Real Good Number Plates Vol. 6

Real Good Number Plates Vol. 6

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CRA1G

6,499 posts

194 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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STO said:
I saw EGG 30X on a Rolls Royce phantom the other day, didn`t look like the sort of motor someone who keeps a few chickens would own.
Wow... I sold that number about 30 years ago...! I was out in Leeds one night and spotted a VW Golf with that number,I put a note on the windscreen saying I would buy the car.... to my surprise I get a phone call a couple of days later and after a little negotiation I bought it with the original issued number... I advertised it with Reg Transfers for iirc £4000 and was sold to a polystyrene packaging company in Bradford who manufactured egg boxes...

WhiskyDisco

796 posts

73 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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Sir Bagalot said:
This is rapidly becoming an often transferred plate after spending many years in hiding.

From memory this is the only Dawn running a 1x1 (pic lifted from elsewhere)

Not the only 1x1. Here is one from Solihull last year


RichardHMorris

259 posts

89 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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Not sure if I should post this so soon...


nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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RichardHMorris said:
Not sure if I should post this so soon...

Corr...What a plate.

Mikebentley

6,034 posts

139 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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RichardHMorris said:
Not sure if I should post this so soon...

ISWYDT

Hatson

2,032 posts

121 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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RichardHMorris said:
Not sure if I should post this so soon...

You posted so soon you got the wrong thread. hehe

Yankee Romeo

330 posts

46 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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jcuthell said:
My wife saw D50 on a Land Rover Defender on Friday on the A428 near Bedford. Must be valuable and early issue perhaps around 1905?
Early yes, issued by Kent CC in December 1903. As to value, i'd say an easy six figure plate.

Yankee Romeo

330 posts

46 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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Hatson said:
RichardHMorris said:
Not sure if I should post this so soon...

You posted so soon you got the wrong thread. hehe
This one was £5917.40 all inc. in the July 2000 auction. Good one for Arturo Vidal, if he was living in the UK.

M3DGE

1,979 posts

163 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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Yankee Romeo said:
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
Yankee Romeo said:
Notice how KH stands for Kingston upon Hull.
Not just a coincidence? (Maybe) Nottingham was AU, which is gold hehe
Oh, coincidence for sure, i'd say. So CE is another one for Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely. Didn't really include G for Glasgow or K for Kent as they're not immediately obvious.
There were plenty of these, and they were deliberate. Councils could make representations and often these were granted. K wasn't Kent though..it was Liverpool, the single letters and initial two letters (A- FP) were allocated in order of population size (other than G & S, Glasgow & Edinburgh). The first was when DF was withdrawn (Damn Fool) and Northampton successfully requested NH as a replacement instead of the next in order, DY. London received LC & LN; Middlesex MX & MC; Kent KT & KN: West Riding WR. KH was 'reserved' for Liverpool, but reallocated in 1924 to Kingston Upon Hull. There were loads of others where combinations were issued because one of the letters 'matched' (Eg AG - Ayr; FG - Fife...)

LARK F1 GTR

3,183 posts

145 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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90 N - VW Touran.

czerwiec

228 posts

153 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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6 MJ seen today on an Audi Q8

Sir Bagalot

6,463 posts

180 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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Yankee Romeo said:
jcuthell said:
My wife saw D50 on a Land Rover Defender on Friday on the A428 near Bedford. Must be valuable and early issue perhaps around 1905?
Early yes, issued by Kent CC in December 1903. As to value, i'd say an easy six figure plate.
£100K + for D 50? I doubt it Infact I doubt it's worth half that

CRA1G

6,499 posts

194 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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Sir Bagalot said:
£100K + for D 50? I doubt it Infact I doubt it's worth half that
53 D is currently advertised for £80K but as we all know asking and getting are two different things..?

Sir Bagalot

6,463 posts

180 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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WhiskyDisco said:
Sir Bagalot said:
This is rapidly becoming an often transferred plate after spending many years in hiding.

From memory this is the only Dawn running a 1x1 (pic lifted from elsewhere)

Not the only 1x1. Here is one from Solihull last year

I did forget about that.... but strictly speaking I'm right as 8 R isn't on that anymore

Sir Bagalot

6,463 posts

180 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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CRA1G said:
Sir Bagalot said:
£100K + for D 50? I doubt it Infact I doubt it's worth half that
53 D is currently advertised for £80K but as we all know asking and getting are two different things..?
I suspect reverse D's may attract a premium from dealers as they know there is a certain person out there that likes adding them to his collection.

moneymakestheworldgoaround

4,079 posts

174 months

Monday 29th June 2020
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Sir Bagalot said:
I did forget about that.... but strictly speaking I'm right as 8 R isn't on that anymore
H 3, was also on a dawn tongue out

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Tuesday 30th June 2020
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STO said:
I saw EGG 30X on a Rolls Royce phantom the other day, didn`t look like the sort of motor someone who keeps a few chickens would own.
Cracking plate,

CRA1G

6,499 posts

194 months

Tuesday 30th June 2020
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nonsequitur said:
Cracking plate,
Are you yolking....hehe

M3DGE

1,979 posts

163 months

Tuesday 30th June 2020
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Sir Bagalot said:
CRA1G said:
Sir Bagalot said:
£100K + for D 50? I doubt it Infact I doubt it's worth half that
53 D is currently advertised for £80K but as we all know asking and getting are two different things..?
I suspect reverse D's may attract a premium from dealers as they know there is a certain person out there that likes adding them to his collection.
You might be right (and I defer to your expertise on values!) but usually 'forward' combinations are more valuable due to rarity, correct? Anyway, I also agree D 50 is highly unlikely to reach six figures.

Yankee Romeo

330 posts

46 months

Tuesday 30th June 2020
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M3DGE said:
Sir Bagalot said:
CRA1G said:
Sir Bagalot said:
£100K + for D 50? I doubt it Infact I doubt it's worth half that
53 D is currently advertised for £80K but as we all know asking and getting are two different things..?
I suspect reverse D's may attract a premium from dealers as they know there is a certain person out there that likes adding them to his collection.
You might be right (and I defer to your expertise on values!) but usually 'forward' combinations are more valuable due to rarity, correct? Anyway, I also agree D 50 is highly unlikely to reach six figures.
Again, it all comes down to what something is worth to someone, beauty in the eyes of the beholder and all that. The thing with registration numbers is that, there is no given set of rules to set a price. There are guidelines and rules of thumbs, but you can't for example go to cityindex.co.uk and "check" what registration numbers are trading at today. In the November 2014 auction 25 O sold for £400,000. With all the extras, that comes up to £518,480.
There is a guy local to me who has a couple of 1 x 1. He paid in the region of £130,000 for one of them and the other cost him near enough £500,000. Personally, I would regard a like for like original issue to be of more worth than a DVLA auction issue. However that is again a rule of thumb on my end. There are always exceptions.


Edited by Yankee Romeo on Tuesday 30th June 15:17