Number plates, are they really worth anything ?

I was stopped today and told my number plate was worth a fair few
quid. Its S**5EAN

Now I know Sean is a popular name in Wales but is the plate really
worth anything ?

Or is it all bollox.


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BORG says...

It's worth what some **** is prepared to pay for it. Personally, I'd
flog it and bank the cash whilst laughing at the daft tart who bought
it.

 

When I owned a really shite old Talbot Solara, some registration company
left a flyer under my windscreen and said if I "phoned this number"
they'd give me £550 for it. It was nothing special at all, just your
average, bog standard number plate.

Yours would be worth a bit more and some flash 20 something city suit
would have it for his Beemer I expect.

 

Depends - I paid £250 for mine 'H2 ***' - seems quite good. 'H1 ***' sold
for thousands. But I'm not selling, otherwise people won't see my private
plate and get out of my way.

 

I've never seen one with asterisks in before so I'd say it was pretty
rare.

 

good point, ill bang off a few e mails to them places that sell them
to see what it's worth, anything towards paying for the actual car[1]
is worth a go.



[1] The important bit

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BORG emerged from their own little world to say

My Dad bought a T20 tractor for £175 in 1978. Sold the plate [1] KDD 183
[2]for £150 through a broker in Exchange & Mart. We used the tractor for 8
years & sold it with poorly engine for £100.

So, email a few brokers and see what turns up.

[1] you can't transfer a number from an agricultural vehicle anymore
[2] it went onto a BMW 5 series registered to KDD Products

 

I've got a GS550E with the registration KGU IV; I've been told it's worth
something as a 'cover plate' - apparently this is a number plate that
disguises a vehicle's age - as seen on school buses and the like.

Unfortunately, the likelihood of the bastard thing ever getting an MOT is
remote but my friend and I have a number of these Suzuki POS and I feel a
replacement frame coming on.

 

I got offered 3500 recently by a broker for my Hog plate! I didn't pay that
for it, but I paid a bit extra on the bike for it though when I bought it.
Apparently hog plates sell for loadza money ;o)

 

i wanted something to hide the age of my car but didn't want to send a
lot. I was looking on DVLA site etc then I saw a SOROVER with just what I
wanted on[1]. Bought the car(£300) transfered the plate and then sold the
car on £275. so it cost me just over a ton.

***1ane suitably spaced to be *** 1AN E

Yes I know you think its sad. thats your choice.

 

I'll give you a tenner for it.

 

I think so. But if you've something that some other daft sod will give
you money for and you don't want, then it's be rude not to oblige...

My doctor when I was a kid (before plates became the business they are
today) had DOC1. I'd imagine that would be worth a bit now. I used to
laugh at the plate on a Granada belonging to one of my dad's mates...

SFL1S

 

Jimmy Tarbuck used to have - and prolly still has - COM 1C. My father used
to wonder whether he could be prosecuted under the misleading advertising
legislation.

 

Was it John Lowe that had 501 UP? On a Jag I think it was.

 

And what is that supposed to read? Soiup, Solup...

I saw one on the way to work this morning, it started D19LE but the 1
and 9 were placed really close together so that it read TWAT.

 

How is it that one govt. organisation (the DVLA) can hold
back 'interesting' plates or those that 'spell' something
so they can make a profit from auctioning them and yet
another govt. organisation (the police) can then do you
for a dodgy plate because of incorrect spacing or a
strategically placed screwhead.
The DVLA must *know* that people are going to do this to
a 'cherished' plate.

It's interesting to see the results of the last auction:
http://www.dvla-som.co.uk/home/en/Auction/p/last
£17,400 for '77 AM'

Anyway, to get back to the original question, it's
got to be at least £500 going from other 'EAN' plates
and E5 EAN is 'reserved for future auction'.

 

worth

you've got a /what/?

I've seen a lot of older sports cars, porsches and the like, around the
SE of England with Northern Ireland plates on, which don't give any
clue how old the car is - presumably this is deliberate.

 

Tsk. Good middleweight in its time, notable for its unbustable engine.

 

engine.

no, I know what it is, I'm just very surprised that Simon has one.

 

Tsk. He was a good bloke in his time Simon, notable for buying old suzukis.