We were chatting the other day (see article here) about the different car numberplates on the road and the peculiar concept of people pretending to own exclusive CA numberplates, by faking it on a personalised WP registration – thus destroying the whole point of the exercise.

Someone wrote to me after that story and explained how some people sell their cars and “forget” to keep the rare registration and the registration goes into the system etc etc. and that they THEN get a personalised plate WITH their old CA details on it – for nostalgia (!)

I don’t remember the exact details – all I know is you’d be pretty thick to risk losing the plate, without putting precautions in place. Trust me, the person I acquired CA 3 from was very aware of the value of their numberplate. At 92 years of age, her entire family were also acutely aware of what was going on.

So anyway, given that the mayor drives CA 1, the above reasoning falls out the window when we take note of the following plate that was recently sent in (given that we know the driver is not Helen Zille).

Very odd behaviour

Why would you do that? When everyone knows that genuine CA plates do not have a WP at the end?

Or perhaps someone conned you into buying the plate?

Give me SOMETHING!

In the meantime, I give you the real CA 1..

CA 1, reserved for the mayor, on a Toyota Prius
Helen Zille seems to be rolling with a hybrid.

We won’t even get into the fact that the “CA” and the “1” are the wrong way round on the Ferrari. Let alone there being a WP at the end.

There are a lot of confused people out there.

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