RE: £1 million numberplate goes on sale

RE: £1 million numberplate goes on sale

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P4ROT

1,219 posts

192 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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nickbee said:
Schermerhorn said:
What about '1'?

or K1 NG5 (sultan of brueni)
Neither of them are valid UK plates. K1 NGS was famously expensive, but I've never heard of it being bought by the Sultan.

As for £1 million for X1, dream on. Typical of asking prices on Regtransfers, which are beyond optimistic most of the time. The story about turning down £5m for F1 is fantasy too.
Regtransfer and Newreg prices are hilarious compared to what the plates actually go for at DVLA auctions....

onyx39

11,109 posts

149 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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I am sure I have seen a pic of Tamara Ecclestone's Veyron with F1 as the plate?

Pork

9,453 posts

233 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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onyx39 said:
I am sure I have seen a pic of Tamara Ecclestone's Veyron with F1 as the plate?
That was loaned to her for the birthday bash at Batersea Power Station. I believe it was a static display.

LARK F1 GTR

3,186 posts

145 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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P4ROT said:
Regtransfer and Newreg prices are hilarious compared to what the plates actually go for at DVLA auctions....
True - I've seen a Reg Transfers dude bidding on the plates at the DVLA auctions (and probably Newreg too) he seems to buy 99% of them. The mark up on Reg Transfers site is generally three times the price he's just paid.

What annoys me is that they sell plates that the DVLA still have on their site for double the price - people really should do their home work!

Another annoyance is that they can guarantee a reg plate for someone, a plate that has not been sold yet, so I don't see how they can do it.

Lastly some of the ones they have are really poor, yet up for daft money.

RUSSELLM

6,000 posts

246 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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jas xjr said:
I have been spending a lot of time there for the last six months . Seen pretty much everything . Lambo murci included . High street is one of the safest feeling places in the country for me, because of the Sikh temple .
Bentley are very common , Porsche more popular than they used to be .
I'm only on the B'ham Rd myself, but Oldbury.

I saw the Ferrari Limo a couple of weeks back smile

I'm not great on the Fezzas, but I think it's a 456 that comes past on a daily basis.
I see the Black Murci quite regular, going through Whiteheath.

GusB

269 posts

158 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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There was YOB1 on a Cayenne.

sinbaddio

2,357 posts

175 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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Saw an Overfinch RR in Birmingham once with the plate KO5 1 CAN. Illegally spaced of course but made me smile. And also so a girl in a petrol station recently filling up her Corsa, number plate being SH12 TTY, I don't think she even knew!

CampDavid

9,145 posts

197 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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sinbaddio said:
Saw an Overfinch RR in Birmingham once with the plate KO5 1 CAN. Illegally spaced of course but made me smile. And also so a girl in a petrol station recently filling up her Corsa, number plate being SH12 TTY, I don't think she even knew!
CO5 1 GAY is available fairly cheaply. A mate suggested it'd be ideal for my Smart...

Justices

3,681 posts

163 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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lazygraduand said:
Of course it will never sell for £1m- the seller knows this! But advertising it for a million quid probably gets him all sorts of press coverage, "The Million Pound Plate" bla bla bla which is just a load of free advertising for his wares! And then when he sells it for £150k, or £50k, or whatever, he's laughing. And someone else gets to drive around with what is undeniably a very cool number plate!
Which everyone will think they paid £1m for biggrin

GT3HRY

6 posts

153 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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Did anyone else notice the Daytona Spider in the Tax Exempt car park at Goodwood on friday, X 5 , he said he owned X 6 aswell.

ilovevolvo

1,832 posts

223 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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will_ said:
IIRC it was/is owned by someone connected to Bramleys?
yes

ilovevolvo

1,832 posts

223 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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onyx39 said:
Belongs to the guy that used to own Bramleys on the A 281 south of Guildford in (oddly enough) Bramley.
Seen some fantastic cars in there over the years, including the Daytona that he had for years and he told me he would never sell it. He didn't, he sold the business minus the Daytona!

http://www.bramleyweb.co.uk/
I think i have met this guy i have seen him many times over the years i used to love going into bramleys to drool they one had 4 959's and 4 F40's nice people to..

RichB

51,433 posts

283 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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milfordkong said:
Saw this at the Revival over the weekend...

The ex-wife's BMW plate rather spoils this car. Would look better with something age related and appropriate. IMO...

HairbearTE

702 posts

153 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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P2BS said:
homerjay said:
sorry if ive missed it, but who actually owns X1 now?

have reg transfers bought it? if so, i wonder what they paid...
I just HPI'd it, and it's on a 'Direct Bikes 50cc' something-or-other.
Most dateless plates cannot be held on certificate, they have to be transferred to a vehicle. The law used to state that a plate could be transferred to a bike from a car but if done then it could not then be transferred back to a car. Presumably to stop this sort of thing going on. Of course all numbers now stored in this way must be kept on a real vehicle, it is not permitted for a large vendor of bikes to break new bikes for parts and then "rent" or sell the titles to number plate companies like RT, no sir, absolutely not.

Edited by HairbearTE on Thursday 20th September 03:03

MBZ 6

185 posts

183 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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HairbearTE said:
Most dateless plates cannot be held on certificate, they have to be transferred to a vehicle. The law used to state that a plate could be transferred to a bike from a car but if done then it could not then be transferred back to a car. Presumably to stop this sort of thing going on. Of course all numbers now stored in this way must be kept on a real vehicle, it is not permitted for a large vendor of bikes to break new bikes for parts and then "rent" or sell the titles to number plate companies like RT, no sir, absolutely not.

Edited by HairbearTE on Thursday 20th September 03:03
I don,t think this is correct I have 2 dateless plates and both of them can be kept on a retension certificate.
One of my plates is from around 1903 and I have put it on retension a few times

Gridl0k

1,058 posts

182 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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Does anyone know where JXI (Irish prefix) comes from? Northern Ireland plate websites don't list it, and because the only other cars I've seen with it on were RUC riot land rovers I am slightly concerned someone might get the wrong idea...

v8will

3,301 posts

195 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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Gridl0k said:
Does anyone know where JXI (Irish prefix) comes from? Northern Ireland plate websites don't list it, and because the only other cars I've seen with it on were RUC riot land rovers I am slightly concerned someone might get the wrong idea...
Belfast plate, from around 1986/7 at a rough guess.

Gridl0k

1,058 posts

182 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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Phew smile Cheers

It's 3 digit so maybe slightly older?

v8will

3,301 posts

195 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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Gridl0k said:
Phew smile Cheers

It's 3 digit so maybe slightly older?
Nah, had a few 3 digit regs all from the 1980's, a Belfast GXI reg and a Co.Antrim XIA reg.

Not worth very much but I wish I'd kept them.

Gridl0k

1,058 posts

182 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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RegTransfers valued it at £3.5K, which made me laugh. But yeah it's been on my last 4 cars and I like the idea of a plate-for-life, even if it is just an Irish age hider. Plus it confuses ANPR systems biggrin