Sitting half sleepy at work typed my name out on the personal number plates section on this site.
Stunned by this shocker of a plate
J9 , the price for it being a mere 99995 squid!
Wonder what car these would be found on- possibly a Carrera/968??
Anyone know any outrageous prices paid by auction for a number plate.
I have heard an auction bidding war for a number plate 1ENT,between 2 ENT consultants both bidding to get it.
Apparently the auction closed at 75900.
Incidentally that went on an XK8 worth less than the price of the plate!
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I think the prices are excellent examples of a total wind-up which people end up believing. As far as I can see there prices quoted are totally speculative and frequently sell for nothing like that price.
As for paying for a plate, I guess if you've got so much money that £80k is not important or critical, then you might as well spend it on that as anything else.
Don't forget, one should really only measure the costs of something in terms of "opportunity cost". Essentially, what are you not now able to do with that money that you would have been able to do if you hadn't spent it in this way; and is that important to you ?" Assuming, of course, that you are able to raise that kind of money in the first place.
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I remember reading in a car mag a while back that A4EX was up for £75,000.
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Adam
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I remember reading in a car mag a while back that A4EX was up for £75,000. -- Adam
Hi, A4EX will not exist, it must be A4EX?, the ? being another letter.
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It could well be Cheddar. By a while back, I'm talking around 2 years so I could be wrong. I was almost sure it was A4EX though - presumably for Alex.
Just out of interest, why can't it exist?
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Adam
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In short, number plates can be any combination of numbers and letters as follows as long as either all the letters are before the numbers or all the numbers are before the letters, i.e:
A1 / AA1 /AAA1 / 1A / 11A / 111A etc etc
This dates to before 1963.
1963 on the formula was three letters / one, two or three numbers / one letter, i.e:
ABC111A
In 1983 the formula was reversed, i.e:
A111ABC
In 2001 the current system was introduced comprising of two letters / two numbers / three letters, i.e:
AA51ABC
A4EX does not fit any of these formulas.
Regards.
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Ahhhh. Well I never knew that!
Thanks!
Could have been anything similar to A4EX - A4LEX or anything like that.
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Adam
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Could have been anything similar to A4EX - A4LEX or anything like that.
Thinking about it, it was probably:
4LEX
To read 'ALEX'
Regards.
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I think you're probably right!
Either way, I dont' have 75k!
Thanks for the info though
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Adam
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The letters on my last car were CV FUP.
If ever I had wanted a personalised plate (Prat Plate, in police parlance) I would have changed my name to Charles Vernon-Fupp.
Cheaper, and no need to fiddle about with spacing or style.
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J9 appears to be on retention at the moment according to the RAC and not actually on a car. J9OHN is on a (one owner from new) 1991 Transit that belongs to an antiques dealer or similar in Cardiff. The RAC says it's blue but my recollection of the van is that it's black.
K9 sounds like a right dog though :-)
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Surely only a person with a learning disability could make that combination of letters and numbers actually MEAN anything
OTH perhaps just a prat!
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Roger. (Costa del Sol, España)
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Perspective: for a bit more than a third of that (if I'd had the moolah) I could have bought yesterday a fully loaded 2005 Ford Expedition 4 X 2 V-8, Eddie Bauer version.
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See
www.plates.co.nz
for a more enlightened system..
Personalised plates are everywhere here. What I can't work out is why UK police seem to want to know where a car was first taxed. Doesn't anyone move around the country? Who cares what year it was taxed? Only those keeping up with the Joneses? With access by radio or data link to PNC checks, why the restrictive number plate format?
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>>Anyone know any outrageous prices paid by auction for a number plate.
IIRC some years ago £250000 yes £250000 was paid for K1NGS
IIRC that was from the DVLA.
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And now on a Bentley "Other" according to the AA website!
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The MINI had a cool plate on it, purely by chance, it's what came with the car from the DVLA.
YE52ZSX (Yes to zhex - say it aloud)
Bit of a stretch I know, but most of these plates are! It was free with the car so mustn't grumble. There's a black Alfa round here with a similar plate, YE52ZHX. again I reckon it's a standard plate.
