This guy is showing 9 custom license plates in Britain that amount to 1.5MM Pounds. Are these prices actually charged by your DMV or are these priced high due to being auctioned?

https://youtu.be/Z610IKfnsbE

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Originally posted by Orguss:
This guy is showing 9 custom license plates in Britain that amount to 1.5MM Pounds. Are these prices actually charged by your DMV or are these priced high due to being auctioned?

https://youtu.be/Z610IKfnsbE

These are genuine items sold in auction to some stupid person with way too much money.

Here in UK the vehicle licensing is completely different to that of the USA.

Each vehicle is registered with the DVLA - Drivers and Vehicle Licensing Authority. There is only one such authority in the UK, although Northern Ireland has a numerically different licensing system.

Basically, here in mainland UK, a vehicle will have a number plate - front white with black letters and numbers, rear yellow with black etc. This colour scheme dates back to 1975 before which it was white/silver on back.

Modern plates carry an county or metropolitan identifying first letter, where I live in East Anglia is is A, followed by any other letter of the alphabet except Q or I, two numbers, giving the last two numbers of the date of registration [which changes every six months] and three random letters - like AD54 NKO [I made that up, BTW].

'Special' number plates are those that just happen to say something to the person who buys them - the DVLA has millions of them from scrapped vehicles of all types going back to 1901, remember, and they either release them, as and when, or they change hands between dealers, as you see. They can be simple names like EDD1E, or something else like B3BOP, MUS1C, COM1C, R1FLE or similar. A pal of mine, a former RAF pilot, has FLY 1T, for which he paid a huge but undisclosed amount of money. One over-rich buffoon in London has the world's only blue Ferrari F40, and the plate F40 BLU. So long as it not religious or offensive [yes, PEN1S exists], it is permitted, BUT the original registration number is there forever in the archives. The seller of a car with a 'cherished number plate' can sell the vehicle at a premium with the new number, or sell it as originally registered, retaining the cherished number plate to sell to some other mug.

Favourites are BMW ---, MG ----, AM ----, and so on. The famous percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie, lives in the village, and she has 4EV, which must have originated in the very early days of motor vehicle licensing, and probably cost her about £100,000 at the very least. It's on a Prius.

Does that explain it all to you? I have a Porsche Boxster, and by a complete coincidence it has the first letters of BX then a zero and the rest of the plate. I've been offered £5000 for the number plate and its registration by a Porsche fan who is plainly dyslexic, but who cares a lot more than I do. about such things. The 'change of plate' costs about $110, BTW.

tac

Not Tac, but https://www.regtransfers.co.uk/

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Originally posted by kz1000:
Not Tac, but https://www.regtransfers.co.uk/

Thanks for posting that. Saves me looking.

tac

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o much money.

Here in UK the vehicle licensing is completely different to that of the USA.

the same thing goes on in Dubai, Kuwait, etc.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/3...se-plates/index.html

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[yes, PEN1S exists], it is permitted,

Now I wonder, Which former member of Top Gear has that on his vehicle.....

More specifically, I'm asking if all custom plates cost a lot of money. If they cost in the U.S. as much as in the video, I certainly would never have had the four custom plates I've had over the years.

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Originally posted by HRK:

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[yes, PEN1S exists], it is permitted,

Now I wonder, Which former member of Top Gear has that on his vehicle.....

a friend has "8UTT-53X" on her car

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I certainly would never have had the four custom plates I've had over the years.

Just curious. What do your custom plates say?

shoot! Talk about ultimate vanity plates.

While having had vanity plates myself, I don't get the vanity plates that equal the name of the car like BENZ or MAZDA or whatever model the car is.

Thank you, Tac. My wife and I have been watching British historical pieces (Foley's War, Call The Midwife, Hercule Poirot, etc) and this answers a lot of the questions we have had.