
    unlikely to see anything other than the odd blade of grass on someones 
    drive!
    
    Elaine

Probably so you have to fork out a few hundred squid for those bars over
the lights/bumpers.


Ian

RE: Those 'bars' that go around the light clusters.

Are very useful for pursueding other road drivers to be polite! ;-)

    
    saw the other day a Merc 190 with the following number plate at
    Manchester Airport
    
    J 9 YNE
    
    i would imagine to represent JAYNE.
    

Nissan SUnny GTi-R on the A33 on Friday. Grotesque bump on the bonnet
and even more grotesque spoiler on the tailgate. 

I wouldn't mind a go in one though!

	Ian

    Seen...
    
    Porsche Turbo with plate:  1664 AD

So, did something happen in 1664 AD that relates to Porsches, or Germany?

Sorry if it's something obvious, but nothing comes to mind.....

Thanks
Dave

    [Shrugs his shoulders]

See just North of Leeds last Sunday ...

 Ferrari F40 with Reg. F40 LAP

Yummy!

    
    What an eventfull night. In brief .....
    
    Heard heavy skids plus bump (11 p.m). Looked at of window to see a 
    Cortina Mk4 having overshot the T-junction and hemmed in from behind
    by police car, rapidly reverse into front of police car. Cortina swings 
    through an arc to proceed on his way, narrowly missing a parked car. 
    The arc was too tight for his speed to continue at 90' to his approach. 
    Having swung around parked car, mounts opposite curb, ploughs straight 
    into lamp post which brings down half the wall behind. Police car moves 
    up behind again and Cortina proceeds to reverse and ram the front of the 
    police Volvo again. By now the police have removed drive from drivers door 
    and cuffed him. 
    This all happened within ... 30 secs and by then there were 3 other
    police cars present.
    
    Steve

    
    There was a somewhat battered Rover SD1 on the M3 this morning.
    Everyone in (or around it) looked a bit shaken up, but unhurt, and most 
    of the panels on it were showing signs of some impact.
    
    The point of interest is that the car was still attached to the caravan
    it was towing!
    
    Definitely a case of the tail wagging the dog!
    
    Mark

    Coincidence, the green merc "Jayne" was pulling a caravan in Galway
    (Southern Ireland) yesterday, small world innit?
    
      

    I spotted a Nissan Sunny GTi-R on the Basingstoke entrance to the M3
    yesterday. Looks totally over the top, but it certainly seems to
    possess 'adequate' performance.
    
    Mark

    Saw a car i definately would like to have a go in
    
    a Nissan Skyline (obviously imported by someone with dosh).
    
    I was suprised at how big it was, somewhere between a Granada and
    Sierra i'd say, but it did look mean.
    
    Nick.

	Have you seen the new Esso advert where a couple of guys
drive into an Esso station in a bright yellow Allegro and one goes
into the shop to get the latest offer of drink flasks, etc.? When
he comes out the other guy is busy cutting the roof off the Allegro
to make it into a convertible and off they drive... Well, I saw that
commercial being filmed a few weeks ago when I was on my way home.
It was done at the new Esso station on the site of the old Mike
Spence Lancia Dealer (remember the late Mike Spence, the ex Lotus driver
around the Jim Clark era?)... Its on the Reading to Arborfield road
after the "Black Boy" pub, on the bend by the new roundabout... Well,
it made my day...

Yeah, I've seen it. There was also a picture in yesterday's Today newspaper
of a woman by her car. It was a Nova and vandals had cut the roof off!!!

Ian

    re .3381
    
    Yup, saw that myself. The woman lives in the same village as me
    (Mapplewell, S Yorks). She is disabled (orange sticker in the
    windscreen) and moved to Mapplewell after having her previous car
    vandalised a dozen times where she used to live. Personally, I suggest
    slow immersion in battery acid for b@$t@rd$ like this. 
    
    Uncharacteristic of Mapplewell, which has a lot in common with Sleepy
    Hollow. If they touch my Calibra, there will be serious bloodshed....
    
    Clive
    

    Seen this morning whilst driving into Belfast: 2 rally cars.  The first
    I saw whipped out ahead of me with a decent gap in the traffic (this
    being a Subaru with no. 1 and J plate), the second pulled out just as I
    was passing the entrance and put the boot down so that he was driving
    against the flow of traffic to my right and then cut in in front of me.
    This car was a white Sapphire Cossie with green bumpers - no. 4 I
    think. It too had a J plate.
    
    Could the first one have been Colin Mcrae? I'm not sure of the second
    one, but if I hadn't got a suspected cracked cylinder head, I'd have
    zipped past :-)  My only cause for joy is that a maroon Sierra estate
    then proceded to pass cars on the inside behind me before cutting right
    in on my rear bumper.  This was accomanied by horns being sounded by
    other irrate drivers.  Then the Sierra estate behind me (again a J plate)
    pulled into the inside and signalled to the Cossie to turn off left.
    Well they did and blasted on up that road.  This road does take you to
    Belfast, but it is longer and there is a chance of getting stoned by 10
    year olds as happened to me last week.  But maybe THEY deserve it :-)
    
    I take it that they were heading to the start of the Ulster rally in
    the centre of Belfast.  Anyway there is a special stage tonight which I
    shall be attending and I won't forget to bring my stones along ;-)
    
    Gary.

	J8
       8EAT

on a Honda Beat.....the second 8 looked very B like :-)

    Reg. No. H4 BET
    
    Mind you it was on a Lotus Carlton travelling on the M27 !
    
    
    Shaun.

	Saw a Princess-Diana-type-Mercedes Reg. No. A 5CAM (A SCAM)
and a Cavalier, or somesuch, reg J 60ULT (I wonder if his name is
John GOULT, or something)...

    Seen my 1st K reg, but it also had trade plates!! :^)

    Last Friday, a *very large* number of motorbikes, on some sort of
    run ride through Princes Street, Edinburgh.  The whole cavalcade
    took some 25 minutes to go past, with lots of horn-blowing and flag-
    waving (Italians and Germans seemed most prolific).  A neat sight.
    
    One group of Italian riders decided to take off their crash helmets,
    just to wind up the Police officers lining the route.
    
    One poseur with a sidecar was riding his bike on two wheels, with
    the 'car waving in the air - I've not seen this stunt before !
    
    
    Also, can I put one in advance for Monday ?
    
    	'K' reg TVR Griffith in the SBP car park.
    
    The owner sits a couple of desks behind me, picking the car up at midnight !
    
    J.R.

    Well I found out the identity of the driver of the Sierra Cossie rally
    car which pulled out beside, and then in front of me.... It was Louise
    Aitkin Walker. Bloody women rally drivers think they own the road :-)
    I saw her in action on Friday night - this time on a closed stage.
    Though it was quite obvious that 99% of the rally cars were breaking
    the speed limit on the road sections in between stages.  I expect the
    Police will be pleased with their "in action" shots from their speed
    cameras :-)
    
    Gary.

    
    Saturday at the Coral Reef Roundabout in Bracknell
    
    
    730i BMW    number plate......   730 BMW
    
    
    

On the M4 this morning:


	HRH 1 Y

on a Rolls,

I wonder which one that was....

Funnily enough, the one that my wife went to church in.

    ...a few months ago, but it sticks in my memory....
    
    A fairly up-market BMW, with what looked like a flat-packed wardrobe on
    the roof (carboard box, 8x2ft and 3ins. thick). No roof-rack, so the
    guy was holding it with his left hand through the sun-roof. This was in
    London, just beyond the Hammersmith fly-over. The last I saw of him, he
    turned through 90 degrees, but the package only turned through 45
    degrees. So he disappeared out of sight desperately trying to rescue
    the load with one hand while trying to steer with the other - I nearly
    followed just to see what happened!

    Seen for the last few weeks in Newmarket.. A J-reg Sapphire Cosworth
    in black with black windows, AND black and silver number plate (old
    style).  Last weekend, same car seen in Newmarket High St with a police
    car parked behind it.  Driver being given an on-the-spot fine for
    illegal number plate!  Monday morning same Sapphire with correct
    yellow/black number plates.
    Oh dear!  The yellow just spoils the whole car! ;-)
    

Last night on M4 East Bound between J12 and J11 there was the results of
a towing accident. A car (Panda?) was pulling a trailer with a black
911 on board. When I saw it, the trailer was on the hard shoulder at 90
degrees to the road and the right way up. The Porsche was also still on
the correct place. Unfortunately, the towing car was up side down with the
roof crushed almost to door top level. Does anybody know what happened - i.e.
did the trailer start snaking or was the towing car forced to brake to
avoid hitting someone else? There are several (10 or so) over cars parked on the
hard shoulder. These all looked to be undamaged.

	Dave

    Re: .3395
    
    Funny, yesterday I saw a J 10 xxx registered Calibra with the silver on
    black embossed style of numberplates. 
    
    Obviously this he/she hasn't been caught yet!
    
    JK

    
    On Sunday night (2nd August), on the M42 between junction 5 and 6
    (heading North East).
    
    Five (?) ambulances, a fire engine, and lots of police. Also quite a
    few damaged cars. 
    
    I was heading the other way, so didn't se it all. It was about 9:45pm.
    Anyone know what happened?
    
    Steve.
    

    
    	Steve,
    
    		I know what happened.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    		There was an accident!
    
    
    	Andy..   :-)
    

This morning on the M4 heading out of London - a TV detector van.  So
now I know that they really do exist! 

Anyone unlicensed in Reading had better watch out... 

:-)

Jon

    
    Time to move the TV into the basement!!!!
    
    MattB
    

    Seen this Saturday :-
    
    	G-PURE		On a giant can of Guiness
    
    	G-UMBO		With a Virgin 747 flying through a cloud
    
    	G-RUGB		On a giant rugby ball
    
    	G-SEND
    	  +		With Motorola (mobile phone) livery
    	G-MUTE
    
    	G-WATT		National Power livery
    
    	G-NPWR		Nuclear Power (or summat like that) livery
    
    On various 'aircraft' at the International Balloon Festival, Bristol !
    
    A great spectacle.  Other oddities included :
    
    	A HUGE Rupert Bear,
    
    	Four-Pack of Fosters,
    
    	GIANT Converse 'bumper boot',
    
    	Bunch of Carrots (Rabbit foodstores of some sort),
    
    	a massive Bowler Hat (Chartered Accountants),
    
    	an ENORMOUS Kiwi,
    
    	a GREAT BIG Head wearing Headphones (Radio 1 FM),
    
    	and someone who parachuted down from a trapeze hanging below a balloon.
    
    J.R.

    Seen by the side of Hillsborough duel carriageway (NI), a Porsche 944
    with the front half in a rather crispy burnt state.  Looked like an
    engine bay fire, as the paint on the bonnet had been completely burnt
    off along with a lot of that on the front wings.
    
    It did make me think though.  I'm going to buy a fire extinguisher (or
    something spelt remotely like that :-) for my car.
    
    Gary.

RE: .-1;

>> Hillsborough duel carriageway 

Perhaps the porsche was jousting!

Mark.

    Joust a minute old chap. Wot I meant to say was dual carriageway :-)
    
    Gary.

    
    Oh no!! This could go on all day...
    
    and knight! :^)
    
    Mark

    :^) Yes galloping head-long into the twilight hours.
    
    Gary.

    Reminds me of the two knights who set off.
    
    Sir cumference went south, but to the north Sir Cular rode!
    
    (-:

    Stop this horseing around you boys :-)  Here's a proper seen in passing
    note...
    
    Yesterday on the M1 (NI) a splatted (and I mean completely splatted)
    caravan on the hard shoulder/inside lane.  The area was cordoned off by
    Police and all that remained of said caravan was a pancake like
    projection such that if it were folded up again along the seems it
    would make a complete 3D caravan again;' apart form all the other
    broken bits.  I swear to you that the wreckage was COMPLETELY flat!
    
    There were 3 Police cars at the scene, but no ambulance.  Whats more,
    as I was passing and gawking out the passenger window (as one does at
    such strange apparitions) a member of the constabulary pointed a
    hairdryer at me!  My radar detector started bleeping immediately, but
    sine I was obeying the speed limit I had nothin to worry about.  I'm
    just wondering if the detector was switched on in advance of my passing
    and I couldn't detect it; or if it was turned on just as I was passing? 
    I still don't know what range the darn thing is capable of.  Then again
    it just may be a flat caravan detector cunningly disguised as a radar
    detector.  That's what I'll tell the judge anyway ;-)
    
    Gary.

    Seen today one of the new "bl**dy fast" Escort RS things with the free
    coffee table attached to the rear window.
    
    It was on the back of a trailer!
    
    Greg

    Hmmm yummy.  Was it in a sexy dark metallic blue colour?
    
    Gary.

    Nah, it was red

    Seen on the M40.....
    
    	141 D 358
    
    Nothing special except it was on a Skoda!
    
    I wonder if 141 = Czechoslovakia??
    
    JK

    
    Seen yesterday down at Winnersh Triangle.
    
