Popped into the little Co-op in the next village. 12 cars in the car park and 4 of them had personalised plates, which set me wondering. Why? What on earth does your car's registration matter? Provided, of course, you can remember it if it gets pinched. As it happens, I can remember the numbers of my first three cars - Anglia FPO233C, Wolseley 6/110 EMF505B, and Mk II Cortina TGX939F, and my current Focus ST18AEE, but the dozen or so in between? - not a clue.
I always read the motoring column in the Telegraph on a Saturday and a week or two back someone was asking hoe he could protect his personalised number should his car be written off in an accident as the number was worth, he reckoned, between £20,000 and £30,000 (I had to read it a couple of times to make sure I wasn't mis-reading!) What on earth makes a plate worth that sort of money other than to somebody with a lot more money than sense?
Mike