Looking for a relatively ageless STU plate? A Stuart private number plate? An STU cherished number?
You can buy the number plate “STU 38J” (or more correctly, the right to display the number on your vehicle).
This is a new shape Mustang (S197 series) in torch red with black cloth interior. It has only covered 15,000 miles from new. It is UK registered on a 55 plate and has MOT until May 2010 and tax until the end of October.
Here is the full spec: 5-speed manual, air conditioning, angel eye headlamps, remote control central locking and factory alarm, remote control boot release, cruise control, factory AM/FM radio and CD player and 16” alloy wheels with chrome spinners and BF Goodrich tyres.
I have now found a number plate supplier where one can circumvent all the crap usually associated with buying number plates. They make German pressed aluminium ones, American pressed aluminium ones, and proper white and yellow acrylic ones made to the correct size for US number plate apertures, and more importantly, they will use a sensible looking font for the size you specify.
Police officers are not trained in Law or International Law! They operate under police procedure and have been given the power of ‘discretion.’ Many officers have no knowledge and have never even seen an IDP. Some may even tell you that an IDP is not valid. Never argue the subject of validity, as police officers hate to appear ignorant. If anything, simply state that the IDP was purchased in the ‘country of issue’, and to the best of your knowledge and belief it is perfectly lawful. Tell the officer that (if need be), you will save your arguments for the judge (if a citation is to be issued.)
Following this, the car developed a serious misfire; S-Class ownership was not all wafting down the road in silence sneering at the poor with the subtle strains of Classic FM in the background! ‘Coil Packs’ they declared, just six of them at a mere £95 each, plus labour. £950 later, the car was running like a dream. The week after, brake discs and pads all round were deemed necessary to stop the awful grinding noise when stopping. Another mere £500 took care of that little matter. However from that point on the cars brakes squealed, “oh yes they do that” declared the man with the expensive voice with a straight face, “it’s a design fault”.
A question asked all over the internet is the identity of the Stig. Here on the Real Deal we can give you the lowdown as usual…………
