Uk Only Numberplates for a new M6 maybe

[swindonhost]

Available at 1500 uk pounds each

M6 0GRE
M6 0NLY

or if your born again I've also got DE51PLE also 1500

others different prices ask

L BL41R
CL02URE
MR02BRN
BD02ZER

[wingspan]

Way cool, although some of our NA friends may not understand what you are selling.

What do you reckon is the most expensive number plate ever sold?

ttfn...

Rich (PPL157E on a Aug-67 Registered Cooper S)

[Desertnate]

How does that system work? While living in the UK I remember seeing the adds in the car magazines where various buisnesses had all sorts of vanity plates for sale.

Do you buy the rights to those plates from DVLA and then offer them for sale like companies do when they buy up internet domain names?

[wingspan]

How does that system work? While living in the UK I remember seeing the adds in the car magazines where various buisnesses had all sorts of vanity plates for sale.

Do you buy the rights to those plates from DVLA and then offer them for sale like companies do when they buy up internet domain names?

IIRC essentially, yes.

I'll leave it to Andy and the other UK folk to explain better, but in the UK the registration mark is assigned to the car at time of registry with the Driver's License and Vehicle Agency (DVLA). This number is assigned to <b> that </b> particular car, from that point onward. You can get plates made up anywhere, as long as they conform to law they are legal.

Up until recently registration marks were of the form AnnnBCC where A indicated the year, nnn was a 1 to 3 digit number, B was a alphanumeric, and CC indicated the registration office.

For example, we registered our Honda in the UK in 1993. After we cleared it through customs, I went to the local DVLA with the paperwork and was assigned J233LOW as its mark. "J" was the year of registration, 233 was the next number in the book (literally) and LOW was sequence that denoted Portsmouth DVLA office.

The prefix indicating the year actually was preceded by the sufix indicating the year, for example our Mini was first registered in 1967 with an "E" suffix: PPL157E. "PL" is the mark assigned to a DVLA office in Surrey which was where it was registered. Prior to the suffix they just did number / letter OR letter / number combination. An advantage of this is that if you supply the registration mark to the national office in Swansea, they can provide a complete history of all the registered keepers of the car if they have it. I used this to get all the names and addresses of the previous owners of my car back to 1975. (The amusing thing is that after it was fully restored, I wrote to them all asking for history or stories about the car -- and three called me back to tell me things about the car!)

For the real trainspotter/anoraks I have somewhere the UK registration office codes that correspond to each of the two letter combinations, so you can tell where a car was registered simply by looking at the right letters...

Every year the DVLA auctions off the "interesting" registration marks to folks who want to buy them and put them "on retainer" for a small fee. At the back of most UK Car magazines you see full page ads with registration marks you can buy from these traders.

They can get astonishingly expensive, I think that M1DAS ("Midas") sold for some obscene amount, and I think I saw a story once that 1A was for sale at some atronomical amount as well.

Since they ran out of letters of the alphabet recently to do prefixes, they've gone to a new scheme with two letter prefixes, but I'll leave it to a more recent UK inhabitant to explain that, but more info is available here:

http://www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/regmarks/reg_marks.htm

[ZBB 325Ci]

Wow -- thanks for the background!

By the way, the system of having the actual number plate supplied by private businesses makes it very easy to order offical-looking number plates with almost anything you want on them.

I ordered a front plate (in white) that has now been on our UK-built car for a year. I wanted it to at least look like a feasible plate -- so I followed the basic pattern currently in place (LLNN LLL) -- I picked is CR02 MCS (for Chili Red '02 Mini Cooper S)

[swindonhost]

Hi guys you seem to have it all figured out, not much for me to add.

In essence, I pick numbers from the dvla web site and buy them up prior to issue date , i.e upto 4 months before the plate is legal on the road.or at auction.

I then hang onto them until the time is right. i.e I have had the M6 plates for 2 years now.

The CR02 MCS plate is slightly co incidental, I have just sold CR02 LEY for $3000
the plate on my Car is PR02 ZAC squashed up to look like PROZZAC.

I think the most expensive was K1NGS although the price escapes me.

The UK law on numberplate manufacture has now been tightened up, so you need to take bank statements, passports, registration documents and your parents to a registered supplier. Plates are then only supplied in a few fixed formats.

[ZBB 325Ci]

The CR02 MCS plate is slightly co incidental, I have just sold CR02 LEY for $3000




Interesting... now if we actually owned the rights to CR02 MCS I'd considereing selling!! ;-)

Unfortunatley, its essentially only a replica plate and adorns the front bumper of our Mini registered in Georgia (GA is a 1-plate state -- only a rear license plate is required)