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JSG

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2,238 posts

290 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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Found this on the DVLAs Cherished Numbers site


DVLA's top 10 highest value Classic Collection numbers

1. K1 NGS - Sold Dec '93 for £231,000

2. 1 A - Sold Dec '89 for £200,000

3. S1 NGH - Sold Oct '98 for £108,000

4. 1 RR - Sold Dec '94 for £106,000

5. 1 S - Sold Dec '90 for £100,000

6. G1 LLY - Sold Mar '90 for £87,500

7. P1 LOT - Sold Sep '96 for £82,500

8. 1 DM - Sold Dec '94 for £82,000

9. COL 1N - Sold Jun '99 for £76,500

10. A5 TON - Sold Nov '00 for £76,000

Nice little profit from their auctions for them. Of course they don't condone mis-spacing or mis-representing any characters do they.

Cheers,
JSG.

marki

15,763 posts

277 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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this whole number plate thing is such a rip off in the UK , in Denmark Sweden and of course the good old us of a you can get what you want , in sweden it costs 5,000-SEK at 15 to the £ thats £333- for what you want up to six letters or numbers in Denmark its up to 9 i think ,of your choice , its funny not many people bother with it.

ATG

21,325 posts

279 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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What poor demented fool would spend £76,500 to tell the world his name is Colin???

anonymous-user

61 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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apparently PEN 1S has been withdrawn from sale.......
sorry its friday afternoon and i went to the pub at lunch

Bodo

12,415 posts

273 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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In Germany, your favourite number will cost you EUR10, its not transferable!

marki

15,763 posts

277 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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What poor demented fool would spend £76,500 to tell the world his name is Colin???



A very rich one ,,, but it would make me laugh if his car was worth less than the plate

SamN01

874 posts

275 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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The guy who had A5 TON was on TV a couple of years ago on top gear or something....The funny thing was he didn't have an Aston at the time he had the plate on a Jag if I can remeber correctly.

May I am just getting confused.....Time for my pills.

johno

8,520 posts

289 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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The guy who had A5 TON was on TV a couple of years ago on top gear or something....The funny thing was he didn't have an Aston at the time he had the plate on a Jag if I can remeber correctly.

May I am just getting confused.....Time for my pills.



It has been on Top Gear since on an Aston. He reckoned he had paid £85,000 for it though. End of last year I think it was, but definitely on an Aston.

Mark

adrianr

822 posts

291 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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apparently PEN 1S has been withdrawn from sale.......
sorry its friday afternoon and i went to the pub at lunch



PEN 15 exists and is in use. Was on the telly once - bloke with his big red corvette type thing. Very post-modern ironic eh?

AdrianR

Whoozit

3,807 posts

276 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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I've seen a Porsche 996 Turbo commuting into the City with 1 FX, which can't have been cheap. Bet I can guess what he does for a living

anonymous-user

61 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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apparently PEN 1S has been withdrawn from sale.......
sorry its friday afternoon and i went to the pub at lunch



PEN 15 exists and is in use. Was on the telly once - bloke with his big red corvette type thing. Very post-modern ironic eh?



AdrianR



i stand corrected!, well sway corected!

johno

8,520 posts

289 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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apparently PEN 1S has been withdrawn from sale.......
sorry its friday afternoon and i went to the pub at lunch



PEN 15 exists and is in use. Was on the telly once - bloke with his big red corvette type thing. Very post-modern ironic eh?

AdrianR



Was owned by Steve Parish and Derek Warwick at different times. Saw it on Steve Parishes Merc at Snetterton several years ago.

Mark

johno

8,520 posts

289 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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The best I have seen is F1 on a Volve going up the M1 near Silverstone.

Bernies ya' reckon ???

It was being chaeuffer driven.

Mark

alfa dave

950 posts

291 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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My favourite seen on a Ferrari at Le Mans many years ago BEG 4 1T...

steve harrison

461 posts

274 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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SKY 1 - used to see it on an old Pug 205 round Leatherhead but not recently. Murdoch and his merry men would presumably pay pretty much whatever asked.

CarZee

13,382 posts

274 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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SKY 1 - used to see it on an old Pug 205 round Leatherhead but not recently. Murdoch and his merry men would presumably pay pretty much whatever asked.
Don't count on that .. when Kelvin McKenzie was the editor of the Sun, someone in the PR department bought SUN1 for his chauffeur driven car... Not known for his temperence, he went completely postal: "Are you f***ing stupid? I'm not having that on my car!!!"

Seemingly he wouldn't want the man in the street knowing who he was...

The plate has been on one of their Escort vans ever since.

raceboy

13,272 posts

287 months

Friday 19th April 2002
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Parked next to the Aston Martin, with the A5TON plate, outside a bar in France on the way to Le Man last year.
He had a mate with an Aston, with a AM (number) plate as well!
Think it was a VANTAGE

JohnLow

1,763 posts

272 months

Tuesday 23rd April 2002
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Someone bought N1GEL a while ago for £40k. Wanted to stick it on his Vauxhall Calibra worth less than a quarter of that but it was too old ... and he then couldn't afford a newer car cos he'd blown every penny on the plate!!!!!!!!

gtir

24,741 posts

273 months

Tuesday 23rd April 2002
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When I lived in Oz, Perth I could have registered "bollox" for about £150!

They ok'd it and I was going to go ahead but I got divorced instead...what an option.

big rumbly

973 posts

291 months

Tuesday 23rd April 2002
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An uncle of a friend of mine Had a GT40, reg no GT40 in the seventies,some of you may remember it from a Woolwich building society advert back then, at the time the car was worth 40k and the plate was worth 60k.
I was lucky enough to get a ride in it, and all the intelligent questions I had lined up came out as gobbledygook during the ride due to my cheshire cat grin..Fond Memories