Monday 29th September 2008

Top Gear Fan Buys 'THE 571G' Plate

'Stig' plate fetches 26 times its reserve

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A top gear fan has won the race to buy registration plate ‘THE 571G’ at a three-day DVLA auction. The event took place at the Haycock Hotel in Wansford, Cambridgeshire, and Rick Fusari bagged the plate for £10,690.

The letter and number combination only had a £400 reserve but the final price was 26 times more.  Mr Fusari, who runs the Greenford Motors car dealership in West London, now has the dilemma on which of his two Ferraris to place the plate.

He said: ‘Like all motoring enthusiasts I’m a fan of Top Gear, ironically, though, my mum always says she can’t stand ‘that man’ Jeremy Clarkson, but that won’t stop me going out and buying a white crash helmet.’

Damian Lawson, Marketing Manager for DVLA Personalised Registrations, said: ‘We had more than a dozen people chasing the THE 571G registration - and there we were thinking there was only one Stig but now we’re not so sure.’

[Fetchez la vache]

Judging by some of the silly plate prices, that doesn't actually sound that bad

[smele]

Soon to be on a Corsa....

[andituk]

Thats about as ironic as rain on your wedding day..

[Ment-Al]

smele said:

Soon to be on a Corsa....

No, a ferrari.

[PhantomPH]

Just a bit of fun, eh!

Sure to raise a smile amongst most who see it.

Certainly I chuckled at the S2000 I saw the other day with 'W111NKA' on the plate.

Fair play to the guy.

P~

[Aprisa]

According to the auction results on the DVLA site it fetched £8,400? and I thought the prices included Vat as well.
Nick

[varsas]

Well, I think private plates are awful (unless very subtle, i.e. general public would not be able to tell, my mate has S80 XXX on his volvo S80, for instance) but if he wants to pay an extra £10k in taxes who am I to complain?

so come on, what's the worst private plate people have seen? Best is probably 250 GTO on Nick Mason's Ferrari 250 GTO.

[Strawman]

andituk said:

Thats about as ironic as rain on your wedding day..

+1

It's like two thousand spoons when all you need is a knife...

[FrankenFarter]

varsas said:

Well, I think private plates are awful (unless very subtle, i.e. general public would not be able to tell, my mate has S80 XXX on his volvo S80, for instance) but if he wants to pay an extra £10k in taxes who am I to complain?

so come on, what's the worst private plate people have seen? Best is probably 250 GTO on Nick Mason's Ferrari 250 GTO.

Heard about someone driving around with PEN 15

[TehMonkey]

Some say that anyone who trys to impose him is killed by a shadowy white figure, in a hemlet..

Edited by TehMonkey on Monday 29th September 12:07

[WorAl]

Strawman said:

andituk said:

Thats about as ironic as rain on your wedding day..

+1

It's like two thousand spoons when all you need is a knife...

+2 its like a traffic jam when you're already late....

[scz4]

Three local cars to me are CL 10 (used to be on a clio williams), BONN 1T and B10 MBO (B1MBO would be better).

[jimbo_m]

WorAl said:

Strawman said:

andituk said:

Thats about as ironic as rain on your wedding day..

+1

It's like two thousand spoons when all you need is a knife...

+2 its like a traffic jam when you're already late....

+3 Its like a no smoking sign on your cigarette break...

[AdamW]

jimbo_m said:

WorAl said:

Strawman said:

andituk said:

Thats about as ironic as rain on your wedding day..

+1

It's like two thousand spoons when all you need is a knife...

+2 its like a traffic jam when you're already late....

+3 Its like a no smoking sign on your cigarette break...

+4 It's like waiting your whole damn life to take that flight, and when the plane crashes you think "well isn't this nice?"

[humperdink]

The only private plate i would like is M1 NGE

[toohuge]

AdamW said:

jimbo_m said:

WorAl said:

Strawman said:

andituk said:

Thats about as ironic as rain on your wedding day..

+1

It's like two thousand spoons when all you need is a knife...

+2 its like a traffic jam when you're already late....

+3 Its like a no smoking sign on your cigarette break...

+4 It's like waiting your whole damn life to take that flight, and when the plane crashes you think "well isn't this nice?"

Isn't it ironic, don't you think?

[jaik]

toohuge said:

AdamW said:

jimbo_m said:

WorAl said:

Strawman said:

andituk said:

Thats about as ironic as rain on your wedding day..

+1

It's like two thousand spoons when all you need is a knife...

+2 its like a traffic jam when you're already late....

+3 Its like a no smoking sign on your cigarette break...

+4 It's like waiting your whole damn life to take that flight, and when the plane crashes you think "well isn't this nice?"

Isn't it ironic, don't you think?

A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...

[Driller]

What about a black fly in your Chardonnay, is that ironic?

[ironictwist]

Genius set of posts

[general190]

toohuge said:

AdamW said:

jimbo_m said:

WorAl said:

Strawman said:

andituk said:

Thats about as ironic as rain on your wedding day..

+1

It's like two thousand spoons when all you need is a knife...

+2 its like a traffic jam when you're already late....

+3 Its like a no smoking sign on your cigarette break...

+4 It's like waiting your whole damn life to take that flight, and when the plane crashes you think "well isn't this nice?"

Isn't it ironic, don't you think?

Its the good advice that you just didnt take