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Went shopping over the border yesterday to Minot ND. Anyway as we were crossing a car park I saw a British number plate. On looking closer it was on a rhd SUV, there were no other number plates on it except UK ones. First time I had even heard or seen this. Any ideas? Just curious.

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Maybe the owners have had it shipped over so that they can tour around the continent. It's not that unusual. I have a pal who brought over his camper, a converted Sprinter van, and spent a year touring the US and Canada. I have seen numerous vehicles from the continent while in the wilds of Utah and Arizona.

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I saw a beemer with a British number plate. I asked the woman driving it how that was possible - she said she'd ordered it for the vehicle (front and rear plates) but that the registration was actually Canadian just done in the British style if that makes sense?

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Some provinces/territories require only one registration plate so a few cars have previous number plates on them but will have one legal registered number plate.

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Surely that's not legal. Don't Canadian provinces specify size color of the plates?

My vehicles were purchased in the US and are appropriately registered in the state where I live, but the pattern of letters and numbers are from the vehicles I owned in the UK. Local "standard issue" plates are ABC 1234, whereas mine are ABC 123D or A123 BCD.

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there's a few cars i've spotted around Calgary with UK front registration plates on them

obviously the owners have decided just to bring a copy of their UK plate with them and stick it on the front since AB doesn't require a front plate!

i've got a bunch of old UK plates over here with me, but their stuck to my toolbox :lol:

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I changed my registration on my 1975 2CV when I arrived, but I was very sad to do so, in France I lived in Department 72 (Sarthe) and my Official French number plate was....FU 72...it was like that when I bought her....gosh I miss that plate!

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Oooh, that's sweet!

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You have a 2CV in NB? I'm very jealous. It must stand out there in a sea of Cavaliers and pick up trucks.

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She does tend to turn heads:) I have always loved 'em and have always had one around....odd thing is we only decided to bring her just before we left on the spur of the moment...there wasn't a great deal of difference in a 30ft container and a 40 ft. I only insure her from April till October though, she's in the garage after that and I'm in a Hyundai Accent, boring but practical. My husband likes, and is building a Hotrod, I don't like them they don't have the same appeal for me.

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i've decided to start a number plate collection

got a few off the internetz for good prices, but i'm struggling to get ones from Nunavut and NWT...

can anyone here help?

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If you are in this area, I'm sure you could liberate one or two of them :thumbsup:

http://goo.gl/maps/T30Qt