I reckon it'd be cheaper to change my name to what a plate says if £75k if the going rate!
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Lee
Having a Fabialous time.
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>And now on a Bentley "Other" according to the AA website!
How do you find this out, BobbyG? Any chance of a link?
Thanks,
Mark
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How do you find this out, BobbyG? Any chance of a link?
www.theaa.com/allaboutcars/cardatacheck/index.jsp?...g
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In the mid/late '80s I was given the job of setting up the IT infrastructure for the relaunch of a 'customer rewards' organisation that redeemed stamps that were green and had a shield on them.
The founder had recruited most of his old management team and to celebrate the relaunch they'd clubbed together and bought him the plate "OO7" and had it transferred to his white Rolls Royce. I was told that they'd paid £30K for it.
He was probably in his mid-seventies at the time and a bit infirm but as bright as a button and full of life. His chauffeur was a stunningly beautiful girl in her early-twenties.
Wonder what OO7 is worth now?
Kevin...
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My car reg begins FL03. Must be worth a fortune - anyone know a lass called Flo who would buy it. Reserve price £25,000, no make that £50,000 (bit short of cash at the moment)
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>>What I can't work out is why UK police seem to want to know where a car was first taxed. Doesn't anyone move around the country?
I had to make a delivery to a main dealer showroom on 31 Aug this year. Obviously the building had been shoehorned full of 54 plate cars ready for the midnight rush (!?) but while most of the registrations began "KN54" (this being a code issued by the Northampton VRO, traditionally the one all the Bedford dealers use) one car bore a registration starting "CN54", ie a Welsh area code. It didn't spell any recognisable word, neither did it appear to have its new owner's initials on it.
When I asked a salesman about it he told me the owner had bought the car brand new from a broker based in Wales, but had chosen to collect it from his nearest dealership - hence all the paperwork had been arranged in Wales even though the car had been delivered straight from the factory to the dealer in Bedford!
FWIW my car bears a Glasgow registration, even though it was trailered 400 miles south to me when brand new and hasn't been north of the border since.
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Did you buy your car from Cabs Direct Dave?
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>>Haven't got the 75k for 4LEX
Surely it would be 4DAM for you, though!
>>FWIW my car bears a Glasgow registration, even though it was trailered 400 miles south to me when brand new and hasn't been north of the border since.
This means that when you come to sell the car it won't sell to anybody who subscribes to the 'don't buy a second hand car from Wales or Scotland' theory.
(And the reason for that is the hills & the greater use of salt, combined with a more rural lifestyle increasing the chance of it having done time as a second tractor on a farm. Add in the rural poverty of much of the extremeties of the British Isles & consequent skimping on servicing and you can see why.)
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Sounds like "Young Mr. Grace" and his "nurses" from "Are You Being Served"!
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Roger. (Costa del Sol, España)
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CAT1 and MB1 were on sale recently for 250K a piece.
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>>Surely it would be 4DAM for you, though!<<
Now there's an idea.....
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Adam
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i'd love to know how much KEV1N is worth
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Some chappie in Peterborough changed his name by deed poll to A456BCD (or whatever his numberplate was) so he could have a personalised plate. According to the Telegraph, his fiancee refused to marry him if he didn't change it back.
Now *he* sounds like a man with a sense of humour to me.
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Some chappie in Peterborough changed his name by deed poll to A456BCD (or whatever his numberplate was) so he could have a personalised plate. >>
No worse than being called SWMBO I suppose!
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Always thought personal number plates were owned by loaded "Chavs".After all it is the same principle of showing off which applies in either instance.
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Always thought personal number plates were owned by loaded "Chavs".After all it is the same principle of showing off which applies in either instance.
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Ah, but you see people who buy personal plates don't buy them to show off. They buy them as an "investment" which they can recoup when the price goes up and they can sell them on to people who really do want to show off.
Or so they tell us.
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>i'd love to know how much KEV1N is worth
£102.60 plus 164 in USD.
Kev1n...
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You can get quite reasonable plates in the date letter/number/three letter format. One reason for getting one is if one has difficulty in remembering "ordinary" numbers - especially under stress!
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