    	A Vauxhall Senator with no "Vauxhall" or Senator" labeling,Just
    	4000 written where 3.0i should be.The car had the most beautiful
    alloys,I'm wondering whether this lucky bozo has got a 4litre engine
    there.Any thoughts?
    
    Andy.
    

    Possibly a Holden V8 ?

Andy, 

Sounds possible,  the block will bore out quite considerably,  and if you fit 
a stroker crank it is possible to get to 4000cc.

However the 3.6l conversion costs approx 3500 quid,  the crank alone is 1016,  I
would expect the chap has a LOT of money,  or is a fraudster!

_Richard (Who would love a 3.6 or 4.0,  but is going to settle for a big valve 
          head and crazy camshaft on his 3.0)

BTW: Irmscher do a complete 4.0 Senator from new! Yum Yum!

	This morning its a somewhat damp and I'm cruising south down
	the A33 swallowfield bypass following another car in the 
	nearside lane. The road is nearly empty and suddenly this guy
	stands on his brakes and I follow suit thinking he must have
	forgotten his portable phone or something and also pull out
	to the outside lane to go past. It was at this point that I 
	saw the herd of cows charging down the bank and onto the
	carriageway. Now heavily into emergency stop mode but it
	doesn't look as if I'll make it. Leading cow sees me and decides
	on discretionary route along the carriageway allowing me to 
	slip by. I carry on but the southbound is now blocked completely
	and the herd is now galavanting onto the northbound where
	much braking is taking place.

	I can describe the intruders as brown, well fed and groomed with
	big eyes and confused looks on their faces. Unfortunately I didn't
	get their registration numbers.

	-John

	.-1 reminds me of an occasion about 15 years ago, when I was on
a bus going through the middle of Geneva on my way to work one morning.
A cow suddenly appeared from within a crowd of pedestrians, also on their
way to work, and ran into the front of my bus (ok, the pedestrians were on
their way to work, not the cow and, no, I didn't actually own the bus)... 

	It then ran up the road through the rush hour traffic and
disappeared as quickly as it had arrived. In my early-morning bleary-
eyed state I thought that I had dreamed the whole episode until I
read about it in the papers later. Apparently, the cow did not like the
accomodation at the local abatoir and decided to go walkabout...

    There's a roundabout on the North Circular, near Whipps Cross hospital,
    just before the bit where the NC turns into a 12 lane highway for about
    half a mile. It's very large, and grassed in the middle. I can remember
    the time, maybe 25 years ago, when cows were grazed on there, and
    traffic flow was interrupted to move them on and off.
    
    This explains the cattle grids there that some people may have wondered
    about.
    
    Laurie.

    
    Whipps cross road still sees animals padding about.  But I remember
    many years ago seeing  a herd of cows wandering up Chingford mount road
    apparently looking in shop windows with Rowdy Yates ( local bobby on
    his Grey Velocette noddy bike ) herding them along. Not the sort of
    place you'd find cows wandering about and just for good measure there
    is a steep hill at one end.

In Otford, Kent, there's a roundabout with a duck pond in the middle. 
All traffic stops when they decide to cross the road (there's even a
special warning sign!)

    
    
    Ever been to India ?, you'll see more Cows on the road there then you
    will BMW's in Bayswater.
    

    Going along the M40 west from wycombe on Saturday,
    I was passed by a new TVR Griffith (sp?) reg was K5 TVR, metallic
    green, it looked great.
    
    Jason.

    Seen in Tilehurst, this morning ...
    
    	a dark burgandy Ford Sierra Sapphire
    
    		Reg: H997 HJO
    
    	- nothing special about it, apart from the two blue flashing lights
    	  concealed behing the front grille.
    
    
    
    Tony (the wimp) Orchard

A wet green (not a flake of paint in sight) Marcos in Newbury carpark :-)

    Saw an Escort Cosworth this morning (travelling slowly, in traffic).
    
    Somehow, I wasn't impressed.
    
    
    The Sierra Cossie looked something like a racer (which it did quite well).
    
    The Sapphire looks quite reasonable for someone who wants a 'family car'
    but with tremendous performance (as well as practicality).
    
    The Escort just looks plain 'boy racer'...
    
    
    J.R.

    
    Saw something I'd not seen before at Thruxton yesterday.
    
    A Metro 6R4, RACING!
    
    It performed pretty well, coming second in the race which included
    Ferraris, Porsches, Astons, a TVR Griffith (the original one) and some
    Caterhams.
    
    The race was won by one of the Caterhams, but the huge looking Metro
    gave him a very hard time all race long.
    
    Mark

>    A Metro 6R4, RACING!
    

Yeah, it's an ugly little box, isn't it ?

    
    Trivia question:::::
    
    
    	Who build the 6R4 ??????
    
    Garry

    
    Re 24.3440
    
    Williams!!!!!!!!!
    
    Not sure how much of it they built but they were involved in some part
    of its design. They have one in the museum complex at their factory in 
    Didcot. I've got a piccie of it somewhere
    
    
    POL.

    
    	I think the story is that Frank Williams finished his last
    cigarette,put the empty box down,and then it suddenly struck him
    that,that particular shape (an empty box) would look good on a metro.
    
    Oh well we were all young once!
    
    
    	Andy...
    

    Ok, 
    
    	5 marks for Pol , you got the builder right, might have expected
    you to know that, but the involvment. Miles out !!!!!!!!
    
    
    Williams took a contract from Rover to design and build a car. All
    design was done by Patrick Head and his team. It was intended to be a 
    front engined V8 , but Patrick heads team came up with a rearend V6
    which Rover like so williams built 3 prototypes. The rest is history.
    Rover with help from Williams developed the car from its original form
    to  the group b rally car.
    
    
    Garry

	Not so much "seen in passing" as "heard in passing", but here
	goes.

	Yesterday, whilst driving, I pointed out a Lotus (Esprit Turbo) to
	my 4 year old daughter.  Today, we ended up following the same
	car, and my daughter said "look, theres that lettuce again".
	That still makes her better at spotting cars than my mother
	in law.

	Dave

    	Re -.1
    
    	There must be something about the car that is instantly
    	recognisable to toddlers. My neice has been able to identify the
    	Lotus Esprit ("look - Lotus Car") since the age of 3.
    
    	Ian.

	Maybe this belongs in a different notes file, but the 3 year
	old son of a friend of mine recognises the make and model of
	most common cars, and some uncommon ones too (like Marlins)

	Dave

    We haven't seen any number plates in here for a while...
    
    Seen in Dover a couple of weekends ago, on a Volvo: W1
    Seen last night in Brussels, on a UK Chevette      : CLA555Y
    
    
    Laurie.

While driving up a rather run-down side street of Dublin, I saw a skip.
"So what?", I hear you ask. Well it was situated at the front of this 
old (but classy) house directly beneath an open window & stuff was being
jettisoned via the window into the skip. 

Anyhow, not four feet away from said skip, sat a brand spankers Ferrari 
348tb !!!!. I would have stopped longer for a gawk, but I was afraid of old
AX being clobbered by the rubble !. Madness!

mike.

	On the way home last night, just off of the Woosehill roundabout
	in Wokingham, I saw a F1 lorry for Renault-Williams...

	Dave

On my way to work,
a red HONDA with the number plate

HI 5ENA

Eddie

    
    Seen this weekend on the A34 going noth towards Oxford, a very big
    touring campervan (like a big American jobbie) with the registration
    number
    
    698 ABY
    
    spaced to read
    
    69 BABY !
    
    Steve.
    

	Seen on a car at the weekend


	MR G 6X


	Must like his beer !

    
    
    RE -1
    
    Do you want to run that one by me again.......please......

    Heard on the radio this morning, a bumper sticker:
    
    				M25 official pace car
    
    Richard
    

    
>    Do you want to run that one by me again.......please......

Why ?  Do you not have 6X where you come from....silly question of course if 
you do not reside in south/central England...in which case 6X is a "Real Ale" 
beer.

    
    	Seen in the Winnersh Triangle STAFF car park.
    
    		Porsche 911 carrera 2 cabriolet.
    			Deep blue   reg:J4 JHK
    
    Which of you noters has come to visit me?
    
    Andy.....With.White.Leather.Seats.

 On a Starion:


  ARA 881 T

 Spaced and altered to read ARA BBIT

    
    Not sure if this one's been seen before but here goes.
    
    
    	Lotus Yummy Carlton
    
    	Reg H4 LOT
    
    	It's all mine.
    
    		Andy

    
    Well, I popped into our local Jaguar dealer on Friday to take a look at
    the XJ220.
    
    It's a BIG car! Quite easily as big, if not bigger, than an XJ6 saloon
    (in all, but height!) and noticeably bigger than the svelte looking
    XJS. Finish inside is not really 400K+, but I guess what's there is
    pretty good quality, just very bland (The main dash could be from an
    Escort 1.6S! All the oil pressure and other 'sportscar' dials are on
    the door!
    
    Getting in and out is very difficult. It's a low car, but the really
    difficult thing is the width of the sills. Paintwork on the example was 
    blue and looked excellent. The engine bay is a little bland too, the V6
    engine looking quite unimportant in the back of this huge car.
    
    Underneath looks pure Group C (ah, those were the days), with huge
    tunnels at the back and a flat bottom under the front and passenger
    compartment.
    
    Having had a good look, I decided, and picked my (silver) version up
    this morning.
    
    Mark

    
    	A question regarding personalised number plates.  I spent the
    weekend trying to work out an interesting `k' number,  and came up with
    one that relies on a 4 looking like a `e'.   Has anyone seen a (legal)
    number plate where this substitution has worked?
    
    	Ralated topic.   What's the rules wrt spacing?  with
    
    K 111 ABC   is normally spaced (?) - can this be changed to (say)
    K111A BC?
    
    Cliff

	Re .3450

	A long time ago when I had my MGB I was pulled up for having an
illegally spaced number plate. I was told then that the spacing should be 
0.5 inch between each letter/number with 1.5 inches between the group of four 
and the group of three.

	In your example it should be:

	K <0.5"> 1 <0.5"> 1 <0.5"> 1 <1.5"> A <0.5"> B <0.5"> C



	Paul.

Seem on a Police "illegally parked car grabbing waggon",

H3 TOW


... well someone must have a sense of humour in the force!

    Silver BWM 325i (old shape) with M3 sticker on back seen tearing down
    M25 last night -
    
    
    UPU 51R (UP U SIR)
    
    
    Chris.

    
    Haven't seen a note here for some time. Nevertheless I saw a good one
    today in Holborn. It was an XJS being driven by an arab looking chap
    with a reg. No of 
    
    
    			 EL HIT

    All right - I'll tell you about the beaten up old Volvo I saw with the
    plates:
    
    		VOW5 IT
    
    (Needs to be on a white Rolls, really).

    A while back I was passed by an old banger driven by some old guy
    wearing a bobble hat. he looked like a sunday driver.
    
    licence plate was
    
    BSE 2
    
    (anyone remember BSE - 'mad cow disease')

    In Waltham St Lawrence, there's a rusty old Mitsubishi hatchback with
    the reggie D191TAL - and the 9 looks more like a G than this typeface.
    
    Be a good one for the company limo...8*)
    
    Richard
    
    

   <<< Note 24.3456 by NEWOA::ORCHARD_T "I was lying about the good news" >>>

>    		VOW5 IT
    
>    (Needs to be on a white Rolls, really).
    
    In Newbury, there is a vintage Roller used for weddings with the plate
    
    	VOW 2 1T
    
    Terry

    Seen on a SAAB 9000
    
    H1 TEC
    
    Grant

>
>    A while back I was passed by an old banger driven by some old guy
>    wearing a bobble hat. he looked like a sunday driver.
>    
>    licence plate was
>    
>    BSE 2
>    
>    (anyone remember BSE - 'mad cow disease')


Was it Denis ??

/Paul.

		seen over xmas...

		NMAIL

		(can't remember what car it was)

		jack 

    I happened to see a Dodge Viper on display at a garage in Knowl Hill at
    the weekend. I have to say it is very impressive, it sort of reminded
    me of an oversized TVR.
    
    Jason.

    I can confidently report the arrival of the "Economic Recovery", much
    talked about at present ........
    
    This morning there are TWO 'K'reg Porsche 968's in the STAFF Car Park
    at DECPark Reading .......
    
    Mark
     

    Yeah, those are mine....

Must be a sales meeting.

Dave ;-)

    Seen yesterday outside the main DEC building in Brussels:
    
    Lotus Omega (Carlton). Nice looking car...
    
    Laurie.

    Probably been already enter here but...
    
    Seen on the M11 heading towards the M25 junction (from London)
    
    A Bentley Turbo number plate TUR80..
    
    
    Sean

How can you say the Lotus Carlton is nice looking. It looks identical to the
bog standard Vauxhall Carlton!

Anyway, on Friday I saw a Bentley parked in a car park in Gerrards Cross,
reg no. MAG1C. I then saw Paul Daniels get in with his bag of fruit 'n' veg
and drive off. Wow!


