Number Plates
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Dating a car from its number plate: suffix, prefix, current and dateless, and the rule you cannot breakSixty years of British registration formats, the year each letter means, which letters were never used and why, what a dateless mark tells you (nothing), and the one rule DVLA enforces on every transfer: a plate can never make a car look younger than it is.
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Classic car number plates: black-and-silver eligibility and the UK rulesWhat number plates a classic car can legally wear in the UK. The black-and-silver eligibility rule (built before 1 January 1980, historic tax class), the British Standard every plate must meet, why show plates are not road-legal, pressed metal versus acrylic, and where to buy compliant plates.
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Age-related plates, explainedWhat an age-related registration is, when the DVLA issues one, the evidence you need to apply for one, and the situations where classic-car owners typically end up requesting one.
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Q-plates, explainedWhat a Q-prefix registration is, the circumstances where the DVLA issues one, why owners often want to avoid it, and how (sometimes) to get rid of one.