Anyone seen any good number plates on cars lately?
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Many years ago I saw M3 MAD on some new Japanese car (Toyota Corolla or such like), it was the right year for an M reg so not sure if it was a private plate belonging to someone who recently downgraded from BMW to Toyota, or a an original plate where the car owner had no idea of it's potential value had it been transferable...
That plate would have to have been acquired, as the numbers 1 to 20 within the 'prefix' series (letters A to Y) were all withheld for sale or auction. This was extended to 30 from S-prefix onwards, and 123 and 321 were also withheld from that point. From J onwards, the repeating numbers (22, 33, 44... up to 999) and round numbers (30, 40, 50... up to 900) were also withheld.
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No - it's on the DVLA banned list, leaving the inventive to come up with their own variations on the theme.Is P155 OFF registered?
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YOR 7 on a very smart-looking black W212 E350 yesterday
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O G0 5URF on some French looking hatch yesterday.
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99 MB on Martin Brundle's E-Type, on the BBC's F1 coverage just now.
EDIT - bought from DVLA in July 1991 for £3500, + fees and taxes
EDIT - bought from DVLA in July 1991 for £3500, + fees and taxes
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That plate went for £6250 at auction in July 1993, so if it makes its current asking price that would represent the equivalent of a year-on-year interest rate (compounded) of between 14% and 19% (depending on tax status). Better than money in the bank, as they say...
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A business I briefly knew once had a gold Roller with the plate NI6EL, the story was that he bought it in an auction bidding against Nigel Mansell and got it for 60k...
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You could very well be right... it was actually in May 1996 when I met him, but my memory isn't all it used to be these days...
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Best reg i ever saw was on a vauxhall , being driven by a very attractive young lady. Why she had 1 SUC i will never know ! . My nephews wedding car was a rolls royce , with MS1 (my initials ) , which the driver reckoned was almost priceless ( the registration that is , not the car , which after all wasnt a Mercedes ). I saw recently 1 BXR , which i am sure my mate would love on his boxster, but it was on an old fiesta/corsa , whatever .
Best reg i ever saw was on a vauxhall , being driven by a very attractive young lady. Why she had 1 SUC i will never know ! . My nephews wedding car was a rolls royce , with MS1 (my initials ) , which the driver reckoned was almost priceless ( the registration that is , not the car , which after all wasnt a Mercedes ). I saw recently 1 BXR , which i am sure my mate would love on his boxster, but it was on an old fiesta/corsa , whatever .
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MS 1 has the disctinction of having originally been issued to the first car in Scotland. It was retained by the same family until at least the mid-1960s, being passed on as an heirloom.
It was eventually sold to a dentist in Bristol, who had it until 1989, when it was bought for £45,000 by record producer Mike Stock (of Stock, Aitken, Waterman fame); the price included the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow that the plate was on at the time. At one point Stock had it on his R170 SLK, but it sounds as though he and the plate have since parted company.
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Saw P14 NOS on a Silver Porsche Boxster on the M25 this afternoon.
Looked like Pianos, but I guess the owners previous car could have been a P reg Daewoo Lanos?
Looked like Pianos, but I guess the owners previous car could have been a P reg Daewoo Lanos?
