RE: £1 million numberplate goes on sale

RE: £1 million numberplate goes on sale

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GranCab

2,902 posts

145 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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My favourite plate is that (still?) belonging to Steve Parrish ex- bike and latterly truck racer, practical joker and now MotoGP commentator.

PEN15

LuS1fer

41,080 posts

244 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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Might be worth something to someone who wanted 11 in Roman numerals.

Pork

9,453 posts

233 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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GranCab said:
My favourite plate is that (still?) belonging to Steve Parrish ex- bike and latterly truck racer, practical joker and now MotoGP commentator.

PEN15
You know he also has/had 60CK too?

Davey S2

13,073 posts

253 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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Nowhere near as good as F1.

At least that had some more meaning as in Formula 1 or the McLaren F1.

Can't see X1 making half its estimate.

will_

6,027 posts

202 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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X5 is currently on an original RHD Daytona Spider.

HairbearTE

702 posts

153 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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Fire99 said:
Not a bad 'plate' but not £1 million good! In fact, not £50k good.
£50k is what the plate would suddenly be worth if the company handling this "sale" were in fact purchasing the plate from you and not marketing it..

The free publicity generated by offering the plate at a million is well worth the effort. They may only attract a buyer for £250-300K (which is what they were looking for a while ago anyway..) but the headline grabbing figure of a million will get plastered all over the media and they haven't had to pay a penny for the advertising space!

J4CKO

41,276 posts

199 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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I suppose for some it is just a trinket, a million quid isnt that much money to some people, especially as traditionally these things are usually decent investments, that said, a million quid seems a bit steep.

Funny things plates, you could signwrite any car legally with whatever you want as long as it wasnt in some way indecent for very little cost to tell others your name, something about your car or how much you approve of oral sex but people choose to contrive the mandatory car identification plate to pass on the messages, usually lost on most people, I think it must be down to working round the limitations and displaying a symbol of wealth that can easily be seen, would love to know what a psychologist makes of it. not saying it is right or wrong, just interested as to the underlying motivations.

ndj

222 posts

221 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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nickbee said:
Typical of asking prices on Regtransfers, which are beyond optimistic most of the time.
Do Regtransfers actually sell any plates? I've never had a reply to any offers made, they hassle with unrelated plate details by text, rarely return any phone calls, and were advertising a plate recently (that I purchased elsewhere) for 2x the price I paid.

milfordkong

1,220 posts

231 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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will_ said:
X5 is currently on an original RHD Daytona Spider.
Saw this at the Revival over the weekend...


zcacogp

11,239 posts

243 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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CampDavid said:
5 Million quid for F1. That sounds more than believable.

In other news, here's a picture of Jimmy Hill

Funny, I thought much the same ... scratchchin


Oli.

Prof Prolapse

16,160 posts

189 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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If you buy this plate for £1,000,000 you are an utter wker and the embodiment of everything that is wrong with our over materialistic society.

Yours faithfully,

PP (In a somewhat hippyish mood).

WCZ

10,492 posts

193 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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nickbee said:
The story about turning down £5m for F1 is fantasy too.
It was available for £500k a couple of years ago IIRC

will_

6,027 posts

202 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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milfordkong said:
will_ said:
X5 is currently on an original RHD Daytona Spider.
Saw this at the Revival over the weekend...

So did I, didn't it look great just parked up like that!

jacklewisno1

376 posts

143 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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DodoRacing said:
Last week in London I saw a license plate that read "ONE". That's it! I wonder how much that would be worth?
that was bought for 250k a few years back by someone from the northwest.

lazygraduand

1,789 posts

160 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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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!

Pork

9,453 posts

233 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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jacklewisno1 said:
DodoRacing said:
Last week in London I saw a license plate that read "ONE". That's it! I wonder how much that would be worth?
that was bought for 250k a few years back by someone from the northwest.
What plate it that? ONE 1 or 1 ONE or something? ONE on its own is not a valid UK format.

rtz62

3,340 posts

154 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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Most of the 'interesting' regs mentioned are nothing more than misrepresentations.
And nothing used to please me more than doing the knobheads who's car they were in
And having the plate removed (we all know you never 'own' the plate, you just pay for the rights to display it).
Same car done twice for misrepresenting the reg = reg can be removed by DVLA.
Laugh now, rich boy!

jacklewisno1

376 posts

143 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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Pork said:
What plate it that? ONE 1 or 1 ONE or something? ONE on its own is not a valid UK format.
the one i saw was literally 'one'

flamewire

34 posts

148 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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CEO 1 is for sale on Reg Transfers for £2m so it's a bit of a non story..

Pork

9,453 posts

233 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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rtz62 said:
Most of the 'interesting' regs mentioned are nothing more than misrepresentations.
And nothing used to please me more than doing the knobheads who's car they were in
And having the plate removed (we all know you never 'own' the plate, you just pay for the rights to display it).
Same car done twice for misrepresenting the reg = reg can be removed by DVLA.
Laugh now, rich boy!
Are you a police officer? Do you know of any cases where the DVLA has removed the right to show the plate?