Dateless registrations

Apologies in advance, this is not at all LR related, but I didn’t know where to ask.

I’ve been looking for a personal registration with my initials, but there are hardly any for sale through traders, and the DVLA say they have no more to issue, which I take to mean that all combinations have already been released in the past.

When a vehicle is scrapped, as millions would have been in previous decades when dateless plates had no value, does the registration just simply disappear forever?

This would explain why there seems to be so few either for sale or on physical vehicles, with my initials.

Not important obviously, just interested to know the answer.

Early plates dont exist now on dvla site
I think B prefix is earliest you can get, I got B23OGG for my mate recently

Ahh... Vanity plates, a great way to demonstrate just how much money you have to waste. I love the way people call them 'private plates', there's no such thing as they're all issued by DVLA and predecessors. It amazes me that people still present cars for MoT with non-compliant registration plates, either font, spacing, background colour or misrepresented by addition of screw caps, tape etc. and then pi$$ & moan when they get a failure...
There are some dateless registrations available but all seem to be in NI format. https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/nifixed/

Graculus said:

Ahh... Vanity plates, a great way to demonstrate just how much money you have to waste. I love the way people call them 'private plates', there's no such thing as they're all issued by DVLA and predecessors. It amazes me that people still present cars for MoT with non-compliant registration plates, either font, spacing, background colour or misrepresented by addition of screw caps, tape etc. and then pi$$ & moan when they get a failure...
There are some dateless registrations available but all seem to be in NI format. https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/nifixed/

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Ahh…….the perennial problem with otherwise useful forums. Keyboard bores making unwanted comments such as “vanity plates….a great way to waste money”. I didn’t say they were useful or necessary.
Maybe my bank account is full and I need to get rid of some money to make room.
Anyway, if anyone does know what happens to old plates when cars are scrapped (ie, the actual question), all RELEVANT replies appreciated .

Agree, each to their own, what's the harm if for a few hundred quid you get a nice plate which brings a smile to your face. Some get season tickets, some snort coke, some drink booze, some do drugs.....

Graculus said:

Ahh... Vanity plates, a great way to demonstrate just how much money you have to waste. I love the way people call them 'private plates', there's no such thing as they're all issued by DVLA and predecessors. It amazes me that people still present cars for MoT with non-compliant registration plates, either font, spacing, background colour or misrepresented by addition of screw caps, tape etc. and then pi$$ & moan when they get a failure...
There are some dateless registrations available but all seem to be in NI format. https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/nifixed/

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Get out of bed the wrong side today or are you always this Victor Meldrew?

Jayo70 said:

Ahh…….the perennial problem with otherwise useful forums. Keyboard bores making unwanted comments such as “vanity plates….a great way to waste money”. I didn’t say they were useful or necessary.
Maybe my bank account is full and I need to get rid of some money to make room.
Anyway, if anyone does know what happens to old plates when cars are scrapped (ie, the actual question), all RELEVANT replies appreciated .

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I think more of the point being made was the mis spaced mot failure point.
Back in the day the plates had no value, maybe they just disappeared with the car?
I have a correctly spaced "private" plate, means nothing to me as it was already on there.
Forgot to mention he isn't a"keyboard warrior" and has excellent knowledge of newer Land Rovers, you might need his advice one day.

Graculus said:

Ahh... Vanity plates, a great way to demonstrate just how much money you have to waste. I love the way people call them 'private plates', there's no such thing as they're all issued by DVLA and predecessors. It amazes me that people still present cars for MoT with non-compliant registration plates, either font, spacing, background colour or misrepresented by addition of screw caps, tape etc. and then pi$$ & moan when they get a failure...
There are some dateless registrations available but all seem to be in NI format. https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/nifixed/

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Bit harsh to a new member !
If someone wants their own plate, why not?
A lot of us would’nt have a Landie if we were concerned with ‘wasting’ money

Vanity/Private/Dateless/Vintage, call it what you like.