"an H plate" (was: Re: Saw a gread Ur-Q)

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <g6n2q71l16.fsf@daedalus.crosslink.net> shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields) writes:

> > The car is on an H plate.
> 
> What does this mean?  I see _Car_ magazine mention it also; it seems
> that in the UK plate numbers are assigned in some sort of pattern
> which I don't know about.

The letters change on August 1 each year.  My 1989 model (1988 build) 10V ur-
quattro is on an "F".  A very few "F"s, almost all the "G"s and all of the "H"s 
are 20Vs.

So it was a red 20V.  From the geography, one of two that I know about down 
there.  One of them is a daily driver, and is often to be met flying round the 
roads around Guildford.  He was a little off territory in Vaginia Water (sic!) 
but not much. 

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club