	Ian

    Seen over the weekend in the golden metopolis of Reading :
    	WHY 110T
    
      with a 'smudge' above the "11" to read 'WHY NOT'
    
    
    Also ...
    	Coming in to work this morning, on the grille of an oncoming lorry
    	(in a Reading traffic Jam), I spotted one of those silver motifs
    	which look like a reclining naked female. Something about it looked
    	slightly wrong.
    	When I got closer, I glanced up to the cab and saw that the driver
    	was a woman - and the motif was a reclining naked male !!
    
    
    Tony O.

    Seen between Newbury and Basingstoke last Friday:
    
    G1 RDA
    
    On a truck carring steel girders
    
    Paul

    
    Sorry to name drop here, but on the Interstate 70 in Colorado saw a
    number plate LET IT BE.
    
    
    
    POL.

    Well you can have what you want on your plate in the States can't you?
    Reduces the interest a bit.
    
    Phil Gill.

    Re .3458
    
    I notice that someone is trying to sell DI9ITAL in the Reading VTX for
    sale board.
    
    

Seen in South Croydon;

HI OLLIE on a white MR2 (new style)

1 VB (or something like that) on a huge black rolls\limo... apparantly it's the
Mayor of Croydon's.

    
    
    MRS 64 On a white Celica GTI in Braintree Essex
    
    Presumably its the wifes car but she sounds a bit old to be driving a
    Celica GTI though 8*)
    
    Richard(young)

    Yesterday on the M40/M25:-
    
    	A private ambulance with a two-line LED display in the back-window
    saying	 "UNITED KINGDOM"
    		 "  TRANSPLANT  "
    
    and a reg-no of "A1 UKT"

    Time to think ahead for possible new registrations this summer ?
    
    		L 1 PPY			LAPPY
    		L 1 CKU			Lick You !
    		L 11 CKY		LUCKY ?
    		L 4 DDY			LADDY
    		L 4 SSY
    		L 4 BIA
    
    Any others ???
    
    J.R.

    Interesting one, that last one...
    
    How about: L584OWN
    
    L.S. Brown

    I guess someone will snap up L 1 NDA.
    
    What chance have I got of grabbing N 1 GEL in 1995? (Not for self
    advertising, of course, but to sell to Mansell at a great profit!)

How can 4 be both A and R?

Eddie-whos-just-curious

    
    Is there going to be an 'L' plate? Was there one the last time?
    
    Tim

    At Lunch - a Cosworth mixing it with a Carrera 2
    Well, `mixing it' up to 60mph that is.
    
    Mike 

    Near Pontefract at the weekend:
    
    White Ford windowcleaner's van with ladders:
    
    H1 MOP
    
    Piers

    Seen on M4 yesterday about a mile east of Reading... White hedgehog car	
    (oopps I mean BMW) REG: BHP 1
    
    Bob

    
    	Seen in the Winnersh Triangle Logistics car park yesterday morning
    
    	A red Escort cosworth.
    
    
    	Give my a ring if you fancy a test drive  ;-)
    
    	Andy.

Hi there folks.

New to this note so what a beauty to start with ...

A few years ago, seen on an old battered Jag XJ 6 in Fife...

    TH3 81Z   - THE BIZ

That one has always been remembered !

Also, an XJS up the road from me...  A9 XJS
A TVR in Kilmarnock...J3 TVR

My dad's pal's Ferarri 328gts  with F328 ???  - sorry, cant remember the 3 digits.



Warren

    Seen on th home from Horsforth office:
    
    A2 KIA 
    
    on one of those little hatchbacks of the same name. (What
    country DO they come from?)
    
    

    
    Astra GTE parked outside my house  A6 GTE
    
    Richard

    
    
    Seen on the Edinburgh by-pass, a BMW 735i with the plate,
    
                   735 BMW.
    
    
    Stewart.
    

Seen in Glasgow a few times :   325i BMW with CRA 1G as the plate.

Owner's name Craig by any chance ?

    Seen yesterday on the Newbury to Andover road, a KIA LX with the
    registration plate K1 ALX, spaced K1A LX.

    Seen on Friday - M25
    
    
    		Ford Granada
    
    			'1 F'
    
    

Seen in Glasgow numerous times :

  Astra GTE 16v  with plate 16V
  moved that onto a Corolla GTI
  moved that onto a Suzuki Vitara

Warren

    Seen at the w/e - H1  13ABY (spaced to look like HI BABY)

    
    Can't remember if I put this in before.
    
    Saw red BMW 750 in Ayr High Street with the registration - MY 750
    
    

    Anyone know who owns the registration MUS1C?  I spotted it on a Bentley
    outside the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford recently, with a dapper
    elderly gent behind the wheel.
    
    Presumably it must be worth as much as Tarby's COM1C...
    
    Ian
    

    
    Jag Sovereign with AGE 64
    
    Richard
    

.3505>    Jag Sovereign with AGE 64
    
    Was it a very old car then ?

    Didn't look it.
    
    Didn't get a look at the driver, though...  8*)

Seen near SBP, a white something or other with a registration of SMA 5 H,
spaced to read SMASH.

Owned by that much respected (!?!) co-host of Wheel of Fortune and Scottish model
Carol Smillie ( on an MR2 BTW)

    
    
    Seen the other day on an autoglym van (the valeting supplies people).
    
                         WAX 1N
        

    
    Seen on a Roller in London.
    
    CLA55 1
    
    I wonder who's it is ?
    
    Nick.

I followed a TVR Chimaera the other morning on the A33.
Even nicer lookig than the Griffith and cheaper.


	Ian

    
    A friend of mine turned up friday, just popped in to say hello and show
    me what he was driving these days. Nothing much, an ASTON MARTIN
    Volante convertable. Very nice. Have they got a monster of an engine
    under the bonnet, and the air cleaner is just enormous.
    
    
    
    	Green with envy....
    

    Hi,
    	Seen in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire (Last Of Summer Wine etc), a
    Discovery with the reg. D1NKY, problem was there was the 'double
    income' sat in the front seats but two kids sat in the back!
    
    	Also seen on M62 ??? 666 (can't remember the letters), did I drive
    past the devil or just one of his mates ?!
    
    	David.

    
    re .3514
    
    I saw a Green Range Rover, VAL 666 on the M62 a couple of weeks ago,
    could it be the same?
    
    Tim

    
    
    Lunchtime today in Soho sq. A red BMW 850i K5 5ony.

    Hi Tim,
    
    	Quite likely as it must of been about 2 weeks ago I saw this reg.,
    I seem to remember it was a Range Rover, I would of remembered if the
    reg. had been IAM 666 !!, ie. give said vechile wide berth !
    
    	David.

seen this morning near SBP, 

on a Douwe Egberts Coffee delivery van....!

Peter.

    
    
    Haven't read through the several '000 replies on this topic so you may
    already have seen the sign on the back of the "waste management" wagon
    
        "Everything you do is driven by us.."
    
    Cheers
    
    

As the trend is 666 on a plate...


on a Granada Ghia  G666 GGG.

Very confusing from a distance (and with illegal spacing)



Warren

Seen in the DEC car park in Ayr today..


Golf GTI with the plate 'S 1'.

v nice and v expensive !


Anyone know whose it is ?

    
    
    Seen in the DEC car park SQF today
    
    
    a Nissan 200sx with the plate
    
    A . 200 . SX

    
    One running around Bo'ness.....
    
    H1 8UKS
    
    
     

    
    Seen the other day on a TVR
    
          A 2OOF

    
    	Last night i'm convinced I saw the new Toyota Supra.I know it's not
    out for sometime over here,but from the pictures i've seen in magazines
    i'm sure that's what it was.
    
    		Can anyone secure my sanity.
    
    	Andy..
    P.S. they say they'll make a twin turbo,0-60 4.7 sec,top speed of
    170mph (european models restricted to 155mph).
    

    could be.... but sadly, I think it's shape is a little to generic now.
    It's not distinctive enough. Mind you cars in the metal look a hell of
    lot better than pictures. I overtook a Testarossa once on the M6
    (traffic jam!) and it look incredible.
    
    What plates was the Supra wearing ?

    On the A329 a very old van, covered in rust, and uncared for (the phone
    number on the back was 01- rather than 071 or 081). It belong
    to a company called Burlington Air Executive (or some such).
    
    However the number plate was A1 BAE.... I wonder how much British
    Aerospace would pay for that !? (or Richard Branson to use as a
    bargaining point?!).
    

re: .-1

From a rapidly fading memory, I think Burlington Air Executive
leases planes to the airlines. Maybe business isn't too good ?

-Dave.

Seen on a BMW 7 series in Carlisle...

     CM


wow   ;-)

    Seen on Friday, on an (unknown) red American sports car, US registered,
    driving through a small Flemish village a few miles outside Brussels...
    
    SWIVEL
    
    Like it!
    
    Laurie.

    seen on way to office last WED...
    
    Green XJ220... didn't get a chance to see the plates, but gawd it was
    huge!  I mean there was a 7 series hedgehog behind the Jag and when I
    checked through my rearview mirror I could see a substantial amount of
    JAG either side of the beemer.... 
    
    Bob (totally impressed.... jealous... etc...)

    
    I'll agree with note -1,the Jag is huge,I have such trouble parking
    mine.
    
    
    But really I sat in one in Lancaster Jaguar,in Pangbourne and was
    totally amazed at how the claimed to be able to get this beast from
    0-60 in under 4sec.
    
    Andy.
    

    It was a very dark metallic green, not unlike the dark green met used
    by Audi / VW / Bmer
    
    Bob

    Heading towards Lower Earley from Shire Hall direction this am...
    
    Large black Merc with PAL 1N
    
    You don't think it was Michael, do you.....?
    
    Richard
    

	Seen whilst travelling to Newbury:

	RAB 81 T - RAB81T - RABBIT

	Attached to an old Toy-motor-Supra

    
    	Around the Falkirk area  ---:
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    				M.A.D.
    			  School Of Motoring
    
    
    
    
    

On the M4 last Friday evening .... Well it made me giggle anyway...

On the back of a White dust covered Group 4 security Transit van...    


Written in the dust ..... Caution Being Driven
                          By Escaped Prisoner...

    Seen a couple of weeks ago on the South Circular (I think!):
    
    7 series metallic grey beemer driven by a very good looking blonde -
    reg. PUS 1.  The 1 was made to look very much like an I.

re.3538:

Pusi? Yuk!

Dave.

On the M4, being passed by everything in sight....



A Trabant

    On almost any M-way, being passed by everything in sight....
    
    
    
    A Nova GSi
    
    
    
    :-) sorry Jane

    
>    :-) sorry Jane

I should think so too !

    
    Driving through Henley the other week, I saw an MX-5, numberplate MX 5.

    Seen today, whilst I was driving from heathrow to DEC Park. A red
    Renault 19 mumble, plated (and spaced):
    
    A 16V NC 
    
    Quite what the NC stands for I don't know...

    re. 24.3544
    
    >>Quite what the NC stands for I don't know...
    
    I aint sure but maybe its for NERDY CAR???
    
    Bob  ;^)

Nearly collapsed? (bearing in mind the suspension problems!) :-)

Near me (in Thatcham) is a R19 TSE with a plate of A19 TSE Wow!

Richard

    
    Saw a hefty looking BMW 5 series yesterday on the M3 with a 540i badge
    on it and big wheels.  Is this a production model or an Alpina/Hertge
    thing?  If it's standard I wonder how long it'll be before the
    Hampshire Constabulary start using 'em...
    
    Chris.

I think the 540i is a new(ish) production model with a 4 litre v8 in it.

Steve.

    Seen on the M9 a wee while ago,
                                   a green Range Rover with plate GRA55
     
                not bad!!
                      

Seen yesterday outside a small pub in Northumberland:
	
	Red (naturally) Ferrari 3xx GTS with number plate "GTS 100"

(RE: xx,  excuse  my  ignorance, but I'm not sure of the number, I assume it
was just 308, but I thought it read 386, is there such a beast?). 

*and* later whilst returning home on the A69:

	a very nice looking TVR Grifith with "FOO 92".

Wow,

a Ferrari 386... styling by Bertone
                  powered by Intel !

    
    Owned by Woking Council - 
    
    two lage VIP chariots - WOK 1 ,  WOK 2.
    
    GaryW

	Car at the DECpark roundabout


	J  MA50N


	Heather

    Emerging from Halifax Building Soc. executive car-park on a Daimler
    Sovereign - HX 1

    This morning M56/M6 junction.
    
    Brit racing green TVR (GRIFFIN/GRIFFITH ?)  reg: J 900 TVR.
    Very nice anyway, poncey reg or not.
    
    Stevie.

    Hi,
    
    	Seen on M62 two weeks ago, on a Jaguar (I think), BAB 1T, made his
    money out of sandwiches ?
    
    Dave.
    

