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I'll have a GTO please Bob:
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Also found this while I was looking around - one of those "what does your xxxxx mean?" things, and this one's about cars: http://www.cobraforum.com/Forum1/HTML/006413.html
90 feeble horsepower from Cooper? I'm sure Oscelli used to do a 140 hp conversion for the Old Mini (and before any non-mini people scoff - remember this is a car that doesn't weigh much more than a big motorbike and has a center of gravity about 8 inches off the ground).Quote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
Did someone mention Minis?
If you look inside the Cooper variants, there is a sort of plague in them (certainly on the new mini anyway), which contains the address of where they are made into Coppers...
The Mini ONE has 90 "feeble" horsepower. The Mini copper will have 115, and a supercharged cooper will have like 160 or so.
And yes, he has just died, but his sone is carrying on with the company
I think the new plates may have already arrived, I saw a brand new Golf infront of me today with what looked like the new system. Could have been personalised of course.
I always thought the last three letters designated the area in which it was registered. e.g. GGE was a glasgow designation (along with lots of others letter combinations), MAN was the Isle of Man etc....Quote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
Who you referring to? British plates?
The rest is a random sequence of 3 (sometimes 2) numbers, and 3 letters
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2 Letters, 2 numbers, 3 letters.
The first 2 letters indicate where it was registered. The numbers stand for month and year I think. The letters are random, but *** isn't allowed.
the last 2 letters of the group of three indicate where it wasQuote:
Originally posted by SurfDemon
I always thought the last three letters designated the area in which it was registered. e.g. GGE was a glasgow designation (along with lots of others letter combinations), MAN was the Isle of Man etc....
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registered
eg X123ABC would be from Leicester
although you can also choose whatever 3 letters you want but it costs.
The new ones will be 2 Letters, 2 numbers, 3 letters metioned above the 2 numbers being a date code starting with 51 in September then 02 next March, 52 the following September and so on....
My M8 called Bob drives a GTO, how wierd is that.Quote:
Originally posted by HarryW
[B]I'll have a GTO please Bob:
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G;)
In 1999 I had to write some software for use at Rover Longbridge and I used a tiled picture of the R50 (new MINI) as a background.
How was I to know BMW were going to make it at Cowley instead! :eek:
Luckily, I had included a facility to choose their own background otherwise they would be sick of the sight of it by now:D
Your mate Bob is a lucky bastard ;) I meant Bob as in the old presenter of Blockbusters, in case anyone wondered what I was on about.
I'll take one in black thanks.
The truly observant amongst us will have noticed the last three letters of my car reg (MNE) and therefore deduced that NE is Manchester.
Elementary, my dear Watson...
http://autoweb.multimania.com/Lam/lm002-3.jpg
These Lamborghini LM s are quite good as well. They are pretty much the same size and weight as a Humvee but with about three times the power from an uprated Diablo/Countach engine. In the roadtest that I read they left a gaggle of hot hatchbacks (Golf GTI etc) standing both on the straigh and on twisty roads and on the off road section the chase car (which was a Landcruiser I think)was washed away by a river in Scotland that the LM forded without having to change down in gear.
Daaaaaaaaaamn that's good :)