LAMBOS for 400 pounds?

Lamborghini owners will be struggling to resist visiting Old Trafford this Spring and it won't be to watch Manchester United play football!

The registration, LAM 8OS has to be the perfect number plate for anyone owning of one of these iconic supercars. It is going under the hammer during DVLA Personalised Registrations' three-day auction starting on Wednesday, March 24.

LAM80S has a reserve of 400 pounds, and will be among over 1,500 exclusive number plates on offer. For more information please CLICK HERE! to visit the DVLA website.


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DVLA Online Auction of 1000 previously unissued registrations.

The DVLA Online Auction of 1000 previously unissued registrations, commenced at 10.00am on Wednesday the 10th February, the sale will close at 2.00pm on Wednesday the 3rd March. Reserves start from £130.

Bidders submit Maximum Bids which are invisible to other bidders and bidding starts at the Reserve Price for each registration. The current bid price for each registration is on view at all times. If there is competitive bidding activity on particular number plates, the auction system will increase bids on behalf of a registered bidder up to their Maximum Bid.

Bids cannot be removed once they are placed. For lots on which there is a great deal of bidding activity, the End Time will slide to allow competitive bidding to reach its natural conclusion.

To bid you must first register for the sale. Once you have registered you can submit your bids online securely 24 hours a day, 7 days a week until the close of the sale. At the end of the sale, you will be contacted if you are successful.

If you wish to discuss the online auction procedure in further detail please contact SMA, DVLA Auction Team on 0300 123 3500 or email online@dvlaauction.co.uk.



Next Auction Announced

Old Trafford Football Ground is the venue for the next three-day auction commencing on the 24th March. Go to dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/auctions and view the entire 1500 collection.

DVLA Personalised Registrations has secured a limited number of tickets enabling registered bidders a tour of the Manchester United museum, trophy room and stadium.

Numbers in the sale include the latest in the single ‘O’ series 9 O (£10,000) DAV 333S (£400), G44 RRY (£1000), WO07 TON (£1000) and G111 GGS (£900).

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ABU DHABI '7' Plate Sells For $4.6m

The third most expensive registration plate in the world sold in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, confirming the UAE as a vanity-plate record holder.

A plate bearing the single digit '7' was sold for 17 million dirhams, or $4.6 million, in a government auction on Saturday.


According to the Guinness Book of Records, the most expensive number plate ever sold, barring the single digit, 1 , was bought by Emirati businessman Said Khouri in 2008 for an eye watering 52.2 million dirhams, the equivalent of $14.2 million.

The second most expensive number plate, 5, was also sold in Abu Dhabi for 25.2 million dirhams, or $6.86 million, during a number plate auction organized by the Emirates Auction Company in 2007. A total of 72 vanity plates were sold on Saturday for a total of 50 million dirhams.

"I think its a matter of recognition." said Muhammad Kashif, owner of the UAE Number Plates Company. "Just having a Ferrari isnt much these days. People want a nice number plate to go with the car. It makes them just that much more popular than the other Ferrari drivers."

Kashif said that the trend for private number plates is now so popular in the Emirates that people far less wealthy are starting to get in on the act.

As number plates in the UAE come by default with five digits, the fewer digits on the plate, the higher the value. A number plate with four digits can cost around 5,000 dirhams, ($1,300) but prices are pushed up for numbers that are memorable, in sequence like 1234 or all identical such ads 7777.

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Car Number Plates Are Educational

Car Number Plates Are Educational – its official!


Hard to believe I know but number plates have actually saved scholarships.
Earnings from University of Montana specialty car number plates helped save hundreds of scholarships threatened by the economic downturn this academic year.

"We had a significant deficit last year", said Keith Kuhn, vice president of finance and operations for the UM Foundation.

An emergency fundraising campaign by the Foundation raised almost $275,000, Kuhn said. It raised additional funds by asking donors to directly fund their scholarships for a year since the endowments they had created had been crippled.

But that was not enough to save the scholarships available to students, so President George Dennison helped find extra funds.

Car number plates to the rescue again!


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Will Abu Dhabi '7' Break World Record

If you're an Abu Dhabi resident, how do you fancy hitting the road with number 7 on your car number plate? Or maybe you'd prefer two or three digit numbers like a triple three or a triple seven?

Whatever your preference, some of these fancy number plates go under the hammer at an auction to be held at 4pm at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.

In 2008, Number 1 got picked up for a whopping $14 million, making it the worlds most expensive registration. Number 5 went to an Abu Dhabi businessman for $9 million which is the second-largest sum ever paid for a number plate.

Will 7 beat the world record? That all depends on how badly the bidder wants it.

The auction is being organised by the Abu Dhabi Police in collaboration with the Emirates Auctions Company. The proceeds of the auction, sponsored by the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, will go to charity and humanitarian projects.

Participants wil be able to bid for their favourite number plates and contribute to social institutions, said Brigadier Salem Ali Al Shamsi, Director of Privatization and Resources Development Department at the Abu Dhabi Police.

