Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Reg Plate for sale in UK

[Scott Saidel (Ferrarisimo]

In GB it is legal to use certain vanity plates.   Since the number - letter / 
letter - number configuration has changed from time to time, some of the older 
plates have higher vanity value ( think 328 GTS).  

Any registration with two to three consecutive valid letters and a number from 
1 to 999 (and possibly another letter) is allowed. As many vehicles registered 
before 1963 have been destroyed, these "dateless" pre 1963 "personal" or 
"private" plates are usually highly sought after and valuable, and can be used 
to conceal the age of an older vehicle. Some consider it a great pity that many 
classic cars now lose their original plates due to the owners cashing in on the 
high premiums paid for highly desirable personalised registrations. The 
Government's Cherished Mark Transfer scheme allows owners to display a 
registration index more appropriate to a speciality or collector's vehicle, and 
many private dealers act as agents for DVLA issues, and also hold their own 
private stock of dateless registrations and other cherished marks. The DVLA 
however can only offer for sale registrations that have never previously been 
issued and thus have a limited offering and limited scope. One may not use a 
registration index to make a vehicle appear newer than it actually is.
As popularity grows, the prices reached for the most expensive plates are 
always increasing. As of 2008, the record price for a number plate is £397,500 
paid at auction in September by an anonymous buyer for the plate S 1. This was 
originally owned by Sir John H A MacDonald, the Lord Kingsburgh and was 
Edinburgh's first ever number plate.[27] Car designentrepreneur Afzal Kahn paid 
£375,000 on 25 January 2008 for F 1 previously owned and sold by Essex County 
Council and affixed originally in 1904 to the Panhard et Levassor of the then 
County Surveyor.[28] £330,000 was spent on M 1, sold at auction in Goodwood on 
7 June 2006.[citation needed]
It should be noted that there are no restrictions on using a vanity or 
cherished registration on a car that is newer than the original date of the 
registration plate, but it is prohibited to transfer a registration that is 
newer than the vehicle it is used on. This is to prevent the transfer of newer 
registrations to older vehicles as a measure to protect consumers.

Scottie (cut and past from WIKI - P)

On Dec 8, 2009, at 10:18 PM, Doug and Terri Anderson wrote:

Plate for sale - - - ?
Hmmmm - Having lived all my all my life in Kalifornia, US of A, I gotta 
question -- especially after seeing great looking vintage E-Type Jaguars 
with a big tag screwed to top of their bonnet nose.   Then later on, in 
Heathrow, I pick up a auto newspaper and lo and behold there are pages and 
pages of plates for sale.  So the question - wazzup with plates for sale? 
Oh, I can see something that might spell FERRARI but how come there are so 
many routine looking plates for sale?
Hep me out -
Thanks
DOUG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <stephen [at] isis-management.com>
To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:38 AM
Subject: [Ferrari] Reg Plate for sale in UK


> Hello, I am in the UK and have a Ferrari specific plate for sale at a very 
> affordable price. Would there be a way of advertising this to your UK 
> based List subscribers?
> I would like advise please so that I can follow procedures and protocol 
> here rather than blurting out some advert in the wrong place etc.
> Thank you in advance for your assistance.
> Best
> Stephen Imber
> London
> ex 328 GTS owner
> stephen [at] isis-management.com
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