Styling Panda shades

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Styling Panda shades

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So, just got tints and 4D plates.
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Please double check that these number plates are legal in Jersey as I don't see the supplier's name and postcode nor the British Standard number (which has recently updated to BS AU 145e) printed on them.
 
Strange isn’t it. Numberplates always used to be 3D - with raised plastic letters on a reflective metal background. But then along came the smooth, flat plastic ones which everyone wanted because they were smarter and easier to clean the flies off. Now, the pendulum of style swings the other way :)
My first car, registered in 1978, had pressed metal plates, and used the (now outlawed) Serck font - a squarer style with rather different shapes for the numbers. This was, I believe an attempt to make a machine-readable font, before the tech got smart enough to read the ‘original’ style of characters.
(By the way - why is it now ‘4D’…? )
 
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I quite like the old style raised number plates, in the 90's my dad had a black Fiat 132 Bellini which had the metal plates with the raised digits, he still has the plate hanging up but the car was unfortunately written off by an articulated lorry pulling out, the 132 crippled the lorry cab making the lorry undrivable but the 132 still started & drove home. I'm not a fan off the 4d or gel plates. My Panda has pressed metal plates which were £40 delivered as the standard acrylic plates are such poor quality & look horrible, although not the same as the proper ones they are the closest you can get with all the legal markings for modern cars. I'm going to get the proper raised ones for the Mini when it is all rebuilt as there are still very few places that do the proper original type for classic cars.
 
Medium is a great choice, to be honest, I am not a fan of window tints because I have poor eyesight especially at night.
 
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