A variety of customised registrations, including the 37 distinguished numbers of the sixth category, prominent being number 7, will be issued for bidding, he said.

Three digit numbers include 333, 700 and 105, while the four digits include 7,777 and 10,000, Shamsi said.

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US ban on "offensive" number plates.

A student in Oklahoma, USA is suing state officials for barring him from having a personalised number plate that reads "IM GAY".

Keith Kimmel, of the Oklahoma City Community College, says his First Amendment rights have been violated and that he will appeal if a judge rules against him.

He was barred from having the registration plate because of an internal rule at the Oklahoma Tax Commission which bars numbers or words which "may be offensive to the general population".

Mr Kimmel said "I want to tell people who I am and what I am. Im proud of it. Im openly gay. Im not hiding. What better way to tell everybody than to put it on the back of a car?"

He also argued that the Tax Commission had allowed number plates reading "STR8FAN" and "STR8SXI".

"They defended using straight sexy. They didnt think that one was inappropriate but yet Im gay is. I think its kind of a double standard." Said Kimmel

Brittany Novotny, his attorney, has called it "viewpoint discrimination".

Last October, the UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) had to withdraw two personalised number plates from an auction after gay rights charity Stonewall said they were offensive.

The numberplates, which read 'F4 GOT' and 'D1 KES', were among 1,600 numberplates which were to be auctioned.

Both registration plates had a reserve of 900 pounds each, but Stonewall argued that they looked like the homophobic terms 'faggot' and 'dyke' and said the DVLA should not be able to profit from them.

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100k for BIG 1

Graeme Smith, of Mallusk-based Wilsons Auctions says that Derry registration plates are growing in value as motorists across the world look to personalise their vehicles.

"There are various reasons why Derry number plates, and plates from right across Northern Ireland, are as popular as they are. NI plates are non-age related and where once it was seen as quite exclusive it is now more accessible and more affordable to buy a unique plate. The whole process is pretty simple and straightforward.

"And, of course, when you start combining in letters and numbers it starts to take on a special significance for people."

His comments come as a number plate dealer in Britain has listed the plate GUI 1 on eBay with an asking price of £19,995.

Mr Smith says these prices are becoming more common.

"For example, what self-respecting Manchester United fan would not want the registration of MUI 1, which becomes MU 11 - Ryan Giggs' shirt number."

He says Wilsons sold that plate for just over £20,000.

But Mr Smith says Fermanagh plates are the Northern Irelands most sought after number plates.

"The IG prefix - as in BIG, DIG and HIG - is much sought after. BIG 1 went for just over £100,000, including fees. It's that kind of plate that attracts huge interest. At the time we thought Billy Connolly, the Big Yin, might have been interested."

Wilsons sells the sought after car registrations on behalf of the Driver and Vehicle Agency and will be holding their next licence plate auctions on February 4 and March 10.

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Whats in a number

The English language uses a play of words, the Chinese use a play of sounds. We take the sound of words very seriously as it could mean life or death, prosperity or bad luck.

We go to the extend of choosing our house, hand phone and car numbers based on sounds. Chinese love the number 8 the most, as "patt" (8 ) sounds like "fatt" which means prosperous. Three and nine are also favourites as "san" (3) sounds like "sang" which means birth; "gao" (9) sounds like "kho" which means high.

Car number plates with 3, 8, 9 or any of these combinations (88, 899, 388) are highly sort after and Chinese businessmen are willing to part with thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to book these unique number plates. Even big money will sometimes not buy these number plates as there is only one such combination. Take 168 which translates to "all the way (road) to prosperity," as "lok" (6) and "lo" (road) sound similar.

A much sort after number plate is 138 which means "born to prosperity"

Sad to say with limited money, my car number plate is "none of the above" but it DOES NOT have the number 4 which is a taboo. "Sei" (4) has exactly the same sound as "death." Cars with 4 in their number plates have lower resale value when sold as second hand cars. Chinese would not buy cars with this number.


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1000 surprises DVLA

DVLA Personalised Registrations sold the plate 1 OOO for more than £80,000 at 10.30am last Friday morning (29/1/10).

The winning bid came from a mystery buyer and was more than 10 times the registrations' £8,000 reserve. 1000 is the first of the triple OOO series to be released by the agency.

Prior to 1 OOO going under the hammer at the Haycock Hotel in Wansford, Cambridgeshire, the most expensive registration sold during the three-day event was 1 LFD, fetching £20,000.

DVLA Personalised Registrations' Marketing Manager, Damian Lawson, said: "The year could not have got off to a finer start, we were hoping for big things from 1 OOO and the registration delivered. Roll on the rest of the year which will see other triple O plates coming into the fray."

The second three-day auction of the year will be staged at Manchester Uniteds Old Trafford football ground from Wednesday, March 24. Among the 1,500 registrations being sold will include 2 OOO, together with 9 O and a host of Manchester United-related number plates.

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