>    Brit racing green TVR (GRIFFIN/GRIFFITH ?)  reg: J 900 TVR.

Griffith.

    
    Outside the Champany Inn (bit of a toff steakhouse restaurant)
    
    Blue Roller......G 1
    
    a bit further along...a dead fox...not often you see them either.
    
    colin

    
    
    Seen yesterday on a locksmiths van
    
              A3 LOX
    
    

    Blue Renault - "RED 5" I think. It passed that quickly.

    Alain.

    
    Friday in Covent Garden 
    
    
    	A Honda 90    'A1 CAB' . It had the standard attachment for someone
    	doing the knowledge, The handle bar mounted clipboard.

    On the M4 westbound just before the M25 junction.
    A grey Rover (one of the big ones) H659 GTM,
    with a big blue light flashing on the dashboard, pulling over what
    looked like a 7 series BMW.
    
    
    
    Jason.

	I saw E nnn LVA on a Lotus over the weekend.  Was this 
	deliberate (ie ELVA)?

	Dave

    re .3564
    
    I don't think we should be making a practice of entering the reggies of
    unmarked police cars here.
    
    Besides, you'll never remember them when you really need to...
    
    Richard
    

    
    re -1
    
    
    Why not ?.
    

I saw the same grey Rover near Swindon last week. You can spot it easily without
seeng the number plate as there is a conspicuous piece of equipment hanging down
inside the middle of the car.

Dave.

    Where I come from (ie the north of Ireland), having lists of reggies of
    unmarked police cars can land you in jail.  Obviously it isn't as
    serious over here, but I suspect it would be dealt with by the police
    in the same way as, say, flashing your lights to warn other drivers of
    a speed trap.  And if we all do it, they can add "conspiring to" to the
    charge sheet...
    
    I'm not certain, but I believe this to be the case.
    
    Richard
    

Digital won't thank you should someone bring it to the attention of the police
or press....

Dave.

what notes conference shall we use to keep a list of safe streets
or how about houses with back doors unlocked


:-) :-)

I'm against the idea - if it's not illegal it should be

The police are there to protect innocents like me from speeding lunatics

Paul~

(well actually I have been done for speeding too...)

    If a driver is sufficiently aware of his or her surroundings that they
    can recognise an unmarked police car by any of the well known techniques
    (No dealer sticker, odd mirrors, extra aerial etc) then they they are
    probably a safe driver because they will be aware of all the other cars
    as well. If, on the other hand the driver is not up to the task of
    spotting the police car then they should get done for undue care and
    attn. Any driver caught by a marked police car should have their licence
    remove for gross inabiliy.
    
    	Rik-not-a-wind-up

    re -1
    
    You'll probably get nabbed on the way home tonight.....
    
    Richard
    

    I know, I known. I was touching wood at the time.
    
    Note that I didn't say which class of driver I was :- )
    
    	Rik -attempting-to-be-a-good-driver-not-always-succeeding

    
    Well Rik, if you can spot an unmarked Police car through a plastic rear
    screen, and at night, then you wouldn't end up getting nicked like I
    did.

Re: about the last 12 notes or so...

Up here in Scotland, I have now noticed that the police are using an increasing
number of different coloured unmarked cars.  
ie: instead of the trad. white, they now also use blue, red and green buggies.

Another point to note, is that they are also using unmarked hatchbacks as well
as the saloon counterpart - Rover 827 and Granada.

Makes them all the harder to see now !

Warren_who_slows_down_when_he_sees_any_big_car_with_two_occupants.

Re: .3579

>2) Large car with no mudflaps

Why should Police not have mud-flaps?

mb

> Large/luxury car with no rear headrests
    
    ...Or no headrests ?
    
    Terry

    
    New C-class Merc, escorting Le Tour de Suisse.

    Did you forget the "two reverse gears"?
    
    Laurie.

    
    Speaking of Senators,
    
    	I saw six this morning involved in closing/patroling on the M4,due
    to an accident between J12,13.
    		Where did you find your ex-police car?
    
    Andy...They-look-so-yummy.
    

    Yesterday afternoon, about 3 o'clock...
    
    Cruising about overhead Deathpark, one airship, clear blue skies,
    sunshine etc.
    
    What a lovely way to spend an afternoon (and get paid for it!).
    
    Richard
    

    
    
    The other day near swiss cottage , outside a Mercedes Benz dealer, A
    red Porsche 911 with a reg Plate MX 7.
    
    Yesterday on the way to work a 3 series BMW  ' A Beem'.
    
    
    An finally a C type Jag on the A1 last night, in nice British Racing
    Green With White roundals.
    
    

Re note 79 (i think)

The police do you metallic painted cars.
I have seen met blue granada and a met blue sierra xr 4x4.
Twin rear view mirrors are a bit of a give-away though.

    
    seen this morning in Chobham (Surrey) a bright red Alfa Romeo SZ, no
    other markings but it looked fast sat in a traffic jam. BTW the guy
    looked at my ZZR1100 with a I want look as I filtered through the
    traffic and stopped next to him, momentarily....
    
    Alan.

    re. Undercover cars.
    
    On the A9 the Police even use a gold Volvo 740 turbo estate.
    
    Ian.
    

    re. zee-zee R 1100
    
    That's one of my all-time-favourite bikes of all time <mate>
    
    Just thought I'd annunciate that.

>Yesterday on the way to work a 3 series BMW  ' A Beem'.

	No numbers here !

Andy

    
    
    It probably was A8 eem. Nobody seems to bother about the fact the the
    spacing in wrong and the letters are missleading. Never mind , the
    driver might find it a tad more difficult to get the thing MOT'd next
    time.
    
    Garry

    Don't be fooled, the Police Driver Training School (Thames Valley)
    use a multitude of different cars and often test potential new cars.
    
    They also have the ability to stop anybody committing a motoring
    offence.
    
    Chris (Who got pulled over in a hire car, worse still the Police Driving 
    Examiner was my father !!!).
     

A new BMW 850i   nice looking car...not BMWish at all !

850i is distinctly BMWish due to the kidney grille.

As for unmarked cars. I guess I'll have to pay more attention
to other cars on the road and look out for uprated alternator
and brake discs as well as the welds and strengthening in
hidden places and the interior while I'm driving down the 
motorway. How could I ever have missed them?



Ian

Dont forget to check for the two reverse gears !!  :-)

	What I look for is a large orange line down the sides and
	a blue light on top or....

	(1) more ariels than usual (3+)
	(2) two people in front seats (usually with short hair cuts)
	(3) white shirts with epulets 

	Of course now  you've mastered the sort of observation 
	neccessary for spotting the police in any direction at any
	speed, then you've reached advanced driver status.  An 
	alternative is to stay completely blameless (within the law).

	Dave (who's never been stopped by the police)

Re: .3599

> 850i is distinctly BMWish due to the kidney grille.

not the one I saw...it was an elongated pear-drop shape, with almost no grille 
at all.

>>not the one I saw...it was an elongated pear-drop shape, with almost no grille 
>>at all.
    
    Not at all like the 6 series BMW's then.
    
    
    Shaun.
    

    
    RE 24.3601
    
    I must agree with Dave here,I always look for the number of
    occupance,dress code.I also look for a small box like item either
    mounted next to the rear view mirror,or on the dash,small box being
    video camera.I've sat at the roundabout near Shire hall and seen a blue
    24valve 827i Rover pull up along side with a small JVC video cam on
    board.There were to smartly dressed gents on board. (The driver did
    have both hands on the steering wheel and his partner was holding his
    can of drink).
    
    	Andy...

    
    Very nice cars,
    
    2 BMW 850i's within 20 yards of each other. Navy one with reg ABC 123
    and a red one. They were in the box holders car park at Ibrox. In 
    between them was a Merc 300 SE with the reg HGV 12.
    
    Also on a red XR31  CUE 2 1T...on Princes Street Edin. 

Re: police cars(unmarked)

The passenger will now sometimes slink in his seat so that if you are behind the 
car (ie overtaking) you may not see 2 occupants until you are passed them.
In other words, the front headrest hides the shape of his head.

Seen on Saturday night at pictures..

Nove SR with broken front 1/4 window and 2 burst door locks.

So what ?

It was my car !!!

Little ba****ds should be hung !

    
    Seen this morning.
    
    	A red Cavalier charging down the fast lane of the M4 west bound
    between J11 and J12,I think it was a unmarked Police car,perhaps it's
    some thing to do with the flashing blue light on the dash.
    
    	Andy.
    
    P.s. the guy looked as if he was on his own,he was also wearing a
    T-shirt not a shirt and tie.
    

    
    RE-2
    
    Hanging!
    
    
    Send me an invite!
    

Are you sure it was the flashing blue light? Did you check
the alternator?



	Ian

Re 3609 :

  Would you like a front row seat or stand in the Gallows ?   :-)

Believe me, I wasn't smiling when I saw the damage in real light on Sunday 
morning !

    Seen this morning whilst sitting in traffic on M3- 
    
    Red 944   with plate of S5.
    
    Looked remarkably like SS. 
    
    Sharon Stone maybe ( didn't see her wheels when she left my place this
    morning) or could have been Adolf Hitler.
    
    
    GaryW

Someone please wake GaryW up.

She wasn't driving a Porsche, it was my ferrari !



zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Hang on. I saw a black 911 with the plate S5 on it the
other day on the A339 heading towards Basingstoke. The guy
driving weas a complete idiot, overtaking everything in 
sight and cutting in front of people to avoid head on
collisions. Apparantly the car is notorious for pissing
people off on that stretch of road.

And I'm positive the number was S5


	Ian

    And remember children it is much better to have a head on collision than
    to cut someone up :-)
    
    But I agree people who drive like that give 'fast' car driver a bad
    name.

    I'm surprised anyone with a plate like S5 would dare behave like that.
    Aside from the ease of remembering the plate, the car itself is 
    noticeable, and there's always someone who'll shop you.
    
    Laurie.

Now you come to mention it...
I remember being overtaken on solid line edged chevrons by
a black porsche reg S5 with all fog lights blazing (on the A339).
I kindly flashed my headlights to indicate my presence and in 
the vain hope he might understand that he'd left his dazzling 
rear fog lights on aswell, only to be rewarded with a slamming
on of the brakes, I did likewise and heard the sounds of skidding
from the car behind and waited for the thud...

tp

    I would just like to point out that my Porsche is not black, my
    registration plate is not S5, I no longer drive along the A339 and I do
    not drive like that !
    
    Shaun.

    On the M4 near Bristol a dark coloured bentley (I think) with the
    number plate HRH 1 Y...
    
    Charlie boy perhaps????

    
    RE "Charlie boy"
    
    
    I think his reg would be:
    
    		8 I G    E A R 5
    
    or
    
    		N 0   D 1.
    
    Andy.
    
    

RE. .3619

	I have seen this car before, had a gawp inside but didn't recognise 
anyone..

RE. .3604

	Are you sure it was a JVC and not a Sony ?????

A 

    Re HRH 1 Y
    
    Is this not Bryan May (Of the band Queen)
    
    I seem to remember seeing something in some magazine.
    
    
    Ian.

    RE-2
    
    Yep,i'm sure I saw JVC on the side of the camera,and there was a small
    ounce of fly dump on the lens,but perhaps my eyesight isn't what it
    used to be.
    
    	Andy.
    

    
    Seen on M3 again (notorious for cars)
    
    PAC I
    
    
    No mails please, I only report what I see :-)
    
    Gary

    
    re -1
       Gary,
          it's funny but I see tend to see may cars (some interesting) on
    the M3. Yesterday I saw a police patrol car (nice Surrey livery) this
    was a lowered cavalier GSI (by design) but when it passed the rear
    badges were still evident*. These badges were GSI, 16v, 4X4 and Turbo.
    So be careful out there 'cause the police are using rather fast
    vehicles these days.
    
    Alan
    
    * patrol cars usually have the "distinquishing" badges removed, ie GL, 
      GTi, LXi etc

I didn't think there was a GS1 16v 4x4 Turbo Cavalier. Are you sure it
wasn't Kevin and Tracey who've just traded in their Capri with a GTi and
Turbo badge on the back and one of those Cosworth spoilers???


	Ian

    
    Ian,
        the look of the "turbo" was just that, an added extra. Had the car
    not had "ECILOP" on the front and "POLICE" on the sides and back I
    would have put it down as a "MDC" addon extra, but as the car looked
    lower than a standard GSI and the roof mounted light bar was covered in
    black plastic (ala binliners) I assumed that Surrey Constabulary has
    just taken delivery of a new "WPC" (Whicked Police Car).
    
    Alan.
       

Alan, 

what does MDC stand for ????


Yeah yeah, I'm thick.


Warren

    
    brand name to follow:
    
    
         MOTORIST DISCOUNT CENTRE.
    
    
    Alan

The candle flickers !!


Cheers Alan.

	H1 TEA
	
	on a mercedes 500
	
	jack 

	KAT1E on an old Merc....


