darth vadar
Über Member
Don't you just hate them?
Personalised Number Plates
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Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
TH3Y C4N B FUNN1 TH0
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
I'll see your COM 10 C and raise you a Paul Daniels MAG 1 C
I cannot understand the logic in them, but back in the eighties if I wanted to buy a personalised plate for my first name, Nigel, N1GEL, it was valued at £50,000, I hope my memory is correct, but I know it was an extortinate price.
If I could afford that, It would have been worth about 50 times the value of my car
Just found online that it has just recently sold for £250,000 and N2GEL is up for sale at £76,000. Think I'd sooner buy an house for £250,000, you would not get much shelter underneath a couple of plates above your head
If I could afford that, It would have been worth about 50 times the value of my car
Just found online that it has just recently sold for £250,000 and N2GEL is up for sale at £76,000. Think I'd sooner buy an house for £250,000, you would not get much shelter underneath a couple of plates above your head
Panter
Just call me Chris...
- Location
- Sittingbourne, Kent
Can't say they bother me.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
They do have their uses....
They help you quickly identify the peanuts on the road.
They are usually easier to remember too when you need to report them!!!
My FIL had one that I liked ... his name is Reg and so it was H REG ... which he transferred from car to car until he stopped driving. It had a number in it as well but I can't remember what it was - and its still a sore point that he has surrendered his licence. He used to spend longer cleaning the car than driving it.
+1, some people like them - not an issue to me. I do not know much about them, but unlike the car that depreciates in value, I think the plate appreciates in value. I am still not sure that I would buy one though.
Piemaster
Guru
- Location
- UK City of Culture
Anyone tell him he could still keep the car and just clean and polish it without actually having to drive it? Sort of a driveway ornament.SORN it, no tax, no fuel costs. Could even get an old banger and then it would need even more cleaniing.
+1 on the spot the potential idiot with the personalised plate though. My father has one.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
It doesn't really bother me if somebody wants to be stupid enough to spend their hard earned cash on a plate. I find it especially stupid (but not aggrovating) when somebody buys a plate that is almost similar to a normal plate but means something to them only but thats my opinion, if they want to let them. Unfortunately a certain number of folk who do buy them are numpty drivers :-(
GM
Legendary Member
- Location
- North of the river
Love them or hate them. You've got to admit that they are probably one of the best investments you can get, tax free as well.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Anyone tell him he could still keep the car and just clean and polish it without actually having to drive it? Sort of a driveway ornament.SORN it, no tax, no fuel costs. Could even get an old banger and then it would need even more cleaniing.
+1 on the spot the potential idiot with the personalised plate though. My father has one.
He wouldn't have wanted an old banger ... they were never show-off cars but bought brand new and then sold a few years later with usually about 3000 miles on the clock and immaculately kept. When we would turn up he would look up from polishing his car to our not well looked after car and say that we could borrow his stuff to get ours looking nicer ... but he never actually offered to clean ours.
