Real Good Number Plates vol 5

[94OD]

Robmarriott said:

Can I nominate my own?

Like those

[Hatson]

anonymous said:

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Why? Are you a connoisseur of makers names and BS numbers?

[Sir Bagalot]

Robmarriott said:

Can I nominate my own?

I like those.

Surprised more people don't do this. I bought a 2x2 at auction, the person who owns the plate the other way around drives a SL55 so I assume they could have afforded to buy the one I bought.

BTW how did you buy them? As a pair or not?

[akirk]

m3jappa said:

Armitage.Shanks said:

I wonder if there is a way of putting plates back into the DVLA auction and taking the money? The prices some sell for is just bonkers and will never be realised elsewhere.

How you can arrive at £2,100 +VAT/fees for J65 PER is beyond me. It would be lucky to clear a 10th of that in eBay. And that's part of the problem a plate may be worth that to an individual but finding a buyer who values it the same is not easy. Hence loads of inflated prices of plates that never sell. That said if you write the money off fair enough.

I won it by £30 so it wasn't just me after it. Ive also got no plans to sell it. so the money has gone. Its equivalent to smoking for 6 months which plenty do.

Bizarrely everyone who knows me and I've shown it to was gobsmacked its was 'only' that much. And that includes parents and inlaws both of which aren't interested in that sort of thing. Its more than i wanted to pay but its done now.

Some plates take literally years to sell privately as well.it seems owners/companies sit on them until they get they get what they want.

I know a friend/company who had p4ver. He's had it for about 20 years and its been for sale since day 1. He wanted 10k. Last year he got it.


I missed out on 1980 j a few years back. Bottled it so to speak. Sold for 2500 plus fees etc. Reg transfers want something like 8k for it. I offered 4500 and they refused. So I'm guessing they will sit on it until someone fancies spending nearly 10 grand on it

you might have won by £30 and had 9 others bidding for it - but all that says is that you know that 9 people interested in that plate are not prepared to pay as much as you - and psychologically people will often spend more in an auction than they might when they have time to think about it, not caught up in the moment... So based on knowing that you paid top whack amongst that group of people, the opportunity as an investment only comes if the market is considerably wider, opening up resale to many other people - and you can't predict that without trying to sell it in the wider market...

Is it the right value - who knows! I paid less than that for a 3-1 plate from a dealer, but I think they had wrongly categorised it as an irish plate (it is from Radnorshire) so value is a strange thing... but if you are comfortable spending that money and like the plate, then enjoy it - the enjoyment is yours to have, not for others to try and boost their own self-belief by putting you down - to be honest, I wouldn't have the plate (my name isn't Jasper!) but it is a nice plate never-the-less...

[DickyC]

Full size plate please.

[CRA1G]

DickyC said:

Full size plate please.

I like that,and perfectly legal...

[RC1807]

Robmarriott said:

Can I nominate my own?

That's a good set!

[Fun Bus]

CRA1G said:

DickyC said:

Full size plate please.

I like that,and perfectly legal...

Is the space between the M and the 3 right?

[hurstg01]

Have we had GTR 2R for McLaren F1 GTR Chassis #02R?

Or F1GTR that was on McLaren F1 GTR chassis #19R but now resides on the same owners F50?

[CRA1G]

Fun Bus said:

Is the space between the M and the 3 right?

Actually no it's not... I was more commenting on the cut down plate.....

[DickyC]

CRA1G said:

Actually no it's not... I was more commenting on the cut down plate.....

And I didn't make myself clear either. They've used a short plate to emphasise how short the registration number is whereas, to my mind, a full size plate would emphasise it even more.

[Robmarriott]

Sir Bagalot said:

Robmarriott said:

Can I nominate my own?

I like those.

Surprised more people don't do this. I bought a 2x2 at auction, the person who owns the plate the other way around drives a SL55 so I assume they could have afforded to buy the one I bought.

BTW how did you buy them? As a pair or not?

I bought them as a pair in eBay, listed as 'cherished number plate' (ie. singular), so I think people had missed them, or not liked them.

I was only looking for one but the pair was £100 more than one similar dateless plate was going for.

No idea at all how someone ended up with them though.

[Hatson]

Only my opinion but I think they would look even better with a suitable maker's name and B.S. markings as there is an element of are they real or not about them without.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Hatson said:

Only my opinion but I think they would look even better with a suitable maker's name and B.S. markings as there is an element of are they real or not about them without.

I love mine to be completely blank apart from the number. Each to their own!

[Hatson]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Hatson said:

Only my opinion but I think they would look even better with a suitable maker's name and B.S. markings as there is an element of are they real or not about them without.

I love mine to be completely blank apart from the number. Each to their own!

There's probably someone out there who doesn't give a monkey's either way as well!

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Hatson said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Hatson said:

Only my opinion but I think they would look even better with a suitable maker's name and B.S. markings as there is an element of are they real or not about them without.

I love mine to be completely blank apart from the number. Each to their own!

There's probably someone out there who doesn't give a monkey's either way as well!

Yup....99.9% of the population!

[Hatson]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Hatson said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Hatson said:

Only my opinion but I think they would look even better with a suitable maker's name and B.S. markings as there is an element of are they real or not about them without.

I love mine to be completely blank apart from the number. Each to their own!

There's probably someone out there who doesn't give a monkey's either way as well!

Yup....99.9% of the population!

Sadly Yes. They don't know what they're missing

[CRA2Y BL16GER]

DVLA sell off most of the NI plates cheap on their site (most £399). One of these stuck out as Real Good (my opinion) and I had to buy it - just need a car with a Big Block 454 for it to go on.

[Armitage.Shanks]

Fun Bus said:

CRA1G said:

DickyC said:

Full size plate please.

I like that,and perfectly legal...

Is the space between the M and the 3 right?

I thought the rules on spacing between letters and numbers didn't apply to 'dateless' registrations?

[iSore]

CRA2Y BL16GER said:

DVLA sell off most of the NI plates cheap on their site (most £399). One of these stuck out as Real Good (my opinion) and I had to buy it - just need a car with a Big Block 454 for it to go on.

They're nasty!