An interesting highway sighting

[Sherlock]

So... Last night I was going to a concert in a small town outside of Calgary and I passed an interesting car... A right-hand-drive MGB GT, and it was metal bumper... It seemed to be in decent shape and was being flat towed (with a tow dolly) behind an SUV, and had yellow European-style licence plates, with no evidence of Alberta plates on it yet... Which country would those yellow plates be?

I wonder if I'll see this car around again in the future...

 

[Baz]

Later Brit cars had a yellow plate on the rear, and a white on the front.

 

[Sherlock]

So sounds like probably from Britain then... Although I never did see the front plate

 

[anthony7777]

sherlock, heres some countrys other the britt. that have used yellow plates, gibraltar,netherlans,luxenbourg,france,cyprus,

 

[JamesWilson]

The current format is shown:

https://www.dvla.gov.uk/media/pdf/leaflets/inf104.pdf

which is two letters, then two numbers and then three letters; black on yellow.

Previously it would have been black letters on yellow with a single letter followed by one to three numbers then three letters.

Earlier still it would have been three letters, one-three numbers and then a single letter.

Some of the other European countries do have black on yellow, too. But I believe that the British use larger letters and have a distinctive format, as shown in the photos...

 

[tony barnhill]

When we were in Europe last summer, the Netherlands were still using yellow/black tags.