Number plates worth more than cars?!

[Sir Bagalot]

hi court said:

nicholasm said:

Spotted a couple of years ago:

I am a long time lurker, but that is just fking awesome!!!!

fking brilliant isn't it!

I mean a MK2 Mondeo without Gaffer tape is a rare rare site

[PistonBroker]

hurstg01 said:

32P on a yellow van (Paul from Wheeler Dealers )

28P ;-)

I came in here to contribute that one having seen it on a Wheeler Dealers episode the other day. Oddly, it's registered as a 200TE, but it's clearly on a Sprinter and does say it was registered in 2002, which clearly a 200TE couldn't be.

Regardless, plate definitely worth more than van. Good on him!

[helix402]

Still on the Avensis:

[PistonBroker]

sprinter1050 said:

Years ago I worked in the motor trade for The Kenning Group. The 2 brothers, George & David Kenning of Chesterfield had a pair of Jensen Interceptors. Regn.Nos URA 1 & URB 1.
They'd be worth a few quid now, especially if still on the cars.

URA 1 is on an '05 Merc E320 estate now. So I think that's a candidate.

No record of URB 1.

[RacerMike]

This spotted in Edinburgh! There are loads up there too. Most on expensive cars, but a few that are on old sheds.

[underwhelmist]

ws323f said:

Continuing with the theme of old Hondas and expensive plates, when I worked at one of the local Honda dealerships, a '97 Civic saloon used to be brought in for its service and mot every year. It was a clean car, and was owned by an elderly woman, and had/has the plate LD 50. The story from her is that the car and plate belonged to her decease husband, who was a doctor of some sort, and LD 50 means lethal dose 50%, which is a measure of toxicity I'm led to believe.

There must be something about Hondas. I saw a year 2000-ish Civic with the plate T4 a while back. That must be worth many times what the car is worth?

[don logan]

Drivebyabuser said:

Saw this the other day - Made me smile at least. Car worth £5K / Plate worth £5K? not sure who would buy it though....

There were 2 variations of that plate (basically saying the same thing in different ways) 1 was a Z3M in Marylebone, the other version on an Aston that may have been a Vanquish (the era with the add on rear reflectors)

I used to see an OLD guy driving a Yugo with the Plate L7, I know see a woman who could be his daughter drive a Mini with the plate on it in the same area

[_Exocet_]

3E on a 2010 Peugeot RCZ near me.

Font is styled in such a way that the 3 and E look like a mirror image of each other.

[JackP1]

Saw the plate 1 MD before.

On a mk1 Vectra

[02joe]

Sir Bagalot said:

hi court said:

nicholasm said:

Spotted a couple of years ago:

I am a long time lurker, but that is just fking awesome!!!!

fking brilliant isn't it!

I mean a MK2 Mondeo without Gaffer tape is a rare rare site

i saw this in the New Forest on Sunday. number is amazing!

[Stinkfoot]

FB7 used to be on a MK4 Escort for years in Snodland. I last saw on a Skoda.

[BlueHave]

02joe said:

Sir Bagalot said:

hi court said:

nicholasm said:

Spotted a couple of years ago:

I am a long time lurker, but that is just fking awesome!!!!

fking brilliant isn't it!

I mean a MK2 Mondeo without Gaffer tape is a rare rare site

i saw this in the New Forest on Sunday. number is amazing!

I know a plate like that looks nice but come on. He could probably get £100k+ for that plate. Enough to put the Mondeo into storage and buy another 'Toy'

[UKAuto]

AH33 said:

Do other countries have this weird number plate fixation in the same way we do? People paying tens of thousands for a few numbers and letters that look vaguely like something? Or is this a British only thing?

Tons of personalized plates here, and many almost look random - some are trying a bit too hard when people's first choices are already taken. Difference is we can pick any unused combination up to 8 characters.

In my family we have my two son's proper names (spelled correctly), as well as "UK", "GB", "ECOSSE", "MGA", "AUTO", and "HER TVR".

In Canada they have no particular value... Wonder what they would be worth in the UK!

Edited by UKAuto on Tuesday 5th July 01:41

[chisingweilo]

Here in Hong Kong where there is more money than taste, you can create your own number plate (up to 8 characters). As long as it's not deemed offensive it goes into a public auction and you can bid on it. £500 minimum bid. Most expensive plate to date "1 LOVE U" fetched £130,000.

[chisingweilo]

Obviously lost in translation from English to Cantonese

[Evilex]

AH33 said:

Do other countries have this weird number plate fixation in the same way we do? People paying tens of thousands for a few numbers and letters that look vaguely like something? Or is this a British only thing?

Mainly us. And the Americans in some states.
The European number plate formats don't really yield anything worthwhile, and they don't seem to care for it anyway.
I'm surprised that the DVLA didn't adopt a fomat that produced more "privilege plates" when we moved to the current (51 onward) style.

That's probably a lie. Nothing the DVLA do surprises me anymore.

[Vince70]

My little Spanish import 1998 smart car had the registration REG 1 on it but I believe it was owned by a company called number plates com sometime in its life but now it only has a standard R REG plate on it but being that the car only cost £550 I doubt the plate would of stayed.

Edited by Vince70 on Tuesday 5th July 08:25

[Henzy]

Registration: GO1

Make: BMW

Model: 523

Date first used: 30 October 2010

Fuel type: Petrol

Colour: Blue

Passed it this morning, was driving so couldn't take a pic!

[shambolic]

K8 has now been put into to an XC60 Volvo (2015) from the old merc it used to be on.
Still probably worth a lot more than the car.

[Camoradi]

I looked at a Caterham R300 for sale a while back with a plate which possibly devalued the car a little?

R300 NOB