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In a word, no, I am not.

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I have owned several cars where the registration numbers either add up to or can be calculated to the number thirteen and it hasn't bothered me one jot.

When the restoration of my Mark 2 was completed in 1996 I received a substantial offer for it by a wealthy businessman in the Midlands. I said that I would consider it and he took some photos to show his wife.

Two days later he telephoned me rather agitated and told me that his wife had pleaded with him not to buy it.
The reason :

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OJC 431.

She had worked out 4 x 3 = 12 + 1 = 13!

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And that was one of the best cars I have owned.

*Before anybody notices the pressed aluminium plate for my Mark 2 and makes a comment - they were bought as a birthday present for me by my nephew and they have NEVER been fitted*!
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Greg · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 445 Location: Dreamland Margate

It has never bothered me, I've never even thought about it!

As for that chaps wife coming up that idea !.....how ridiculous. ...more the idiot him for listening to her reason.
When superstition gets in the way of common sense. .I have even less time for it Smile

Ironhead · Joined: 28 Mar 2010 Posts: 458 Location: Leicestershire

love the pansies Very Happy

i've got them at home too..brightening up a very dreary garden at this time of year!

47Jag · Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 1:32 pm Post subject:

Ironhead,

They are Geraniums Rolling Eyes

Art (not superstitious)

Bitumen Boy · Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 8:56 pm Post subject:

47Jag · Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 11:29 pm Post subject:

Correct!! You guys were looking up and I was looking down.

Art

Riley Blue · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1751 Location: Derbyshire

13.... My plate has the digits 541. Add them together and you get 10, Subtract the last digit from the second gives 3. Add that to 10 and you get 13. Spooky, huh?

badhuis · Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1476 Location: Netherlands

emmerson · Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 1268 Location: South East Wales

AAGH! I've just realised (after 5 years ownership) that my Volvo plate adds up to 13.
Will it still be safe to drive, now that I know about it? Confused

Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
I thought the whole idea of adding digits in numbers was to get down to a single digit, so even those 13s then become 4.
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RotaryBri · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 465 Location: Warwick

No as I drove dad's Vauxhall many times and it was super reliable.

Picture taken at Woolacombe sands 1958.

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Peter_L · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:22 am Post subject:

666 is another number that seems to freak out some people.

All sorts of jiggling with numbers can create 666. Take my birthdate

22-04-1946 2+4 =6 2+4 = 6 9+1-4 = 6 (2+1) + (2+1) =6

so utter nonsense.

Add the horizontal numbers on a roulette table results in 6.

First is 123 = 6

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

pigtin · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay

We have a bus route 666 between Ashford and Faversham. All the buses have a little 'Devil' emblem on them. Of course there were some complaints from the terminally pious. But to no avail I'm glad to say.
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JohnDale · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 4:36 pm Post subject:

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It's many years since I've been there but internal flights in China used to be interesting because of the age and condition of the aircraft. I think it was at Beijing airport that I looked out of the plane window and noticed that the control tower had 666 painted on it in large black letters!

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That's there for the pilots Peter, when they are coming in to land. If they see 999 they know they're upside down,cheers,JD.
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