I certainly hope you didn’t get the weird and not so wonderful floppy discs from the company I worked for at the time. Batches of these would come in from some unspecified location and would be put through a calibrated drive to sort the 75% totally knackered ones from the others which didn’t have too many read / write errors, which were then re-packed and re-sold.
(Sorry . . . Wayyy off thread topic.)
I’ve been thinking of getting a ‘private’ plate for ours. MX55 and our initials but it would make our 2010 model look like a 2005.
Wouldn’t bother me apart from when/if we come to sell the car
Anyone else done this or is it nothing to bother about
Nothing to worry about. I’ve got an 05 on a 13. If anything if people don’t spot the plate i usually get, that looks good for 16 years! 
Also a nice selling point if you ever let the car go!
Mine wears a ‘Y’ plate - 2001 
Mine is a 2018 (68), but now wears a 1996 (P) plate…! 
The MX-5 is the 7th car to wear the same 1996 (P) plate…
Rob
I have moved my plate between 3 cars now, reverting each car back to their original date correct plate before sale
Yeah. My ACP plate will always stay with me! But the other one will always stay on the 5! Or maybe offer it for sale on a lovely club forum if I ever sell the car!
Ant
Nick, you can take the plates off before you sell the car. The original plates go back on. The cost is £80 to the DVLA to do that.
That fee includes putting the plates back on to another car.
In the interim the plate is held on a retention certificate in your name for 10 years. 
Absolutely correct. I took my plate off my last car and moved it to the 5 in April, at a total cost of £80. If you keep the cars original plates in the shed / loft / etc, you can then just stick them back on (rather than having to buy replacements). You need to do this on the day you put your personal plate on retention. Also, be aware that this generates a new V5C document, so if selling, do this with a week in hand before selling / trading in the old car so you have the correct paperwork in your possession. My new V5C took 4 working days to arrive in the post.
Alan sugar also made the first sky dishes from perforated steel that rusted. Well he had someone make them and sold them to sky. “money for old bin lids”.
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Go for it, I have an “L” reg plate on a 2013 car no one cares or knows anyway
Nice one!
If its icy, can you go around the roundabout with your tail out - or is it a bit too close to home for those sort of antics?
Not convinced that the neighbours would be impressed by that, quite doable though. I usually do a quick lap after washing the car to shake the water out of the nooks and crannies.
Nice picture1
