Posted on October 15, 2008 by Number Plates
Sean McCrory paid £80,000 for the registration “Big 1″ A businessman from County Tyrone has paid a bumper price of £80,000 for a special car number plate. Sean McCrory, who now lives in Donegal, travelled to an auction of registration plates at Mallusk near Belfast on Wednesday, to buy “BIG I”. The number plate will [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on October 15, 2008 by Number Plates
There has been much speculation regarding the licence numberplate of the lord mayor’s car ABC 1. Despite the myths which have been circulated, the facts are that it was not purchased for any exorbitant fee, it was issued authority in about 1937 or 1938. From the time that motor vehicles were first licensed those registered [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on October 15, 2008 by Number Plates
A SCOTTISH car number plate sold at auction last night for a credit crunch-busting price of £397,500. After the worst week so far of the global financial crisis, a high-roller shelled out the world-record sum for the right to put the plate “S1″ on his car. The average annual salary in the UK last year [...]
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A unique number plate bearing the letters and numbers ‘THE 571G’ has sold for more than 26 times its reserve price at over £10,000 to a fan of popular BBC motoring programme Top Gear. The enigmatic Stig has been played by a number of different people over his lifetime, with former grand prix driver [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on October 9, 2008 by Number Plates
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