I’m in Ayr again – and it STILL has the best registrations

As noted before, a trip to Ayr really does need a planned response to registration numbers if you are at all interested, and don’t want to go nuts!

Either look, or don’t look, because you will be spoilt for choice if you do.

We had MP 1 just a few posts back, now we have 1 FR.

Sadly trapped on an obsolete stinky old hulking 4×4 SUV diesel tractor Land Rover Range Rover from 20007 which, despite the ‘exclusive’ Overfinch badging, has a poorly fitting front bumper. A little oopsie at some point?

Not cheap, a set of nice wheels from them could set you back in the order of £12,000 to £16,000.

I’m not really picking on Overfinch, but I was walking past one near Parkhead Cross, home of Celtic, and the lout/yob driving it noticed I had taken a look (just to confirm the badge/name), sneered at me, and shouted “BET YOU WISH YOU COULD AFFORD SOMETHING LIKE THIS!”

I could have sneered back with ‘No thanks’, and laughed since his ‘tank’ then took over 13 sec (on paper, so how slow in the real world) to reach 60, while both of the cars I had at that time did the dash in 5 sec, but not my style, and I just ignored him, and carried on walking.

So, was he, as I have always assumed, a Celtic fan, or maybe even one of their lovely players?

I might add that I remain up to date.

Today, your Range Rover Sport SV EDITION ONE can come from the factory (no need for Overfinch) with 626 non-stinky petrol horses under the bonnet, a mild-hybrid Twin Turbo V8, reaches 60 in 3.6 sec (and it will, not just on paper), and go on to 180 MPH.

I made another mistake

I can’t be bothered having a dig around my old posts, if for no other reason than the WordPress search tool is pretty much useless if you are trying to guess at something you have forgotten and don’t have an exact search string to work with, but I do know I mentioned giving up collecting personalised registration around Glasgow, for the simple reason that they had become far too common. There were just too many appearing and I had started to build a real backlog without even noticing it grow.

Little did I know I’d be grounded as the coronavirus lockdowns and restriction arrived, and I was going to be limited anyway. Sh Mistakes happen.

I had planned to revise the halt I called on these, and ignoring the less interesting plates. It may only be my opinion, but as they became more popular, I really developed a dislike for those the ‘sales dept’ had begun to make up using over active imagination to pretend that certain numbers looked like letters, and that names could be created using them (provided you screwed up yours eyes tightly as you looked at them, and used a shitload of imagination).

There are some I still can’t ‘see’, even after being told what they are supposed to ‘say’.

I’m afraid if I need to buy the interpretive dictionary to make sense of a plate, then I consider it a failure, and the buyer was conned by the seller.

I still prefer the dateless or old plates, modern ones that convey their meaning without the need for an interpreter, or those that simply look good by virtue of the number of letters and numbers they have.

Finding this number from one of the last decent wanders reminded me of the ultimate redundancy of the above decision.

First seen here.

2015 Bentley Continental 4.0 V8 GTS Convertible [1 HXH]

It was demoted to a hulking great Land Rover Range Rove tractor, what a comedown for a really nice number – even if it it has been breathed on by Overfinch.

I guess I really am just too set in my ways as to what the term ‘car’ should be applied to, and van, truck, lorry,  bus, or tractor, just doesn’t make it.

2015 Land Rover Range Rover Overfinch [1 HXH]

Even the pic came out BIGGER! 🙂