	Andy

    I saw that incident too and was equally appauled (SP?).  I thought it
    was against the law to stop any nearer than 25yards to a junction?
    
    What on earth were they both thinking of?

    
    An  Volvo 940 with not so many computer controlled bits 
    
    				1 ROM 

	A Nissan Primera 16 valve GT with: K 16V GT

	Andy

    I can only guess what this car was from the number plate...
    
    			A16 TVR
    
    Nice red colour though!

    
    Seen on a Merc 500 S?? near where I live in Portsmouth -
    
    	1 PUR
    
    
    It would have looked a lot better on the convertible XJS V12 next to it
    though I reckon... =;*)
    
    C.

    21:28 yesterday, red XR2i burning off into the wide black yonder from 
    Newbury.
    
    Yup, it was mine, some **** decided to take it for a drive without my
    permission and has yet to return it to me.
    
    -Tony

    Did you ever get an alarm fitted, Tony ?
    
    Royston

Re .3640

 Comiserations Tony.

 I still miss my R5 Gt Turbo That suffered the same fate last July.

	Barrie.

    last night in Frodsham, (look it up on map - hint, it's not down south)
    
    A   BMW M535 with the reg,  M 535 MAN,  before anyone asks how it can
    be "M" reg the clue is in the last 3 letters "MAN", yes it was over
    from the IOM.
    
    I know I have a warped sense of humour, but driving behind I kept
    getting this mental picture of what an "M535 MAN" looked like, the
    picture was of some overweight, overpaid oldie with an open shirt, big 
    medallion and chunky jewellery,  rather than somebody who would
    appreciate an M535 properly (like me).
    
    Stevie.
    (who is slightly overweight, not a young as he was but certainly
    couldn't afford an "M" type Beemer)

    Seen in Knutsford, on a BMW.    ' 1 UNE '    it wasn't LHD Though!
    
    Huw. 

    Roy, Barrie,
    
    The car has now been found burned out in the woods, 20 miles from where
    it was stolen. I wonder about the mentality of these people, was it
    worth the risk ?
    
    I had a VSL alarm fitted at delivery but the batteries had died a
    couple of days back and being on night shift I wasn't in a position to
    replace them.
    
    -Tony

    
    Seen yesterday on the way to college.
    
    
    	Pug 305 GLX  with reg  P GT1 
    		Probably worth a few bob to a boy racer.
    
    	Porsche 959 with trade plates.
    		A red one.
    Andy
    

    Tony, 
    
    Bad news indeed as I guess Digital will have to foot the bill.
    
    At least you'll be able to get an RS 1800 now ?
    
    Royston

Hard lines Tony.

It appears that most of us nowadays know only too well, the feeling of returning
to the car to find either a broken windows(s), scratched paint, burst lock(s) or 
even worse , a big space where the car once was.

I *only* had the a 1/4 window smashed and both door locks burst, but it still 
cost $120 to fix, the car now needs two keys, and you end up feeling sick.

Bring back hanging.
Might be a bit extreme some would say, but what the hell, these gits may stop
if they really knew the penalties they faced.

It would also cut the insurance premiums   ;-)


Warren

>>Might be a bit extreme some would say, but what the hell, these gits may stop
>>if they really knew the penalties they faced.
    
    You mean if they're caught !
    
    I have found the police to be uninterested with stolen radios, badges
    etc.  Their attitude seems to be that there is so little chance of
    catching the B*#$@%*s.
    
    Shaun.
    

Shaun,

you must have spoken to the same CID man that I did.
-- about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.


Warren

Well, if you will keep voting in a government that under pays, under resources,
and undermines the police, what do you expect?

Dave.

    Undercover policing ?

Re: .3650 

>Well, if you will keep voting in a government that under pays, under resources,
>and undermines the police, what do you expect?

The Labour alternative is no better where police funding is concerned...

too many bleeding heart blasted liberals in that party !

	A5K  CA

	Buy  1


	Both on the A33 Blazingsmoke to Reading a couple of days ago.


	Heather

    
    Re   <<< Note 24.3653 by SUBURB::THOMASH "The Devon Dumpling" >>>
    
    >>        A5K  CA
    
    Don't understand this one ?

re.3652:

>The Labour alternative is no better where police funding is concerned...

So, are you saying we should vote for the Liberal Democrats or that we should
accept second best?

Dave.
P.S. Labour committed more funds to policing in their last general election
campaign.

P.P.S

>too many bleeding heart blasted liberals in that party !

As opposed to the hang 'em and flog 'em brigade elsewhere?

>P.S. Labour committed more funds to policing in their last general election
>campaign.

It doesn't matter what is promised during election campaigns does it ?


>>too many bleeding heart blasted liberals in that party !

>As opposed to the hang 'em and flog 'em brigade elsewhere?


Two extremes, neither particularly encouraging...

    Warren, thanks for your support mate,
    
    BTW, your reference to Sinking Feeling, have you seen my band live or
    is this a coincidence ??????
    
    -tony (Sinking Feeling was a name of a track we did)

    Seen on a new 5 series BMW,
    
    
    ICUP
    
    
    then again you might no........

    Ive also seen this one Dav...
    It used to be on a Old Classic Capri this plate
    
    
    Seen on a Lada in  Bo'ness      BO N35S 
    

    Seen on a red fiesta in Boness,
    
    
    AUD 1 OR WAS IT D1 PPY         
    
    Also on a fso polonez  5 HIT   

Seen on M25 yesterday A VW garage pickup

	A1D   VW   

	appropriate huh ?

/s

    
    Seen over this weekend. 
    
    Nissan 200zx.    reg: K200X
    
    Old mk4 Cortina  reg: BAD 541T. Had a modified "4".plate read BAD SH*T
    
    190E             reg: H1KEE 
    
    Sierra Saphire   reg: F TR1X ( must mean something to the owner)
    
    
    
    Nick.

    
    Parked outside my house last night, a Rolls Royce
    
        'Ro11s'

    Seen in large white letters on the side of a sewage tanker
    
    "The motion is carried"
    
    Pete

    Seen at Heathrow on Sunday:
    
    A Merc sports with the plate ORL1X
    
    Laurie.

Re -1 :

       It's enough to put you to sleep    ;-)

    At least it gives us long distance drivers some amusement. (More fun
    than counting the traffic cones).
    
    Seen in Ashton-under-Lyne on Saturday:
    
    	A11ENF
    
    sort-of (illegally) spaced to read:
    
    	ALIEN F
    
    Incidentally, when I was at school, we thought it was amusing to get
    some plates made up (and fitted) to one of the woman teachers car which
    read:
    
    	SEX 50 P
    
    The headmaster didn't think it was amusing and I suppose it was sexist
    too. (Yes, I was at school back in the days of P-reg cars).

    Seen a few weeks back when they were passing me - a PAIR of Ferrari
    F40s, nose to tail (one had a reg containing F40).
    
    In fact they belonged to a couple of brothers who were just leaving
    Thruxton after racing some other of their toys there.

    
    Not quite F40 but this morning coming to work I saw a Mitsubushi
    3000GT,this is only the second one i've seen and I must say it's
    rather nice.
    
    
    Anyone driven one?
    
    Andy.

	Seen scrawled in dirt on the back of farm wagon
	some years ago:

	"7UP is great - Ask Snow White"

	Ian.

    
    saw on the back of a lorry this morning etched on the dirt:
    
    
    "no signals - ex-bus driver"
    
    mac

Seen last night on a RR Vogue Se thingy

      XS 1

Both looked rather nice me thought   ;-)

    On the southbound M27, a burnt out light jet aircraft.
    
    Ian.

    Was he facing with the traffic or against it?
    
    Richard
    

    In line with the runway 20 yards away but 90 degrees to the traffic.
    
    BTW the reg. no. was G-SPLAT  :-)
    
    
              |       |
              |       |
              |Runway |
    
    
    --------------------------------
                ^
               _|_						
                +
    ================================
    
    
    
    --------------------------------
    
    
    Ian.

    It made it on the news this morning so perhaps they'll have pictures on
    the local news tonight.
    
    tp

    Reading the replies in #1538 about locking wheel nuts etc. reminded me of
    something I saw the other day.
    
    I saw a rusty mark III escort sporting a brand new set of RS 2000
    alloys which were obviously worth more than the whole car. I couldn't
    help thinking of an RS sitting on bricks somewhere as I can't believe
    the owner would have bought them from a dealer. Maybe he got them from 
    a scrappy or off the 'back of lorry' or maybe I'm just being cynical.
    
    Royston

    On the Basingstoke Rd, Reding. A white Merc. estate with reg no.
    
    		DR S1C
    
    
    Simon

    
    Last week at the Wimbledon, Central Motor Auctions, a 'G' 90 RS
    Cosworth Sierra, from PHH with a large Digital sticker in the back
    window. It was a grey colour, proberbly something like Graphite or
    Slate grey, with black (well worn) leather seats. So who's Cossie went
    back last month and if your interested I'll post the price it fetched.
    
    Garry.
     

Yesterday on the southbound M40. not far from junction 14:

A Rover 800 sitting on the hard shoulder with it's hazards on, and the two rear
fog lights were alternating on and off with the blinking indicators, (both
indicators flash and left fog light flash, both indicators flash and right fog
light flash etc.)

An unmarked police car, or some someone into car electrics?

Steve.

Seen the same idea on the back of a marked Discovery.

Looks lovely from a distance..

like a christmas tree with *blinking* lights

;-)

Warren

    Seen on the side of the road by the channel tunnel entrance at
    Folkstone a VERY large drill with the words:
    
    	FOR SALE - ONE CAREFUL OWNER
    
    painted on the side!!!
    

    Well, "drill" doesn't really describe it. It's a tunnel-boring machine,
    bigger than a house.
    
    Laurie.

    
    Well I did say "VERY LARGE" didn't I!!!  and thank you, I could not
    think of the correct terminology to discribe this so I thought by
    saying drill that people would know what I meant...worked too!

    Big drills are boring
    
    8*)
    
    Richard
    

In South Shields last week,

a Porche 911, with the reg 205 GT

Peter.

    In Pangbourne on Saturday,
    
    A grey 850 BMW, with the reg :
    
    850 BMW
    
    Jason.

    
    My mates Merc estate...
    
    			"DR SIC"

In Geneva on a custom (Harley-type) motorbike;

1 CRUSER

I think it was California plates... looked pretty good.

    Tony,
    
    see .3678 I saw that estate, is he a doctor?
    
    
    Simon

    Nope, he works for (I believe) an Engineering company.
    
    -Tony

    What's so special about J33TTS?
    
    Laurie.

>    What's so special about J33TTS?
    
I suspect that it was the Lotus Carlton bit...

    Nooo...
    
    Laurie.

    So why include the Reg. number?
    
    Simon

    Well, if Lotus Carltons are worth reporting...
    
    Not so much seen in passing as seen while being passed...
    
    A couple of months back on a quiet stretch of the Salzburg - Vienna
    motorway. I was doing a ton+ when I saw a set of lights coming up
    behind me FAST. I slowed down to 90 and caught the plate as it zoomed
    past.
    
    Brian

    
    RE last few
    
    	How about if I put
    
    
    "I saw a LOTUS CARLTON"
    
    	how boring!
    
    I just thought it would add a little excitment if I mentioned it's
    private registration number.
    
    	I mentioned the sighting of the LC because to me it seems a rare
    thang.
    
    Andy

    
    In the Marlow area yesterday , Can't remember what make car it was but
    the plate was 
    
    
    			A1 0ptx
    
    

    This morning, in the car park.
    
    Don't know what it was; forgotten the reg.
    
    Mike

    Was it the red one ?
    
    Ian.

    dunno
    
    M.

    Not UK but,
    
    At the Mercedes France dealership in Villeneuve Loubet, a transporter
    full of the new C-class 190 replacements. There was also one at the
    adjacent petrol station. As this garage is often used as the base for
    press to road-tests new Mercs I expect they'll be a common sight for a
    few days.

Yesterday Sunday,I was travelling to Leatherhead (Surrey),a red Porche open top 
sportster pulled out in front of me,this car was identical to the type James
Dean met his maker in.

Does anyone know the exact model of this car.

Anyway I was tucked up behind him one second the next there was a blast of flame
from the howitzer type exhaust and this thing was gone with an almighty roar 
into the distance.
I did'nt even try to catch him in my poor little R5GTT,so I'm still wondering 
what this beast was,as I said before I briefly noticed Porche written on the
back and this huge exhaust system.

Someone put me out of my misery and confirm what it was,I would hate to think 
this was a VW kit car.

    
    
    Sorry to cover you in dust Steve. I was just on my way to Circle K in
    my mums Skoda Rapide. The one with the full body kit and howitzer type
    exhaust.
    
    
    
    Gary

As far as I knoiw, although it's before my time, James
Dean died in a Porsche Spider (Spyder?).

Ian

    Parked outside my house all weekend.
    
    A Mondeo ???
    
    
    
    So what you might ask.
    
