RE: £1 million numberplate goes on sale
Discussion
V8Head said:
My great uncle, Trevor Laker, used to own the A1 number plate which he then gave to charity. It was later briefly owned by Dunlop's. All that can be found in the Guinness Book of Records.
Personally I think they are well over rated and only used to make your ageing car look newer than it is, so that you can try and impress the neighborhood. If you are fortunate enough to find THE car that you really feel connected to then it will have a timeless quality about it, and the value and prestige of such 'private' plates stuck on it will simply be superfluous.
I have a car that is my dream car, the one I would love to keep for ever. It has a private plate on it because I grew up liking them. I dont care if poeple think I'm a knobber or if the plate cheapens the car/make it look more expensive. As it goes, as my car is one of the last of its type made, it would be better on its original plate....but I bought my plate to go on the dream car, so it will stay. It has nothing to do with vanity/making the car look newer/imressing the neighbours etc.Personally I think they are well over rated and only used to make your ageing car look newer than it is, so that you can try and impress the neighborhood. If you are fortunate enough to find THE car that you really feel connected to then it will have a timeless quality about it, and the value and prestige of such 'private' plates stuck on it will simply be superfluous.
As for your uncle perivously owning A1, thats a piece of history you've had in you family. Very nice.
[quote]The current record is £440,000 for F1, paid by Bradford businessman (and well-known vehicle tuner) Afzal Kahn in 2008. With transfer and auction fees, he ended up paying £500k all told. He was apparently offered £5m for it in 2010, but turned it down
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t businessman if he turned down an offer that allowed him a £4.5million profit on something he had bought.
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Can afford £440,000 for a number plate - called a "st businessman" by PHer.
PH "logic" at it's finest!
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t businessman if he turned down an offer that allowed him a £4.5million profit on something he had bought.[/quote]
Can afford £440,000 for a number plate - called a "s
t businessman" by PHer. PH "logic" at it's finest!
Edited by Ari on Wednesday 19th September 10:13
Domf said:
shake a fist said:
X1, F1, all a bit boring. Plates need to be more fun, or relevant. Saw LAM80 on an old Urraco once, D14BLO used to be on a Diablo then on a Murcielago that lives near me, saw a DBS with A5TON on it in central London, and MAR10 on a Merc outside a restaurant called Mario's in the west end!
Agree anybody know where F69UCK is?, it was real. The story goes it was put on a car bought new in 1988 by a young lady who couldn't understand why all the salesmen were laughing!
Ari][quote said:
The current record is £440,000 for F1, paid by Bradford businessman (and well-known vehicle tuner) Afzal Kahn in 2008. With transfer and auction fees, he ended up paying £500k all told. He was apparently offered £5m for it in 2010, but turned it down
[quote]st businessman if he turned down an offer that allowed him a £4.5million profit on something he had bought.t businessman" by PHer. PH "logic" at it's finest!
Edited by Ari on Wednesday 19th September 10:13
If it was worth having do you not think Bernie might have bought it in the original auction?
CRA1G said:
I know the guy who ownes " X2 " lives in the same village,i see it most days on his Red Audi A3,i know he's had it donkeys years,probably not got a clue what it's worth and probably doesn't care,but if " X1 " sells for 1 Million i'll be knocking on his door.....
I seen "X3" on a CLK Cabrio at the weekend in Burnham Market Norfolk Ari said:
Domf said:
shake a fist said:
X1, F1, all a bit boring. Plates need to be more fun, or relevant. Saw LAM80 on an old Urraco once, D14BLO used to be on a Diablo then on a Murcielago that lives near me, saw a DBS with A5TON on it in central London, and MAR10 on a Merc outside a restaurant called Mario's in the west end!
Agree anybody know where F69UCK is?, it was real. The story goes it was put on a car bought new in 1988 by a young lady who couldn't understand why all the salesmen were laughing!http://regarchive.com/plate/F69UCK
Twoshoe said:
You're certainly not! I was about to make the same post.
However, I'll recall my numberplate story instead. Some years ago, I was driving down the M5 at a ...ahem... reasonable pace when I was overtaken by TUR 80, on a Porsche (yes, a turbo) doing considerably more. A few weeks later I happened to see in the small ads 'Numberplate for sale - TUR 80 £xxxx [can't remember the price], on written-off Porsche'. I was not surprised.
I saw that plate once, on a Red Bentley Turbo R in Romford. However, I'll recall my numberplate story instead. Some years ago, I was driving down the M5 at a ...ahem... reasonable pace when I was overtaken by TUR 80, on a Porsche (yes, a turbo) doing considerably more. A few weeks later I happened to see in the small ads 'Numberplate for sale - TUR 80 £xxxx [can't remember the price], on written-off Porsche'. I was not surprised.
Domf said:
It did first registered in Preston 1988, hence the question see the link, I'm old enough to remember some of the tabloids running the story back in 1988
http://regarchive.com/plate/F69UCK
http://regarchive.com/plate/F69UCK
Regarchive.com said:
This registration was first registered during the period August 1988 to July 1989. The registration was first registered in Preston.
If I enter F13 NJB into that site, it tells me that it was issued in Reading during the same period, even though it's actually still for sale at the DVLA and thus has never been issued. All that site's doing is telling you is that F relates to 88-89 and that CK was the code for the Preston DVLA office. Nothing more, it doesn't reference any kind of official record. Here's a better test: Go on the DVLA site and try to buy a registration containing the letters UCK. There's a reason you can't and it's not because there are lots of people with those initials.
tommy vercetti said:
Why would you spend a million pounds on a number plate?
Same reason why someone might pay £50 to watch 90 minutes of football. Because they can and, they want to.Imagine someone with a wealth of £10 billion. They could theoretically easily make over £1 million PER DAY in interest.
The likes of us normal folk cannot begin to imagine what it must be like to have something just because we can. It does not necessarily make the rich buyer stupid or bad.
burriana said:
tommy vercetti said:
Why would you spend a million pounds on a number plate?
Same reason why someone might pay £50 to watch 90 minutes of football. Because they can and, they want to.Imagine someone with a wealth of £10 billion. They could theoretically easily make over £1 million PER DAY in interest.
The likes of us normal folk cannot begin to imagine what it must be like to have something just because we can. It does not necessarily make the rich buyer stupid or bad.
raptor600 said:
Ari][quote said:
The current record is £440,000 for F1, paid by Bradford businessman (and well-known vehicle tuner) Afzal Kahn in 2008. With transfer and auction fees, he ended up paying £500k all told. He was apparently offered £5m for it in 2010, but turned it down
[quote]st businessman if he turned down an offer that allowed him a £4.5million profit on something he had bought.t businessman" by PHer. PH "logic" at it's finest!
Edited by Ari on Wednesday 19th September 10:13
If it was worth having do you not think Bernie might have bought it in the original auction?
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