Oh wow, Llanbradach is only about a half hour from here, just up from Caerphilly, one day if you ever feel the need to see where the ancestors are from perhaps we will meet up and get a photo of the Eunii together? My car seems to have started its UK life from a dealer called Alexander, Willmott & Young, Shellwood Rd. Brockham, Surrey RH3 7AW on 11/8/2001 and supplied to one Mr. P Langley from Horsham, Wesr Sussex and had 89,000kms on board when it arrived, it now has 217,000kms and has just had another engine/ gearbox fitted.
Mine was imported in 2002 ( I think) by a lady doctor in Cheshire, who then sold it to a chap in Ayrshire. He fettled it up, rather well but it languished in his garage rarely used. I bought it 4/half years ago from him complete with hardtop, and a set of unused Toyos on 15" Mk2 alloys. I managed to negotiate the original polished jobbies with the deal, which is just as well because it started to give a few issues from lack of use…you know the usual ones EG sticking calipers,dodgy thermostat etc. It’s all straightened out now, and went up to Aberdeenshire last year on a trailer where it got the AC removed, the chassis stripped, proofed and repainted and a few other fettles so it’s better than ever and a keeper for retirement. ( I’m 59 this June)
Now the spooky bit. My son an Army RMP has met a lovely Army Corporal (girl I might add) on a training course a few months back and she lives in Llanbradach. There is nothing left for him in Falkirk now apart from the wrinklies, so we expect to “pop down” and visit him now and then instead. I’ll let you know.
Hi, have just found out that the prefix NA in our numberplates would indicate the cars were first UK registered in Manchester area, so yours going to a lady doctor in Cheshire makes sense.
Mine seems to have spent most of its UK life in and around Surrey. The very interesting chap I bought it off, Matt Taylor(well his dad officially) , proprietor of Diamond Motorcycles, Nuneaton, one time holder of a 212mph Suzuki Hyabusa Turbo speed record, see: http://www.diamondmotorcycles.net/aboutus.php
Great to hear about your son having a girlfriend in Llanbradach perhaps we will see you down here one day, with your car I hope. It gets spookier still though, my birthday is also in June (18th) celebrating at the Nurburgring this year, wayhay!
But where looks best to stick the plate, I have seen them on the front lip of the bonnet, at the top of the nose cone at the bottom of the nose cone and in the middle, I can’t decide which looks best
I think below the badge looks best and partly panders to the little Hitler types, but you need nice warm weather really as it needs to bend on a double curvature without creasing.
Here are 3 of my cars with them on, never had a problem over the numberplate position/type on any of them…
Well that would make one even easier to fit and you can also cover where the badge was, you will have to remove the nosecone to remove the badge without snapping the mounting lugs or just snap it off, replacement badges are plentiful
I have had this on for the five years that I have owned the car.
A mate of mine who is a Bobby says that technically, it is illegal, but it would have to be a very slow day indeed for me to get a tug. He tells me that at this time, the police are so thinly spread that they need all the help that they can get, this will not be achieved by P***ing of a normally law abiding citizen so that if said Bobby is getting a kicking the aforementioned member of the public just stands and watches.
Just my twopennyworth from the mists of time! I think I am correct, someone will soon tell me if I am not, but in 1961 for the first time, a car was built with stick on front number plate as standard, from the factory, there was no provision for a ‘number plate plinth’ or anything else. It caused some concern at the time as it was around thirty degrees to the horizonal, and the ‘Ten year test’ had just been introduced, a year earlier, anyone remember? Readable, certainly if you stood in front of the car and looked downward. I realise there have been many changes to the law since. However, quite a number of these cars have been preserved/restored. They seem to pass the MOT! The car, none other than the E type Jaguar.
Thankyou very much Taff! But that is a late model, after Jaguar introduced baulk ring synchromesh. Flared in headlights, triple wipers, triple SU HD8’s crash on first gear,and if possible, the original flat floor. Now in the early sixties that was some car. Nostalgia over! it is a fine looking car, the MX5 looks quite presentable too! However, back to the stick on plates, the point is, the E type never had any other type than the stick on to my knowledge, so it must have been, and it appears, still is legal.
I’m going with a sticker in the near future. I can’t find any hard legislation that states sticker plate illegality (RTA 91)? Different constabularies have different ways of going about their policing and interpretation of the law/rules.
I say go for it, if they want to be “job worths” let them a plate can always be screwed back on. £30 fine isn’t always their first thing a 14 day vehicle rectification notice normally proceeds unless you “mouth off”!
It would be interesting to see whether there was any special exception made for the E type all those years ago. If not I wonder if the law was effectively changed when they let that go? We all put stick-ons on our Cortinas and Anglias when we first started driving in the 70’s and never had a problem. I do remember quoting the E type to anyone who remarked about it, though we did it after fitting neat little chrome quarter bumbers off the vans instead of the full length bumper.
You are highly unlikely to be pulled up for a sticky plate on a pre-Sept 2001 built car, since no-one can prove when the plate was fitted and they were officially tolerated before that date. On anything with a new style registration (51 on), you’re dicing with the construction and use regs.
Lol!
. There is nothing left for him in Falkirk now apart from the wrinklies, so we expect to “pop down” and visit him now and then instead. I’ll let you know.