    
    
    It's dash board was crammed with strain guages, electronic displays,
    and a LCD display that linked up to the engine management computer
    (non-standard). On the roof was small tube that housed an electronic
    thermomater.
    
    The driver of this little beast was an engine development engineer. He
    was testing a new engine that is due out in 1995. 
    
    Simon

Seen in Goring weekend before last, a silver XJ220 with the registration :-

	B1 BYE

envious? me? certainly!

Brendan.

BLU1Y  is on a 2.2 Audi now...

    
    SI XT 58
    
    On a SIXT hire car in Austria last weekend. SIXT is equivelant to
    BUDGET in the UK.
    

on the M4 J11 rounadbout I quiet often see

	JMA 50 N

yesterday a renault 5 :-

	CEX 1Y

shame I can't order :-

	P 815 GOD

	cheers,

		/8-P

>>Seen in Goring weekend before last, a silver XJ220 with the registration :-
>>
>>	B1 BYE

	Presumably this is a reference to the owners money.

	-John

    
    
    White Golf Cab -  CUT 1 C    , black screw in the middle of the C to
    read -  CUTIE.
    
    
    And no she wasn't attracted to my Mr2.
    
    
    Gary

    Camper Van near my place of residence in Fareham. Registration G98 ABY,
    spaced to read 
    
    69 BABY
    
    Ooh Err. Some people are so up-front!
    
    Andy

    Hi,
    
    	Seen on M62 travelling from Warrington towards Oldham, a burgundy!!,
    Mercedes Estate with a 'Golf shop/course logo' down the side with
    the registration PGA 1 !
    
    		David

    Just outside Hebden Bridge (where?), a MG RV8 - very nice too!
    
    Andy

    A nice dark blue BMW 850 with the reg "850 BMW" parked on the hard
    shoulder with a no-so-nice white-with-a-stripe 5xx parked in front of
    it - lights flashing...

    re.-1
     >>> A nice dark blue BMW 850 with the reg "850 BMW"
    
    Odd, that was on a grey one the other week see .3687
    
    
    
    Jason.

    The number could have been "BMW 850" (Swapped round) but is was most
    definatley a very dark blue - could appear blcak (or even grey I guess)
    in certain lighting conditions.

    
    on the motorway between Tullibody and SQF......
    
    a pink 2.0 Sierra doing 35 mph.
    
    

    
    	Seen Sunday on A340 between Theale and Pangbourne,
    			
    
    		A K reg Porsche 3.6 Turbo,black.
    
    How big are those wheel arches?     BLOODY HUGE!
    
    	Andy

    
    Seen yesterday an Escort Cosworth reg no.
    
                 ALK1Y

    Last week, parked opposite the Dundonnell Hotel in Dundonnell, Wester
    Ross:
    
    New-looking motor caravan with "Old Age Travellers" painted across the
    front of the bonnet....
    
    South of Glasgow, on the motorway somewhere:
    
    Vauxhall Nova SRi with 260 MPH
    
    		....seems I've heard something like that in this notes file
    not too long ago 8*) 8*)
    
    
    Richard
    

    
    Not one, but TWO Dodge Vipers.
    
    bloody silly, but VERY nice....
    
    Mark

    At Lightwater Country Park last Saturday, we saw "One of the last
    remaining AMPHICARS in Britain".
    
    It was designed by Hans Trippel. 2,800 of them were built in Berlin in
    1962 and they were based on a Triumph Herald ( 1200 cc engine ). They
    were capable of 70mph on land and 8mph ( 6.5 knots ) in water.
    
    It is driven on land by its rear wheeels. At the back of the car, on
    either side of the engine, are two propellors, which power the car in a
    similar style to a boat. The car is steered in water by its front
    wheels. It has a welded steel hull to allow it to float. In 1962, one
    was successfully sailed across the English Channel.
    
    Terry

    .......a certain bit of information has come into my hands that the
    mythical Mr Saxby is doing a bit of Paddock Marshalling at Thruxton
    this coming w/end.
    
    What are you doing Mark - looking after Damon's Williams or being a
    parking attendant for the cavalcade cars? :-)
    
    Paul

    
    Well unlike  you fly by night, here today, gone tomorrow
    timekeepers(:^), I've been paddock marshalling at Thruxton since 
    (I think) 1980...
    
    I expect, due to my advanced level of seniority in the position, that
    I'll be shouting at obnoxious jerks in Porsches who insist on clogging
    up the paddock instead of parking and using their legs. That appears 
    to be the usual extent of the duties (I can't remember the last time
    we had a fire in the paddock...).
    
    Mark

    Seen in Bo'ness..


    A man at the side of the road trying patiently to get his Mag-mount 
    Aerial  stuck to the roof of his Robin Reliant....!!!

    Steve,
    
    	When did they put road's in Boness..????
    
    
    

    On the M6 this morning, a Jaguar with the reg 'EIGER'.
    
    Mikef

    re: .3727
    
    I saw one of those Amphicars in passing last year while on holiday. We
    were on a canal boat at the time & it overtook us! Got some nice photos
    for the album tho'.
    
    Andy

    One of those flat looking Merc. convertibles:
    
    10 RPM
    
    (If the engine got torque at THAT speed, it must have been a diesel ;-}
    )

    On the Thelwall Viaduct the other night. A black Sierra I think:
    
    C1 DER
    
    Phil Gill.

    On a  Rolls-Royce Corniche this weekend in St Johns Wood,
    
    	CLA 551 C
    
    T.
    
    
    BTW it looked like the RR Cornish Owners Club were out in force at the
    weekend - Loads of 'em.

    A 2-door big Merc sports thingy with one big wiper blade.
    
    Driver talking to his friends, ( 1 male, 1 female ) who are standing
     at the drivers door.
    
    Driver decides his windscreen is dirty, so hits the wash/wipe.
    
    Lots of water from the jets, hits windscreen, wiper wipes off 
    
           - straight over friends ...

Saw a TVR Griffith yesterday between Aldermaston and the
A4 by that swing bridge thingy...

It was the most hideous metallic green I've ever seen. A bit
like the Calibra SE greeen, but worse. Far far worse. (If 
you can imagine that!).

	What a waste



	Ian

    
    
    	If 8.00 to 9.00 am is rush hour then 10.00 to 11.00am is idiot
    hour.I say this because I came into work a little later this morning
    and as soon I got on the M4 at J12 I cut up,squashed up and flashed up.
    With respect to those present I would guess that 75% of the people on
    the road at that time of day are those that are forced to drive for
    a living and so get complacent when they drive.In short,I haven't seen
    such a bad display of driving by so many people since I was last at Dec
    park at 5.30.  ;-)
    
    
    	Andy
    

>
>It was the most hideous metallic green I've ever seen. A bit
>like the Calibra SE greeen, but worse. Far far worse. (If 
>you can imagine that!).
>

Maybe it's more effective than a car alarm / crook lock

	:-)

	Talk about hiddeous green.........


	We had one of those mark IV Cortinas, "S" reg, in that yuccky
	fleurescent-type of green, it was disgusting!


	Heather

re.3741:

I think you'll find it was called "peppermint green".

Dave.

Have you had the influx of under-the-car-neon-lights that we have over here in
the US (at least around the Atlanta area)?  Makes for a very interesting sight
rolling down the road.....

Dave

>I think you'll find it was called "peppermint green".

	It was indeed.....I remember saying....I don't mind what car we
	have - except green....

	and home he came with this.....thing.

	it had 4 oil leaks that could never be cured, it eventually caught fire
	whilst going along a dual carriageway.

	One of the most disgusting colours I have ever seen on a car.

	Heather

Fans of sportscars would've done well to have been at Thruxton on Sunday for
the circuit's 25th Anniversary meeting.

In the paddock (for the classic car cavalcades) were cars of value and rarity 
too great to mention, but a few highlights (for me) were :-

Jaguar XJ220, Ferrari F40, McLaren F1, 2 Aston Martin Virage Vantages, Ferrari 
GTO (the old front engined one), Ferrari Testarossa, Bugatti Type 35, 6 (count
'em!) Marcii (including 1 Mini Marcos and Jem Marsh's new Mantara Spyder), a
handfull of GT40 replicas, a Lola T70 replica and so on and so on. This is 
just a few of the cars that were there and, no doubt, others could produce a 
favourites list as long, but totally different.

In the pits were the Le Mans Prototypes, including a pair of Porsche 917s, a
gaggle of Lola T70s, a Matra Simca, a Ford F3L, a pair of Cobras (real ones,
of course) and a Lotus 40, amongst others.

I guess we'll have to wait until the 50th anniversary to see a collection of 
cars like that again, but it'll be worth the wait!

Mark 
    

    Mark,
    
    You beat me to it! Did you mention the MGB V8 (New)? The Alfa SZ? The
    Lancia Zagato, the Allard, the Ford RS200.......
    
    We were timing the McLaren while Dr Jonathon P was giving circuit
    rides, and from a standing start at the pit exit to a slow entry to the
    pits he was doing around 1:35's. I would reckon that equates to a 1:20
    flyer or about the same as the Le Mans prototypes.
    
    A great day was had by all - apart from Damon Hill and his knackered
    Williams-renault, and the commemorative medallions were a nice touch.
    
    Paul

I have to agree, it was brilliant !!!

	Well you might not have to wait till the 50th - cos I heard from a little 
bird that some thought is being put into the 30th aniversary already - so you'll 
be young enough to enjoy that one Mark !

	I'll post any more info as and when I get it !

Andy

    Seen near Brackley, Northampton recently
    
    White MR2 T-bar with the registration KE 1TH

    At Winnersh lights the other day:
    
    A Volvo 700-series based STRETCH LIMO!
    
    OH NO!  They're getting BIGGER!
    
    Richard
    

    
    
    Seen one day last week Beatiful Aston Martin
    
                 reg no.   AM   V8
    
    Richard (young)

    I think you'll find that plate belongs to AM themselves.
    
    Laurie.

	Last Saturday saw a F40 number plate D26 slightly exceeding the speed 
 	limit on the M25/A21 in Kent. I finally overtook it to wave !!

	Sean

    
    	Masserati 222 SE	Reg : J 222 MAS 
    	
    	Seen in Newbury  today.
    

    Parked in Chatham (Kent) town centre,
    
    A jacked up bright yellow Toyota HiLux pickup,
    
    Reg.  H YE110W.
    
    
    Nick.

Nick / anyone

re -1

Just to clear my confudled mind, should that reg no have read H731 LOW ?


I'l not be able to sleep until I know the answer ;-)

Warren

> Just to clear my confudled mind, should that reg no have read H731 LOW ?

Much more likely to have been  HYE 110 W

    Driving out of DEATHpark the other evening...
    
    Lotus Carlton on the ramp down from Security Reception.  Looked like it
    had driven over some railings.
    
    Anyone know any more about this?
    
    Richard
    

	Yup, it's part of the Vauxhall roadhow.

	if you had looked left, you would have seen a caravan at the back
	of the parking bay, and about 20+ vauxhalls of different types, and
	a few people ready to show them to you and chat.

	Heather

    I realised what it was as I got closer, but just for a moment, I
    thought, "Tee hee!"
    
    Richard
    

A 16 OLF

Fixed to say A 1 GOLF

as if I couln't tell :^)

DjF

    re .3755 (confused from Ayr)
    
    it was actually HYE 110W.
    
    Nick.
    
    (and probably worth a few quid.... if youve got a yellow car that is)
    

    Flying past me on the M4 outside Cardiff last night, red Porsche doing
    at least 120mph with the reg:
    
    	V 13ADD
    
    Trev

    Seen in my village the reg K 13 YTE rearrange to look like K BYTE

    
    Last night on the way to see Mr snap-on, saw punishment which was fit for 
    the crime. A lump of junk passed me, loosley disguised as a ford
    grenada, Overtook almost at a junction but failed to slow turning out onto 
    the A11, swang wide onto the other side of the road and hit a wrecker 
    coming the other way. At that point the road is quite wide, but the
    grenada managed to hit the wrecker close to the kerb on the other site
    of the road. Stupid boy!!!  Needless to say the Grenada will be a write
    off, and the wrecker was damaged but not significatly.
    
    Another statistic that puts yours and my insurance up!!!!!
    
    
    garry

    
    
    	Metro Turbo-
    
        
        CLA 55  
    
    
        Surely not ?.
    
    
    

Seen in Swindon, a Fiat ( 128? UNO? something like that)



reg

			A SLOB


(really A 5LOB)

    On the back of a trailer, just outside Horsforth
    
    A GT40 with plate (you guessed it!) GT 40.
    
    It didn't have a tax disc tho', so perhaps it wasn't really 
    registered as this.
    
    Andy

going up the M3 this morning, a car transporter with half a dozen or so 
shrink-wrapped Renaults.

Is this normal ?

Seen in the ESPN TV coverage parked at Hockenheim: an Eastern-bloc car painted 
red with a big Ferrari prancing hourse insignia on the hood and the name NIKI 
next to it in big white letters.

