Just seen a black landy

[lambert]

With a black number plate with silver letters on an 07 reg, how does that work? :?:

[L90OOK]

I have seen one or two around too...look good though.   8)

[lambert]

Oh it was that. Makes me want some! 8)

[Steven]

With a black number plate with silver letters on an 07 reg, how does that work? :?:

What kind of Landy was it, a Defender?

[Thrasher]

It's ILLEGAL.

[Lee_D]

He's a very naughty boy.  [-X

Looks good though ... however will invite the attention of the local constabulary.

It's also a safety issue - Black landie - dark lane - BANG.

nuff said.

[lambert]

Twas a new defender with the pregnant bonnet.

[Terranosaurus]

Do you mean a landy of ethnic origin. Not sure we're allowed to call them bl**k any longer.

[lambert]

Sorry my bad. :D  :lol:  :roll:  

[Keri]

I know quite a few people with old style plates on newer landrovers, yes it is illegal but end of the day its there risk and there hardly hurting anyone by doing it.

[V8MoneyPit]

Vehicles first registered before 1st Jan 1973 can use them legally.

However, if you can prove the vehicle was *built* prior to this and not registered until later, you are likely to get the option of using them. This was common with military use vehicles. For example we have a customer with an R reg (1976-1977) Morris Traveller on black plates ..... they stopped building them in 1971! This car spent all it's early life unregistered on an RAF base. Then got registered for the road in 1976.

I know someone who had black plates on her silver Polo. Looked smart, but she now has 'proper' plates having had a warning by a Police officer.

[Bunnie]

Do you mean a landy of ethnic origin. Not sure we're allowed to call them bl**k any longer.

so how does the 'defender black' series work then?

cos mums 'defender of ethnic origin' doesnt sound quite right

[Thrasher]

It's one thing to break the speed limit for a few minutes (as in another way of breaking the law in a vehicle) etc, but to have illegal plates permanently affixed? I can't see the point. There's a Jag in our car park with the same thing. Yes it looks nice, but at the end of the day the plates are either "display" plates, or made illegally too :(

I put it in the zone as those idiots that have private plates and then mess around with the fonts and spacing to make them say something. Stupid.

[MudRat]

i believe maximum penalty for any numberplate offence is £30, no points?!

[DarrenG]

i believe maximum penalty for any numberplate offence is £30, no points?!

A maximum fine of £1000 and if it's a cherished plate you could forfeit it.

[P16LET]

For anyone still in doubt.......

     
http://www.personallyyours.co.uk/number_plates.dvlainfo.htm

[Lee_D]

Black is back, if some one is Black then they are decribed as Black and usually affixed with the country , Black African , Black American etc etc.

It's only a matter of time of course.

Also in vogue presently is Gypsie, we've been told for a long while Gypsies are not to be refered to as Gypsies , now someone has decided that Itinerant is not a nice alternaive and Gypsies are gypsies again.

It's a minefeild.  :roll:

[Sider]

It's one thing to break the speed limit for a few minutes (as in another way of breaking the law in a vehicle) etc, but to have illegal plates permanently affixed? I can't see the point. There's a Jag in our car park with the same thing. Yes it looks nice, but at the end of the day the plates are either "display" plates, or made illegally too :(

I put it in the zone as those idiots that have private plates and then mess around with the fonts and spacing to make them say something. Stupid.

Not only illegal, but it could easily void the insurance.

Now why should I sacrifice my no claim bonus because a person of questionable lineage has decided to muck about with the number plate???

Or let me rephrase it: If one of these idiots run into me, making me lose my NCD, what would be the morality of me running over them with my lorry??? We are not arguing the legallity, just the morality of the issue. :lol:  :lol: