Thread: Only in England

In Finland we have got street legal 1976 Ford Escort 4x4 with range rover chassis and engine.. Those were build in a good time.. Now our law deny those special build´s, inc RRC/Series hyprid´s..

Interesting conversion.... The original vehicle would have to have been a Range Rover. A 1984 Vogue is my guess.. All UK rego numbers are age and area related.. 'A' = 83', 'H' = 90 etc etc... A few letters were not used like 'I' and 'Z' as these were in Northern Ireland, 'Q' was always reserved for things like imports, kit cars, crash repairs etc etc. This 'B' reg Jagrover would have been able to retain its donor vehicles number because it used enough of the original items. Chassis, axles, engine and trans were all big point scorers, body parts were not. The last two letters in that sequence of rego's were the county (like State). CJ and VJ were always Hereford/Worcester, UY and NP Shropshire I think.

It then all changed when they ran out of letters around 2000! Now they look like this:- 'KP 54 PBX' The first letters being the area, the numbers being the age (01 - Jan to April 2001, 51 - May to Dec 2001) or close to that! The last 3 letters are random I believe.

Before 1983, the earlier system was reversed.... CNP 369 B. would be a Shropshire vehicle produced in 1964 (I think... Bit old for me! That was my First Land Rovers Rego, a 64 Series 2A SW. Hope this helps a few!