... clearly a Niki Lada.

--PSW

    On my way into DECpark this am:
    
    Fat Jap racer (Celica?) in white with K1D PC
    
    Richard

    Re .3766  
    
    I recently saw a Roller near Camberley with what I remembered as 
    A5 LOB. Either my memory is going or somebody's other car is a Fiat.
    
    Martin

a white corvette


reg H4 VET

    
    Seen yesterday on the A34 from Oxford to Newbury, a silver-ish Honda
    Accord, registration
    
    		F969 SHY
    

    Julie.
    

    In and around Wokingham yesterday:
    
    Lots of L-reg cars, all of them Corsas (yawn).
    
    Richard

    Seen recently - a TRABANT dressed up for a wedding (white ribbons etc.)
    carrying bride and groom.
    
    Re a few back - I also saw the Rolls Royce SLOB the other day in the
    Camberley area.

    
    Coming back from portsmouth on saturday. Plodding along the M25 at
    about 70, heavy load and canoes on the roof, we were passed by an
    austin allegro making an unholly racket. Sounded like the the big ends 
    had long since expired. A bit further down the road a cloud of smoke
    and out of it came the allegro. Hardly supprising, spilling oil and
    whatever over the road. The engine obviously let go big time. The
    driver looked a little supprised?????
    

    
    Seen on M62 (yawn) most mornings. Black Porshe 911 reg A8 OVE, pressed
    together. Obviously has something above his station.
    
    Ian...

Seen between M4 Junction 13 and Newbury, last Thursday evening, 

	caravan on it's roof. Towing car pretty bashed up in the rear quarters.
	Tow-bar bent at 90 degrees to the side.

Seen on the A12 on Saturday, *just in front of me*

	caravan pulled the towing Volvo Estate through 180 degrees when it went
	out of control, to face the oncoming traffic on a dual-carriageway.
	(Very sensible towing combination, but just goes to show that nothing is
	infallible).

Seen all over the weekend,

	caravans being towed in excess of 60 mph. (I thought this was illegal ?)



I thought caravanning was supposed to be a sedate occupation ?

	#$%^&*( silly season 


	On the M4 coming home on Sunday.

	A German reg car, sitting 1" from bumper.

	We are in outside lane, and cars in front start to brake.

	German goes in middle lane to undertake, middle lane starts to brake,
	he dashes in the gap between us and car in front (we are still breaking)
	and does this manoever all the way down the line, causing even more
	breaking and very close shaves.

	I doubt he would have made London in one piece.

	Heather

    We see stuff like that all the time over here. One gets used to it.
    
    Laurie in Brussels.

	Seen passing me on the M6 Sunday:

	Silver Merc 500SL (or whatever the soft top model is!)

	Beautiful car spoilt by the reg. plate.

		PEN 15

    >Note 24.3781 by MARVIN::STRACHAN "Graham Strachan NEE-Reading 
    
    >              -< Cars as phallic symbols!!! >-
    >Beautiful car spoilt by the reg. plate.
    >PEN 15
    
    A friend of mine took a piccie of this car next to another car whilst
    at Thruxton a while ago. The reg of the other car.....
    
                FAN 1E.
    
    Apparently the cars were owned by the drivers of the BP truck racing
    team. 

    
    near one of the city police road blocks, a nice little porsche 944 
    A 13 onk spaced to read. Yes you guessed it A BONK.
    
    
    Garry
    

Behind a Testarossa at lunchtime here in Ferney.  Then it decided to overtake 
the car in front.  Incredible sound as it accelerated away, just like a jet 
plane.  Amazingly wide car as well!  Seen them at motor shows etc before, but 
when you see it up behind another car, you realise just how huge they are.


Oh yeah, also saw K1NGY a couple of weeks back near Heathrow on a silver Merc
(500 I think).

Faz.

Saw a Lamborghini Diablo VT (dark metallic blue) on the M6 near Stoke the 
other day.

Doing about 65 on the inside lane. Large queue of traffic around it as 
people slowed down to take a look.

Andy

    two weeks ago, heading North on the A3 near Wurzburg, I saw an artic
    which had also been heading North, but was now pointing West on the
    Southbound carriageway.  About 30 kilometres further North, I saw an
    another artic heading North but he was about 30 m to the right of the
    inside lane, with mud up to the axles.
    
    In both cases rubberneckers were slowing the traffic down to a crawl.
    
    C

    
    A black Nissan 300ZX with bodykit, plate XHBIT.
    
    'twas in a magazine but I thought the numberplate was cool.
    
    -Tony

Parked on the street a Ferrari Dino GT. Anyone know how rare these are?
Its the first one I've ever seen.


/Paul.

Green Mercedes 500 SEL, very racey looking.
Seen on M40 heading North
Registration was PSX 1 Y   (PIXIE)

before POL gets here.

A Cobra in a lay by in Basingstoke. Don't know whether it was the 
real thing or not. Then again, it could've been an unmarked police
car, but I didn't get a chance to look at the alternator!



	Ian

Ferrari Dino would be the early version of the 308 I believe.  Up until that
time it could only be a 'Ferrari' if it had a V12 (or flat 12).  The 308 was
orginally tagged as a Dino, after Enzo's some, of course, and then later they
simply called it the Ferrari 308.

Dave

    
    Re.3791
    
    Stick to Studebakers ....
    
    308 GT4 was a Dino, the original Dino (246) was a V6. 308 GTB was never
    called "Dino", even though its shape was a lot closer than the GT4.

>
>Ferrari Dino would be the early version of the 308 I believe.  Up until that
>time it could only be a 'Ferrari' if it had a V12 (or flat 12).  The 308 was
>orginally tagged as a Dino, after Enzo's some, of course, and then later they
>simply called it the Ferrari 308.
>
>Dave

It looked to me like it had a 12 in it. It didn't relly look anything
like a 308. It had a much longer back.

/Paul.

>           <<< Note 24.3792 by MOEUR1::KENNEDY "Going places ...." >>>
>                          -< What happened to Fido? >-
    
    I'm here !
    
    Seen this morning floating alongside the A4 between Hungerford and
    Newbury :- a four-pack of Foster's lager, a white elephant, an oil
    derrick (sp?) and a can of Duckhams oil. 
    
    No, I didn't have a heavy night last night - it was a hot-air balloon
    meeting. These balloons shapes are getting more and more unusual.
    
    	Terry

    
    Seen in Edinburgh on the back of a tow truck last night, an Escort
    Cosworth reg L1 COS .

re .3794;

it is actually a National Power electricity pylon. There goes there 
advertising budget....!

Shame you didn't see Rupert Bear, or the Cadbury's Caramel bunny.

Peter.

    re .3796
    
    Rupert was there - I saw him disappear into the mist - along
     with a very large can of MOBIL 1(?) oil....
    
    AT Castle Coomb - a Lotus 7 with the reg...
    
                L 7 FUN

    Seen on a Harley Davidson
    
    A 1 DOG

Re: .3796,.3797

All those were at the Littlecote Balloon festival...saw them all and more :-)

Hi all,

Seen in Holland on a hot air balloon festival.

There was a Financial Times balloon, this one was brought by a green Range
Rover with plate 
			FT 100.

Greetings from Holland,

/-/	Henk.

    Seen driving through Neath on Sunday, 10 Peugeot 405's all sporting
    Warwickshire County Cricket Club logos.  They'd obviously got lost as
    they had a Police Escort.  Looked funny though.
    
    
    Trev

    ...
    how did you know it was a Police Escort Trev ???
    
    
         ... did you see the alternator ? ;^)
    
    G.

Seen last night heading towards Glasgow from Ayr, on a Range Rover Vogue 
      HM 1.

    On the M4 heading into London yesterday morning.  BMW registered:-
    
    BUY 3
    
    70+ with car phone in left hand and right hand holding a sheet of
    printed paper.  I couudn't see which eye was reading the paper and
    which was reading the road...
    
    Jc
    

More to the point, what was he using to hold onto the steering wheel ;-)

           <<< Note 24.3792 by MOEUR1::KENNEDY "Going places ...." >>>
    >> 308  GT4 was a Dino,
    
    The GT4 was never a Dino ('though the GTB might have been ?).
    The aforementioned GT4 was a 4 seat, mid-engined thingy, which I quite
    like but is "officially" classed as "unloved", the prices asked for
    them reflect this, it's probably the nearest thing to a bargain Ferrari
    you'll get.
    
    Steve "Wish my MR2 had 4 seats" Rice.

The series 1 308 gt4 was a Dino not a ferrari - by that I mean that there was
not a ferrari badge anywhere on the car. The series 2 was re-badged to ferrari
but the boot lid still has Dino 308 gt4 on it. No other 308 was a dino.

Tony. 

Spotted last weekend in Wembley a Ferrari (sorry I did not recognise the model)
with the number plate HI IM OK (H11 MOK)!

Gary

    Interesting note in the Mail at the weekend.
    
    The DVLC are cracking down on non-standard spacing on number plates.
    Police and inspectors are reporting people to the DLC. The driver then
    receives a letter saying change it to standad spacing or lose the right
    to use the number plate! Apparently the DVLC sell the right to use a
    number but retain ownership of the number and can withdraw the right
    to use it at any time!! They are curerently sending our letters at
    about 6 as week at the moment and are increasing their vigilance.
    
    Also the bcar can fail its MOT if incorrectvspacing is used.
    
    interesting little facts??
    
    malcolm

    ....a grey squirrel running across the M62, had to stop very sudden;y
    to avoid being flattenned but it made it! 

    Seen on the M20 on the way to Dover last night. A large artic with the
    plate...
    
    ART1C
    
    Nice one!
    
    Laurie.

    At the traffic lights at Horsforth:
    
    A red Rover cabrio with its hood down just like the one I was in at the
    time. We went our different ways at the lights, but its was just like
    looking in the mirror.

    
    Outside a garage in Warrington, Saturday, a Nissan 4WD type vehicle
    (possibly a patrol) with the reg L1MBO. Sheer Hell more like.
    
    Tim

    
    The other night on the way home saw a Saab 900 with JAG 132, strange
    plate to put on a Saab.
    
    and last night a ford , could have been a Cosworth, had all the right 
    bits . DIARY , no attempt to make it D1ARY it was a definate I.
    

    
    
    
    seen the other evening in Oxfordshire, a white Peugeot 405 GRDT which
    from a safe following distance looked like a Peugeot 405 GROT. Could
    this be an inadvertant advertising campain ??
    
    Alan. 

    
    Then there was this Merc ;
    
    	H1S LOS

Black Golf GTi, Ickenham shops, Middlesex, London.

H 15 EXY

HI SEXY

    Saw a Lotus Carlton yesterday, registration L8TUS. This was travelling
    through Lower Earley, near Reading.
    
    I got bored following him though, so I overtook him and left him behind
    in a cloud of dust! :-)
    
    Dave.
    
    

    First Lotus I'd seen in years. Looked like a Countach but smaller.
    Very nice in snow white and nice exhaust note. 
    

Saw a Merc SL t'other day (on the A20 I think), H1 TEA. 

    
    
    Seen on the M20 near Maidstone - A Dodge Viper reg: A1 8 LTR, and it
    looked the mutts nuts.
    
    Also saw Big Foot on the M2. (the monster truck that is, not the yeti)
    on the back of a low loader.
    
     Nick.

    Hi,
    
    	Overtook the "Black Prince" steam locomotive on the M62 a couple of
    days ago!!, it was however on the back of a low loader.
    
    
    	David

If anyone has the dates and venues for "Big Foot", could they post them?

Cheers,
Dave.

some porsche yup -mobile going north on the m3 this morning

TUR130 W

with the 1 and the 3 very close , don't know what the W means, maybe 
the anchor sticker had fallen off :-)


I was stationary heading south - letting drivers in fron t gawk at yet another
accident - Police/Fire were busy - I didn't get much of a look - anyone hear
any details?

Paul.

    Near Taunton in Somerset...
    
    A British racing green AC Cobra reg no. AC V8
    

    Exiting the M3 to join the A322 to travel through Bracknell yesterday
    lunchtime...
    
    	A silver Mclaren F1
    
    It was travelling rather fast over the roundabout and then had to slow
    right down for the traffic it had caught up with. It slowed down very
    quickly!!
    
    It looks very, very nice in the flesh!
    
    Dave.
    

    
    Seen last Wednesday at the twin bridges round about in Bracknell,
    
    	A silver Jag XJ220
    
    (on a trailer)
    
    First one i've seen on the road (In a manor of speaking)
    
    Andy.

on display in reception of the Sega UK headquarters, on the A4 into
Central London.

I guess it's just a mock up, but the paint job looks good.

Peter.

My next door neighbour polishing a beautiful black 1930's two seater MG. He's 
been there for 2 years, and hasn't done much with it, which is the reason I 
haven't seen it before.

Greg

    Seen yesterday in a car park in Poole, white Beemer 735i with reg. 
    2 BAD.
    
