Yesterday, a beautifully restored 1960s E-Type passed me and stopped in front of the office next door to pick somebody up. An excuse for some gratuitous car porn, methinks:
I noticed that there was no number plate on the front, even though it was clearly an English car (right hand drive and with an English number plate at the back), so I scampered after it and asked the driver how he got away with it.
Simple, he replied, I'm an ex-copper, and tutted to indicate that the conversation was thereby ended.
It sounds a bit implausible to me, I have no idea whether he was bullshitting (either about being an ex-copper or that alleviated him from the need to have a front number plate - what happens, for example, if his wife drives the car..?). But the fact is, there was no front number plate.
Can this possibly be true or is it an Urban Myth in the making?
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