Shortest UK car number plate you've seen

[Peter Sarf]

Apologies that this isn't the best photo ever posted to this website (it's taken from the upper deck of a bus on which I was travelling!), but yesterday morning, I passed a Porsche Taycan in traffic on the outskirts of Preston, bearing they registration '2L'. Picture (my own) below.

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Better be a two litre engine ?.

 

[Bald Rick]

Better be a two litre engine ?.

No engine at all!

 

[TheSel]

Better be a two litre engine ?.

As @Bald Rick says, it's electric.

 

[Wyrleybart]

DK1 was the equivalent in Rochdale (mayor's car). Had a ride in it in 1975 when the plates were on an old Daimler limousine.

We had DH1 in Walsall similarly
Didn't realise it had retired to Mulhouse though !!

Walsall – DH1 003colour

My Not Quite Brownhills odds and ends Interesting things from around about but not quite in Brownhills Walsall DH1 registration number For more information about the Brownhills visit my www.thehodgkinsons.org.uk/brownhil.htm web page.

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Reading the text, it appears F1 and 1F were registered in Essex

 

[Peter Sarf]

No engine at all!

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As @Bald Rick says, it's electric.

I should have guessed !.

 

[Julia]

Noted 8 in Guernsey.

 

[Lockwood]

Saw that same car again recently, red, blank registration.

That's got to be the winner for shortest?

 

[starioo]

"8 OCT"

 

[Whistler40145]

My cousin had a Citroën Ami with AFR 2R as the numberplate

 

[DelW]

There's a car parked in my road today that I haven't seen before, with the number MX5.
The surprising thing is that it's not the Mazda sports car that one might expect, but a very ordinary looking oldish model of Volkswagen estate car.

 

[Bald Rick]

not particularly short, but I saw A1EXA today on a Tiguan. I wondered if it responded to voice commands…

 

[bspahh]

There's a car parked in my road today that I haven't seen before, with the number MX5.
The surprising thing is that it's not the Mazda sports car that one might expect, but a very ordinary looking oldish model of Volkswagen estate car.

https://www.caranalytics.co.uk/ says its a 2011 Volkswagen Passat, and its had that registration number for 10 years now.

 

[OuterDistant]

5K, a few weeks back. Mercedes-Benz. I think.

 

[bspahh]

5K, a few weeks back. Mercedes-Benz. I think.

https://www.caranalytics.co.uk/ says its a
2024 GREY MERCEDES-BENZ GLA 200 SPORT EXECUTIVE MHEV A

 

[Lockwood]

I saw a Rolls recently with a zero length registration, and then a Bentley - probably the same one I mentioned upthread.

These have to be the winners for shortest registration length? Or are they excluded for not having a plate?

 

[E27007]

5K, a few weeks back. Mercedes-Benz. I think.

In my Village, a Mercedes registration C4.
I remember a Citroen 2CV with the wonderful registration LEH 1P "Le Hip"
In London a two-car household, both Rolls Royce cars, 2BE , and NOT 2B, I wonder if the owners were thespians

 

[Peter Mugridge]

In my Village, a Mercedes registration C4.
I remember a Citroen 2CV with the wonderful registration LEH 1P "Le Hip"
In London a two-car household, both Rolls Royce cars, 2BE , and NOT 2B, I wonder if the owners were thespians

If we are now expanding onto the theme of personalised numbers in general, a couple of months ago I saw a car registered:

LE17 MOF

...presumably that would belong to someone who is very into music, most likely from the film / TV side of things? Looked a fairly expensive car as well, although I didn't quite see what it was.

 

[Bald Rick]

I remember a Citroen 2CV with the wonderful registration LEH 1P "Le Hip"

On that subject, the reg ‘CV2’ is on a typically ordinary modern Citröen, which can be seen parked in the village of Whitwell near Luton.

 

[ls2270]

There's a car parked in my road today that I haven't seen before, with the number MX5.
The surprising thing is that it's not the Mazda sports car that one might expect, but a very ordinary looking oldish model of Volkswagen estate car.

Well I saw the very same number plate in Basingstoke this morning and it’s now on…a Mazda MX5! Although weirdly checking that Car Analytics site referenced above it still shows on that Volkswagen. Weird!

 

[DelW]

Well I saw the very same number plate in Basingstoke this morning and it’s now on…a Mazda MX5! Although weirdly checking that Car Analytics site referenced above it still shows on that Volkswagen. Weird!

Was that perhaps a dealer's demonstrator with trade plates in the windows? Though if so it presumably shouldn't have been on the road like that!

I saw it in west Surrey but only on the one occasion.

 

[ls2270]

Was that perhaps a dealer's demonstrator with trade plates in the windows? Though if so it presumably shouldn't have been on the road like that!

I saw it in west Surrey but only on the one occasion.

No, it was being driven along the road!

 

[DelW]

No, it was being driven along the road!

I was meaning that it might have been out on a demo' run on the road, with its "showroom" plates still on, but with trade plates in the windscreen and back window. But even that would strictly speaking be illegal I think.

Most odd all round.

 

[ls2270]

I was meaning that it might have been out on a demo' run on the road, with its "showroom" plates still on, but with trade plates in the windscreen and back window. But even that would strictly speaking be illegal I think.

Most odd all round.

You may be right as I didnt look at the windscreen.

 

[Bald Rick]

7 FO on a Roller (Phantom) on Northumberland Av (London).

Wondered if the FO stood for “Foreign Office” or, ahem, something else.

Oddly the DVLA site says it is Red, but it definitely was not Red - it was Silver (possibly grey). In fact I’ve never seen a Red Roller. Perhaps Claret or Burgundy.

 

[GusB]

In my opening post I mentioned seeing AS2 quite a lot when I was younger. I hadn't seen it for years and assumed it had possibly been sold on and moved elsewhere in the country, but I spotted it a couple of weeks ago when I was out for a countryside jaunt; this time around it was on a Range Rover.

Another one that I hadn't seen for years also cropped up - not a short registration as such, but an imaginative use of the LLLnnnL format - ART1E. There used to be loads of old letter suffix plates with single digits that were just standard issue; my neighbour two doors up had JSS3V - I wonder how many former owners are kicking themselves for not recognising how valuable they'd become in future!

It's something that my local bus company recognised; GSO1-8V were whipped off and transferred to other buses before they were sold on.

 

[DiscoSteve]

In 2010 I was working in Central London just off Millbank and there was some kind of Official Gathering of the Great and the Good from various embassies/consultates across the globe - almost without exception they were all ferried to the said location in black limos of various brands with every one of them being registered as XX or XXX followed by 1 (or reversed) where XX/XXX were letters matching the dignitary's country in question.

 

[E27007]

In 1972 when Jaguar launched their 12-cylinder cars, I read an advertisement in The Times for the vehicle number plate 12XJ for sale for several thousands of pounds ((£6000 from memory), someone paid the exhorbitant sum of money, soon afterwards while in Yorkshire I saw a Daimler Double-Six ( upmarket name for an XJ6 saloon car) on the road with the 12XJ plate

 

[RyanOPlasty]

One of my dentist's cars is D9.

The Tynemouth police force used to have AFT 1, BFT 1 ... up to KFT 1!

 

[Pit_buzzer]

Spotted 8T in Doncaster yesterday on a white BMW

 

[Sun Chariot]

A beautiful Rolls Royce Silver Cloud III, at the Millstream Hotel, Bosham, West Sussex. Bearing reg plate F U 2

I was hoping for a sneaky photo - but the driver was stood right next to it and deep in conversation with another chap.