    Also yesterday on the M6, a complete dickhead driving a white Jag with
    the word POLICE on the outside. I had overtaken him 200 yards back. I
    was following a Cavalier and we were overtaking a string of lorries.
    The Jag suddenly shot out from the inside lane into the outside lane. 
    Overtook me (I was doing 80). Then he decided he wanted to leave the 
    motorway. Pulled in front of me, braked hard, squeezed in between 2 
    lorries and shot off up the slip road.
    
    Cheers
    
        Andy

White Astra GTE on A537 going into Macclesfield, reg

		GTE 16 V

Driver? Spotty youth of course!

    I saw a Ferrari something-or-other near junction 15A of the M1
    yesterday evening....the registration was   ACT10N
    
    

    I saw NO 1 for sale yesterday. They wanted *cash* offers in the region
    of 100 GRAND!!!!!
    
    Barking mad.
    
    Laurie.

    Seen near Manchester Airport, red Porsche with number plate
    
    A8 OVE    =  ABOVE
    
    Even had the left side of the 8 shaved off!
    
    Mike B.
    
    

    Seen last evening while heading back to the DEC office to pick up my
    wife, a Yellow Testarossa spyder.  I was surprised how good it looked
    even with the top up.
    JP

    Sure it wasn't a 348 spyder ?
    
    P. D'Antic

    yup definately a 12 clyinder sound as opposed to the 8.  It looked like
    a Straman job but could have be someone else.

On a Sierra

 50 DAD


birthday present ?

Seen coming into work this morning on a trailer ...

a yellow kit car type thing (shape of a caterham etc) with the no. plate PER 1L.

Looked quite good.

Also, a Nissan 300ZX with the plate A11 TOK - all talk .

;-)

    
    The Hampshire traffic police seem to have acquired another BMW 5 series
    (yes, it *was* a 530, not a 535 badge, just like the dark green one they 
    were using before) unmarked car to patrol the M27 and surrounding areas. 
    Dark blue with no visible markings apart from the usual comms aerials.
    
    Chris.

    Seen just south of Newbury - southbound
    
    
    A MacLaren F1 !!!!
    
    It was metallic grey, with foreign number plates, and I was Jealous !!!

    Seen briefly in passing -
    
    A Volvo with Towbar removing my Mister2 fog light. After getting out to
    inspect damage - we decided it best to remove ourselves from each other 
    and the traffic, we did so an hour ago and he's still trying to find
    somewhere to park !!!!!!!.  Bas***d. 
    
    
    I had to smile. } 
    
    

    
    On the M40 a sign along the lines of...
    
    'Tiredness kills - take a rest'
    
    Where ? - the M40 has no service stations.....
    
    Paul

    
    ...but probably a few exits :^)
    
    Paul

    Seen in the Vauxhall garage in Stirling on a Cavalier Turbo Diesel
    
    
     K155 RAB
    
    (KISS RAB)         

Seen this morning in the London traffic, a Renault Twingo (?) VAN

If you thought the car was weird...



T.

    Seen on the M6 north M56 interchange
    Toyota pickup and trailer reg
    
    NO K1X

Seen yesterday in Largs (nr Greenock on Clyde Coast - for those that didn't know
and probably dont care)

a Sierra 4x4 Ghia estate with the reg

IAN K


Now how much would that set you back ?

    Seen this morning, M6 jnct 24,
    
    Porsche 911, number plate DDD 911T
    
    Mike B.
    

	Seen in Windsor last Bankholiday Monday, a BMW ALPINA 3-series in blue - 
very nice, and the plate....

		K1CKN

	and a pretty cool dude driving it as well !

    Saw a white Baver Millett 'Chimera' at lunchtime. A nice soft top 2
    seater. Any idea what it is? Is it a kit car?
    
    Cheers,
    
    Greg

    "Chimera" is a TVR, never heard of  Baver Millet (Dealers name maybe ?)
    The description sounds like a TVR though.
    
    Steve.

Rolls Royce in Newbury. The driver had just taken the Roller
to Texas DIY and had his passenger holding the corrugated 
plastic sheeting across the front and back seats.

    Number plate spotted last night
    
    BBB 8B positioned to read BBBBB
    
    Mike (just the one) B.

    re 3858, Probably Bauer Millet. A Manchester based car dealer.
    Specilises in American imports.
    
    /paul

    Seen on the M62 on Monday, blue astra with the number plate..... 
    
    Well thats just it, it didn't!  Front or back, not a sausage! 
    
    
    ..Craig

    Cannock area, A38ish, Monday
    
    Jill YYY - Actually J111 YYY, but the first '1' was (IMO) illegally
    masked to look like an 'i'.

    Our local TVR centre seems to have bought all the low number plates as
    below
    
    L 1 TVR
    
    I've seen 2,5 and 8 in the last couple of days.

    
    Re TVR,
    
    I can second that,there seems to be a huge increase in the number of
    T's on the road.
    
    The more the merrier!
    
    Andy.

Saw Reading police using their portable GATSO gizzmo last
night, no doubt to raise yet more dosh to justify their existance.

They'd got it set up on Wokingham Road by Palmer Park. I watched 
it in operation for a few minutes and it was taking snaps at quite 
regular intervals. Should make a few people really happy when the 
brown envelope arrives in the post. I still can't work out
why it required 2 cop cars and 4 cops to work the thing,
maybe they thought someone might try to steal it !

Phil.

	Good job you were on your bike Phil!  As for a speed trap there
	than I think that it's perfectly reasonable, it's a residential
	area and yet cars are running through there at up to 60 mph.
	There's no excuse for speeding there.  As for needing a load
	of police to work the gatso - maybe it was a training session.

	Dave

    My cousin is a traffic cop (you wouldn't believe half the stories he
    tells!!!!) and the only time he uses these things is on a training
    exercise, they can't afford to do it any other way, a sad indictment of
    the way the Police are funded.

>           they can't afford to do it any other way, a sad indictment of
>    the way the Police are funded.
 
     But imagine what things would be like if they got a proportion of the 
  revenue from speeding fines, etc!

    Children would be a lot safer.........

    so what ......
    and I doubt it....

I forgot to mention that it was 9:45 p.m. when I saw
the police, which I would have thought was after most children's
bedtime.

Phil.

Seen outside the back door of the The Crescent this morning a row of traffic
cones across the disabled parking spaces, presumably to stop all the selfish
non-disabled drivers parking their cars there.

But how are the disabled drivers going to move them ?

A friend of mine had to go down to a University of the South coast for an open
day. He has a disabled sticker on his car. As he went through the campas car
park enterence he was stopped by the carpark attendant. He was infomed that he
couldn't park here, but there was some spaces some distance away. My freind
explained that he had a sticker, but was informed that the disabled places were
for lectureres only.  My friend asked were he should park then as he wasn't able
to walk the distance from the remote carpark. The carpark attendant replied;
"Well your disabled, thats your problem".


Simon

    Hasn't someone just started production of clones, I seem to have read
    somewhere that it was still as dreadful as the original!

    
    I've seen a couple of Mokes recently.  I think they're being made in
    Australia or NZ; somewhere like that.
    
    Ian
    

    Green Range Rover belonging to a Dental Consultant (well he was
    in the pub with a bunch of dental nurses), registration-
    
           GIVEN
    
    and not a numeric in sight!
    
    Mike B.
    

    
    seen today in Braintree
    
    BMW 5 series  A18 ONE spaced to read  Al 8ONE

    There's a reply somewhere about women drivers (has it been deleted
    !!??) - how about this
    
    Seen yesterday late afternoon, A34 northbound between M4 and Oxford, a
    (male) dork overtaking me whilst reading his newspaper, which was
    propped up against the steering wheel ! And I worry about a little
    speeding. This guy wants shooting.
    
    Colin

    This is not sexist their are equally damning reports on men included,
    from men I might add.
    
    Richard

    Yet another interesting (!?) number plate - 
    
    Seen on M6 near Knutsford Services, going south, white Ford Mon'thingy
    registration:
    
    K 8 YTE  or K8YTE (KBYTE)
    
    Mike B.
    

    
    An escort van  A20RBA spaced to read  A 2orba . Wonder if the driver
    was greek??? 

    One for you cricket lovers. Grey Audi seen near Chard in Somerset
    A11 OWT.
    
    Andy.

    
    Seen today at the Venture R/B Basingstoke
    
    
    Grey 205 stld (?)  with  LI3TER.
    
    Look great on my Jag.

    
    Seen somewhere in London
    
    	CHA1R
    
    	on a range rover

    seen in Henley the other week :
    
    the new convertible Ferrari - 348 ??
    
    
    Jason.

    
    Seen last night parked across the road from where I live in Portsmouth-
    
    	Silver Ferrari.  Looked like an old Aston as far as I was concerned
    when I first glanced at it...number plate - 365 GTC.  Was it what it said 
    it was (not knowing the first thing about these)?!  It sounded
    amazing...!
    
    Chris.
               

Seen on a not very interesting white soft-top hatchback thingy yesterday on the 
M4:

	FOS1L

    
    Ferrari 512 TR  in the players car park at Ibrox.
    
    Reg L10 MWH....Mark W. Hateley 
                               

    
    Was there a Porsche 'do' on yesterday? I ask this because I saw six in 
    convoy in the Theale area yesterday at about 12 o'clock,one of which
    had the reg:
    	      A 911
    
    Can anyone guess which one?
    
    Andy	

	In Bristol yesterday....


	An L reg Nova GSi - I thought the Corsa had been around long enough to 
purge all old stocks - I guess not !

    Seen in the players car park at Newtown Park   Reg  BON35S
    this was on The Players bus which was a Toyota Hiace Van.  

    
    
    	Seen on the M6 North of Birmingham on Friday night PORCHE 928S
    
    		Reg      THE 928S

>    	Seen on the M6 North of Birmingham on Friday night PORCHE 928S
>    
>    		Reg      THE 928S

	This plate has been spotted so many times now, in so many
	places, that I'm beginning to suspect it's on more than 1 car!

	Ian.

    Nah, it's been kicking around for a while now.  I think it belongs to
    Porsche UK.  A friend's dad, who is some sort of motoring technical
    writer, had it on loan for a couple of weeks a few years ago, when the
    928S first came out.
    
    Richard

seen a a fair that does the rounds in the North Hants area a Merc with the 
plates

	A15HOW  spaced to read   A 1 SHOW

/s

Seen on a Range Rover :

MR D1L

??

B 1 DGO spaced to read B1D GO.....Don't ask me I don't understand it either !

    
    Can't remember if I've put this on before,
    
    
    Black Alfa Romeo (I think it's the 133 clover)
    
    	Reg:
    			A4 LFA
    Andy.

    
    Some sort of Bentley in Congleton last night, reg :-
    
    	ROL 1N
    
    with all that omney to spend on car, I'd of thought they'd have bought
    the real thing 8^)
    
    Graham

Re the Bentley, you are a touch close to the factory there and I've seen some
real sights in and around the Cheshire lanes, like the undercoated Mulsanne
Turbo with no chrome and only a bucket seat for the driver being driven flat
out, I was passenger in a Gp1 Rally car with a good driver and he REALLY
struggled to keep up. So it could have been a factory car.

    Seen on a Cadillac something or other  'BODY 63'  except it looked 
    more like a late 80's model to me.  I didn't see the driver though!
    
    		- Chris -

	On Sunday in Sunningdale...

	A brand new Merc and I think it was labelled as a "180 cl" or something
 like that. It looked really nice, is this a brand new model or just a 190 
replacement ?

Andy

    
    Seen near chelmsford this morning a Range Rover 
    
                       index     MUD 317
    
    Perhaps somebody actually uses one of these beasts off-road.

I cant remember if this one is entered before...



last night on M80,

dark blue 911 Carerra 2

no  911 POR




Drool, drool, drool   :-0 ....

	In the short stay carpark a white BMW 3 series alpina ( I think )

	Reg "K1SSY"

    Seen on the M42 near Birmingham last Sunday (3/10)......
    
    	the new Bentley Coupe (about #175k!)
    
    		OOH 1	(about the noise I was making).
    

	on the Oxford ring-road, a volvo estate:
	
		H 1 J K L
	
	the letters were uniformly spaced across the plate
	
	jack 

    near Geneva
    
    			62 UK
    
    on a D-type Jag, or something that looked exactly like one ...

... A dark coloured Volvo 740 Estate undertaking a van and trailer on the M4
last night near junction 8/9 BY DRIVING ON THE HARD SHOULDER !!!  It then nearly
hit my wife's car as it turned left off the roundabout at junction 8/9 by
cutting across from the right-hand lane of the roundabout.

Seen on the A12 approaching Colchester on Wednesday, an old beige Sierra 1.6L 
hatchback.

It was sporting the number plate CT 8, which must surely be worth a lot more 
than the car itself!

    
    Coming through Hackney the other day a range rover
    
    	NOT 2B

seen in a car park at Heathrow on saturday.

	BMW 850 coupe reg 850 BMW.

/s