U1 for sale

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sat 09 Jul, 2011 9:34 pm

raveydavey wrote: In fact, it's likely to be worth that much (six figures?) that I'm surprised that the council don't consider selling it to offset those nasty cuts that they keep banging on about."The most expensive personalised number plate ever registered in the UK was ‘F1’ which cost the owner £440,625." Even without the motorsport connotations, I can't see that U1 (You Won), properly marketed, isn't worth at least £250,000. Crikey raveydavey - I promise this is not a wind up, but a week last Sunday evening I was in Ilkley with a friend and we noticed, in Brook Street, a fairly large group gathered round a parked car. I know little about any motor that costs above about £10K new so I don't know what it was but it was obviously something sleek, modern and rare - my friend says it was a Bugatti - and the number WAS ..............F1.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sat 09 Jul, 2011 10:00 pm

Out of curiosity I have just googled for the F1 number plate. In undated information (which thus may or may not be up to date) in the Carreg.com website it stated:-"A record price has been set for a British vehicle registration number after a businessman paid £440,625 to buy the Formula One initials F1. Afzal Khan, 37, smashed the previous record of £331,000, paid 18 months ago for M1, to purchase the historic F1 number plate from Essex County Council. The Bradford entrepreneur, who owns a specialist car design company, plans to display the number plate on his £317,000 Mercedes SLR McLaren supercar...Mr Khan's total investment of £440,625 (£375,000 plus VAT) beats the £331,000 paid by a Cheshire businessman in July 2006 for the number plate M1, apparently as a present for his son's sixth birthday...The world record price for a registration plate, £3.5 million, was paid at an auction in Abu Dhabi last year by a prominent Gulf businessman, Talal Ali Mohammad Khouri, for the single-digit number 5. That record is expected to be broken later this year, when Abu Dhabi Police auction the most sought-after number plate in the United Arab Emirates, the single-digit 1."

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sat 09 Jul, 2011 10:43 pm

Leodian wrote: Out of curiosity I have just googled for the F1 number plate. In undated information (which thus may or may not be up to date) in the Carreg.com website it stated:-"A record price has been set for a British vehicle registration number after a businessman paid £440,625 to buy the Formula One initials F1. Afzal Khan, 37, smashed the previous record of £331,000, paid 18 months ago for M1, to purchase the historic F1 number plate from Essex County Council. The Bradford entrepreneur, who owns a specialist car design company, plans to display the number plate on his £317,000 Mercedes SLR McLaren supercar...Mr Khan's total investment of £440,625 (£375,000 plus VAT) beats the £331,000 paid by a Cheshire businessman in July 2006 for the number plate M1, apparently as a present for his son's sixth birthday...The world record price for a registration plate, £3.5 million, was paid at an auction in Abu Dhabi last year by a prominent Gulf businessman, Talal Ali Mohammad Khouri, for the single-digit number 5. That record is expected to be broken later this year, when Abu Dhabi Police auction the most sought-after number plate in the United Arab Emirates, the single-digit 1." That's the one Leodian. As regards the price - well I've got a friend who insists that "you can't take it with you" when it comes to money!

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sat 09 Jul, 2011 11:11 pm

raveydavey wrote: Leodian wrote: Out of curiosity I have just googled for the F1 number plate. In undated information (which thus may or may not be up to date) in the Carreg.com website it stated:-"A record price has been set for a British vehicle registration number after a businessman paid £440,625 to buy the Formula One initials F1. Afzal Khan, 37, smashed the previous record of £331,000, paid 18 months ago for M1, to purchase the historic F1 number plate from Essex County Council. The Bradford entrepreneur, who owns a specialist car design company, plans to display the number plate on his £317,000 Mercedes SLR McLaren supercar...Mr Khan's total investment of £440,625 (£375,000 plus VAT) beats the £331,000 paid by a Cheshire businessman in July 2006 for the number plate M1, apparently as a present for his son's sixth birthday...The world record price for a registration plate, £3.5 million, was paid at an auction in Abu Dhabi last year by a prominent Gulf businessman, Talal Ali Mohammad Khouri, for the single-digit number 5. That record is expected to be broken later this year, when Abu Dhabi Police auction the most sought-after number plate in the United Arab Emirates, the single-digit 1." That's the one Leodian. As regards the price - well I've got a friend who insists that "you can't take it with you" when it comes to money! Very true, though it will take a lottery win for me (and no doubt applying to many others) in order to have any money left over to take with me! I wonder if I can invest in buying footballers as their prices seem to be always going up lots. I shall then invest the gains I make on the footballers into buying car number plates!

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 10 Jul, 2011 12:39 am

The car we saw in Ilkley then was no doubt this Mercedes SLR McLaren - tomorrow I shall tell my "I'm always right" friend that its not a Bugatti

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 11 Jul, 2011 1:27 pm

I've just noticed that this U1 number plate sold for £52.00. Not to me though as I never made a bid (I might have done but forgot!).

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Tue 12 Jul, 2011 11:44 pm

I'd much prefer to have U 1949, or failing that, 1949 U.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 13 Jul, 2011 9:58 am

Uno Hoo wrote: I'd much prefer to have U 1949, or failing that, 1949 U. I'll be happy to let you have the vintage one, and I'll gladly take the 1957 version PROVIDING the vehicle's still attached to it !!

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Tue 02 Aug, 2011 8:19 pm

U1 is in this mornings YEP, to a fashion...http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... believably, LCC pay over £10,000 a year to HIRE the Daimler limo, whilst the former Deputy Lord Mayors stretch limo (which the council own) lies virtually unused following the abolition of the post of Deputy Lord Mayor last year.You really couldn't make it up.

simon2710 · Post by **simon2710** » Sun 07 Aug, 2011 10:23 pm

I was driving down Claypit Lane the on Saturday and one of the Lord Mayor's chauffeurs driving said car with U1 number plate (Jaguar Limo) was driving like a completely loony! Cut me up and was absolutely bootlegging it down Claypit Lane towards Chapeltown Road. But heck, that thing can move....Was only the driver in it so presume he was off to pick up the Mayor.