Private Car Registrations - Personal Indentity
I can remember when I was growing up in the 70s. It was
important that I had a certain type of shoe or trousers to fit
in at school. The Eighties weren't much better, with strange and
wonderful haircuts, music and YUPPIES. Well now in the 21st
century it seems things have changed a bit, having your own
identity seems to be more in fashion that being like everyone
else. Walk into your local DIY store and you will see thousands
of different paint colours, dozens of different doors, dozens of
bathroom suites, that is because people want more choice and
want to create their own identity in everything they do. Next
time you are standing in an airport or train station look at the
different hairstyles, clothes, sunglasses, belts and bags to see
how different we all are and that we now want to express that
fact. Even driving down the road you will see an abundance of
private registrations on even the basic of cars. Looking through
the Weekend newspapers you will see pages of thousands of
private registrations for sale, knowing that thousands of us
will be searching through the numbers in the chance that
something that represents our names or initials or in some cases
the make of car we are driving. The DVLA got on the bandwagon a
few years ago, recognising they were giving away good
registrations free on some cars. So now they hold them back and
offer them for auction every now and again, they also hold
auctions for numbers they have not released from previous years.
If you are lucky and have an obscure name you can get your own
registration for a reasonable price but the most amusing thing I
find is when clearly the registration on a car, is worth more
than the car itself, look closely and you will see this more
often than you think. The bottom line is, that owning your own
private registration on you car is now not something reserved
for the rich in society. Anyone pretty much that can afford a
car could probably own some sort of private registration. Many
coach and haulage companies do this to hide the age of their
busses and trucks. Have you got your personal identity on you r
car yet? I bet its not long before you do.