It’s the all singing all tap dancing lady of the night loving Mr Richard Gere’s birthday today! The 63 year old, (we couldn’t believe it either) will be celebrate being one year older but still a silver fox that can make many a woman swoon!

To celebrate Mr Gere’s 63rd we will be breaking out our tap shoes and the soundtrack of Chicago… and our present to him? A Cherished Number Plate for the Silver Fox himself.

Kylie Minogue celebrates her 44^th Birthday, so Happy Birthday Kylie‼. Kylie is a famous Australian Singer and Actress.  She rose to fame Charlene in the Australian soup Neighbours. Kylie preformed during the closing ceremonies of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Bestowed from the Queen of Australia Queen Elizabeth II, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) at Buckingham Palace in 2008 “for services to music”. In the same year she was awarded France’s highest cultural honour, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government for her contribution to the enrichment of French culture.  

So what do you think this Pop Princess would like for her Birthday today??  Personalised Number Plates perhaps? KYL 111E is currently available which make an excellent choice of registration for Kylie. It is always hard to think of unique when choosing a personalised gift. So with your name displayed on your car,  you can’t get more unique than that‼

Do you think Kylie would like personalised number plates for her car?

Happy Birthday Cher‼ The American actress, director, singer celebrates her 66^th Birthday. She is often referred to as the Goddess of Pop with nearly 5 decades in the pop industry. Cher, throughout a career spanning over 49 years, and is the only artist to reach number one on the Billboard charts in each of the previous six decades. After a three-year hiatus and retirement from touring, Cher returned to the stage in May 2008 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas where she performed her show Cher at the Colosseum until February 2011.

So if her friends and family are unsure what to buy for her birthday, and want a unique personalised gift? They may decide to purchase her a set of cherished number plates, such as CH62 ERX.

 

Cherished number plates have been around for a number of years now but their popularity has never been higher than it is today. The demand for personalised plates is at an all time high and as a result, record prices are currently changing hands. 

Typically, a cherished number plate will include your initials, somewhere in the combination of letters and numbers. However, prices will vary greatly depending on that specific combination, so for example, you will find yourself paying more for a plate that reads A1 ABC than you would for say, A857 ABC. 

Sometimes known as vanity plates, this type of vanity is essentially why they are so popular, although there is another handy advantage in that nobody can tell the age of your car! Over the years, some phenomenal amounts of money have changed hands for the more interesting plates. 

The record currently stands at an incredible £352,000 which was paid by a Lebanese property developer back in March 2009 for the number plate 1 D. It was intended as a present for his wife and was to be placed on her treasured Bentley. Previously, in 1993, the registration number K1 NGS sold for £233,000 at auction. 

The number plate in question was sold at an auction organised by the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Agency in England. The DVLA regularly hold such auctions and this is a good way to pick up some of the more unusual plates but prices as a whole can often be prohibitive. 

There are many other places to look for private number plates and online classified sites may be a good place to start. Similarly, printed publications that cover the motor industry, as well as those that are just published for the purpose of printing classified ads are well worth a look. 

The practise of using personalised plates has been around almost since license plates were first introduced, but it has grown considerably in the last fifty years or so. 

In 1963 in the UK, standardised registrations were introduced with suffix letters put in place depending on the year that the car was manufactured. This started with the letter A in 1963 and ended with Y twenty years later before the system was changed to use letters as prefixes. 

The 1960`s was therefore the time when it became popular to seek out numbers that were personal to the car owner and it was around this period that cherished license plate clubs and organisations were formed. 

Remember, that when you`re buying a plate, it must conform to police regulations: Certain lettering styles and fonts aren`t allowed and above all, your plate must be legible. Some owners have been known to turn the letter `m` upside down and turn it into a `w` and that it completely against the law, so make sure you stay within the rules. 

A final tip when you`re searching for the right plate is to look at buying a car and check out the registration that comes with it. Very occasionally you will see that the plate matches what you`re looking for and the package is cheaper as a result. So keep looking for a Honda for sale on Netcars.com as you never know what might turn up.