Arboreal registration YEW 6 being held Prisoner

I don’t suppose many will understand the ‘6’ reference, but it seems appropriate as yet another nice registration is forced to adorn a stinky diesel SUV.

Here we have a 2020 VW T-Roc – I do like the colour, which helps make yet another present day brick clone look a little more interesting than the others.

A little different from the last modification I spotted near a VW badge :-)

I do like to avoid anything personal, but was drawn to a sticker on the rear of this more recent observation – and thought this reference to the recent 80th anniversary of VE Day deserved a mention (given how a certain narcistic orange moron is currently turning the clock back and promoting a fascist dictatorship across the pond, complete with Gestapo, ethnic cleansing, detention without due process…).

As of the past few days and new rules he created, it now seems that ONE reference above would be enough to ensure I would not be granted a visa to enter his domain – lord knows what the 1,000+ I’ve created elsewhere would mean for me.

Deportation to El Salvador?

Surprise meeting with an old ‘friend’

I tend to find myself out for late night walks when my local streets are deserted. Meeting anyone, or seeing anything noteworthy are the last things on my mind.

That made it a real surprise to see a registration number I don’t think I’ve seen for years (by which I’m hinting at decades) – the easy to remember 172 D.

But for my rotten memory, I’d be fairly confident in saying this was usually seen on rather nice, large, Mercedes-Benz saloons.

It’s come down from that, now miserably screwed on to a stinky diesel 2015 Volkswagen Touarag Chelsea Tractor.

It’s weird coming across it so near to home, having not seen it for so long.

That said, I have neighbours with very distinctive numbers which I have NEVER seen on the road.

170 D bonus note

Until I zoomed in on the plate, I thought this plate had turned up on TPTV’s The Footage Detectives of 04/05/2025, episode 173, but no such luck.

The plate was actually 170 D when I read it.

Carried then by a black Daimler limousine of the period, pictured at the shooting of Roger Moore’s James Bond at the Amberley Chalk Pit Museum, for the film A View to a Kill – on the day Grace Jones was to be blown up.

The number hasn’t been lost yet, but no longer lives on that limo.

Nice VW vanity plate

It’s unfortunate that so many American vanity plate owners choose to make plates that look innocent, but are intended to be read in lewd or insulting ways, something the system behind them often fails to catch.

That said, it’s a pleasure to spot the decent examples, such as this antique VWNUT plate.

Little Volkswagen Devil

This is actually a very old pic I caught one night.

It’s probably so old, it comes from the days when I first managed to afford a digital camera that took useable night pics – at the time, I don’t think I ever saw a decent low light, or night, pic that had been taken with a camera that cost less than four figures.

I was also pretty sure there were one or two liars sharing pics online too, as they were publishing stunning night pics in their online galleries, and claiming they were taken with much cheaper cameras – some of which I had at the time, and could barely coax a low light pic out of, let alone one I would not have been embarrassed to let anyone see.

I never used it, despite the amusing subject.

Although it was a decent enough pic, it was spoiled by being very bright on the left, and very dark on the right, thanks to the available ambient (artificial) light – and I didn’t have anything that would let me edit the levels across the image, other than with a single change.

When I came across it recently, I decided to try it with some software that did allow variable corrections to be applied to different areas.

Volkswagen Devil

Don’t know if these stickers are still available – I’ve never seen another one (obviously it’s not VW specific, and would fit any round emblem/insignia/badge) – and have a horrible suspicion the ‘PC Brigade’ probably had them outlawed.