3637 Pesaro Car Number Plates!!!

Just a bit of light hearted banter on the subject of Pesaro.
Being on the border of Le Marche and Emilia Romagna, there has always been some rivalry between the 2 regions.

The main road leading from Pesaro to Cattolica (the first town in Emilia Romagna as you come from Pesaro) is called La Siligata.
Locals in Cattolica used to get somewhat angry as I Pesaresi would "fare la siligata" in flash fancy cars and conquer and steal the local female talent from them!!!

The car number plates from Pesaro bore the leters PS and so on arriving in Cattolica, it was easy to identify them and the letters came to stand for PS= Proprio Schemo or PS= Proprio Stronzo!!!! (Sorry can I say that here?).

In 1999, the population of Cattolica were a bit sad when the new number plates came into force and didn't want to see an end to their fun with the introduction of new letters in place of the old PS!!!!
You can immagine their joy when the new Pesaro and Urbino "targa" was announced-----------PU !!!!! (pronounced POO)!!!!!

My husband on buying a new car, whilst living in Cattolica but having a hotel in Pesaro and the vehicle registered there, refused to have the new number plate letters.
I bought not one but 2 of the new stickers and so for a week he went back and forth with PUPU on the back of his car. Much to the delight of his friends!!!

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 05:57

Thanks for sharing this, it really made me laugh, especially the "PS" number plate definitions and it shows how much "rivalry" there is between all the different areas.

I've know this type of rivalry to exist even between the residents of two buildings next door to each other! Each one trying to "out do" the other on which one has the best flower displays on the balconies or the nicest inner courtyard! I love it! :D

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 06:05

If we did the same for Pisa...we would have PuPu and PiPi :D

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 06:23

I'm glad I don't live or have a car in Cagliari! :D

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 06:49

Perhaps only pink poodles drive in Firenze? :p

Best stop now, before I get deleted, or worse! :D

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 06:56

Now on the other hand...if you had three cars:

one registered in Bologna, one in Livorno and the other in Catanzaro:) :D

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 07:34

Now lets see, some may say its all a load of Cremona and Ascoli Piceno, but I believe there really are space rockets in Napoli and Salerno! :D

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 11:42

How about a car in Cuneo and one in Lodi ????

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 12:00

How daft would you be to have one car in Lodi and another in Como? :D

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 16:34

As daft as someone with one in Foligno and one in Olbia.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 16:41

...and there used to be a funny woman with one in Alghero, one in Jesi (so I hear) and one in her home town of Napoli.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 16:42

You, too have fallen into this foolish Terni AscoliPiceno........ :)

But - this is all a bit historic - and on the "new" plates I'm always amused that the Italian "mint" which issues number plates gave Perugia a whole raft of numbers beginning BR and ending KE - and inevitably there was a zero somewhere in between...........wonder if these cars have the same resale value as something which ain't "broke"!!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 16:50

I know of one of the new number plates that's kinda rude.. it belongs to a friend of mine, who hadn't realised it had any significance in English, until I explained while crying with laughter. I think he was quite proud of it after that.

I would show a photo of it, but I would definitely get deleted, or worse! :D

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 17:10

Well, if we are talking attachments, this is the very best UK plate I have snapped (belonged to a lovely east ender who might once have been called Kray).............

[ATTACH]477[/ATTACH]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 17:13

And parked next to it - I kid you not - was the following........

[ATTACH]478[/ATTACH]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 17:17

Just how and when exactly did you manage to take a photo of my car? :D

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 17:20

Oooh - you must have been using a different alias at that particular wedding reception :) :) now you have got me guessing....

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/15/2006 - 03:07

Anastasia show the photo!!!! We're all waiting.... lol x

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/15/2006 - 03:16

Dreamy.

I only have so many lives! :D :D

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/15/2006 - 14:56

How many have you used so far???:)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/15/2006 - 15:28

I'm trying very hard to preserve this one. :)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/15/2006 - 15:37

I bet some registration authorities got issued with CU as the first two letters, FU (for sure) hasn't been started, so if Anastasia is being a bit coy about her friend's modern number plate I think we should start surmising :) :) Now maybe it is sufficiently historic to have started with AR....or AN.....I'm just speculating here :)